Drag Illustrated Issue 148, September 2019 | Page 109

Schumacher stables. The run slid Beckman
behind John Force himself, (who ran 333.74
at Pomona’s season-opener), for third in the
current “new prep” rankings.
While the Funny Cars are still five miles per
hour off their all-time best, (339.87 mph by
Hight from 2017 Sonoma), they will face the
same “adjustments” if speeds creep beyond
the 335 mph boundary.
OUTLAW DRAG RADIAL
ELIMINATOR QUICKEST DRIVERS
5.61/254.38 with a 5.63 at 272.34 mph, the
fastest doorslammer speed on the planet so far
this year. Tsakiridis became only the seventh
driver to exceed 270 mph in a passenger car
and the guy known as “The Mauler” did it
twice with another 5.63 at 271.35. He finished
the event with a third 5.63 at 269!
Mouhayet, whose blown Mustang has
already clocked a 5.585, also earned a 5.587
during the race while Steven Ham’s super-
charged ’69 Camaro put forth a career-best
5.66 en route to a runner-up.
HARVEY’S SIX-CYLINDER FIGHTS
BACK WITH A 204 EIGHTH!
TSAKIRIDIS WINS $50K WITH
FASTEST DOORSLAMMER
RUN OF THE YEAR!
Australian Greg Tsakiridis scored one of the
biggest prizes of his home country’s drag
racing season while recording the fastest
Pro Modified quarter-mile 2019. Competing
at the second annual Grudge Kings event of
promoter Po Tung, the Woolongong, New
South Wales, campaigner put forth a stellar
string of runs with his twin-turbocharged
ProLine 481X-powered 2018 Mustang to earn a
$50,000 payoff at Sydney Dragway.
Early in competition, fans witnessed one
of the quickest and fastest doorslammer
races ever staged when Tsakiridis met Aussie
superstar Paul Mouhayet’s supercharged ’68
Mustang. Tsakiridis’ turbo car used a 0.023
Reaction Time to beat Mouhayet’s quicker
UNLIMITED PRO MOD ELIMINATOR
QUICKEST DRIVERS (eighth-mile)
RANK E.T.
1
3.485
DRIVER
Frankie Taylor
SITE
STATE DATE
Rockingham NC
4/5/2014
2 3.486 Brandon Snider Tulsa OK 3/18/2016
The global battle for the Drag Illustrated
Six-Cylinder Speed Record is back in the news.
Earlier this season, New Zealander Rod Harvey
used his turbocharged 207-cubic inch inline
six-powered 2018 Toyota Camry (256 mph)
to knock Puerto Rico’s Victor Flores and the
Zoian Camry (255 mph) from the throne only
to lose the title to Puerto Ricoan Jomar Gomez
in the Big 21 2019 Toyota Avalon (260 mph).
Since then, Harvey has been “slowly chip-
ping away at the records” and gained some
ground by stealing the nearly three year-old
landmark eighth-mile Six-Cylinder eighth-mile
speed record set by American Gary White in
the renowned Ekanoo 2015 Toyota GT 86 at
203.90 mph.
Running at Willowbank Raceway in
Queensland (AUS), Harvey pounded out a
204.42 half-track speed on another 256 mph
quarter-mile pass to shatter one of the oldest
current records. Flores remains the six-banger
Elapsed Time king at 3.74 (eighth-mile) and
5.66 (quarter-mile).
- BRET KEPNER
EXTREME TURBO ELIMINATOR
QUICKEST DRIVERS (eighth-mile)
RANK E.T.
1
3.527
DRIVER SITE STATE DATE
Jose Gonzalez Dinwiddie VA
10/23/2015
2 3.540 Kevin Fiscus Benson NC 4/5/2016
X275 ELIMINATOR
QUICKEST DRIVERS (eighth-mile)
(eighth-mile)
RANK E.T.
DRIVER SITE STATE DATE
RANK E.T.
