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By Nate Van Wagnen
L izzy Musi and Brad McCoy raced to victory for the second consecutive race at the Professional Drag Racers Association ( PDRA ) World Finals at Virginia Motorsports Park , winning in Switzer Dynamics Pro Nitrous presented by MoTeC and Drag 965 Pro Extreme Motorcycle , respectively . John Montecalvo won in Extreme Pro Stock during the postponed eliminations . Pro Extreme low qualifier Terry Leggett earned the event win Saturday night when he defeated world championship runner-up Mattias Wulcan . The Andy McCoy Race Cars Pro Boost event win was awarded to 2017 world champion Jose Gonzales , who was set to face El General Racing teammate Eric Dillard in the final round . Gonzales and Dillard were unable to return for the postponed eliminations Sunday morning .
Dillon Voss went back-to-back in East Side Auto Transport Extreme Outlaw 632 , winning the event and securing the world championship . Pilot Electric Outlaw 10.5 low qualifier Mike Decker Jr .
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also raced to victory in the class ’ s lone appearance on the PDRA 2017 tour .
In the PDRA ’ s sportsman classes , Henry Underwood won in MagnaFuel Top Sportsman Elite 16 , Louis Ouimette won in Top Sportsman 32 , and Matt Cooke earned the Lucas Oil Top Dragster victory . Tyler Rudolph won on a double breakout in the Campers Inn RV Pro Junior Dragster final round , running 7.877 to Dalton Hayes ’ s 7.871 , both on a 7.90 dial-in . The MegaCorp Top Junior Dragster win went to Kaylee Love , who defeated 2017 world champion Brayden Davis , 7.915 on a 7.90 dial to Davis ’ s 8.947 on an 8.96 dial . Mandy Teets-Seal won the eight-round Edelbrock Bracket Bash competition .
PRO EXTREME Terry Leggett drove his supercharged Leggett Logging & Trucking ’ 71 Mustang to a 3.542-second pass at 214.45 mph to defeat Swedish driver Mattias Wulcan ’ s 4.672 at 91.92 in the Pro Extreme final round . It was Leggett ’ s second consecutive event win over Wulcan , who needed to win the race to pass points leader Mike Recchia for the world championship .
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Leggett , who beat Sweden ’ s Stefan Holmberg and Australian John Zappia before the final round , finishes the season third in points with three No . 1 qualifier awards and the two most recent event wins on tour .
“ It ’ s a lot of icing cake . It ’ s a good way to go back to the house , kick your feet up over the winter and think about it all ,” Leggett added .
Recchia fell in the second round , but earned the 2017 Pro Extreme world championship on the strength of his event wins in his supercharged Agrow Fresh “ Chicago Muscle ” ’ 69 Camaro at the GALOT spring race and the Mid-America Indy Showdown .
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