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The 28th annual DME Racing Fall
Nationals concluded the 2020
race season, crowning twelve
champions at Maryland
International Raceway (MDIR).
The third year of XDA faced a
pandemic, mother nature, and
decrees that did not allow
spectators at two of their
events. And despite all this
adversity, the XDA season was
filled with tremendous
enthusiasm. 2020 produced record
turnouts, new classes, new
racers, first-time winners,
first-time champions, and more
records broken than any other
motorcycle drag racing series.
XDA has released its 2021
motorcycle drag racing schedule
which now has an October date,
expanding the series to seven
events. With the additional
event, XDA will return to
Virginia Motorsports Park three
times next year, while still
holding four events at Maryland
International Raceway. XDA will
continue its consistent format
of keeping races four weeks
apart; get these dates on your
calendar now!
April 23-25 / PFR Spring
Nationals / MDIR
May 21-23 / MTC Summer Nationals
/ VMP
June 18-20 / FuelTech Superbike
Showdown / MDIR
July 23-25 / WPGC Bike Fest /
MDIR
August 20-22 / Bike Bash / VMP
September 10-12 / Bike Brawl /
VMP
October 8-10 / DME Racing Fall
Nationals / MDIR
Orient Express
Racing Pro Street
Champion - Jeremy Teasley
Winner - Rodney Williford /
Runner-up - Jason Dunigan
#1 Qualifier - Jeremy Teasley
6.454
With only three events this year
and different winners at each
event, it was a roller coaster
ride in Orient Express Pro
Street. Still, Jeremy Teasley
was able to defend his
championship title while
retaining his 'Quickest in the
World' status on the DME Racing
GSX-R1000. Jeremy holds the ET
record at 6.346 and will head to
the Haltech Hail Mary Derby
presented by Wiseco on November
4-8 to see what the liter bike
can do without any rule
restraints.
Chris Moore, who was leading the
points going into the event, had
problems on Saturday and would
have to pull the motor out of
his bike. The Moore Mafia team
gave it their all, working
through the night to be
race-ready on Sunday. As the
entire Pro Street class sat in
the lanes for round one of the
eliminations on Sunday, it
looked like Moore would not make
the call to the first round.
Minutes before Pro Street would
be released from the staging
lanes to make their way up to
the track, you could hear the
liter bike fire up in the pits.
Moore made it just in time for
eliminations to face Ryan
Bonitatis. Bonitatis cut a light
on Moore that would give him the
holeshot win and end Moore's
chance at the championship.
With Moore out in round one,
Teasley, Williford, Greg
Wallace, and Ryan Schnitz were
still hunting for the
championship. In round two of
eliminations, Wallace and
Schnitz would lose their rounds
and pare down the championship
chase to an all too familiar
Williford vs. Teasley battle.
Then in round three Teasley won
his match against Justin Shakir
to clinch the Champion chase.
Even if Williford would go on to
win, he would still be twenty
points behind Teasley.
Despite recent rule changes to
keep the liter bikes in line
with the Hayabusa's, the two
liter bikes lead qualifying with
Teasley in the top spot with a
6.454 and Rodney Williford at
6.492. These two would dominate
eliminations until they had to
face each other in the
semi-final. With the two
quickest bikes on the property
coming head to head, this would
be the round everyone was
waiting for. Williford cut his
best light of the weekend and
ran a 6.527 at 225 mph that
Teasley couldn't counter. The
DME Racing rocket tried to
launch to the sky at the
eighth-mile that Teasley had to
fight back to the ground
allowing Williford to gain
ground and win the round.
On the other side of the ladder,
Jason Dunigan had his best
weekend of the year, qualifying
fourth with a personal best of
6.620. Dunigan took out
Bonitatis, Ryan Hable and Tony
Ficher on his way to the final.
With Williford taking out his
teammate the round before,
Dunigan was looking for his
first win of the year. Both
riders shot out from the tree
and stayed side-by-side, making
it an anxiety filled 6 seconds.
At the 1000-foot mark, Dunigan's
Hayabusa got out of the groove
as he fought the bike from
heading left into the other lane
costing him precious ET and the
win running 6.709. Williford
took the stripe with a 6.513 at
225 mph putting Williford Racing
back in the Winner's Circle.
Also notable for this event,
Tony Ficher on the DAS
Performance Supercharged
Hayabusa qualified number three,
running their personal best of a
6.570 to move them up the GOAT
list.