3.578 Daniel Pharris Cecil GA 3/22/2019 1 4.235 Rich Bruder Cecil GA 3/23/2019
3.582 Kevin Rivenbark Cecil GA 3/21/2019 2 4.237 Rob Goss Cecil GA 3/22/2019
3 3.604 Marcus Birt Cecil GA 3/22/2019 3 4.270 Manny Buginga Cecil GA 3/22/2019
4 3.621 Tim Slavens Cecil GA 2/14/2019 4 4.279 Dean Marinis Cecil GA 3/22/2019
5 3.623 Mark Micke Cecil GA 3/23/2018 5 4.286 Brian Brooks Cecil GA 3/22/2019
6 3.624 Jeff Sitton Cecil GA 3/22/2019 6 4.289 Ryan Milliken Cecil GA 3/22/2019
7 3.630 Steve Jackson Cecil GA 3/22/2019 7 4.303 Greg Henschell Cecil GA 3/22/2019
8 3.637 Mike Decker III Cecil GA 3/22/2019 8 4.307 Gary White Cecil GA 3/22/2019
OUTLAW DRAG RADIAL
ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS
X275 ELIMINATOR
FASTEST DRIVERS (eighth-mile)
(eighth-mile)
RANK M.P.H.
SITE STATE DATE SITE STATE DATE
1 221.20 Mark Micke
DRIVER
Cecil GA 3/22/2018 1 174.55 Gary White Cecil GA 3/22/2019
2 217.74 Cecil GA 2/14/2019 2 173.36 Jared Johnston Cecil GA 3/22/2019
3 216.20 Daniel Pharris Cecil GA 3/23/2018 3 171.51 Rich Bruder Bowling Green KY 4/21/2018
4 215.20 Mark Woodruff Cecil GA 3/22/2019 4 171.47 Brad Medlock Cecil GA 3/23/2019
5 214.18 Bradenton FL 1/25/2019 5 171.34 Jon Thomas Cecil GA 3/22/2019
6 213.57 DeWayne Mills Cecil GA 3/24/2018 6 170.97 Eric Moore Cecil GA 2/15/2019
7 213.16 Cecil GA 3/22/2019 7 170.88 Ryan Milliken Cecil GA 3/22/2019
8 212.53 Josh Klugger Cecil GA 2/15/2019 8 169.57 Rob Goss Millington TN 3/24/2017
Tim Slavens
John Carinci
Ken Quartuccio
RANK M.P.H.
UNLIMITED NITROUS ELIMINATOR
QUICKEST DRIVERS (eighth-mile)
RANK E.T.
1
3.604
DRIVER
Marcus Birt
SITE
Cecil
GA
5/7/2017
Jason Scruggs Tulsa OK 3/18/2016 3 3.561 Eric Dillard Dinwiddie VA 10/14/2015 3 3.637 Jay Cox Benson NC 4/6/2019
3.496 Terry Leggett Benson NC 11/12/2016 4 3.566 Carl Stevens, Jr. Dinwiddie VA 10/24/2015 4 3.641 Tommy Franklin Benson NC 4/6/2019
3/22/2019 5 3.643 Mahana al Naemi Doha QAT 2/7/2017
6 3.646 Jim Halsey Dinwiddie VA Khalid al Refaei Tulsa OK 3/19/2016 5 3.578 Daniel Pharris Cecil GA Tulsa OK 3/18/2016 6 3.596 Khalid Mohammed Doha QAT 3/3/2018 7 3.513 Randell Reid Martin MI 6/27/2015 7 3.621 Tim Slavens Cecil GA 2/14/2019 7 3.647 Taylor Lastor Harvest AL
8 3.514 Bubba Stanton Rockingham NC 4/5/2014 8 3.623 Mark Micke Cecil GA 3/23/2018 8 3.652 Danny Sauro Darlington SC
1
DRIVER
231.24 Jose Gonzalez
SITE
STATE DATE
Rockingham NC
4/10/2016
RANK M.P.H.
