2006-Screamin’ Eagle Performance Parts Bike Week Nationals

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Screamin’ Eagle Performance Parts Nationals

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October 14^th & 15^th

Rockingham Dragway

6:31pm

We have wrapped up a “barn burner” (in the words of Craig Tharpe)!!

The weekend was full of great weather..great competition..PLENTY of new National records and a turnout we can all be proud of!

With all of the records set this weekend, I am sure I may have overlooked mentioning a few in my reports, with the huge fields of results to follow, but following time slip verifications, etc, we will file official numbers on all the new records set here in Rockingham next week!

I’ll be back to close out the season here on Live Updates November 11^th & 12^th in Vegas!

Good night from Rockingham Dragway.

5:30pm

Finals underway in all classes. We will catch the ladders up for you following the big finish!!

4:00pm-

Did you think we were through reporting records? Not yet!!

Doug Vancil just RE-SET the record with a 6.23 in the semi’s-

but a quicker reaction from Jay Turner, gave Jay the holeshot win.

Vancil- .235 6.236 218.62

Turner- .101 6.310 217.35

Romine had it tough when a new record had him qualified 3^rd- how about getting a new record but losing the round? “That’s Racing” they say!

And more breaking news..Jay Turner has advanced to double nitro categories AGAIN. Back to back final round appearances for the very consistent Mancuso H-D team in both Top Fuel and Pro Fuel categories- a repeat of the Jim McClure Nat’ls back in September.

Turner will take on John Breckenridge in the JIMS Pro Fuel final and he will face Drums Brancaccio in the Screamin’ Eagle Top Fuel final. Both riders have wins this season, and it’s an “up for grabs” final in the quickest and fastest racing field of the year from Rockingham Dragway!!

Barnett Nitro Outlaw category is on the track now. Stay tuned for the numbers from the semis shortly.

3:12pm

Sportsman elimination’s are back on the track to catch up on an interrupted 1^st session.

The Pro’s are back out at 4:00pm.

2:27pm

The records continue to fall at Rockingham Dragway. Add Andy Simon’s 8.500 in G2 Street Pro to the list as well as a 9.314 from Jamie McNaughton in V-Rod racing.

A truly remarkable event underway here at the Screamin’ Eagle Performance Parts National’s with a spectacular turnout and the performances exceed excellence here this weekend.

The Pro’s are back on the track and so far Jay Turner and the

Mancuso H-D team find themselves charging ahead in double nitro categories again!

Stay tuned for the round No. 2 Pro numbers shortly.

IT’S OFFICIAL!!! THE NEW TOP FUEL RECORD IS 6.240!

Doug Vancil opened up elimination’s with a 6.268 to back up the new E.T. record.

Mike Romine holds on the MPH record with yesterday’s 221.78mph pass and now, after today’s opening round- Jay Turner stands to take that record if he can back up the blazing 224.66mph (6.27) lap he opened up with on the Mancuso H-D ride.

The bikes are still on the track and flyin’!!

Stay tuned for the numbers on the ladder pages.

Sunday- Elimination Day

All of today’s coverage will be carried on the ladder pages unless there is breaking news or delays to report on this page.

Stay tuned for plenty of action from Rockingham Dragway!!!

10:50am

**Early round Sportsman elimination update:

Could the V-Rod Destroyers be headed for the 8’s??

Michael Ray advances in his opening round with a 9.03..improving yesterday’s record 9.08.

Brian Fox came out on the Tilley H-D Destroyer and clocked a 9.095.

L.E. Tonglet hit a 9.085 and Douglas Horne scored a 9.098.

These spectacular numbers happened in the opening round! Could there be better numbers coming today?

The track conditions are fast- the chase for broken records continues!

Sunday- 9:00am

Good morning from Rockingham Dragway. Early elimination rounds are underway in sportsman classes to narrow the huge fields prior to the opening ceremonies today at 12:30pm.

The skies are sunny and temps are cool- much like yesterday. Racers are certainly hoping for those similar conditions after yesterday’s qualifying rounds brought forth chart-busting numbers for many!

