WEATHER THE BIG
WINNER IN 18TH
HOLCOMB SPRING CIVIL
WARS EVENT
Rain brought an
early end to a
promising 18th
annual Holcomb
Performance Spring
Civil Wars event
Sunday at Steve
Earwood’s Rockingham
Dragway, sending a
strong field of
Outlaw Street races
home with a little
bit of cash and
dreams of what might
have been.
All qualifiers in
the five heads-up
Outlaw classes split
the purse including
the $5,000 winner’s
share in both the
BAER Brake Systems
X275 and the CFM/TRZ
Motorsports Outlaw
275 classes. The
surviving drivers in
the classes that
were able to
complete some racing
also split the
money.
There were 34
drivers still in
contention in the
ROCK Batteries Pro
Tree Doorslammers
class when rain
suspended and
ultimately ended the
competition. There
were 38 still alive
in the Sandy’s
Performance
Footbrake class, 18
in the Performance
Automatic Open Comp
class, 10 in the
Holeshot Racing
Wheels 6.0 Index and
five in the Holeshot
7.0 Index.
“We just seem to be
in a real wet
weather pattern
right now,” Earwood
said. “It’s a little
frustrating,
especially when you
have good events
shaping up.
Unfortunately, the
weather is the one
thing we can’t
control. I just want
to thank all the
Outlaw racers this
week and the MIRock
motorcycle racers
from the week before
for their patience
and cooperation.
“Rainouts are going
to happen but they
still create
hardships,
especially for those
who have to travel
and I just want all
of those racers to
know that we
appreciate their
continued support.”
The quickest cars on
the grounds in
qualifying were
those competing in
the Aerospace
Components Radials
versus World class
with only .023 of a
second separating
No. 1 qualifier
Chris Daniel of
White, Ga. (4.536
seconds) and No. 4
qualifier Keith
Berry of Clermont,
Ga. (4.559).
Other No. 1s
recognized before
the rains came were
Charlotte’s Robby
Keziah, who stopped
the eighth mile
timers in 4.753
seconds in Outlaw
275; Dean Marinis of
Whitestone, N.Y.,
whose 2000 Ford
Mustang was caught
in 4.775 seconds in
X275; John Phillips
of Clayton, quickest
in Ultimate
Converter Concepts
King of the Street
class at 5.189
seconds; and Matthew
Lawrence of Forest,
Va., who led the way
in Old Dominion Auto
Salvage Real Street
in his 1986 Mustang. |
