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EVERYBODY
WINS IN ONE DAY
MIROCK RACE AT THE
ROCK
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The Adams Performance Sportsman Summer Sizzler ran as a two-day race condensed into one under sunny skies at Steve Earwood’s Rockingham Dragway. With rain threatening for Sunday, Earwood called a racer’s meeting on Saturday and polled the group whether to squeeze it in or not. “That’s a real racer’s track, to ask us what we wanted to do,” noted Virginian Michael Rankin. And the vote was—let’s do it in a day.
So the Rockingham Dragway staff hit the nitrous button, shifted smoothly through the gears and accomplished two days work in one. The racers hustled to and from
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trailers—cooling
clutches,
airing
shifters,
filling
bottles,
checking
pressures
and
adding
fuel
in
record
time.
The
Mickey
Thompson
MIRock
Superbike
Series’
first-ever
sportsmen-and-grudge-only
event
hustled
along
in a
big
way.
Few
bikes
hustle
the
first
eighth
mile
like
the
Louis
Concrete
4.60
machines,
the
quickest
index
bikes
on
the
planet.
And
in
the
first
year
for
the
class,
Kenny
Cornell
has
already
won
twice.
Number
one
qualifier
Eran
Pielert
made
it
easy
for
Cornell
this
time
around,
redlighting
in
the
final.
Multi-time
MIRock
pro
class
champion
Jeremy
Teasley
won
4.60
last
time
out
at
MIR.
This
time
around
he
went
out
early
with
a
nitrous
problem
on a
bike
borrowed
from
his
brother
Brandon.
But
lest
the
Teasley
name
be
sullied,
dad
James
“Crow”
Teasley
Jr.
took
FBR
Shop
5.60
on
an
‘80s
Kawasaki
that’s
been
doing
the
family
right
for
a
long
time.
Teasley
beat
Ben
Knight
in
the
final
after
Knight
took
out
number
one
qualifier
Robert
Parker
in
the
semi.
No-bar
specialist
Knight
was
on a
5.60
bike
borrowed
from
Dustin
Lee,
an
old
school
Kawasaki
wheelie-bar
bike
no
less.
Knight
had
made
only
one
wheelie
bar
pass
in
his
life
before
this
weekend,
but
seemed
to
get
the
hang
of
it
pretty
quickly.
Still,
his
comfort
level
in
familiar
territory
revealed
itself
as
he
won
Nitrous
Express
Pro
ET
race
2 on
his
’04
no-bar
Suzuki
Hayabusa
over
Bob
Carlson
in
the
final.
But
don’t
feel
sorry
for
Carlson.
He
made
the
long
drive
from
Connecticut
pay
off
with
his
first
ever
MIRock
Crazy
8s
win
over
class
champion
Shayne
Proctor.
An
all-Kawasaki
ZX14
final,
Proctor
took
the
tree
but
Carlson
took
the
stripe.
“I
had
a
blast,”
said
Carlson.
“Over
40
runs—it's
all
a
blur!”
April
Rockingham
winner
Jerry
Turner
seems
to
have
found
a
home
at
the
venerable
facility
in
North
Carolina’s
Sand
Hills,
winning
Nitrous
Express
Pro
ET
this
time
around.
Turner
beat
#1
qualifier
Brian
“Cannoli”
Canoles
in
the
final.
Brock’s
Performance
Street
ET
champ
Boo
Brown
will
have
a
chance
to
defend
his
title
at
The
Rock
in
November,
winning
Race
1
with
an
.014
light
against
Michael
Herman
Jr.
in
the
final.
Tennessee
racer
Lee—the
guy
who
loaned
his
KZ
dragbike
to
Knight—won
Race
2
with
an
even
better
.010
against
fellow
finalist
Langdon
Cheves.
Lee
accomplished
that
on a
ZX14,
borrowed
from
Turner!
‘Twas
an
incestuous
winners
circle
indeed.
And
remember
Rankin,
from
the
beginning
of
this
report?
He
rode
his
Suzuki
GSXR1000
to
the
Trac
King/APE
Top
Sportsman
final,
where
he
faced
Mooresville
racer
Scottie
Keller.
Rankin
took
.010
from
Keller
at
the
tree,
but
Keller
took
the
win.
Afterdark
Underground
featured
a
stellar
race
between
Jeremy
Teasley
on
the
Adams
Performance-built
“1
Bad
Apple”
and
rider
Dust
on
the
“Sam
Cooke”
‘Busa.
