Hairston delivers at PSCA opener

Clint “the Milkman” Hairston started off the Pacific Street Car Association season on the right foot by dominating Pro Street qualifying, setting and re-setting the speed record and then taking the final round win over the weekend at the Strip at Las Vegas.  He set the new mile per hour mark at 232.35 mph in the first round of Sunday eliminations with a 6.237 win over Dave Dedrickson’s Pontiac.

The Hairston family’s 2007 GTO met Giuseppe Gentile’s potent turbocharged Mustang in the final round of eliminations taking the win when Gentile grabbed a -.024 red light. Hairston went to show his stuff by running a solid 6.304 sec. 233.52 mph pass.

Rick Snavely, driving his Mustang won the Outlaw 10.5 final round over Ron Weems’s Grand Am, Snavely also set a new PSCA speed record of 216.17 mph in the final.

 In Extreme Drag Radial Roger Holder’s Nova defeated David Bowman, Hot Street winner Victor Brum took the win over Bryan Cobbett and George Raygoza won Wild Street.

Las Vegas racers took trophies home with Dana Westover’s ‘93 Supra claiming the Limited Street win and Keith Winters outran Jordan Jahnke's Nova for Trophy class honors.

Jeff Farrar, also from Vegas defeated Becky Phlegar for Bracket 1 honors.

We’ll have complete coverage later this week in DRO.  (Tim Marshall photo)[2/1/2010]

Record crowds at IHRA Nitro Jam season opener

With Friday in the books as the largest IHRA opening night crowd in decades, Saturday produced even bigger results with a sold out event resulting in the largest crowd in Palm Beach International Raceway history and one of the biggest debut weekends for the IHRA at Palm Beach Nitro Jam.
  
Traffic backed up for miles on the Beeline Highway and shuttles were brought in to transport the thousands of fans that packed PBIR Saturday night, according to the IHRA.

“It was a thrill to see the stands packed with thousands of excited fans enjoying this wonderful sport,” said Aaron Polburn. “With results like these we could have run into problems, but Jason Rittenberry and his staff did a tremendous job making sure there were no issues and that everything flowed smoothly.

“What a tremendous way to open the year for IHRA Nitro Jam and Palm Beach International Raceway.”

We’ll have complete coverage of the event tomorrow in DRO.  (Steve Gruenwald photo) [2/1/2010]