Cordova's 50th Annual
World Series to Host Third Annual DRO Quick Eight

by Jeff Burk
6/6/03

nce again DRO and Cordova Dragway Park have joined forces to present the third annual DRO Quick Eight race. Since this year's World Series is the 50th annual event and promises to be an all time classic race, we here at DRO have decided to make our annual Quick Eight race as prestigious to quick eight racers as the World Series is to the Pros that race in that event.

One thing we've done this year is to join forces with Kenny Nowling of Nowling Motorsports Management. His marketing expertise will greatly benefit the DRO/NMM Quick Eight event and participants. It also means that we will be able to get the participants more cash and more contingency and, if we have enough interest, a bigger field. In other words, we want this to be the most prestigious quick eight race in the country. A race that every quick eight open/doorslammer racer has to race at. The national championship of quick eight/quick 16 racing.

This race within a race is for non-professional class racers who want to run a heads-up Pro tree race where you can't breakout, you have to run it out the back door to win, and no whining is allowed.

THE RULES

1. The race is a heads-up, run-what-ya-brung, Pro tree race with three rounds of qualifying and eliminations under the lights on Saturday night in front of a standing room only crowd.
2. Open wheel cars (i.e. dragsters, altereds or funny cars) must have an automatic transmission. Not a Lenco-glide or a Bruno or anything similar. You must have an automatic trans case and converter. Any blower, turbocharger and combination of power-adders are allowed, but an automatic trans is mandatory!!!
3. For the doorslammers, we're going to allow any combination of engine, power adders and transmission you want as long as you don't have a blower or turbocharger. Blower and turbo cars must run an automatic trans. No Lenco-glides, Jeffco or Brunos will be legal. No Pro Mods, legal or illegal, will be allowed. No exceptions.
4. Just as last year, real nostalgia T/F, AFD, Fuel Altereds, or Fuel Funny cars are welcome and nitromethane is a legal fuel. Pro Nostalgia Top Fuel cars cannot compete.
5. The field will be made up of the quickest eight or 16 cars. We've always had eight-car fields, but this is the 50th Annual World Series, so if we get enough racers we'll expand the field.
6. No minimum e.t.; no breakout. This will be real drag racing. If you want to bracket race, there are other classes available for that.
7. Our ladder will be (depending on the number of cars) as follows: Eight-car field: 1 vs 5, 2 vs 6 and so on. If we have a 16-car field: 1 vs 8, 2 vs 9, etc. We feel this is the fairest way to run the program. The fastest car won't race the slowest car in the first round.

CONTINGENCY

Current contingency (money and/or parts) sponsors include MSD Ignitions, Oddy's Automotive, Mike's Transmission, and Koehler Injection. More will be added as the race date gets closer. As last year, qualifying money will exceed the entry fee. This year we will pay $200 to the fastest open wheel car and doorslammer in qualifying. We are working on entry fees and purse and that will be posted soon.

Be there or be somewhere else. If you are interested in running the world famous, make me famous DRO/NMM Quick Eight at Cordova on August 22-23, please contact DRO at quickeight@racingnetsource.com or call the office at 636-272-6301.

Keith McCoy won the 2002 Quick Eight. Can he back it up this year? (Jeff Burk photo)