In the final results from the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Spring
Shootout presented by Torco Race Fuels Henderson, Nev., racer Justin
Lamb grabbed the win in Comp Eliminator to join Saturday’s Top Alcohol
winners Shawn Cowie and Sean O’Bannon.

Lamb worked his way through the field in his ’09 Cobalt before meeting
up with the former NHRA Lucas Oil National Champion Dean Carter of
Glendale, Ariz., in his final round win.

Val Torres Jr., Valinda, Calif., and Randy Balough, Newbury Park,
Calif., topped the super categories with Torres beating Steve Williams
and his K&N sponsored dragster in Super Comp and Balough taking his
’63 Corvette to the winner’s circle over Vincente Campa with a
hole-shot win in Super Gas.

Bandimere Speedway will feature the back-to-back night qualifying
sessions at the Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals, this according to a
press release from the facility located outside of Denver, Co.

The first stop on the three race Western Swing, a three race portion of the NHRA Full Throttle Series, will feature 8 pm qualifying sessions on both Friday and Saturday.

HAMSTRA, HALSEY, GLIDDEN, PROPHIT AND GAHM WINNERS AT SOUTH GEORGIA MOTORSPORTS PARK


Upset
victories, first time winners, record-breaking performances and another
overflow, record-setting crowd highlighted the ADRL Hardee's Georgia
Drags at South Georgia Motorsports Park.
 
Jason Hamstra (Pro Extreme), Jim Halsey (Pro Nitrous), Billy Glidden
(Flowmaster Extreme 10.5), Matt Prophit (Pro Extreme Motorcycle) and
Brian Gahm (Extreme Pro Stock) were winners in their respective classes.
 
It was the first career ADRL victory for Hamstra, Prophit and Gahm.
 
A complete wrap up follows.

Shawn Cowie and Sean O’Bannon each took home their second NHRA Lucas
Oil Drag Racing Pacific Division win of the year today at The Strip at
Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the Spring Shootout presented by Torco
Race Fuels.

Canadian racer Cowie of Delta, B.C., took out the No. 1 qualifier and
defending Pacific Division Top Alcohol Dragster champion in Jim
Whiteley with a final round pass of 5.653 seconds at 256.60 mph.  This
is Cowie’s second win of the year to go along with his win last month
in Arizona.

O’Bannon out of Ontario, Calif., also took on and out ran a defending
Pacific Division Champion in Terry Ruckman of Grand Junction, Colo. 
O’Bannon ran in the 5.60 second zone all day taking out Mark Woznichak,
Riverside, Calif., and Doug Gordon, Paso Robles, Calif., on his way to
a win running of 5.654 seconds at 254.90 mph in the final over Ruckman.

Driver Lee Frank along with car owner Don Snavely from Snavely
Motorsports of Missoula, Mont., plan of attending the majority of the
PSCA Las Vegas
Events in 2009 stating with the Hughes Performance Las Vegas Nationals
April 17-19. Frank has driven Pro Mod machinery since the class was
created in 1990 and has raced a multitude of classes since the 1970s.

WHITELEY, PAYNE LEAD FIELDS IN LAS VEGAS

In the first rounds of qualifying at the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing
Series Spring Shootout presented by Torco Race Fuels, Top Alcohol
Dragster driver Jim Whiteley, Grand Junction, Calif., and Top Alcohol
Funny Car pilot Jay Payne, Claremont, Calif., took the No. 1 qualifying
positions in their classes.

Whiteley outran the field with a pass of 5.346 seconds at 270.16 mph. 
The defending Lucas Oil Pacific Division Champion is followed by Shawn
Cowie of Delta, B.C., CAN., in second and Courtney Force, Yorba Linda,
Calif., in third, running 5.730 seconds at 255.63 mph.  Force is the
daughter of NHRA Funny Car standout John Force.

Payne made a 5.637-second, 254.38 mph run to take the pole.  Payne has
seven funny car division championships to his name including 5 in a row
and is the reigning NHRA Southeast Division Champion.  Sean O’Bannon
sits in the No. 2 position with a run of 5.644 seconds, 254.18 mph and
last week’s Summit Racing.com NHRA Nationals winner Tony Bartone is 4th
in the eight-car field.

Former NHRA Lucas Oil National Champion Dean Carter of Glendale, Ariz.,
leads the Comp Eliminator field followed by Justin Lamb of Henderson,
Nev., and Randy Goff of Las Vegas in the number six and tenth spots
respectively.

PATRICK NETS PROVISIONAL EXTREME PRO STOCK POLE AND RECORD

Taylor, Balooshi, Naiser and Jackson lead respective divisions

Extreme
Pro Stock racer Robert Patrick wouldn’t say that he entered this
weekend’s ADRL Hardee's Georgia Drags with a chip on his shoulder, but
did admit that he had plenty of incentive to turn up the wick during
provisional qualifying.

Joining Patrick atop their respective fields were Frankie Taylor (Pro
Extreme), Khalid Al-Balooshi (Pro Nitrous), Jeff Naiser (XTF) and
Broderick Jackson (Pro Extreme Motorcycle).

In Houston, the driver of the Purvis Ford Shelby Cobra from
Fredericksburg, Va., experienced a less than spectacular season opener
and on the day after that frustrating loss, he blew up the team’s brand
new experimental engine.

That’s why Patrick came out of the gate swinging this evening as he
drove his way to an early lead in qualifying with a 4.072 elapsed time
at 176.03. Not only does his run stand as the first day leader of
qualifying but also represents both ends of new world records if he can produce the
required one-percent back up.

XTF Racers Mike Hill and Mike Conover crashed during Friday afternoon time trials.

Hill launched hard and about 200 feet into the run encountered severe
tire shake. The car got loose and Hill apparently overcorrected sending
the car up onto two wheels and into Conover's lane. He then struck
Conover's car in the quarter-panel before impacting the wall and
sliding to a stop on his side.

‘Flat Stanley’, the title character of the 1964 children’s book by Jeff
Brown, had an exciting weekend at the recent Summitracing.com Nationals in Las
Vegas, Nevada.