Drag Illustrated Issue 152, January 2020 | Page 28

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Street Car Super Nationals 15
Aaron Wells, Ronnie Hobbs highlight
winners of Sin City shootout
By Brandon W. Mudd
The RvW battle of the weekend took place in
Sunday’s semi-finals between Hobbs and Mark
Woodruff, a former SCSN winner who dropped
a 3.75 in the quarterfinals. Hobbs wasn’t afraid,
beating Woodruff with a 3.734-second pass to
advance to the finals, where he beat No. 10 quali-
fier Peter Campbell with a 3.989-second run.
Rob Goss from Sheridan, Wyoming, took
the .05-second margin of victory in the Mickey
Thompson Tires X275 final over Clint Downs,
Goss’s 4.360 beating Downs’ 4.412.
Other winners from Sunday’s SCSN 15 final
rounds were MagnaFuel Outlaw 10.5: Eric Hal-
verson over Rick Schmidt, Ross Pistons Limited
235: Daniel Dagata over Mark Smith, Vortech
Outlaw 8.5: Jason McLean over Tim Orello, Mag-
naFuel XDR: Jason Gagnon over Norman Chang,
MMR Open Comp: Monte Lefrenz over Brent
Calvert, Morrow Bros. Ford Mustang Maddness:
Paul Calvert over John Calvert,
SCSN 15 also included bracket racing in several
classes: Extreme Oil Triple Index: Craig Schell
over Sergio Crespo, Nitrous Outlet Super Index:
Michael Hadrath over Dick Kreiger, Calvert Non-
Electronics: Brad Monroe over Tony Driessen,
Unlimited Prod Electronics: Keith Winters over
Neil Pressimone,
No-time racing proved popular as well, with
winners in the following classes: Hughes Perfor-
mance Big Tire No Time: Gilly Bobby Hildre-
brand over Roger Holder, Limited Small Tire
No Time: Rick Hart over Kelly Henry, and Fly-
ing A Small Tire No Time: Brian Manske over
David Clarke.
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aron Wells from Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma, earned the Precision Tur-
bo Pro Mod victory with his ’67 Shelby
Sunday night at The Strip at Las Ve-
gas Motor Speedway in the finals of the COMP
Cams Street Car Super Nationals 15 Presented by
FuelTech. The No. 5 qualifier beat Randy Merick
with an incredible lap of 5.522 seconds at 266.42
mph over Merick’s 6.005 seconds at 181.54.
Justin Jones, the class top qualifier with a su-
percharger track record 5.518-second lap Saturday,
went out in E2 after a red light and centerline-
crossing wheelstand put him on the trailer early.
“We knew we had a good race car, we were just
chipping away at it,” Wells said with a huge smile
from the Winner’s Circle. “It’s the first time in
the quarter mile for us in this car and I knew we
needed to take it one step at a time and keep work-
ing on it. If I just had another pass, we’d turn it
up a little more. It’s been a good time. I always say
you can’t win from No. 1, so it didn’t scare me not
to be No. 1 qualifier.
“To go 266 mph is unreal,” Wells added. “I think
that puts us in the Top 5 fastest in the quarter
mile, so it’s always respectable when you look at
the names on that list. “
Wells’ mindset was to get the win and not the
record. That being said, he said he left some speed
on the track.
“Oh yeah!” he said, laughing. “It’s something
like 40 degrees. The temperature dropped pretty
hard on us, but we decided it was better to be safe
than sorry and slowed it down just a little bit. It
definitely had more, but it is what it is and you’ve
got to be safe and race smart.”
In Crower Radial vs. The World action, Odessa,
Texas’ Ronnie Hobbs crushed the competition the
entire weekend. Whether it was his class-leading
ETs and speed of 3.734 seconds at 208.71 mph or
his dominating round wins throughout the week-
end, Hobbs put his ’17 Mustang through its paces.