Teasley
had
the
starting
line
advantage,
but
Dust
drove
around
for
the
win—three
layers
of a
cake
on
the
line.
“Where
we
were
conservative
(on
the
tune-up),
they
were
aggressive,”
reported
Teasley.
“He
drove
around
me
mid-track,
but
I
was
pulling
back
up
on
him
at
the
end.”
The
difference
was
half
a
bike
length.
“We
misjudged
the
track
and
didn’t
put
enough
to
it,”
said
builder-tuner-race
sponsor
Coby
Adams.
“Let’s
put
bigger
jets
in
it
and
rerun
it.”
A
great
plan
indeed,
but
Father
Time
and
a
precisely-at-midnight
rain
shower
put
the
kibosh
on
any
further
racing
on
this
particular
evening.
But
the
Mickey
Thompson
MIRock
Superbike
Series
reconvenes
for
the
biggest
motorcycle
drag
racing,
bike
club
culture
and
bikini
show
event
of
the
year—the
WPGC
Bike
Fest
at
Maryland
International
Raceway
on
July
19-21.
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CORNELL
WINS
4.60
TITLE
IN
ADAMS
SUMMER
SIZZLER
MIROCK
BIKE
RACE
Kenny
Cornell
of
Manassas,
Va.,
won
the
featured
Louis
Concrete
4.60
Index
championship
Saturday
in a
history-making
MIRock
Superbike
Series
event
at
Steve
Earwood’s
Rockingham
Dragway.
The
Adams
Performance
Summer
Sizzler
not
only
was
the
first
all-sportsman
race
in
the
history
of
the
popular
independent
motorcycle
series,
it
also
was
the
first
to
be
contested
in a
single
day.
Confronted
by
weather
issues,
racers
and
officials
elected
to
adopt
an
up-tempo
pace
that
compacted
two
days
of
competition
into
only
one.
“I
want
to
thank
all
our
MIRock
racers,”
Earwood
said.
“We
explained
the
situation
to
them
and
thanks
to
their
cooperation,
we
were
able
to
complete
the
Adams
Summer
Sizzler,
in
its
entirety,
qualifying
and
racing,
in a
single
day.
I
wouldn’t
want
to
do
it
every
week,
but
it
was
a
pretty
amazing
effort
from
everyone
involved.”
The
event
winners
represented
five
different
states
and
included
James
Teasley
of
Orient,
Ohio,
father
of
many-time
MIRock
Series
champion
Jeremy,
who
prevailed
in
the
FBR
Shop
5.60
Index
class.
He
was
joined
in
the
winners’
circle
by
Scottie
Keller
of
Mooresville,
N.C.,
in
Trac
King
Top
Sportsman,
Bob
Carlson
of
Torrington,
Conn.,
in
Crazy
8s,
Jerry
Turner
of
Bluff
City,
Tenn.,
in
Nitrous
Express
Pro
ET,
MIRock
veteran
Boo
Brown
of
Potomac
Falls,
Va.,
in
Brock’s
Performance
Street
ET
and
Ben
Knight
of
Beavercreek,
Ohio,
in
Pro
ET
#2.
Teasley
prevented
Knight
from
doubling-up
by
stopping
him
in
the
5.60
final.
Knight,
in
turn,
kept
Carlson
from
doubling
up
by
beating
him
in
the
Pro
ET
#2
final.
Brown
won
his
title
at
the
starting
line
where
his
.039
of a
second
reaction
time
advantage
overcame
Michael
Herman
Jr.’s
.023
track
advantage
in
the
closest
final
round
of
the
day.
The
Rock’s
next
MIRock
Series
event
will
be
the
Dragbikelive.com
Sportsman
Spectacular,
Aug.
9-11.
Results
from
the
Adams
Performance
Summer
Sizzler
MIRock
Superbike
Series
Sportsman
Spectacular
at
Rockingham
Dragway:
LOUIS
CONCRETE
4.60
Qualifying
– 1.
Eran
Pielert,
Halethorde,
Md.,
Suzuki
Hayabusa,
4.629;
2.
Kenny
Cornell,
Manassas,
Va.,
Kawasaki,
4.692;
3.
Ronnie
Smith,
Pasadena,
Md.,
Suzuki,
4.705;
4.
Juan
Santos,
Charlotte,
Hayabusa,
4.838;
5.
