EZ STREET

Huntsville’s own Shane Stack qualified second and made it as far as the semi-finals on his way to the 2005 ORSCA EZ Street championship, but it was far from an easy weekend. “We blew the motor up last night, burned a piston, and worked all night. We got the motor back together at 5:30 this morning, slept for three hours and got up at 8:30 and put it back in the car,” Stack said. “But it paid off. I can’t say how good this feels.”

Walter Wilhelm was the quickest of 20 entries in EZ Street qualifying, going 5.293 second at 134.05 mph. Wilhelm and his ’95 Z-28 lost in round two on raceday, however, to Robert Culver.

OUTLAW PRO MOD

After 13 teams made qualifying attempts, Toney Russell led the eight-car Outlaw Pro Mod field with a 4.369-second pass at 168.86 mph. He then made it past a redlighting Jeffrey Walker and set low E.T. of the meet with a 4.257 in winning his semi-final match with Don Roddy. Number-six qualifier Joey Martin, who also was racing in the Outlaw 10.5 class, made up the other half of the rained-out final after defeating Dale Brinsfield and Alaska’s John Childs.

 

A week after competing at the ADRL’s Dragstock II, John Childs brought his blown 525 c.i. “Big Chief” powered ’37 Chevy to Huntsville and qualified in the number-two position. The car and engine were completely built, right down to the paint job, by the 68-year-old Childs and his son, Jay. As soon as they get back home to Anchorage, AK, Childs said his team will load the car in a shipping container bound for Hawaii to race there over the winter.