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For the second time this year,
the Xtreme Dragbike Association
(XDA) brought the best show in
motorcycle drag racing to
Virginia Motorsports Park for
the Inaugural Bike Bash. The
event featured Live music, a
Freestyle Motocross show,
Baggers vs. Slingshot Sound Off,
custom bike show, huge vendor
midway, and a bikini contest.
Something for everyone!
And with cooler temperatures,
racers were able to show off
some serious performance gains
as they fought for points in the
2019 championship chase and
worked to collect on the $40,000
in cash purse. With full fields
and a variety of activities
going down in the pits, there
was non-stop action all weekend.
Orient Express
Racing Pro Street
Orient Express Racing Pro Street
brought out the horsepower as
personal records dropped all
weekend long. In qualifying,
seven personal records were
broken. The most impressive was
Richard Gadson's 6.463 that sent
him to the number one spot in
qualifying bumping up Jeremy
Teasley's 6.476 pass. This time
also moves him to the number two
spot on the GOAT List (Greatest
of all Time).
Other racers that improved their
ET records in qualifying were
Ryan Schnitz 6.619, Tony Ficher
6.711, Greg Wallace 6.745, Ethan
Barkley 7.016 and Chris Edwards
with a 7.047. Barkley also bumps
Aston out as the 'Quickest
Canadian Racer at XDA.'
In round one of eliminations
Gadson, Teasley, Schnitz, Ficher,
Ehren Litten, Frankie Stotz,
Rodney Williford, and Chris
Moore all take wins. Ryan
Schnitz improved his best ET to
a 6.603 this round. And Jordan
Haase who struggled in
qualifying, took a first-round
loss to end his chance at a VMP
repeat win.
Frankie Stotz in round three of
qualifying hurt his motor when a
cross-threaded spark plug shot
out of his head when he shifted
to second gear. He worked until
3am to get it fixed for Sunday.
However, when Stotz left the
tree something was wrong, and he
had to abort the pass. This
could have been an easy win for
his opponent Greg Wallace, but
Wallace cut a -.005 light
sending Stotz on to the next
round.
In round two Litten, Teasley,
Williford, and Gadson all took
wins. All the winners made
six-second passes sending the
toughest racers to the
semi-final round.
In the semi-final Ehren Litten
took out Gadson with new
personal best ET of 6.480 to
Gadson’s 6.543. Litten's
teammate Williford would take a
loss to Teasley.
On the next pairing, Williford
cut a better light. And as
Teasley left the starting line,
he had some traction problems
and Williford drove away from
him. Teasley started gaining
ground back on Williford, and at
the thousand-foot mark
Williford's front wheel came up
ever so slightly and opened the
window for Teasley to get around
him at the finish line. This
round win puts Teasley three
points ahead of Williford going
into next month’s DME Racing
Fall Nationals.
In the final round Litten took
the starting line advantage
cutting a .038 light to
Teasley's .060 light. Litten was
out on Teasley initially, but by
the 330' mark he caught up, and
they stayed side-by-side through
the finish line. The reaction
would win this race as Litten
took the win with a 6.511 at 225
mph to Teasley's quicker 6.502
at 226 mph.
The next race will be crucial
for both Williford and Teasley
as they both have everything on
the line to win the 2019
championship. While Williford is
a multi-time champion with the
XDA series, Teasley has never
held the Pro Street title with
this series.
DME Racing
Real Street
DME Racing Real Street delivered
an exciting event at the
inaugural Bike Bash. Jeremy
Teasley who ran the first fifty
in Real Street competition at
the last event with a 7.592 was
unable to back it up as an
official record. Real Street
Racer, Ralphie Navarro, put up
$500 before this event as an
incentive to the first racer to
run a fifty at the Bike Bash
event. In round two of
qualifying Teasley ran a 7.584
and went on to back up the
number on Sunday to make it an
official record. Ralphie Navarro
who was not at the event
recovering from an accident
early this season jumped on his
Harley and rode down from New
Jersey to deliver Teasley's cash
in person.