Yesterday’s Top Fuel field netted 20 entries and it took better than a 6.79 to stay in the field!

Perhaps the Romine Racing team sums it up best when Top Fuel champ, Mike Romine noted that he broke both the ET and speed record (6.29-221.78mph) yesterday, but qualified 3^rd!

The result after Tracy Kile came out with a better 6.275 and then Doug Vancil blistered the track with a 6.24!

There is no doubt there will be new Top Fuel records this weekend, but the question is- Who will end up with them??

There is also a locked in new Destroyer record after several racers broke the mark yesterday, but Michael Ray ended up with the best number- 9.08, besting the current record held by Don Stratton at 9.21.

With the winding down Championship chase, the 20-point’s for setting E.T. records will certainly come in handy!

We will be underway with today’s opening ceremonies at 12:30pm.

All of today’s coverage will be carried on the ladder pages unless there is breaking news or delays to report on this page.

Stay tuned for plenty of action from Rockingham Dragway!!!

Saturday- Qualifying Day at The Rock!

A long day of qualifying closes with the ET Race of Champions sponsored by Pingel Enterprises and Dan DeGood takes the $2,500 cash prize.

The 4-bike field matched DeGood with Liz Davis in the opener while Bob Drapp paired with JP Hendrzak. DeGood got by Davis and Drapp was out early with a redlight foul, sending DeGood and Hendrzak to the final round that awarded DeGood the multi-time champion, yet another winning title.

That’s a late night wrap here from The Rock- we will be back with coverage of elimination’s bright and early tomorrow morning.

Mike Fitzgerald kept the top spot in Super Gas and Jamie McNaughton finished first in Screamin’ Eagle V-Rod.

Bill Rowe Jr. is #1 in Super Eliminator with his 10.909.

Jack Wagner hangs on to top spot in Super Sport with his 10.302.

Eleanor Walker on a delayed birthday celebration takes the starting line tomorrow for her #1 qualifying honors wearing a lovely tiara presented to her courtesy of Linn DeGood.

Joining Eleanor on the starting line will be Doug Vancil who is also celebrating a birthday here at the Rock with a record pass for the #1 spot!

Mike Roberts clocks his best of the day (9.36) and stays on top of the S & S 124 Challenge class.

Cannon keeps the pole position all day in Drag Master’s Hot Street.

8:04pm

Sportsman final round update:

Michael Ray pounds the E.T. record mark in Screamin’ Eagle V-Rod Destroyer qualifying…9.085!!!

Chip Sutinen captures the Syn3ET top spot with a .001. The order changed in all 3 rounds today.

7:10pm

After a ground pounding-jump out of your seat- Top Fuel finale round we are underway with all remaining sportsman rounds. We will enter all the numbers in as they finish! Stay tuned for everyone’s final round numbers coming up!!

6:43pm…Let there be RECORDS!! Doug Vancil caps off the Top Fuel session with a 6.240 blast at 219mph. Now Vancil stands to take over the record books again here at The Rock with a back up in tomorrow’s show!!! Vancil takes over the #1 spot in the final round.

6:35pm

Breaking news during final Top Fuel session: Tracy Kile and the Bad Apple Racing crew under the tuning expertise of Stan Sawyer have run a Top Fuel ET record pass..6.27 bettering his earlier 6.34!!!

Mike Romine just got the back up on the new speed record..221.78mph backed up by his final round blast at 6.29- 221.02mph!

The bikes are flyin- the crowd is thick- (has to be a record turn out) and a huge bike count as well. We are “rockin’ at The Rock!!!

Stay tuned for the final order shortly

6:10pm

The Pro’s take the track for final session of the day: We will stay with the result pages for remaining rounds left today in order to get all the typing done in a timely manner. We will check back here with breaking news or delays.