Five XDA racers will be heading
to the first Haltech Hail Mary
Derby presented by Wiseco at
MDIR on November 4-8 for an
event that has no rules! The
shackles will come off, and we
will see what these monsters can
really do. Chris Moore, James
Herbert, Jason Dunigan, Jeremy
Teasley, and Justin Shakir have
qualified for this event that
features the quickest and
fastest cars and motorcycles.
Fans worldwide will be able to
watch all the action live at
www.floracing.com. Get more
details about this event at
Hailmaryderby.com
DME Racing
Real Street
Champion - Brandon Teasley
Winner - Jeremy Teasley /
Runner-up David Stewart
#1 Qualifier - Jeremy Teasley
7.556
The DME Racing Real Street class
was intense on Sunday in the JTR
Racing camp. Brandon Teasley
came into the event with the
points lead. However, he put
himself in danger when he took a
second-round loss to Mark Hylton.
With Spencer Claycomb and Ben
Knight out in round one, his
brother Jeremy could now take
the championship from him. If
Jeremy could win the race and
break the ET record of 7.516, he
would be the champion. Jeremy
qualified with a 7.556 putting
him in range to break the record
held by Brandon. And since
record-breaking is Jeremy's
thing, the sibling rivalry hit
an all-time high. Going into the
final, Teasley had not broken
the record. However, if he ran a
7.515 or better, it would break
the record, and his previous
runs were enough to back it up.
David Stewart who made his first
final round appearance in Real
Street this year had the
performance to win against
Teasley. Teasley took the light
first and made a clean A to B
pass running a 7.565 while
Stewart had to control a wheelie
that would cost him ET and the
win. With no record set, Jeremy
Teasley won the event, and
brother Brandon won the
championship. The JTR team would
head back to Ohio together one
big happy family.
Pro Extreme
Champion - Travis Davis
Winner - Mike Chongris /
Runner-up - Rob Garcia
#1 Qualifier Billy Vose - 3.903
ET Record - Mike Chongris 3.933
MPH Record - Shane Eperjesi
188.46
The Pro Extreme class was full
of action at the DME Racing Fall
Nationals. Billy Vose ran a
staggering 3.093, making it the
quickest pass this eighth-mile
class has seen. Going into this
event, the record was held at
3.961 by Rob Garcia. During the
event, Vose would need to run a
3.942 or better to back up the
3.903 to make it an official
record, which unfortunately
never happened. In qualifying,
Shane Eperjesi reset the MPH
Record he held at 188.15 to a
marginally improved 188.76. Mike
Chongris also ran a record pass
that he could not back up of
190.35mph in the final.
Points leader Travis Davis
handed Rob Garcia a chance at
the championship when he lost
the second round to him. Garcia
additionally won against Tommy
Saxton and had an earned bye in
the semi-final that sent him to
the final. Garcia now just
needed to win the event, and he
could claim the championship.
However, he would need to get
through Chongris first. This was
only the second time Chongris
has run in Pro Xtreme, but he
looked like a veteran every
pass. He took wins against
champion Kevin Clarke, Billy
Vose, and Shane Eperjesi on his
way to the final.
Points leader Travis Davis was
putting his money on Chrongris
in the final as he had to watch
his championship's fate from the
sidelines. Chongris took the
tree first and made a clean pass
to take the win with a 3.933
while Garcia hit the wheelie
bars several times, costing him
ET running a slower 4.094.
Chongris took his first Pro
Xtreme win, and Davis won his
first Championship with XDA.
Pro Xtreme is presented by Ace
Motorsports, Billy Vose Racing,
Dunigan Racing, DME Racing,
Grothus Dragbikes, Harley Haul,
MaxxECU, Rob Bush Motorsports,
Robinson Industries, Schnitz
Racing, Timblin Chassis, and
Worldwide Bearings.
HTP
Performance Super Stock
Champion - David Fondon
Winner - Curtis McDougald /
Runner-up - Richard Gadson
#1 Qualifier - David Fondon
8.691 (New ET Record)
MPH Record - David Fondon 163.57
In HTP Performance Super Stock,
David Fondon won the war but
failed to win the last battle.
Fondon, who has won the previous
two events, took a quarter-final
loss when he cut a .262 light
allowing Chris Moore to take a
holeshot win over him. Despite
this loss, Fondon had the
championship clinched when he
qualified #1 to earn a bye in
the first round. Fondon also
reset his own records of 8.742
and 161.96 to an 8.691 at
163.57, making him a tenth
faster over the class. Looks
like an offseason rule-change
may be in the works for this
Stock class.
