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MDIR Door Wars Delivers
By Rick Lindner
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NEOPMA Pro Mod winner
Mac McAdams
Door Wars X275 winner
Ron Rhodes
Ultra Street winner
Ronny Rhodes
my crew Derek Wisooker and Will
Rush. Absolutely couldn’t be possible without these people backing
me up. Big thanks to Steve King and
Jeff Miller for all their help and parts
they provided to get us to the line
every round. NEOPMA is bar none
the best series to be a part of and I
thank John Mazzoranna for that,”
McAdams continued.
Outlaw 10.5 proved to be equally
Nitrous X winner
as interesting with nine quality
Shawn Pevlor
cars beginning eliminations. Mike
Decker, Jr. would use more near“Winning this weekend has really been a long
record setting performance in the first and seclast few years of hard work and dedication by
ond round eliminations to make his way to the
my entire team,” said Mac McAdams. “We have
final. John Carinci of Woodbridge, Ontario, a
gone through a lot of trials and a huge learning
with his ’04 turbocharged Corvette would beat
curve right up to all the issues we had to over- Anthony Disomma of South Plainfield, New Jercome to go to each round. Huge thanks to my
sey, in round one, using a 4.048 ET to take out
wife and daughter along with Brandon Booher
Mo Hall of Olney, Maryland, in round two, and
(crew chief ) Leroy Dudney (engine builder) and
taking advantage of a bye-round in the semi-final
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ans were greeted with postcard
weather and record setting performances all weekend long at the 8th Annual
Haltech Door Wars presented by Winegardner Auto Group at Maryland International
Raceway™ (MDIR).
Pro mod racer Bill Lutz of Canal Winchester,
Ohio, would serve notice first in his turbocharged
Camaro laying down a MDIR track speed record
in the class at 262.95 mph early on Friday during
qualifying. In X275, Rich Bruder of Edison, New
Jersey, once again used the famed MDIR track
prep to his advantage as he re-established the
national class ET record at 4.379 with his sharp
blue ’88 Mustang. X275 was not the only class to
establish a new national record over the weekend.
Limited Drag Radial also joined the ranks as Don
Burton of Glen Allen, Maryland, did the same
with his ’80 Mustang laying down a 4.146 ET set
during qualifying on Saturday.
They say that three is a charm and during this
weekend, a third national record would be
established in Outlaw
10.5 as Mike Decker,
Jr. of Baltimore,
Maryland, would lay
down an ear-splitting
3.955 E.T. with his supercharged Camaro.
What these racers also
shared in common
over the weekend;
none of them would
go on to win their respective class, a testimony to the quality of
the cars on the property for the event.
With over $60,000 in prize money up for grabs,
bountiful sunshine and temperatures in the high
60s, as well as low winds and low humidity, race
teams took advantage of the elements and the
results continued to bring fans to their feet all
weekend long. Beyond track and national records
re-established at the event, eliminations proved
to be equally as exciting.
Over 24 Pro Mod cars invaded the Budds
Creek property to lay claim on the season opening Northeast Outlaw Pro Mod Association
(NEOPMA) 2016 points event. Harwood, Maryland, resident Mac McAdams used a consistent
performance weekend to eventually top the 16-car
qualified field in his supercharged ’53 Corvette
to claim his first ever class win. McAdams would
take out Tyler Hard of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s nitrous Camaro in round one followed by
Bill Lutz in round two, Dave Norris of Sarver,
Pennsylvania in the semi-final round and 2015
NEOPMA points champion; Kevin McCurdy of
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in the finals.