1
DRIVER
SITE
231.44 Kevin Fiscus
Benson
NC
4/5/2016
2 231.24 Jose Gonzalez Rockingham NC 4/10/2016
5/1/2015 3 230.10 Carl Stevens, Jr. Dinwiddie VA 10/14/2015 4 225.33 Turki al Zafiri Gilliam LA 224.92 Eric Dillard Dinwiddie VA 10/14/2015
2 230.10 Carl Stevens, Jr. Dinwiddie VA 10/24/2015
3 225.33 Turki al Zafiri Gilliam LA 4 224.92 Eric Dillard Dinwiddie VA
10/22/2018
RANK M.P.H.
1
DRIVER
209.23 Lizzy Musi
SITE
Dinwiddie
VA 10/19/2018
OUTLAW 275 ELIMINATOR
QUICKEST & FASTEST DRIVERS
(eighth-mile)
RANK PERF
DRIVER SITE STATE DATE
Jeff Miller Darlington SC 8/17/2018
Bithlo FL 1/20/2018
4/26/2019 3.898
10/6/2018 1 198.85 Joshua Klugger
OUTLAW 10.5
ELIMINATOR QUICKEST &
FASTEST DRIVERS (quarter-mile)
RANK PERF
STATE DATE
VA
10/19/2013
Dinwiddie 1
UNLIMITED NITROUS ELIMINATOR
FASTEST DRIVERS (eighth-mile)
STATE DATE
TX 181.20 Jeff Dobbins
MD Mustafa Buhumaid STATE DATE
Baytown 1 Budd Creek 3.512 SITE Cary Goforth 3/22/2019 Lizzy Musi 3.510 DRIVER 4.009
3.631 5
(eighth-mile)
1 2 6
DRIVER
EXTREME PRO STOCK ELIMINATOR
QUICKEST & FASTEST DRIVERS
RANK PERF
STATE DATE
3.492
RANK M.P.H.
STATE DATE
1 3
EXTREME TURBO ELIMINATOR
FASTEST DRIVERS (eighth-mile)
SITE 2 4
UNLIMITED PRO MOD ELIMINATOR
FASTEST DRIVERS (eighth-mile)
DRIVER DRIVER SITE Richard Sexton Budds Creek MD 11/7/2014
Commerce 4/13/2013
10/22/2018 1 6.081
1 241.50 David Hance
2 207.46 Jim Halsey Benson NC 4/7/2019
10/24/2015 3 206.95 Tommy Franklin Benson NC 11/3/2018
5/1/2015 4 206.04 Jay Cox Benson NC 4/4/2019
4/21/2018
5 223.54 Jason Scruggs Tulsa OK 3/19/2016 5 205.60 Jim Sackuvich Bowling Green KY 6 221.56 Brandon Snider Tulsa OK 3/19/2016 6 221.20 Mark Micke Cecil GA 3/22/2018 6 205.60 Marcus Birt Cecil GA 3/22/2019 7 221.20 Mark Micke Cecil GA 3/22/2018 7 220.58 Khalid Mohammed Sakhir BAH 1/12/2017 7 205.35 Chris Rini Benson NC 4/6/2019 1 3.813
8 220.58 Khalid Mohammed Sakhir BAH 1/12/2017 8 219.13 Bradenton FL 8 205.10 John Camp Benson NC 4/1/2017 1 210.77 Jesse Lambert
1/26/2019
“SMALL TIRE” CLASS LEGEND
Outlaw 10.5 Eliminator: 10.5W rear tires; 3000 pound
weight minimum.
Outlaw Drag Radial Eliminator: Any Drag Radial tires; no other rules.
Outlaw 275 Eliminator: 275 mm rear tires; no other rules.
September 2019
X275 Eliminator: 275 mm rear tires; X275 association.
GA
OUTLAW 10.5
ELIMINATOR QUICKEST &
FASTEST DRIVERS (eighth-mile)
5
Daniel Pharris
STATE DATE
RANK PERF
DRIVER SITE STATE DATE
Ken Quartuccio Bithlo FL
Budds Creek MD
11/10/2018
6/1/2019
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