Rookie Brad Stinnett's
performance has been something
to marvel this year as his
performance and riding improve
with each event. Stinnett is not
a jockey as he is one of the
bigger guys in the class
standing at 6'3” and weighing in
at 220lbs. He took the number
two qualifying spot with 7.643
and ran a 195.00 mph pass during
eliminations putting him notably
close to resetting the current
MPH record of 195.17 retained by
Eddie Chapman.
Alisha Malone made her season
debut but started out rocky as
the AFM Team had to work the
kinks out of their new setup.
She qualified last with a 9.864
and took a first-round loss on
Sunday to Brad Stinnett.
However, XDA allows their Pro
racers that lose in competition
to run behind their class if
they need an extra hit to do
some tuning work before heading
home. Luckily this is when it
all came together for Malone,
her bike was back on track and
she ran her first seven-second
passes. Her first pass she ran a
7.99 and then she came back
around for the next round and
ran a 7.922. Malone will go in
the next race confident and
happy that seven is finally off
her back.
In round one Herron, Stinnett,
Teasley, Bud Harrod, Anibal
Merced, Spencer Claycomb and
Devin Ragland all took wins.
Points leader Mark Hylton took
his second first-round loss of
the season when he lost to
Jeremy Teasley with a -.005 red
light. This loss would open the
door for Merced, Claycomb, or
Teasley to overtake his points
lead.
In round two Stinnett, Merced,
Ragland, and Teasley all took
wins. Claycomb took his loss to
Merced thus allowing both Merced
and Teasley to pass him in
points.
In the semi-final Devin Ragland
took out Stinnett on his
personal best pass with a 7.619.
And Teasley took out Merced, and
with that win he took over the
points lead in Real Street. He
now leads two Pro classes with
the XDA.
With Teasley and Ragland in the
final against each other, Anibal
Merced was fired up for the all
AM Performance final. Both bikes
were built, tuned and maintained
by Merced, along with the help
of Ragland, Teasley, and Crow
Teasley.
Before the bikes even roll into
the water box, it's already the
most exciting Real Street final
of the year. The internet was
buzzing immediately and the XDA
crowd was excited. The Real
Street class is one of the
weaker classes when it comes to
reaction time performances. And
this would give Teasley the edge
over Ragland in the final. When
the bulbs dropped Ragland cut a
.102 light and Teasley a .085.
Teasley’s front wheel came up,
and Ragland took off to get out
in front of him. It wasn't until
half-track that Teasley caught
him, but he couldn't get around
him, and the win light came on
for Ragland. And when the times
light up the board, we had the
fastest side-by-side Real Street
pass in history with Ragland's
7.590 to Teasley's 7.614.
Pro Xtreme
The eighth-mile heads-up class
of Pro Xtreme saw three
different racers take over the
number one qualifying spot each
round. In round one Kevin Clarke
ran a 4.039, in round two Rodney
Williford overtook him with a
3.989. And then in the final
qualifying session, Ehren Litten
came out and reset the class
record to a 3.959. The record
had been previously held at
3.962 by his teammate Rodney
Williford.
On Sunday Ehren Litten, Rodney
Williford, Rob Garcia, and Kevin
Clarke all took wins first
round. Garcia was the only racer
in round one to take his win
with a reaction time advantage
cutting a better light on John
Collins to win with a 4.128 on
Collin's 4.114 pass. Chris
Cutsinger broke in the water box
to send points leader Clarke to
round two. Tony Steele just
couldn't produce the power
needed running a 5.679 to
Litten's 4.061. And Bobby
Lovingood took the reaction time
advantage, but it wasn't enough
with Williford’s 4.02 to his
4.314.
In round two Pottstown, PA racer
Garcia took an easy win when
Litten's bike would not go into
gear as he attempted to roll
into the beams. Williford who is
behind Kevin Clarke in points
needed to win against him in
round two, and he did just that
running a 3.985 to his 4.004.
This closed the gap between the
two front runners putting
Williford twenty-four points
behind Clarke for the 2019
championship.