Jeremy
Teasley,
Columbus,
Ohio,
Hayabusa,
4.878;
6.
Schubert
Claytor,
Roanoke,
Va.,
Suzuki,
4.922;
7.
Jay
Beasley,
Winston-Salem,
N.C.,
5.012;
8.
Barry
Harvey,
Winson-Salem,
N.C.,
7.558.
Round
1 –
Juan
Santos,
Charlotte,
4.912,
146.75
mph,
def.
Jeremy
Teasley,
Columbus,
Ohio,
4.916,
134.46
mph;
Kenny
Cornell,
Manassas,
Va.,
4.729,
142.06
mph,
def.
Jay
Beasley,
Winston-Salem,
N.C.,
no
time;
Ronnie
Smith,
Pasadena,
Md.,
4.820,
115.10
mph,
def.
Schubert
Clayton,
Winston-Salem,
N.C.,
5.575,
114.75
mph;
Eran
Pielert,
Halethorde,
Md.,
no
time,
def.
Barry
Harvey,
Winston-Salem,
N.C.,
no
time.
Semifinals
–
Cornell,
4.661,
149.61
mph,
def.
Smith,
4.558
breakout,
148.40
mph;
Pielert,
4.682,
137.41
mph,
def.
Santos,
4.905,
150.36
mph.
FINAL
–
Kenny
Cornell,
Manassas,
Va.,
4.655,
150.10
mph,
def.
Era
Pielert,
Halethorde,
Md.,
foul.
FBR
SHOP
5.60
Round
2 –
Tyler
Hall,
Albemarle,
N.C.,
5.665,
120.25
mph,
def.
Marion
Ford,
Hampstead,
Md.,
5.699,
124.95
mph;
Ben
Knight,
Beavercreek,
Ohio,
5.641,
109.88
mph,
def.
Jim
Shifflett,
Waynesboro,
Va.,
5.584
breakout,
120.60
mph;
Robert
Parker,
Sanford,
N.C.,
5.679,
119.36
mph,
def.
Willie
B.
Jones,
Louisburg,
N.C.,
5.650,
120.84
mph;
James
Teasley,
Orient,
Ohio,
5.599,
119.39
mph,
def.
Curtis
Grubbs
Jr.,
Monre,
N.C.,
5.568
breakout,
119.61
mph.
Semifinals
–
Teasley,
5.635,
122.77
mph,
def.
Hall,
no
time;
Knight,
5.786,
95.45
mph,
def.
Parker,
5.858,
126.01
mph.
FINAL
–
James
Teasley,
Orient,
Ohio,
5.725,
112.89
mph,
def.
Ben
Knight,
Beavercreek,
Ohio,
5.835,
121.79
mph.
TRAC
KING
TOP
SPORTSMAN
Round
3 –
Scottie
Keller,
Mooresville,
N.C.,
8.952
on
an
8.890,
148.69
mph,
def.
Joe
Herman,
Manassas,
Va.,
9.183
breakout
on a
9.200,
144.12
mph;
Dustin
Lee,
Morristown,
Tenn.,
9.611
on a
9.600,
133.95
mph,
def.
BayBay
Yarbrough,
Eatonton,
Ga.,
9.715
on a
9.700,
140.30
mph;
Chase
Sandefur,
Mooresville,
N.C.,
9.600
on a
9.550,
131.55
mph;
def.
Alan
Fields,
Climax,
N.C.,
9.641
breakout
on a
9.660,
135.16
mph;
Michael
Rankin,
Staunton,
Va.,
8.881
on
an
8.840,
137.53
mph,
def.
Randy
Day,
Anderson,
S.C.,
9.234
on a
9.160,
146.29
mph.
Semifinals
–
Rankin,
8.848
on
an
8.830,
141.11
mph,
def.
Lee,
9.567
on a
9.530,
139.17
mph;
Keller,
8.930
on
an
8.930,
149.71
mph,
def.
Sandefur,
foul.
FINAL
–
Scottie
Keller,
Mooresville,
N.C.,
8.985
on
an
8.930
148.82
mph,
def.
Michael
Rankin,
Staunton,
Va.,
8.895
on
an
8.830,
139.37
mph.
CRAZY
8s
Round
2 –
Bob
Carlson,
Turrington,
Conn.,
8.926,
145.55
mph,
def.
