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 Michael
Beard
Hometown: Seagrove,
NC
Vehicles:
H/CM '80 Volare (10.96 @ 119 mph)
G/CM '73 Dart Sport (10.93 @ 119 mph)
SS/BX '82 Camaro (9.87 @ 135 mph)
'74 Duster 360 (11.30 @ 118 mph)
'71 Duster 360 (13.27 @ 107 mph)
'85 EF/SA Turismo 2.2L (15.45 @ 88 mph)
'04 Ram 4.7L (10.86 - 1/8th mile)
'00 Dakota 4.7L (15.99 @ 83 mph - sold)
beard@staginglight.com
Staging Light Motorsports &
Graphics
Beard's 360 Magnum-powered '80 Volare set the 1/4-mile J/CM
World Record, captured three Iron Man trophies, and finished 2nd
in the IHRA Stock World Championship chase in 2007.
Beard borrowed Johnny Fisher's '80 Dodge Mirada, and
won Super Stock in his first
outing in the car. The natural J/SA car fits SS/LA, and despite
being in legal "Stock"
trim, ran -.30 under the Super Stock index.
Michael Beard with Terry Knott's G/CM '73 Dart
Sport
2003 IHRA Stock World Champion
"Dust Devil II" - 1994 NHRA Div. 1 Bracket Finals Champ,
3-Time Track Champ, 2-Time $5K No-Box Winner
(Tim Glover photo, from Drag
Racing Action magazine)
Adger Smith built and owns this 277cid V6
powered
SS/BX '82 Camaro driven by Michael Beard.
Accomplishments:
204 career final rounds (136 wins)
15-Time Champion
2008
- IHRA Div. 2 Pro-Am, Immokalee, FL - Winner (Stock)
IHRA Div. 9 Pro-Am, Rockingham, NC - Winner (Super Stock)
I/CM 1/8th mile World Record -6.946 @ 96 mph
(Mooresville, Mar '08)
San Antonio Sportsman National - Runner-Up (Super
Stock)
GT/KA Class Winner, San Antonio, TX
Summit All-Star Shootout - Stock Runner-Up
Triad Thunder Series, Piedmont Dragway - 7.0 Index Winner
World Footbrake Challenge, Bristol, TN
- Sunday $10K - WINNER & RUNNER-UP!
IHRA Div. 9 Pro-Am, Mooresville, NC - Winner (Super Stock)
IHRA Div. 1 Pro-Am, Pittsburgh, PA - Winner (Stock)
2007
- Carolina Cup, Mooresville
Dragway - Sunday R/U
- Pageland Dragway - SSS
Points Race#2 Winner
- Pageland Dragway - SSS
Points Race#3 Winner
- Pageland Dragway - SSS
Points Race#5 Runner-Up
IHRA Div. 9 Pro-Am - Piedmont Dragway - Stock Winner
Memorial Bracket Nat'ls -Rockingham Dragway - R/U
IHRA Div.9 Pro-Am - Kinston Dragstrip - Stock R/U
Pageland Dragway - SSS
Points Race#15 Winner
Pageland Dragway - SSS
Points Race#16 Winner
IHRA Div. 2 Pro-Am, Jackson,
SC - Race#1 - Winner
IHRA Div. 2 Pro-Am, Jackson,
SC - Race#2 - Winner
Pageland Dragway - S/SS Combo - WinnerPageland Dragway -
Ironman Club Runner-UpIHRA Div. 9
Summit Team Finals - Rockingham Dragway - Gambler's R/U
Pageland Dragway - S/SS Combo - Runner-Up
Roxboro Motorsports Dragway - Footbrake WinnerJ/CM 1/4-Mile World Record, 11.731 (Darlington, Sept
'07)
2007 Rockingham Dragway Footbrake Champion
Pageland Dragway - Series #1 Modified Champion
2007 IHRA Div. 2 Stock Champion
#2 IHRA Stock Eliminator
2006
- Farmington Bracket Nationals
Day 1 R/U
- Farmington Bracket Nationals
Day 2 R/U
- Iron Man Classic,
Rockingham, NC - Footbrake & Runoff Winner
- Ultimate 64, Mt. Park
Dragway - Day 1 R/U
- IHRA Div. 2 Pro-Am, Jackson,
SC - Race#1 - Runner-Up
- IHRA Div. 2 Pro-Am, Jackson,
SC - Race#2 - Winner
- Roxboro S/SS Combo Iron Man
Classic Winner
- Roxboro S/SS Combo Season
Finale Winner
- Torco Carolina Coalition,
Rockingham, NC - Saturday Winner
I/CM
1/8-Mile World Record, 7.147 (Rockingham, Sept '07)
J/CM 1/8-Mile World Record,
7.341 (Kinston, Oct '06)
2005
- IHRA President's Cup Nat'ls
Stock R/U
- US131 S/SS Combo Runner-Up
- #1 Qualifier, Super Stock -
San Antonio, TX
- SS/DS Class Winner - San
Antonio, TX
- SS/BA Class Winner -
Norwalk, OH
2004
- IHRA Mopar Canadian
Nationals Stock Champion
- IHRA ACDelco Canadian
Nationals Stock Champion
- IHRA Beaver Springs Pro-Am
Iron Man Classic winner
- US131 S/SS Combo winner
- SS/BX World Record Holder
(9.979 @ 127.82 mph)
- I/CM World Record Holder,
1/8th mile (7.173 @ 93.98 mph)
- I/CM Class Eliminations Win
- US131
- I/CM Class Eliminations Win
- Norwalk
- SS/BX Class Win - Toronto
2003
- IHRA Stock World Champion
- IHRA Division 1 Stock
Champion
- IHRA Sportsman Rookie of
the Year
- Valvoline Cup Class Drags
Champion
- IHRA ACDelco Canadian
Nationals Stock Champion
- $5K No-Box Bonanza Winner
(Pittsburgh)
- IHRA Motor City Nationals
Stock Runner-Up
- Quaker City 1/4-Mile
Extravaganza No-Box R/U
- Kanawha Valley IHRA Pro-Am
No-Box R/U
- Quaker City IHRA Pro-Am
Stock R/U
- Virginia IHRA Pro-Am Stock
Winner
- Pittsburgh IHRA Pro-Am #1
Stock Winner
- Pittsburgh IHRA Pro-Am #2
Stock R/U
- $5K No-Box Winner (Lake
Cumberland, KY)
2002
- Norwalk Whup-Ass Wednesday
Champion, season opener
- QCR Bracket Invitational Pro
Winner
- 9th place Valvoline Cup
2001
- Norwalk Whup-Ass Wednesday
Champion, season opener
- IHRA Div. 3 Bracket Finals
No-Box Gamblers Winner
1999
- Sweitzer's Top Gun Champion
- NHRA Div. 1 Stock - 11th
place
- NHRA Keystone Nationals EF/SA
Class Winner
- Cecil County FMDRS Bounty
Hunter
1998
- Heavy ET Champion
- Heavy ET Driver of the Year
- Super/Pro Rookie of the Year
- Memorial Day Footbrake
Nationals Champion
1997
- Heavy ET Champion
- Heavy ET Driver of the Year
- Sweitzer's Top Gun Champion
1996
- Heavy ET Champion
- Heavy ET Driver of the Year
- Sweitzer's Top Gun Champion
- Fall Mean Street Nationals
Champion
1994
- NHRA Div.1 Heavy ET Champion
- NHRA Div. 1 ET Driver of the
Year
1992
1991
- ETK Champion
- ETK Driver of the Year
- High School Champion
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R.I.P.
(1989-2001)
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