ROCKINGHAM, N.C. – Doug Walker of Greensboro, N.C., Darrell Collins of Winston-Salem and Jimmy Raper of Easley, S.C., were the $5,000 winners in the final race in the 2005 Doug Herbert Performance Products Carolina Coalition Bracket Series Sunday at Rockingham Dragway. 

Walker won the Top Eliminator championship on Saturday, Collins won on Sunday and Raper won the “race-within-a-race” 32-car North Carolina State Championship.

The event completed the eight-race series comprising two events at each of four North Carolina racetracks: Rockingham Dragway, Piedmont Dragway, Mooresville Dragway and Farmington Motor Sports Park.

Other Rockingham winners included former Rockingham track champion Chip Johnson, who drove his Fayetteville-based 1970 Chevy Nova to the Footbrake championship on Saturday; Chris Plott of Winston-Salem who, as Sunday’s race winner, claimed his third win in four opportunities this year at the Rock: and Eric Aman of Mt. Olive, who drove his 1981 Camaro to victory in the North Carolina State Championship event.

Megan Lister of Taylors, S.C., ended David Dean’s dominance in the Trailers of the East Coast Jr. Dragster division by turning back the Waxhaw driver in Saturday’s final.  Dean swept both Jr. Dragster events at Rockingham’s spring Coalition race.  Mooresville’s Corey Leazer was Sunday’s Jr. Dragster winner, beating Jonesville’s Brooke Anderson for Sunday’s title, and Cole William of Pilot won the State Championship title.

Although he was shut out of the winners’ circle in the season finale, Terry “Turtle” Brannon of Boiling Spring, S.C., hung on to win a $10,000 bonus as the overall Top Eliminator Champion for 2005.  Chuck Martin of Connelly Springs earned $5,000 as the No. 2 finisher.

In the Footbrake division, Sunday’s semifinalist Richard Alford of Raleigh won the season championship and an accompanying bonus check for $5,000.  Plott closed with a rush to finish second.  Lister won the Jr. Dragster title over Dylan Stott of Columbus, N.C.
 

Weekend results from the Doug Herbert Performance Products Carolina Coalition Bracket Racing Championships at Rockingham Dragway:

SATURDAY TOP ELIMINATOR
Semifinals – Jackie Robinson, Greenville, S.C., dragster, 4.971 on a 4.960 dial-in, 138.12 mph, def. Billy Lewis, Supply, N.C., Chevy truck, 4.746 breakout foul on a 4.750 dial-in, 145.39 mph; Doug Walker, Greensboro, N.C., dragster, bye.
FINAL – Doug Walker, Greensboro, N.C., dragster, 4.865 on a 4.840 dial-in, 137.96 mph, def. Jackie Robinson, Greenville, S.C., dragster, 5.004 on a 4.960 dial-in, 137.18 mph.

SUNDAY TOP ELIMINATOR
Semifinals – Darrell Collins, Winston-Salem, N.C., dragster, 4.974 on a 4.950 dial-in, 133.57 mph, def. Larry Palmer, Albemarle, N.C., dragster, 4.796 on a 4.780 dial-in, 142.32 mph; John Smith, Bowersville, Ga., dragster, bye.
FINAL – Darrell Collins, Winston-Salem, N.C., dragster, 4.954 on a 4.950 dial-in, 136.12 mph, def. John Smith, Bowersville, Ga., dragster, 5.184 on a 5.170 dial-in, 133.65 mph.

SATURDAY FOOTBRAKE
Semifinals – Michael Spaugh, Advance, N.C., NA, 8.526 on an 8.530 dial-in, 78.93 mph, def. Van Greeg, Kingsport, Tenn., Chevy Suburban, foul; Chip Johnson, Fayetteville, N.C, 1970 Chevy Nova, 6.697 on a 6.680 dial-in, 98.41 mph, def. George Page, Roanoke, Va., 1979 Chevy Camaro, 6.871 on a 6.840 dial-in, 99.15 mph.
FINAL – Chip Johnson, Fayetteville, N.C., 1970 Chevy Nova, 6.678 on a 6.670 dial-in, 99.77 mph, def. Michael Spaugh, Advance, N.C., NA, 8.527 on an 8.520 dial-in, no speed posted.

SUNDAY FOOTBRAKE
Semifinals – George Brown, Fayetteville, N.C., 1970 Chevy Nova, 6.830 on a 6.820 dial-in, 99.25 mph, def. Richard Alford, Raleigh, N.C., NA, foul; Chris Plott, Winston-Salem, N.C., 1970 Mercury Cougar, 6.883 on a 6.880 dial-in, 99.65 mph, def. Eric Aman, Mt. Olive, N.C., 1981 Chevy Camaro, 6.076 on a 6.070 dial-in, 114.34 mph.
FINAL – Chris Plott, Winston-Salem, N.C., 1970 Mercury Cougar, 6.904 on a 6.880 dial-in, 95.31 mph, def. George Brown, Fayetteville, N.C., 1970 Chevy Vega, 6.876 on an 6.820 dial-in, 99.15 mph.

SATURDAY TRAILERS OF THE EAST COAST JR. DRAGSTER
Semifinals – David Dean, Waxhaw, N.C., 8.057 on a 7.950 dial-in, 71.04 mph, def. Morgan Tedder, Marston, N.C., 8.930 on an 8.920 dial-in, 71.09 mph; Megan Lister, Taylors, S.C., bye.
FINAL – Megan Lister, Taylors, S.C., 8.033 on and 8.100 dial-in, 78.45 mph, def. David Dean, Waxhaw, N.C., 7.863 on a 7.950 dial-in, 83.04 mph.

SUNDAY TRAILERS OF THE EAST COAST JR. DRAGSTER
Semifinals – Corey Leazer, Mooresville, N.C., 7.983 on a 7.950 dial-in, 81.71 mph, def. Corey Penny, Louisburg, N.C., 8.176 on an 8.160 dial-in, 77.55 mph; Brooke Anderson, Jonesville, N.C., bye.
FINAL – Corey Leazer, Mooresville, N.C., 8.026 on a 7.980 dial-in, 80.07 mph, def. Brooke Anderson, Jonesville, N.C., 8.124 on an 8.070 dial-in, 78.65 mph.

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