X-TREEME STREET
The guy to beat in Xtreeme Street lately has been that potent ‘67 orange Nova of the guys from Bakersfield, Roger Holder, his brothers and the rest of the crew. They have got their act flat together! He was not the quickest car in this class, as that honor went to Steve Short’s turbo Mustang at an extremely quick 7.623, while Bobby Frye’s turbo Camaro claimed Top Speed for the class at 192.38 mph. When it came down to the final round in eliminations, Holder and friends took home the trophy with a fine consistent pass of 7.672, 177.66 mph over a very game Frye at 7.758, 192.11 mph.
HOT STREET
Make that two in a row for Daniel Bott II in his and his dad’s awesome Hot Street Mustang. It looked like it was going to be an all-Mustang battle between Bott's AMP Mustang and Anthony Valenio, but someone forgot to go the scales after an odd lot single in the semi finals. Bott hammered the AMP-backed Mustang to a fine 8.539, 162.37 mph and the victory. Valentio had run a little quicker in the first round for Low ET of 8.556 and in the future will remember to stop at the scales.
WILD STREET
New Mexico’s Chris Groves also made it two in the row with his outstanding running Mustang easily swept Wild Street when 2007 Champ Levi Hanna broke his black Mustang, making it no contest. Groves also held the Low ET and Top Speed in the class at 7.814, 183.77 mph.
LIMITED STREET
After LA’s Craig Williams pounded out an unreal 8.99 during qualifying, it looked like he might repeat in Limited Street too, but the Camaro became a wheelstander and Gary Brandt’s black and green Mustang ran a fine 9.053, 155.35 mph to narrowly defeat Williams’ Camaro at 9.188, 153.46 mph as Craig did not even lift during the exhibition.
SUPER STREET
Brian Rogers, in the very competitive Chevy Nova, swept the Super Street honors over Doug Crumlich’s potent black Vette. Rogers ran a right-on 8.603, 154.71 mph (index of 8.60) over Crumlich’s 8.64.
QUICK STREET
It was a gift for Ray Kinney, who lists himself as a Detroit, Mich., native but resides in Rosemond, Calif., when reigning Champ in the class Caleb Hunter caught a rare red light in his Camaro. And congratulations to Caleb and Deanna Hunter on their recent baby girl.
MEAN STREET and OPEN COMP
That’s right, we had a first in PSCA racing, that being Mike Nordahl from Fontana, Calif., who races in three classes, swept both the honors in Open Comp and Mean Street Eliminator. Mike’s little nitrous-powered Vega has come close before a couple of times, but this weekend he took home two trophies, first with a time of 10.656 (dial in of 10.62) over Jack Gottfried’s 8.996 (on a dial in of 8.96).
Then Nordahl got back in line at almost 3:00 a.m. and defeated Charles Jorgenson’s Nova in Mean Street (which runs on a 10.60 index) as both drivers broke out, 10.596 for Nordahl and 10.590 for Jorgenson. Incredible racing.