In recent weeks, Duck Tape Racing has been fire, consistently lighting win lights at a variety of venues.  Teammates Matt Zapp and Michael Beard both scored heads-up Index class wins two weeks ago with Zapp's Racers for Christ Super Street Shootout victory at Norwalk Raceway Park's NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series event and Beard's 7.0 Index win at Piedmont Dragway's Triad Thunder Series.  Over Memorial Weekend, Beard accomplished the unthinkable by double-entering and running himself in the finals of the Sunday $10K at the World Footbrake Challenge II, hosted by Bristol Dragway. In recent weeks, Duck Tape Racing has been fire, consistently lighting win lights at a variety of venues.  Teammates Matt Zapp and Michael Beard both scored heads-up Index class wins two weeks ago with Zapp's Racers for Christ Super Street Shootout victory at Norwalk Raceway Park's NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series event and Beard's 7.0 Index win at Piedmont Dragway's Triad Thunder Series.  Over Memorial Weekend, Beard accomplished the unthinkable by double-entering and running himself in the finals of the Sunday $10K at the World Footbrake Challenge II, hosted by Bristol Dragway.

The action moved to Mooresvile Dragway, May 31 - June 1, for the IHRA Summit Pro-Am Tour, where Beard competed in both Stock and Super Stock.  Although he dropped a first round match in Stock by .007 seconds with his H/CM '80 Volare, Beard was able to shoe Johnny Fisher's SS/LA '80 Dodge Mirada to his second Super Stock Pro-Am victory of the year, complementing a Sportsman National runner-up at San Antonio.  The win moves Beard into the points lead in Division 3 Super Stock, and 7th in the World.  In Stock, Beard hangs onto 2nd place in Division 1, and 9th in the World.