Sambo Price broke the number-four
piston and damaged number eight in a second-round qualifying
attempt that netted a 4.79 and placed him 11th of 17 entries
on the list. A late night thrash—accompanied by
a friend driving halfway to the Atlanta track from Price’s
Mt. Holly, NC, home to deliver two new pistons to his
mother, who drove from the track to Greer, SC—wasn’t
enough, however, to let him answer the call for eliminations
on raceday. |
Mark VanMeter brought his 2005
Mustang down from Bowling Green, KY, with Joel Greathouse
behind the wheel of the twin-turboed beast. Though plagued
by traction trouble all weekend, Greathouse managed
a 4.725-secs lap that placed him eighth for raceday,
but after an opening-round bye he fell to Jimmy Blackmon
in round two. Regardless, the car created quite a stir
in Atlanta as the first ’05 ‘Stang to see
action in the Outlaw 10.5 ranks.
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After struggling with intercooler
problems earlier in the year, Josh McClelland had a decent
outing at Atlanta, qualifying his 2000 Firebird fifth
in Outlaw 10.5 with a 4.690-secs pass at 158.36 mph, then
making it to the third round where Mike Hill stopped him
with a holeshot victory. |
Denardo Barron, of Byromville,
GA, steered his high-flying ’73 Chevy Luv to the
event win over Scott Flowers (far lane) in the 6.0 final.
Barron made it all the way from the 22nd and last qualifying
position, while Flowers put his ’72 Nova on top
of the qualifying list with a perfect 6.000-second pass.
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Mt. Olive, AL’s Ricky Pennington
also made a perfect pass to qualify first in 7.0, then
advanced with his ’64 Chevelle to defeat Chris Smart
in a ’91 S-10 pick-up in the final, going 7.001
at 94.98 mph to Smart’s 7.002/95.46 combination.
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Marcus Birt had a tough time in
qualifying, placing 16th of 17 entries in Outlaw 10.5
with a 4.903-secs pass. “The Axeman” easily
handled Jerry Gunter in round one on raceday, but ran
into the red-hot Terry Robbins in round two, ending Birt’s
day. |
Despite lifting all four wheels
off the ground by standing his beautiful ’69 Camaro
up on its bumper during Sunday morning’s test-and-tune
session, David Reese returned for Limited Street eliminations,
where he lost to Keith Szabo in the second round.
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Huntsville, AL’s Shane Stack
made it all the way to the EZ Street final after starting
from the fifth position in his ’86 Monte Carlo,
but number-seven qualifier Ed Lavender from Gordon, GA,
prevailed in his 1986 Mustang. Kell Eubanks led 15 cars
in qualifying with a stellar 5.236-secs pass at 139.01
mph, but his ’86 ‘Stang broke on the line
in the semis. |
