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BILLINGS,
VAN HOOSE AND GLASSCOCK WIN McBRAYER MOPAR EVENT
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ROCKINGHAM
- Randy Billings of Ft.
Pierce, Fla., dominated the
Extreme Street
class Saturday
at Rockingham Dragway,
qualifying with the quickest
elapsed time of the event and
setting the quickest time
during eliminations. Greg Van
Hoose of Ravenswood, W. Va.,
won in Muscle Street and Laura
Glasscock of Keysville, Va.,
took top honors in the Super
Pro class. The event was the
16th Annual McBrayer Chrysler
Mopars at The Rock.
Billings set low time of the
event along with top speed in
the
first qualifying session,
80124 seconds, at 173.12 miles
per hour. Driving
a 500 cubic inch Plymouth
Valiant, Billings set low time
of eliminations at
8.233, 171.97 in the semi
final round. In the
finals he defeated number two
qualifier Wayne Smith, Port
St. Lucie, Fla., 1989 Dodge,
with a time of
8.590, 150.25 to Smiths 8.960,
154.42 losing effort.
Chip Owens of Marion,
S.C., was the semi finalist.
Van Hoose, driving a Plymouth
Roadrunner, won the Pro Max
Muscle
Car class over Tom Moran of
Charlotte in the finals.
Van Hoose turned the
quarter mile in 10.157
seconds, 133.80 m.p.h. to
Moran's 10.976, 123.95, in
his Plymouth Swinger. Phillip
Grover of Alpine, N.Y. was the
semi finalist
in his 1969 Plymouth.
Glasscock drove her Mopar
powered dragster to victory in
the
final round when her opponent,
Franky Gunter of Pelion, S.C.,
fouled, or
red-lighted in his Plymouth
Duster. Scott Macy of
Randleman and John Knapp
or Smithfield, Va., were the
semi finalists.
The Sportsman class was won by
Bill Ritts of Danbury, driving
at
Dodge Dart. Macy, the
semi finalist in the Super Pro
class, was the runner
up when he red-lighted, or
fouled, away his chance of
winning. Art Laselle
of Fayetteville and Joe Lewis
of Elizabethtown were the semi
finalist.
Trophy Street was again won
for the third time in four
years by
James Lowe of Colfax in his
Dodge Coronet. Lowe was
the Trophy Street
winner in 2006 and in 2004.
The Young Gun Shootout
was won by Kevin Locklear of
Sanford
over Corey Robinson of
Castle Hayne, while Delano
Santos of Gastonia won
the Viper Shootout over Randy
Jensen of Jamestown.
The Dakota R\T class
was won by Stephanie Hendley
of Wilmington.
In addition to the on-track
action, more than 120 Dodge,
Chrysler, Plymouth and
Jeep
show cars were judged by Port
City Mopars, plus the Jet
Dragster of Dick Rosberg made
two 280 m.p.h. exhibition
ruins.
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