EZ STREET
Tommy Brewer paced EZ Street with a 4.94 at 152.13 mph on Saturday, marking the only four-second pass in qualifying. Brewer drove his ’94 Trans Am to the semis, but had trouble there against eventual race winner Shane Crowden.
Local EZ Street hero Shane Stack had a good weekend at his home track, winning the delayed Carolina final over Al Belford, then qualifying second and making it to the final again for the Huntsville event. Stack’s turbocharged Monte Carlo left more than two-tenths-of-a-second too soon, however, handing the win to Shane Crowden, who sealed the deal with a clearly vulnerable 5.38-seconds pass at 135.95 mph.
Back in action with a new Procharger-equipped ’94 Mustang after crashing and destroying his previous ride a couple of months earlier at Phenix City, AL, was EZ Street points leader David Reese, who promptly picked up where he left off. In his first outing in the car, with no prior test passes, Reese qualified third at 5.07 and 147.54 mph, then ran another 5.07 in the opening round of eliminations before improving to 4.96 at 153.69. His day ended in the semis, though, when Stack overcame a .022 holeshot to win 5.00/150.65 to Reese’s 5.03/154.11 combo.
All the way from Olive Branch, MS, came Shane Crowden to pick up his career-first ORSCA EZ Street win with his 585 BBC-powered Mustang. “We had a hard weekend, fought some problems and issue, but it was our day, that’s all I can say. We had a converter go down Friday night, so we got here Saturday morning, put a new one in and came out Saturday morning and ran a 5.14, which is our quickest ever with ORSCA and almost our quickest ever,” Crowden said. After qualifying number-four in the 16-car field, Crowden made it through Pete Rickerson, Chad Henderson and Tommy Brewer before Shane Stack gave him a redlight-topped gift in the final. “I did see the red light when we took off, so, you know, I just made sure I didn’t make any mistakes,” he said.
