Sunday July 18th

CHIPPER WINS TOP BEAVER

Dale Rhoads has Will Leitch at the MPH stripe and took the Top Beaver title after Will fouled with a -.025. Chipper ran a 12.45 on a 12.45 at 105.86 MPH
to take the title to Will's 10.31 on a 10.24 at 129.94 MPH.

Kevin Little takes a little too much stripe in his Willys against Hemi John Simbeck. With both drivers dialed a 9.03, John had a .005 light and ran
a 9.035 to Kev's  .004 light  and a 9.024 run out pass for the title.

Looks like a winning time slip for Hemi John.

The Modified finals pitted two cagey veterans with Roy Croll in his Camaro taking on Will Leitch in his Ornery Cuss Dart. Will took the stripe and the win with a 10.28 on a 10.23 at 123.47 MPH to Roy's 10.60 on a 10.55 at 122.31.

The bike finals was a Kauffman family affair with Kenny taking the title over Uncle Tim by running a 8.69 on a 8.67 at 132.56 MPH to Tim's 8.73 on a 8.67.

Dale Rhoads in his Mustang drove by Billy Nees Turbo Sunbird and took the Street title with a 12.76 on a 12.44 at 92.01 MPH to Billy's off pace 15.08 on a 14.28 at a slowing 75.23 MPH due to the fact he just scattered the 1.8 liter.

Zack Miller in his Nova had a far better light with a .038 to Chris Culver's .125 but Zack left Chris back around him with a 15.199 on a 14.68 giving the title to Chris with his 14.13 on a 13.88 at 86.63 MPH.


Mark Frank in his White Lightning Malibu picked up his 8th TCR win in defeating Cait Holland in Sandy's Mercury running a 10.003 on a 10.00 dial at 65.74 MPH to Cait's run out 11.428 on a 11.47 at 61.78 MPH.

In this Todd shot taken from the end of the track you can see that Dylan Weader has already picked up the win with Jake Wood hanging a red bulb on the tree.

Yes!! Dylan picks up his first JR Dragster win!!

Frank Romeo took the Lil Beaver title over Don Carnell when Donnie had  a trans brake solenoid fail. Frank cranked out a 10.40 on a 10.38 for the title.
 
BONUS SHOTS

Everybody loves to watch Rich Powell's Datsun Z car launch.

Bob Roles had his 604 inch Hemi hooked up.

Steve Hollenbach's quick `71 Camaro is a looker.

There's only one Lou Drayer and only one Chevette. They just go together.

In the first round of Top Beaver, Street champ, Dale Rhoads, picked up the win when Bike champ, Kenny Kauffman, red lighted and then jumped out of gear.

Will Leitch ran on his dial in stopping Hemi John in the first round of Top Beaver

So that's how you beat Hemi John, run right on your dial.

Jason Derr flashes a "V" after his 7.55 pass in the 96 degree heat.

Hey Frank, your door is open!!

Billy Joe Ney's cool Willys runs in Hot Rod Trophy

Roy Croll advanced to the finals of Modified over Gary Ender's Mustang with a little better light. This is what .051 better looks like in the traps.

Randall Steltzer has one quick Lightning. How about a 12.08 dial!!

Al "Howdy" Judy broke out his cool Heavy Chevy to do battle in Hot Rod Trophy

Chanda Ross lost a close one to Jake Wood's RepoZest in the semis.

Dylan Weader and Kevin Kohr take shots at each outer in time trials.

Dave Weaver's Charger and Steve Mertz's MOPAR powered Deuce.

2009 Bike Champion, Kenny Kauffman, and his boys.

A pair of Brian's. Vollman and Dubbs.

Bike star, Daryl Walter.

CHUTE SHOTS
Once a month, all cars running 150 MPH and faster are required to pull their chutes to check their function and safety. Here's some of Todd's good photos.

Michelle Orwig

Hemi John Simbeck

Sue Vollman

Don Carnell

Samantha Dubbs

Brian Pecht

Jeff Duck

Steve Miller's cool 40 Chevy with Heather Putt

WINNERS CIRCLE

After 4 tries, Dale Rhoads won the big one on Sunday. Chipper receives congratulatory kisses from wife Carolyn and daughter Heather.

"Hemi John" Simbeck surprised even his self in winning Top ET. After chasing tire problems through time trials he got his act together and took another win.
"You're the greatest dad" says Maggie.

Will Leitch and his number 1 crew chief in the winners circle for his Modified win

Chris Culver is red hot winning his 4th Hot Rod Trophy title this season.

Mark Frank is the forest ranger of TCR picking up his 8th Iron Tree this season.

Dylan Weader is rightly baptized by Deacon Kohr after picking up his first win of his rookie season in the tough JR Dragster eliminator.