Scottie
Keller,
Mooresville,
N.C.,
8.956,
148.74
mph;
Shayne
Proctor,
Indian
Head,
Md.,
8.905,
149.55
mph,
def.
Jorden
McDougald,
Lillington,
N.C.,
foul;
Robert
Parker,
Sanford,
N.C.,
9.115,
127.07
mph,
def.
Jeremy
Teasley,
Columbus,
Ohio,
11.154,
81.66
mph;
James
Teasley,
Orient,
Ohio,
8.981,
147.50
mph,
def.
Ashton
Dickerson,
Newark,
N.J.,
9.007,
145.67
mph.
Semifinals
–
Carlson,
8.912,
144.32
mph,
def.
James
Teasley,
8.946,
146.10
mph;
Proctor,
9.145,
141.52
mph,
def.
Parker,
9.318,
150.21
mph.
FINAL
–
Bob
Carlson,
Turrington,
Conn.,
9.008,
140.04
mph,
def.
Shayne
Proctor,
Indian
Head,
Md.,
9.058,
152.12
mph.
NITROUS
EXPRESS
PRO
ET
Round
5 –
Brian
Canoles,
Berkeley
Springs,
West
Va.,
8.546
on
an
8.510,
150.92
mph,
def.
Willie
Warren
Jr.,
Hampton,
Va.,
9.356
on a
9.270,
138.88
mph;
Mark
Schwaln,
New
Ringgold,
Pa.,
8.489
on
an
8.480,
150.92
mph,
def.
Terry
Singleton,
Clarkston,
Ga.,
foul;
Jerry
Turner,
Bluff
City,
Tenn.,
9.112
on
an
9.100,
145.59
mph,
def.
Don
Rogers,
Ashville,
N.C.,
foul.
Semifinals
–
Turner,
9.121
on a
9.100,
140.50
mph,
def.
Schwaln,
8.547
on
an
8.480,
140.44
mph;
Canoles,
bye.
FINAL
–
Jerry
Turner,
Bluff
City,
Tenn.,
9.205
on
an
9.100,
126.48
mph,
def.
Brian
Canoles,
Berkeley
Springs,
West
Va.,
9.124
on
an
8.510,
136.81
mph.
BROCKS
PERFORMANCE
STREET
ET
Round
5 –
Willie
Warren
Jr.,
Hampton,
Va.,
9.331
on a
9.300,
132.69
mph,
def.
Ben
Knight,
Beavercreek,
Ohio,
9.495
on a
9.480,
130.51
mph;
Boo
Brown,
Potomac
Falls,
Va.,
bye;
Michael
Herman
Jr.,
Woodbridge,
Va.,
9.570
on a
9.510,
135.84
mph,
def.
Bob
Carlson,
Torrington,
Conn.,
9.320
on a
9.250,
143.81
mph.
Semifinals
–
Brown,
9.520
on a
9.400,
133.59
mph,
def.
Warren,
9.442
on a
9.300,
140.28
mph;
Herman
Jr.,
bye.
FINAL
–
Boo
Brown,
Potomac
Falls,
Va.,
9.452
on a
9.400,
135.27
mph,
def.
Michael
Herman
Jr.,
Woodbridge,
Va.,
9.579
on a
9.550,
136.97
mph.
(.014
o a
053)
PRO
ET
#2
Round
5 –
Bob
Carlson,
Torrington,
Conn.,
9.263
on a
9.280,
147.70
mph,
def.
Jerry
Turner,
Bluff
City,
Tenn.,
9.064
breakout
on a
9.120,
146.48
mph;
Ben
Knight,
Beavercreek,
Ohio,
9.574
on a
9.530,
136.07
mph,
def.
Shayne
Proctor,
Indian
Head,
Md.,
9.563
on a
9.490,
147.07
mph;
Boo
Brown,
Potomac
Falls,
Va.,
8.486
on
an
8.250,
126.34
mph,
def.
Kelvin
Bradley,
Portsmouth,
Va.,
9.132
on
an
8.900,
143.16
mph.
Semifinals
–
Carlson,
9.236
on
an
9.280,
152.49
mph,
def.
Brown,
foul;
Knight,
bye.
FINAL
–
Ben
Knight,
Beavercreek,
Ohio,
9.514
on a
9.540,
135.35
mph,
def.
Bob
Carlson,
Torrington,
Conn.,
9.220
breakout
on a
9.280,
142.78
mph. |
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