In the final anyone betting on
the sidelines would have put
their money on Williford for the
win. And they would have lost
big as Williford
uncharacteristically turned on
the red light, handing the win
to Rob Garcia. Garcia who had
the win at the tree came
dangerously close to hitting the
wall as he approached the
eight-mile, he pulled the bike
hard to save it as he rolled
through the beam for a 5.428
time. Had Garcia touched the
wall, it would have been a DQ,
and the win would have gone back
to Williford. This is Garcia's
first win of the season and will
no doubt put him in work mode to
prepare for the final shot at a
championship next month.
Pro Xtreme is presented by DME
Racing, Fast by Gast, Harley
Haul, MaxxECU, McCoy
Motorsports, MTC, Rob Bush
Motorsports, Timblin Chassis,
and Worldwide Bearings.
Vance & Hines
4.60
In the Friday night round of
Vance & Hines qualifying,
Dystany Spurlock ran a 4.600 to
take the top spot, and her time
would stand even after two more
rounds on Saturday. Spurlock's
excitement could not be hidden
after such a great
accomplishment in her rookie
year of 4.60 competition with
the Marks Racing Team. You could
see the electricity around her
all weekend when she was racing
or when she was standing on the
track to support boyfriend
Courtlan Whiting. In round one
of competition, she would take
an easy win when Darryl Hollins
broke at the line and gave her a
single pass. Despite the luck,
she demonstrated her extreme
focus when she cut a .013 light
and ran a 4.598 pass. In round
two against Boo Brown,
Spurlock's dream weekend would
be clipped when she went red
with a -.004.
Brown went on to win two more
rounds taking out Ron Bonitatis
and Alan Fields before heading
to the final against Tyler
Cammock. Cammock equally had
fierce competition on his way to
the final taking down Rob
Hunnicutt, Wes Hawkins, Jim
Jordan, and Mac McAdams. Going
into the final, Brown had the
better average reaction time
over Cammock.
However, Cammock got the
advantage on Brown at the tree
with a .010 reaction time to
Brown's .015. And as both racers
battled to the eighth mile, it
was Brown who would get the win
light with a 4.602 over
Cammock's break out 4.584 time.
This win will give Brown points
to close the gap on leader
Michael Ostrowski going in the
DME Racing Fall Nationals next
month.
HTP
Performance Grudge
In Monster Bulls, David Martin
on 'Black Panther' made a final
round appearance against Rendolf
Torbed on 'Kastigala' who has
taken two wins already this
year. Torbed also took out the
class points leader, 'Pickin
Pockets' on his way to the final
and was looking for a win to
overtake the points lead. But
this hope would be dashed as
'Black Panther' turned on the
win light.
APE Nitrous Bulls also had a
first-time entrant with Gaige
Herrera on 'Pee Wee.'
Unfortunately, he would face
points leader Dave Norris on
'Yellow Jacket' for a
first-round sting that would
send him home. Norris would go
on to take out Richard Gadson on
'Dead Man Walking' for his
second win of the season.
Staying on trend with the other
Bull classes, Unit 5 Brahma
Bulls also had a first-time
entrant with Mathew Dozier on
'Flight Risk.' In the final he
would be denied take-off as
Nicholas Mazeika on 'Clockwork'
would take his fourth win of the
season to lock up the 2019
championship.
The FBR Shop
5.60
In the FBR Shop 5.60 class Turon
Davis with a 5.609 took the top
spot in qualifying over
forty-seven other competitors.
New XDA racer Jeremy Fox entered
his 1978 Kawasaki bar bike to
make it to the final round
taking out previous event
winner, Courtlan Whiting, along
the way. There he would face
Maegan Bowers who was a first
time 5.60 competitor. With two
first timers in the final, the
win light was going to be
special. Fox had a .008 reaction
time giving him the advantage
over Bowers at the tree. Fox ran
a 5.602 over Maegan's 5.733 to
take the win for an
unforgettable first-time
experience with XDA.
