NHRA Sports Compacts

Results and photos courtesy Moroso Motorsports Park
4/29/03

Matt Scranton continued his dominant performance on the NHRA Sport Compact circuit as he raced to his 11th consecutive victory April 6 at the inaugural BFGoodrich Tires NHRA Sport Compact Nationals at Moroso Motorsports Park in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

John Brown, Cesar Febus, Marty Ladwig and Ken Scheepers also were winners in their

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respective categories at the second of 10 events in the $2.1 million NHRA Summit Sport Compact Drag Racing Series.

Scranton remained undefeated in NHRA competition when his drove past Manny Cruz in the final round of the Pro RWD category. Scranton powered his Turbonetics Toyota Celica to a performance of 7.147 seconds at 193.79 mph to cross the finish line ahead of Cruz's Mercury Cougar.

"Every run this transmission has give us problems and my crew busted their butts, I couldn't do it without them," said Scranton, the first sport compact driver to surpass the 200-mph barrier last May. "We've got a little gremlin in there, but I still think we have enough horsepower to do real well. We're really excited."

Brown scored his first NHRA victory when he defeated Nelson Hoyos in the Pro FWD final clocking a run of 8.610, 169.01 in his 2003 Honda Civic to hold off Hoyos, who is still looking to capture his first NHRA victory.

"We're very excited, this is the last thing we expected knowing the caliber of the cars our here," said Brown, who made his NHRA debut this weekend. "I'm very happy to have accomplished this, it's definitely something I was hoping for."

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