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Super Street super star Billy (not Bob) Glidden qualified
his Mustang on the pole and marched through the field to a final round
showdown with Skokie, Ill racer Mark Enwina. Enwina evidently had a
bad fast ride as he twice took trips into the bean field at the end
of the long Cordova Dragway shutoff area when the chute on his '92 Mustang
failed to deploy. In the run for the title it was all Billy Glidden
horsepower as he crushed Enwina with a 7.69/174 mph to Enwina's losing
8.04/174. Billy Glidden later pocketed an extra $500 by besting Milt
Decker in the the ATI ProCharger Top Dog Shootout, a handicap race that
pits the number one qualifiers in Pro and Super Street against each
other. It was Glidden's second shootout win of the season.
Bob Alexander, of Clinton, Ill drove his '93 Mustang to
the win in Flowmaster Nostalgia Pro Street beating newcomer Mike Foulk
of Plainfield, Ill. Alexander, who qualified in the top spot, had a
slight starting line advantage and was able to hold off the beefy '69
Torino's top end charge with a 7.96/173 to Foulk's 8.04/174 mph pass.
Tony Orts has now gone two-for-two by winning the Vortech
Extreme Street class defeating Ernie Parison in the final round. Parison
qualified his Mustang in the top slot with Orts a close second. In the
final, Ort's drilled the tree with a .444 reaction time in his Camaro
and extended that lead to take the win 8.56/160 to Parison's 8.67/160-mph
effort.
The Nostalgia Muscle Car final featured a classic Chevy
versus Mopar battle as Dekalb, Ill. driver Mike Trittle drove his '74
Barracuda to the Winner's Circle at Cordova after posting a 14.025 on
a 14.00 index to beat the hard-charging effort of Rock Falls, Illinois'
Stan Bardo and his '57 Chevy, which ran 13.339 on a 13-flat index.
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In Mr. Gasket Cheap Street, Bowling Green Champion Jeremy
Taylor of Holts Summit, Mo., outlasted a strong effort by fellow Chevy
driver, Jay Canella to capture his second consecutive win. Taylor, driving
a '66 Nova dropped into sub ten-second territory, in the heat of the
day to end Canella's hopes of victory after posting an impressive 9.88/133
mph time to Canella's losing 10.01/133 mph effort.
Dan Paolini of Westerville, Ohio drove his '94 Camaro
to the win in Diamond Pistons Pro Stock over Chris Uratchko and his
'69 Camaro. Paolini, attending his first PRO event of the year, charged
to the win over the series points leader, posting a 9.38/145 mph run
to Uratchko's losing 9.58/143 mph lap.
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