Wilmes wins $20,000 Street Car Super Nationals Pro Street finale at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway

Kirk Wilmes (near lane) of Altns, Oklahoma driving his G-Force Race Cars-built ’68 Firebird defeated New Yorker Vinny DeMieri’s ’06 GTO to claim the $20,000-to-win the Hughes Performance Pro Street finale at the Street Car Super Nationals held at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

In qualifying rounds Kirk Wilmes battled Mike Moran and his Monte Carlo for the the #1 position with Moran holding down low ET.  Moran went out in round two of eliminations, but with consistent elapsed times the 25-year-old Wilmes and his swoopy, black, HEMI-powered Firebird took home the trophy and the cash for the Hughes Performance Pro Street class.

Bill Glidden wheeled his Ford-powered ’06 GTO to an 1/8 mile 4.293 at 167.53 MPH in his Mickey Thompson Tires-backed Pontiac defeating Rich Zehring’s ’70 Chevy Nova of San Jose, Calif., for the Accufab Products Outlaw Street championship.

The Mickey Thompson Tires Wild Street final was won by Al Jimenez (near lane) of Sylmar, CA driving his ‘72 Camaro to a 4.997/151.80 MPH charge over George Raygoza’s ‘68 Nova in the 1/8 mile final.  Jimenez lead all qualifiers with his 515 cubic inch Chevy running a 7.563.

Michael DeMayo of W. Sunbury, Mass. lead AMP Performance Hot Street qualifying and won the class in his ‘95 Ford-powered Mustang over a red-lighting Craig Gustafson in his ‘66 Nova. DeMayo ran a 5.225 at 131.23 MPH in the final.

Bakersfield’s Roger Holder took home the trophy and the big check in the Edelbrock Xtreeme Drag Radial class over Allen Stewart ‘68 Camaro from Palmdale, Calif.  Holder’s ‘68 Nova ran a 5.361 at 142.06 MPH in the shortened 1/8-mile finish.

Wilmes wins $20,000 Street Car Super Nationals Pro Street finale at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway

LAS VEGAS – Kirk Wilmes of Oklahoma defeated Vinny DeMieri of Dix Hills, N.Y., to claim the $20,000-to-win Pro Street finale at the Street Car Super Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Wilmes’ 1968 Firebird 4.092 sec. at 183.67 mph in the shortened 1/8-mile to DeMieri’s 4.253 sec. at 171.34 mph.

Scott Dool of Newbury park, Calif., won the Mustang class and Rod George defeated Ray Martin of Anchorage, Alaska, in the Super Index category.

Pro Street - Dan Myers Ramona, CA

Pro Street - Doug Ballance Folsom, CA

Wild Street - Lonnie Patrick Los Angeles, CA

Wild Street - Chris Groves, Albuquerque, NM

Wild Street - Jeff Young - Idaho Falls, ID

Extreme Drag Radial - Paul Silva - Calgary Alberta, Canada

Mike Moran re-set the low et and moved that number down to a 6.138/243.37.  This video, from DragRacingTV.com is a short clip shot during Pro Street first round eliminations today.

Outlaw Street round two

Ron Lummus was reinstated into the second round of Outlaw Street after his first round opponent was declared underweight on the scales.  Lummus fouled out of the second round here against Barry Hobson.

Outlaw Street round two

Bob Glidden leads Kurtis Tamez on the way to another Outlaw Street round win.

Ron Lummus in his Garrett Turbo-sponsored Mustang was the victim of multiple problems in the first round of Outlaw Street when an overheated trans line broke causing a small fire and lots of smoke coming out from under the hood… his opponent was disqualified for being underweight at the top end scales and Lummus was reinstated for round two.

It has been non-stop racecars here at the Fourth Street Car SuperNationals, according to the promoters there are nearly 400 cars in competition over the weekend.  Most of those racers need to adopt the use of an engine diaper to speed the cleanup by the LVMS track crew.

Kirk Wilmmes in his ‘68 Firebird gets his first round win over Allan Bessant, Wilmmes took the stripe with a 6.709 to Bessant’s ‘68 Camaro with a 6.893 in Pro Street round one.

Number one qualifier Mike Moran moved the low elapsed time even lower in Round 1 of Pro Street eliminations when he met up with Jay Diedrich’s ‘57 Chevy.  Moran cranked out a 6.138 at 243.37 MPH and took the round win.

Art Hodges ran a 6.906 after his opponent Randy Kay fouled out on the starting line in his ‘63 Corvette.  Kay’s crew worked all night to repair the nose on the red Vette after going into the top end sandtrap on Saturday evening.

Pro Street Round One

JR Carr driving an ‘09 Pontiac GXP with an 822 cubic inch Chevy took the win over Jay Syvertson’s ‘38 Chevy, Carr ran a 6.489 at 216.72 MPH.

Pro Street Round One

Giuseppe Gentile (near lane) had the hole shot over Roy Maznik’s and went on to win the match with Gentile’s turbocharged Mustang running a 6.401 to Monznik’s 7.070.

Pro Street Round One

Dean Goforth in his ‘07 GTO (far lane) defeated Al Suggs Jr in the opening round of Pro Street, Suggs shut off early with Goforth taking the win light running a 6.714 elapsed time at 214.11 MPH.

Here’s another video of the Street Car SuperNationals from Dan Euritt at DragRacingTV.com - this is the earlier run of Kirk Wilmes qualifying run of 6.17 ET at 231 MPH.  Wilmes ended up with a 6.160 to lock in the #2 Pro Street qualifying position going into eliminations. 

In what could be a look ahead to the final round of Outlaw Street, Sunday morning’s make-up round of qualifying put Spiro Pappas next to Bill Glidden in a battle for the #1 spot.  At the green light both cars left together with Glidden having the advantage at 330 feet.  Glidden was still ahead at 1,000 feet (5.557 to Pappas’ 5.580). 

At the stripe, Pappas grabbed the #1 position in Outlaw Street with his 6.625/212.56 MPH to Glidden’s 6.637/206.70 MPH. The two leaders are followed closely by Ron Lummus at 6.726 and Bob Glidden moves to fourth with his earlier 6.764.