**Once the Pro’s complete the final session, we will resume with all sportsman rounds that have been interrupted today. Following the final round of sportsman qualifying, we will hold the ET Race of Champions sponsored by Pingel Enterprises. Contestants competing will be Syn3 ET winners during the 2006 season. At last report, I hear there are 4 or 5 of them here and one of them will be taking home $2,500 in the winner-take-all shoot out of champs! Thanks to Pingel Enterprises for supporting this first-time contest.

5:51pm

Sportsman 2^nd session update:

Eleanor Walker nails a 11.505 against the 11.50 index to take the #1 spot in SEP qualifying.

Bill Rowe Jr. takes over #1 in Super Eliminator with a 10.909.

Jack Wagner’s 10.302 puts him at No. 1 in front of former leader, Julia Holliday in the Super Sport category.

We have interrupted sportsman to run the final round of Pro qualifying. Stay tuned for updates on the final round of Pros and remaining sportsman rounds later.

Pro 2^nd Session:

Screamin’ Eagle Top Fuel

Romine backs up the E.T. record with a 6.318 in round two and stays No.1.

Tracy Kile runs his career best (we believe) 6.34 and charges to the #2 spot. A great rebound pass for Kile who ran a 6.44 in the opening round, but had it thrown out after kicking out a foam block. He’s in the show nicely now!

Jay Turner comes out with a 6.44 at 221mph and is now 3^rd, while Vancil gets in the show (4^th) with a 6.48 at 193mph. Brancaccio and Shigematsu round out the 40’s for 3^rd and 4^th spots.

Twenty-two bikes competed in the Top Fuel 2^nd session and the bump spot was a 6.908. Chicago Joe is on the outside No.17) with a 6.964 followed by Sam White’s 6.965 and a 6.987 from Jake Silcox that doesn’t have them in the show yet. One shot left and that session, the final session of the day is coming up soon.

Back to sportsman qualifying now.

JIMS Pro Fuel

Turner gets into the show this time and takes over the No. 1 spot with a 6.61 at 207mph! Fagan and Streeter get enough to get on the right side of the order in this round too.

S & S Pro Gas

Connie Cohen and the CC Rider team make a huge move in the 2^nd round, taking over the top spot with a 7.15 at 182.mph!! (Her career best)

Cohen was paired with Joe Sternotti for the pass and both lost fire in the box. Sternotti was unable to get it going in the 30 seconds required, but Cohen’s crew got her fired up for the low E.T and top MPH pass of the day after two sessions.

Kresto Pro Drag

Dale Nungesser enters the show in 2^nd round and takes over the No. 1 spot with a 7.38 at 169.89mph. Terry Stewart moves to the #2 spot.

Samson Pro Modified

Pippin holds on to top spot and Lee is still 2^nd, while Tom Caldwell makes a big improvements (8.22) and moves to the 3^rd spot.

G2 Street Pro

Andy Simon takes over the No.1 spot with a record (E.T.) 8.54. Simon, who owns the current record (8.57) has another qualifying session and tomorrow’s elimination’s to back up the number, or perhaps further improve it!

Update: 2^nd round of the Pro’s scheduled out at 3:00pm.

We are almost 2 hours off schedule today due to unavoidable delays, such as oil downs and various track clean ups.

We are hoping for a smoother 2^nd session.

We do want to mention that during last night’s TNT session, Lauren Long (on her Destroyer bike) took a nasty spill on the top end that resulted in a fractured femur in her right leg. It was reported that she had surgery to treat the fracture this morning and is doing well.

GET WELL SOON LAURA..Lots of people are asking about you and send their best.

2:25pm

More from today’s sportsman opening rounds.

Julia Holliday has a 10.333 for the No. 1 spot in S & S Super Sport. Holliday is looking to clench a back-to-back championship title.

Rich Vreeland is just off her mark in 2^nd place with a 10.334.

Mike Fiztgerald (that’s “Mavrik” to Talk Shop users) nailed a perfect 9.700 in Rucker Performance Super Gas. That will be hard to beat, but there’s still two rounds left for the field of 39 to match it.

