HANEY FIRST BIG WINNER OF LIGHTS OUT 10

by Ian Tocher    Fri, 2019-02-15 13:06

 

The much publicized and very much anticipated grudge match between "Stevie Fast" Jackson and Keith "You Know My Name" Haney went down as the first pairing of second-round Radials vs. the World on Thursday night at Lights Out 10. It ended with Haney adding another layer of name recognition.

"You know, he's a great competitor with me; I think we bring out the best in each other and it's something that the fans love," Haney said after going 3.85 at 195.76 to beat Jackson's 4.01 at 181.94-mph effort. "I mean, I heard the crowd was going crazy while we were staging because everybody bet on Stevie winning, but guess what? My fans got paid!"

Jackson left first with a .017 holeshot in his screw-blown 2018 Camaro, and ran just two-thousandths of a second quicker to the 60-foot marker (1.004). However, Haney's nitrous-assisted '16 Camaro ran quicker in the first 330 feet by eighth thousandths before posting a .049 margin of victory in front of the largest Thursday-night crowd in Duck X Productions history at South Georgia Motorsports Park.

"It was awesome. You know, we've been racing a long time against each other and our bet isn't just on the win; we bet on reaction time, 60-foot, 330, just everything, and he won reaction and 60-foot this time, but I won to the 330 and finish, so that's even better," Haney said. 

"And it lasts all weekend so our bet is long, we bet on who's got a better light next round, who runs fastest next round, who goes furthest in the race, so we've got all these side bets going, it's not just about the one round. And we had a little bet last November at the Elite 16 race in Dallas (TX), and he paid me there, too! So that's two in a row he's lost to me. People forget that!"

Meanwhile, Jackson claimed he was well on his way to winning the round when his transmission failed shortly before the eighth-mile finish line. 

"It just broke," he said. "I was pulling on him and it just let go at the end. It's done that a few times to us now and we don't know why. Something's not right, but we'll find it. We have to."

Haney's pass placed him 21st in the provisional 32-car Radials vs. the World field, led by a record-setting 3.62 run by Tim Slavens, while Jackson was 34th, just outside the all-three-second field with three more planned qualifying sessions to go before eliminations begin Saturday afternoon.
  
  

 

 

 

 
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