Shinko Tires
Crazy 8's
Steve Holden took the top spot
in Shinko Tires Crazy 8's
qualifying on Saturday with an
8.881 over thirty-two other
competitors. However, on Sunday
Holden's bike would run off the
number to take a first-round
loss to Jason Miller of
Pennsylvania. Courtlan Whiting
who going into this event was
fifth in points, won five rounds
of competition to meet Spencer
Claycomb in the final round.
Both racers faced tough
competition along the way taking
out fierce competition like Mike
Schulz, Boo Brown, and Dustin
Lee, to name a few.
In the final round, Claycomb cut
a .054 light to Whiting's
slightly better .046 as they
raced side-by-side down the
quarter mile. With neither racer
wanting to give up the stripe,
they both broke out crossing the
finish line. Whiting's win light
came on with a margin of victory
of just thirteen inches running
8.787 over Claycomb's 8.784
pass. This win, although not my
much, will close the gap on
points leader Dustin Lee as they
go into the last battle for the
year next month.
Mickey
Thompson Performance Top
Sportsman
Class newcomer Richard Gadson
took the number one qualifying
spot in Mickey Thompson
Performance Top Sportsman with a
7.479 on his Hayabusa street
bike. Gadson not only qualified
number one, he stopped Dustin
Lee from taking over the points
lead in round three, and then
went on to make his first final
round appearance in the class.
In the final he faced Robin
Procopio in the other lane.
Procopio with the championship
chase on the line wasn't going
to go down without a fight.
However, the final would be no
battle for Procopio as Gadson
turned on a -.008 red light to
give the win to Procopio at the
starting line. With this win
Procopio now leads the points
heading into the final event
next month at the DME Racing
Fall Nationals.
MPS Racing Pro
ET
After Robin Procopio took a win
in Top Sportsman, she was
entered back into round six of
MPS Racing Pro ET for a chance
at another win and an additional
$3,000 payday. She won two more
rounds to meet Mike Schulz in
the final. Both Schulz and
Procopio were killing the
competition with their reaction
times and dial-in accuracy, and
their final would be no
exception. Procopio had a slight
starting line advantage as they
both raced to the finish line.
Procopio ran an 8.011 on her
8.00 dial taking the win against
Schulz who ran an 8.716 on his
8.71 dial. That's a margin of
victory of .006 seconds or
sixteen inches.
While Procopio took the crown,
this performance put Schultz at
the top of the leaderboard
knocking Shayne Proctor out of
the lead and putting a target on
his back for the final event
next month.
Brock's
Performance Street ET
In Brock's Performance Street
ET, Duane Jackson is loving VMP.
He took his first win of the
season at the MTC Summer
Nationals and now again this
past weekend. Jackson and
Brandon Thompson worked their
way past eighty other
competitors to a seventh-round
battle. With both racers evenly
matched in their overall round
performances for the day, it was
a 50/50 bet who would take the
win. Jackson dialed an 8.70,
Thompson a 9.16, both racers
left the tree with close
reactions and ran down the track
side-by-side. Jackson took the
win running an 8.713 on his
dial, defeating Thompson’s 9.192
run. The class points leader,
Dustin Lee, lost in round two of
competition, so these extra
round points give Jackson a shot
at the championship.
For full qualifying and
round-by-round results of the
event, visit
www.xdaracing.com.
The XDA season concludes in a
few weeks at Maryland
International Raceway for the
27th annual DME Racing Fall
Nationals on September 21-22,
2019. Mark your calendars now as
this event will also feature the
7th annual Orient Express Pro
Street Battle Royale paying
$10,000 to win and a 32-Bike
Field! Champions will be
crowned, and the Fall air is
bound to bring out record
performances.
Visit
www.XDAracing.com
for event information, class
rules, schedule, and more.
The Xtreme Dragbike Association
is an east coast motorcycle drag
racing series with 700+
motorcycle racers in
competition. The XDA features
professional and sportsman
classes along with grudge racing
and a vendor midway. Lifestyle
activities such as bike shows,
bikini contests, DJ and live
bands are also held at select
events. For more info on the XDA,
visit
www.XDAracing.com
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