Favorites upset, Canadians cash in at Street Car Super Nationals

Mel Roth¹s Street Car Super Nationals V sent the Pro Street winner home with $20,000 in U.S. funds after a heartbreaker of a finale at the Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Dan Vogt, in a nitrous equipped ’63 ‘Vette from Regina Saskatchewan, Canada, met Bakersfield's Clint Hairston’s turbocharged GTO in the $20,000-to-win Pro Street final. Hairston, who wounded his engine in his orange GTO in his win in the semi-finals, could only sit on the starting line and watch Vogt’s ’63 Corvette make a 7.145/204.63 charge down the Las Vegas quarter mile for the big check.

Dominating racer Billy Glidden also had engine problems in the Outlaw 10.5finale, giving a single to Dale Moznik, of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, in the final round.  Glidden's GTO sat on the line at the green as Moznik’s El Camino cruised to a solo victory at 6.732 sec./207.24 mph.

Read our complete coverage of the weekend¹s Street Car Super Nationals V at the Strip at Las Vegas. (Darr Hawthorne photo) [11/23/09]

Goodby IHBA, hello new Lucas Oil-backed drag boat series in 2010!

Sources who attended the IHBA-sanctioned drag boat race at Charlie Allen’s Firebird International Raceway report that the 25-year-old International Hot Boat Association is going to be shuttered and replaced by a new sanctioning body formed by the Lucas family and financially backed by Lucas Oil.

Sources close to Charlie and Nancy Feagan, current owners of the IHBA, and the Lucas family confirm that after an unsuccessful bid to buy the IHBA from its current owner the Lucas family decided to start their own drag boat sanctioning body beginning in 2010. It should be noted that Firebird track operator Charlie Allen was one of the founders and owners of the IHBA 25 years ago but hasn’t been an actual owner for the last 23 years since Charlie Feagan bought the series from him in 1983. [11/23/09]

Allen signs new seven-year lease at Firebird International Raceway

One of the Agent’s Mesa, AZ, operatives tells us that Charlie Allen has signed a new seven-year lease with the Indian tribe that owns the land on which the Phoenix-area track is located. This should put to bed the recent rumors (some of which have been in Agent 1320) about Firebird International closing or moving. [11/23/09]