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Southwestern International Raceway  June 3^rd & 4^th

On June 3^rd, the WFA pulled into SIR with the largest showing of cars this year, as part of the Tucson Fuel Altered Nationals. 17 teams competed for the coveted 8 car payout. Several teams stepped up including Jerry Hall and Rob Winefsky running personal bests.  With the top four cars in the 6’s, Hal Rishton’s 7.08 rounded out the tough bump spot. It was Eric Gates’ 6.66 that lead qualifying to take home the RBS Supercharger’s low ET award. The highlight of the evening was Chris Phelps finally working the bugs out and resetting the WFA record with an extremely fast 212.7 MPH!

Saturday’s warm weather made for tricky tune-ups with most teams slowing down. After struggling all weekend, new comer Steve Dickerman managed a 7.22 in Mike Hoyt’s Midnight Flyer. Jim Carter collected the Torco quick reaction time award with a nice .012 light in the second round and Ed Middlebrook once again thrilled the fans with big burnouts and constant performances to take home the FantaZ “who’s got game award”. Give credit where due!  Lawton Ferreira actually cut the best light of the night with a stellar .005.  Due to a miscommunication regarding logo placement he will also be awarded the Torco quick reaction time award at this event.  Good job guys. With Barona finalists Levitt and Oberg out due to parts failure, Chris Phelps proved to be the man to beat leading the pack with a 6.81 followed closely by Maroney’s 6.82.

The two low ET’s of the weekend paired up Eric Gates Barona Flyer against Chris Phelps Ghost Rider in the final.  With Gates 6.66 low ET and Phelps record setting MPH the stage was set for a great race.  Both teams did an excellent job with a nice side by side drag race.  When the smoke cleared it was Phelps’ 6.74 taking the stripe over Gates 6.81 to take home his first win with the WFA.  www.WFAseries.com

Final Qualifying

 

The Tucson Fuel Altered Nationals is a tradition that has been going since the early 70’s.  This event has a huge following of fans and is very well attended.  Make sure you guys have plenty of hero cards!

This year the event has been changed to a two day event, Friday and Saturday Night, June 3^rd and 4^th.  We’ll make 2 passes on Friday night.  The first pass is a mandatory non-payout round. Each car that makes a pass will receive 10 series points.  The second pass on Friday night will be for payout with the quick 8 cars getting paid $200. Points will also be awarded based upon qualifying order.  Saturday night will be our standard format, two payout rounds and a final round.  To summarize, this event will have a total of 3 payout rounds and a final round.  Final round will be the two low et’s, from the payout rounds, of the weekend.

 If you’re on the fence of whether to attend or not… This will be the largest payout of money and points of any event this year. 

 Paid member entry is:  Free car/driver, 4 crew and 2 vehicle passes. You must be pre-entered with WFA, one week in advance, to get in free.  Pre-entry deadline is May 29th. You must be a paid member to participate in this event.

 Friday – Gates open at 10am.  You can get in anytime after that.  If you need to park on Thursday, they are normally there until 5pm.  Please call and confirm with the track.  We will have a mandatory drivers meeting, 5pm at my trailer. The first round will be about 7pm. 

Saturday – Similar schedule to Friday although we will not have another meeting. 

All payout will be done at the end of the event.  Friday night payout will not be issued prior to the end of the event.

As a reminder there are a couple new rules in effect this year.  A complete rule book is available for download off the website: http://www.wfaseries.com/WFA%20Rules%202011.pdf

 Hotel Info:  http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/tusca-courtyard-tucson-airport/

Courtyard Tucson Airport, 2505 East Executive Drive · Tucson, Arizona 85756 USA

$59 rate, 1-520-573-0000, Mention the SIR raceway rate.

Pre Entry List as of  5/23/2011:

Becky Sylvester

Jim Maroney

Rob Winefsky

Jerry Hall

Ed Middlebrook

Dean Oberg

Hal Rishton

Mark Forbes

Eric Gates

Lawton M. Ferreira

Mike Hoyt Sr.

Jim Carter

Sheldon Lofgreen

Danny Levitt

Mitch Bowen / Rick Monn

Dave Sharp

 

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