With Fondon out of competition,
the fight for a new winner would
heat up. Curtis McDougald and
Richard Gadson, who qualified in
the top five would knock out the
competition for four rounds
until they met in the final.
Gadson qualified better than
McDougald with an 8.81 to his
8.86. In elimination rounds,
McDougald was running quicker
each round than Gadson. But
Gadson was cutting better
lights. In the final, Gadson
would get the advantage at the
tree, but McDougald was
determined to get his first win
of the year and took out Gadson
running a quicker 8.78 to his
8.862.
The first year of super stock
was a great success, with an
average of thirty bikes
qualifying at each event. At
this event, we saw seven new
entries into the class with
Anthony Alliano, Brian Dale,
Dell Jones, Jesus Moran,
Marquise Blake, Mike Geer, and
Steve Knecum. We look forward to
watching this class grow in
2021.
HTP
Performance Grudge
Jeremy Teasley took the
Championship win in APE Nitrous
Bulls. Teasley, who was leading
the points going into the event,
made his championship concrete
when he took a first-round win
on 'American Express' over
Richard Gadson on 'Dead Man
Walking'. Alex Williams on
'Master Blaster' took the
weekend win over Gaige Herrera
on 'Rhianna.’ Herrera had a
rough wheelie out of the hole
and couldn't recover as Williams
stayed on track for the win
light.
David Page, who lost last year's
Monster Bulls championship by a
few points, came into 2020 with
a clear plan. Taking wins at the
first events gave Page a lead
that would be hard to unseat at
the final.
Page took a first-round loss to
Mike Thyen on 'The Prisoner'.
Still, the points would be
enough to guarantee him the
championship. Thyen went on to
the final to face Dave Martin on
'Everlasting Gobstopper.' With a
track length oil down on
Saturday night, the two would
finish their race on Sunday in
the sunlight. Martin would take
and easy win as Thyen had to
fight 'The Prisoner' from
wheeling down the quarter-mile.
Russell Dennison on 'Sho-Nuff'
and Kenyan Crawley on
'Professor' won took semi-round
wins in Tommies DMV Bulls.
However, these guys opted to
split the winnings instead of
finishing the race on Sunday.
Vance & Hines
4.60 Index
Champion - Ron
Procopio
Winner - Eran Pielert /
Runner-up Dystany Spurlock
Going into the finals, Mac
McAdams lead the Vance & Hines
4.60 points, and if he stayed in
front of the competition, he
would keep that lead. Some of
his closest points competitors
were out in round one. Steven
Shriver did not qualify, and Boo
Brown and Terry Tompkins took a
round one loss. The only threat
left for McAdams was Ronnie
Procopio. In round three,
McAdams lost on a holeshot to
Tyler Cammock, while Procopio
won against Ronnie Smith. And
with that, Procopio overtook the
championship, despite losing the
next round to Dystany Spurlock.
Procopio earned eight more
points than McAdams, becoming
the 2020 Vance & Hines 4.60
Champion.
Spurlock's win against Procopio
would send her to the final to
face Earn Pielert. Pielert, with
the better reaction time
average, just cut a perfect
light in the semi-final to win
against Tyler Cammock. In the
final Pielert once again cut the
better light and ran a 4.604 to
win over Spurlock's slower 4.62
pass.
The FBR Shop
5.60 Index
Champion - Dustin Lee
Winner - Aaron Vittorini /
Runner-up Jeff Stahl
#1 Qualifier - Dustin Lee 5.602
In the FBR Shop 5.60 class
Dustin Lee came into the event
with the points lead. Despite
taking a second-round loss, he
had enough points to keep his
championship when his closest
competition failed to earn
enough points to overthrow him.
Jimmie Miller tried but broke
out in round three with a 5.598
to trail Lee by thirteen points
for the season.
Aaron Vittorini from New Jersey,
a new entry into the FBR Shop
5.60 class, qualified #6 with a
5.607 and took out several class
veterans on his way to the
final. Jeff Stahl, qualified # 3
with a 5.603, and also faced a
challenging field of eight-mile
racers on his way to the final.
Both competitors came into the
final cutting good lights. They
had proven they could run the
index with their 5.60 qualifying
times. Unfortunately, the win
was determined in a split second
when Stahl turned on a -.015 red
light to give Aaron Vittorini,
the new entry, the weekend win.
