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EZ STREET
Chad Henderson of Madison, AL, steered his ’85 Buick Regal to the quickest nitrous pass ever in EZ Street history with a 4.925-seconds shot at 146.11 mph to qualify third behind eventual race winner Tommy Brewer and David Reese, who went 4.846 to take the number-one spot. Henderson had a first-round bye when Al Belford’s Mustang broke, then got past Tony Akins in another Mustang before shutting down early against Brewer’s Trans Am in the semis.
After winning his first EZ Street title of the year with a 4.932/154.42 pass against the 5.165/142.43 put together by Virginia’s Nick Yarber and his ’95 Cobra, Tommy Brewer said he “just tried to run low .90s all day because we thought that could seal the deal for us and thank goodness it did. The car did everything we wanted it to do.”
Brewer, from Spanish Fort, AL, started his stealthy 2002 Trans Am from second place and after a first-round freebie, he dispatched Charles Hull and Chad Henderson before meeting up with Yarber.
“He treed me a little,” Brewer said of Yarber’s .036 head start, “but when it went to high gear this thing just started digging and that big block just motored on by. When we got to the 60-foot mark I could see he was ahead of me, but as soon as we went to high gear we went around him and I never saw him again. So it worked out.”
MODIFIED STREET
Joey Thier made a rare ORSCA appearance, but made it count with a number-one start in his James Island, SC-based Monte Carlo after going 5.377 seconds at 131.22 mph in Modified Street qualifying. A redlight start by Aaron Yates in the opening round advanced Thier, but he was unable to answer the call to stage in round two against Kell Eubanks.
The last remnants of a starting-line nitrous backfire fade away on Richard Reagan’s 1980 Mustang (near lane), as Rob Roberts launches to his career-first ORSCA win with a 5.578 at 126.91 in the Modified Street final. Roberts and his ’93 Stang started sixth and made it past Chris Fort, Brian Murphy (broke), and Kell Eubanks to reach the final, while number-three started Reagan took out Spurgeon Adkins, Dustin Mewbourn and rookie Ryan Rakestraw.
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