Mike Roberts is first in S & S 124 class with his 9.531 while Michael Ray had problems and sits at the bottom of the 4-bike field so far.

Jamie McNaughton, coming off the win in Virginia leads the pack after one V-Rod session with a 9.403.

Sit back and relax..we are in for a long full day of racing here at The Rock!!

2:00pm

Sportsman qualifying will wrap up their interrupted first round shortly and then we will run 2^nd round of Syn3 ET.

By the time the 70-plus ET bikes get down the track- we will likely head back over to 2^nd round Pro qualifying.

Today’s opening rounds have been nothing short of exciting in several classes. The Destroyers took the track by storm with multiple record breaking passes and then Mike Romine is set to back up a new Top Fuel record.

Tak Shigematsu had that same chance in Virginia when he opened up with a 6.24 pass, but never got the back up mark. Look for Shigematsu

After several delays that now have us quite a bit off schedule the Pro opening round finished with a thrill for the crowd when Romine blasted down the track. Here’s a few notes. (We are now back to finish the Sportsman first round).

Screamin’ Eagle Top Fuel

Mike Romine breaks the Top Fuel record mark by .008 of a second and chops his own MPH record as well! His 6.30 at 221.78mph has him on top of the charts in qualifying as he stands to back up the record marks this weekend. Look out for the record charts this weekend!!!

JIMS Pro Fuel

John Breckenridge hit the six second zone in the Pro Fuel opening round and sit No. 1 and No.2 in the order so far.

Chris Streeter had problems and sits on the outside of the field. It was big problems for Fagan and Turner as well and they will look for a spot in the show in round two.

S & S Pro Gas

Dirk Higgins clocked a 7.386 at 167.61mph for the top spot. Higgins who missed a chance at the win in Virginia after crossing in front of the 750ft block in eliminations will hope to rebound from the unfortunate DQ’d round here at The Rock.

Kresto Pro Drag- Terry Stewart came out on top of the Pro Drag field (7.453) in front of point’s leaders- Herschberger and Moore.

Samson Pro Modified- Junior Pippin is back in great shape! Pippin who was absent from the racing scene in Virginia for health issues, is now back and looks like he’s feeling just fine with the #1 qualifying spot at 8.078-159.44mph.

Sportsman qualifying was interrupted at 11:00am to get the pro’s underway. We will resume the sportsman’s opening session after the Pro rounds.

The G2 Street Pro class opened ip the Pro session and it was Jeff King’s 8.799 at 152.16mph that was good enough for the tops spot.

Andy Simon was squirrelly off the line and mustered only a 9.344, while Zach Johnson had to shut it off in the box.

Stay tuned for more from the Pro’s and remaining sportsman later.

SEP- Derek Christensen clocked a 11.513 for the top spot in front of a close 11.514 from Dennis Ross.

Performance Corner Super Eliminator- Scotty Hooper is pulling double duty this weekend- he’s newly licensed in the Pro Drag category, but right now, he leads the field in Super Eliminator with a 10.913 against the 10.90 index.

Charles Cannon is out front in Dragmasters Hot Street with a 10.201 at 124.52mph in front of the point’s leader, Bruce Croneberger’s 10.242 at 129.10mph.

Syn3 ET-opening round. Dan DeGood takes the top qualifying spot so far with a .020 reaction. 70 entries took the track for round one ET qualifying.

Screamin’ Eagle V-Rod Destroyer-

What an opening round! The E.T. record was broken FOUR times during the round and the MPH charts changed twice!

The current records heading into this event are held by Don Stratton

at 9.216-142.70mph.

Check out the numbers that stand to take over the books if they back them up:

L.E. Tonglet leads the pack with his E.T. and MPH breaking- 9.112 at 145.86mph!!!

Michael Ray is right behind him with a 9.116 a 143.98mph.

Don Stratton bettered his own current E.T. record with a 9.192 and

Julia Holliday bettered Stratton’s current record herself with a 9.215.

Looks like we will have our hands full charting the outcome of new Destroyer records this weekend!!