MAYSE CONTINUES HOT STREAK
Thu, 2007-05-10 05:21
In the world of sportsman drag racing, it’s got to be good to be a Mayse. The
Frost, TX based family racing team earned two DragRaceResults.com/Goodyear
Bracket Series national championships last fall, with eighteen-year-old Rustin
Mayse taking the Super Pro title, and his sister Misty Mayse earning the Junior
Dragster Crown, while family patriarch Robbie Mayse finished the season in third
place in the Super Pro Standings.
Already in 2007, Robbie earned a $5,000 Super Pro victory at the
DragRaceResults.com/Goodyear Bracket Series event at the Texas Motorplex, and
just weeks ago Rustin earned a whopping $50,000 payday for claiming the main
event of the Big Bucks Bracket Bonanza at Farmington Dragway in Farmington, NC.
Last weekend at the DragRaceResults.com/Goodyear Bracket Series event at Abilene
Dragway, Robbie Mayse kept the family hot streak going with an impressive 8
round $5,000 triumph in the CSR Super Pro class.
“I‘m just trying to keep up with Rustin‘s winning ways,” joked the elder
Mayse. “Seriously, we’ve had a good run of luck lately,” he explained.
“Watching Rustin win the $50,000 race last weekend was one of the proudest
moments of my life. He couldn’t make it here this week because he had his
senior prom, but it feels great to come out with a win here as well.”
Mayse and his American Race Cars dragster were very impressive en route to
victory, as he strung together a number of .00 reaction times to win some very
close races.
“If you had to pick out a key run, I’d say I had a couple. Early in the
race I missed the tree badly against Steve Mikus. He was .00 and I was
.040-something. Steve is a heck of a racer, and usually that big of a starting
line difference would spell disaster. I was holding a lot and dumped, and Steve
broke out. That was my big break. Then later I had to run Jeremy Hefler, who’s
always one of the best at the track. We were both .00 on the tree, and I got by
him in a real tight race. Both of those rounds could have gone either
way.”
Mayse culminated his day when Jake Buford lit the red light in the final
round with an oh-so-close -.001 red, handing the victory to Robbie.
The victory, along with his earlier triumph at the Texas Motorplex, move
Mayse within striking distance of early points leaders Luke Bogacki and Greg
Brotherton in the chase for the DragRaceResults.com/Goodyear Bracket Series
national championship, and the $50,000+ Race Tech Dragster that comes with it.
His two victories give him 16 points in just two events, which trail Bogacki’s
28 point total (thru four races) and Brotherton’s 24 (thru three).
“It’s a great start, but Luke and Greg are off to great starts too,”
explained Mayse. “Who knows, we learned last season that it’s not over until
the last car goes down the track in November, but I feel like I’ll be a factor
and hopefully we’ll compete for the championship late in the season.”
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