A weekend of dynamite MiRock Superbike series drag racing action was cut short when rains thoroughly soaked Steve Earwood’s Rockingham Dragway on Sunday, Aug. 17. Eliminations for the Schnitz Summer Sizzler will be completed when the series returns to The Rock in November.
Former Orient Express Pro Sportbike champ Anthony Navarro led the assault with a blistering 7.634 on his Velocity Racing Suzuki Hayabusa. The bad deal for Navarro is that he failed to back up the record in the evening sessions, and MiRock rules insist that records be backed up on the same weekend.
Defending Pro Sportbike champ Vinnie Demito qualified second with an-also-record-surpassing 7.673, also on a Velocity ‘Busa. Series interloper Lil’ Nick Mazeika brought his AMA Dragbike Super Street legal, Playthings Racing, Exoticycles GSXR1000 out to play and qualified third with a 7.885. Navarro has the bye when the rain-delayed race resumes in November, while Demito will line up against Brian Bozarth and Mazeika has the nitrous GSXR of Andy Smallwood.