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May 6th & 7th, 2006
St. Louis, MO
Screamin' Eagle Top Fuel - Doug Vancil |
JIMS Pro Fuel - Jim Fagan |
Kresto Pro Drag - Rick Moore |
S & S Cycle Pro Gas - Mike Lozano |
Samson Pro Modified - Shaun Reno |
G2 Street Pro - Andy Simon |
Screamin' Eagle Destroyer - Erik Ryder |
Dragmasters Hot Street - Bruce Croneberger |
Screamin' Eagle V-Rod - Jamie McNaughton |
S & S 124 Challenge - Michael Ray |
Rucker Performance Super Gas - Bob Drapp |
S & S Super Sport - Mike Harrison |
Super Eliminator - Dean Druschel |
SEP - Greg Best |
Syn3 ET - Bob Pannell |
Barnett Nitro Harley Outlaw - Tracy Kile |
Floridian Mike Lehman’s West Palm Beach H-D Top Fueler ignites the GIR asphalt with five feet of header flames under the lights.
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Amazing Top Fuel Harley final match found reigning AHDRA World Champion Mike Romine (near lane) clocking Low ET of the Meet at 6.39/220.26 but losing on a holeshot to Doug Vancil’s 6.40/208.14. True win-margin was 0.009 seconds...2.76 feet!
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The current TFH performance king at 6.25 seconds, Tommy Grimes, had a dismal weekend with legend Ray Price’s “Samson”. Ride.
A major engine explosion right off the trailer led to a sixth qualifier spot at 6.62/200 before the North Carolinian lost his first round bout with Florida’s Mike Ferris.
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The new Harley-Davidson VRXSE V-Rod Destroyer may have single-handedly rejuvenated HD drag racing. Available as a single part number in the H-D Screamin’ Eagle Performance Parts catalog for $31,249, the 165-horsepower, 79-cubic inch EFI masterpiece comes from the factory exactly as shown ready to run in the nine-second zone. The AHDRA added a heads-up Destroyer eliminator which has drawn more than enough entries to fill a 32-bike field at all four ‘06 events. New Orleans racer Erick Ryder, (shown), won at Gateway while resetting both ends of the Destroyer record at 9.22/142.24.
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Trailing plenty of high-gear-only clutch dust, Phoenix Fuel-rookie- Jim Fagan’s Romine-powered rig ripped through Pro Fuel Eliminator with 6.74/201.94 performance, finally stopping second-generation killer Armon Furr in the final.
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Arizona’s Jack Romine shows how to steer a Top Fuel Harley at three hundred feet while the only tire on the ground is shaking hard. Heavy leaning got the 186-cubic incher to the second round before losing by nineteen thousandths on a holeshot to Jay Turner, 6.52/212 to a 6.50/216!
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Spectacular action in the “crate motor” SSC division gives credence to the power of 21st century H-D street bikes. Using a mandatory S&S 124-cubic inch powerplant with full street registration, Michael Ray won the division with 9.47/140 power but, as shown by Ohio’s Mike Roberts, the ride to the finish line is a wild one!
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Standing at the retaining wall with wife Nancy, H-D royalty Willie G. Davidson got an earful during Top Fuel action but, as is clearly evident, loved every minute of it!
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As if the fans don’t already see enough nitro racing at AHDRA events, the association also includes the Nitro Outlaw program that includes any loser in any nitro category after the first round of eliminations. Barnett Clutches pays the winner’s purse to the racer with the best two-run average which, at Gateway, was Pennsylvanian Tracy Kile gorgeous 6.6-second “Bad Apple” Top Fueler.
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Rick Moore’s Mid-Continent Racing ride from Pennsylvania (near lane) obliterated both his opponents and the class records in the carbureted, nitro-burning Pro Dragster Eliminator, hitting 7.13/181.84 on his way to victory over veteran Willie Herschberger.
Super Eliminator (10.90 Index) final round saw Ohioan Dean Druschel (near lane) drive around the holeshot of Alabama’s Scotty Hooper to a dead-on 10.905/110 win. Unfortunately, Druschel grabbed a bit too much front brake sixty feet before the finish and took the victory the hard way...sliding on the asphalt at 100 mph. While Dean was checked by the paramedics, (no injuries other than road rash), the safety crew rolled the 2000-model 107-incher off the track with only a bent foot peg and wheelie bars, broken turn signal, and mandatory fuel tank scrapes.
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Pennsylvania’s Blake Holliday heads for the moon in the opening round of street-legal S&S 124 Challenge action.
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