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Greg Anderson raced to his first Pro Stock victory of the season, Dixon, Wilkerson and Smith Win!

    
 

Courtesy of NHRA Communications Photo copyright 2010 Auto Imagery, Inc.

Greg Anderson raced to his first Pro Stock victory of the season Sunday at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals and pulled off a Pro Stock Sweep by winning the K&N Horsepower Challenge. Larry Dixon, Tim Wilkerson and Matt Smith also were winners in their respective categories at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series event at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park.

In winning the Pro Stock final, three-time world champ Anderson pocketed more than $125,000 for the weekend by sweeping today's eliminations and Saturday's K&N Horsepower Challenge all-star event, which includes a $25,000 double-up bonus from NHRA.


Anderson vs. Johnson
Anderson outran Allen Johnson in the final round for his 61st career victory. Anderson's Summit Racing Pontiac GXP posted a winning performance of 6.722 seconds at 204.54 mph to hold off Johnson's Team Mopar Dodge Avenger, which slowed at mid-track and finished in 6.982 at 159.38.

"This is beyond a dream weekend," said Anderson, who also swept both races in 2004. "I couldn't have even have dreamed anything this big before we came here this week. I just hoped and prayed that we came here with a good performance and functioned properly throughout the weekend and just had a slight chance of sneaking a few round-wins and maybe a lucky victory away, and we ended up sweeping the weekend and taking every doggone nickel they had to give. It's been a long time since we've had a weekend like this. I guess I've got to go back three or four years when we had a car that could do these things."

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Mike Stawicki and G-Force return to PMRA in 2010

 Veteran New York team back with new Firebird and new screw blower
by Bruce Melenbacher
MEDINA, NEW YORK (June 16, 2010) - Veteran Pro Modified racer Mike Stawicki has returned to the Pro Modified Racing Association for the 2010 season, and the New York native plans to run as many PMRA events as possible this year.
“We will run as many as we can,” mentioned Stawicki, who is presently second on the PMRA win list with four outright wins and a tie between 2005 and 2008. 
He also holds the PMRA quarter-mile elapsed time record with a 6.049-second pass at TMP in Cayuga, Ontario in 2008.
Stawicki did not compete in the PMRA in 2009, but returned with a new Firebird-bodied Pro Modified for the season opener at the Cayuga Dragway, where qualified number one with a 6.175-second run, but spun the tires in the first round and was eliminated.
He also said he will run in several ADRL events for 2010, and recently qualified with a stout 3.80-second, 199.42-mph pass at an ADRL meet in Michigan.
Stawicki works hand in hand on the G-Force Race Cars entry with Jim Salemi of G-Force and Jon Salemi of Resolution Racing Services, who crew chief the Firebird. Car chief is John Kage; Betty Stawicki is the team manager, and Lucas Salemi and Evan Salemi round out the crew.
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Eric Latino becomes 17th winner in six year PMRA racing history!

 Large number of winners provides interesting
and varied Pro Modified competition
by Bruce Melenbacher
CAYUGA, ONTARIO (June 19, 2010) – When Eric Latino won the Pro Modified Racing Association’s season opener at the Cayuga Dragway May 23, he became the 17th driver to win a PMRA event in the series’ six years of racing.
The win for the Port Perry, Ontario racer was his first in PMRA competition. 
At present, three-time champion Bruce Boland of Hamilton, Ontario has the most number of wins with five. His first win came at Lancaster in 2005 and a co-win at New York International Raceway Park near Rochester with Mike Stawicki in 2008. Boland then won three events in 2009 at Cayuga and Grand Bend.
Stawicki, of Medina, New York is next with four wins. Along with his 2008 co-win with Boland, Stawicki has won at Cayuga in 2005, and then at both Lancaster and Cayuga in 2008.
Joe Boniferro of Niagara Falls, Ontario became the first multiple-event winner in PMRA history, winning the Grand Bend rounds in both 2006 and 2007. 
 
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Melanie Simmons ups ante with new engine for Quick 32 Sportsman Series!

 Top Dragster of Toyrific Racing gets boost with supercharged powerplant
by Bruce Melenbacher
ORILLIA, ONTARIO (June 14, 2010) – With a new ERD engine program, Melanie Simmons is hoping to be a strong player in this year’s Quick 32 Sportsman Series presented by NAPA Auto Parts.
“We were disappointed we didn’t qualify for a couple of races last year,” said Simmons, who drives the Top Dragster of Toyrific Racing. “But we’ve stepped up for this year.”
The 540-cubic inch Chevy engine has received a supercharger and related equipment from the shops of Carl Spiering’s Engine Research & Development (ERD) and the team is hoping the increase in power will get the LJ Red dragster down the track quicker.
“We didn’t qualify and sat out a couple of races,” Simmons explained about the team’s woes last year. “That’s why we’ve upgraded the engine.”  The car was previously fueled through an Enderle Fuel Injection system.
During the first Quick 32 Sportsman Series event for 2010 held at Cayuga Dragway in May, the team borrowed a car from Spiering similar to their now-upgraded dragster, and Simmons qualified 13th in the field. The Toyrific team will be ready with the new combination for the upcoming RPM Magazine Family PowerFest & Media Weekend to be held at the Grand Bend Motorplex June 25-27.
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New Engine and Increased Speeds for Grubb Racing in 2010

  Top Sportsman team on board with more power
 in Quick 32 Sportsman Series
by Bruce Melenbacher
PINE RIVER, ONTARIO (June 11, 2010) – With a bigger engine this season, Darrin Grubb has stepped up his team’s efforts in the Quick 32 Sportsman Series presented by NAPA Auto Parts.
The Ontario-based Top Sportsman team has added a whole bunch of cubic inches to its 2004 Chevy Cavalier, and Grubb, who drives the Cavalier for Grubb Racing, said he has noticed a big difference.
“We’ve gone from running around 180 in the quarter to close to 195 now with the new engine,” said Grubb. “It is a nice, awesome ride.”
The team placed sixth in the Championship Point Award Series standings last season, highlighted with a Top Sportsman class victory during the June event at the Grand Bend Motorplex in Grand Bend, Ontario.
The new 706-cubic inch powerplant is from the South Carolina shops of former IHRA World Champion Scott Duggins and his PAR Race Engines facility. The big Chevy sits in a Chris Duncan Race Cars chassis, and a Hutch’s Transmission Service Powerglide sits behind the engine. Rupert’s Racing Service provides the alcohol-based fuel system.
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