Crazy 8's
Champion - Spencer Claycomb
Winner - Spencer Claycomb /
Runner-up - Ben Helland
#1 Qualifier - Dave Amaru 8.881
Coming into the final, Robert
Parker led the Crazy 8's points.
His biggest threat ,Tylan
Beckelheimer, was a no-show to
the event. This left only a
handful of competitors that he
would need to out-round on
Sunday. However, Parker lost
control of the championship when
he took a first-round loss to
Simeon Amaru. The only
competitors that won round one
that could pass him in points
were Dustin Lee and Spencer
Claycomb. In round four, these
two would face each other and
Claycomb would get the win. Now
Claycomb was the only racer
standing between Parker and the
Championship. Claycomb would
face Duane Jackson in the
semi-final, and Parker had his
money on Jackson. But Jackson
would let him down, breaking out
to send Claycomb to the final
and giving him the points he
needed to win the championship.
With the championship title
under his belt, Claycomb would
have one last battle with Ben
Helland for the event win.
Helland cut a hefty -.081 red
light to hand Claycomb the
victory in the last contested
Crazy 8's race.
Mickey
Thompson Top Sportsman
Champion - Dustin Lee
Winner - Dustin Lee / Runner-up
Charles Nock
#1 Qualifier - Wes Hawkins 7.160
Dustin Lee has won his first
champion in Mickey Thompson Top
Sportsman. Going into the DME
Racing Fall Nationals, seventeen
competitors had a shot at the
championship. Art Lawrence, the
points leader, took a
second-round loss and held the
door open for Lee. Lee took out
2019 champion Robin Procopio in
round one along with Ryan
Schnitz, George Shriver, and
Anthony Hunnicutt to meet
Charles Nock in the final.
Charles Nock took out Antwine
Nock, Michael Daddio, Wilson
Burkhead, and Ricardo Marte on
his path to the final. In the
final Nock cut the better light,
but something blew at the
eight-mile, and he lost power.
As he pulled the bike to the
side of the track, he had to
watch Lee turn on the win light.
MPS Racing Pro
ET
Champion - James Farmer
Winner - Robin Procopio /
Runner-up - Dustin Lee
The MPS Racing Pro ET final was
another tremendous turnout with
166 entries on Saturday and 122
on Sunday. James Farmer and
Stephen Knight have been
slugging it out all season with
final-round appearances at
previous events. They came into
the event with only nine points
separating them. Knight was
determined to make up those
points, and Farmer was equally
determined to keep his position.
On Sunday, both racers lost in
round five to keep their points
separation the same. With no one
left in competition that could
knock him out, James Farmer
became the 2020 MPS Racing Pro
ET Champion.
Back in competition, Robin
Procopio sliced through the
field to make it to her first
final of the year. Dustin Lee,
who was in the groove on Sunday
won Top Sportsman, which put him
into round six of Pro ET
competition. Lee promptly took
two more round wins to meet
Procopio in the round eight
final. Procopio dialed an 8.14,
Lee a 7.98. Procopio cut the
better light of .024 to Lee's
.082. Procopio turned on the win
light when Lee broke out running
a 7.972 to her 8.191.
Brock's
Performance Street ET
Champion - Derrick Milbourne
Winner - Marquise Blake /
Runner-up - Nick Hamlett
In Brock's Performance Street
ET, over 200 racers have entered
the class this year, and Derrick
Milbourne, with two event wins
under his belt, won the
championship. This is a massive
high for him. In 2018 he
finished in fifth place, in 2019
he finished in second place, and
now he has the championship that
he has been striving for.
Marquise Blake from Delaware, a
newcomer to the class, took out
several class veterans to make
it to the final. There he met
Nick Hamlett, who is no stranger
to a final round. In the final
Blake dialed a 8.74 and Hamlett
a 10.05. Hamlett left first, and
Blake would be chasing him a
second later. Blake lost
traction off the starting line,
and it took a second to get it
back under control before he
could get back in the throttle,
and by this point the win should
have gone to Hamlett. However,
Hamlett made the rookie mistake
of not keeping an eye on the
other lane and by the time he
looked over, it was too late. As
Nick grabbed the brake, he was
crossing the stripe and breaking
out with a 10.023 to hand the
win to Marquise Blake who ran
three seconds off his dial.
Oops.
Congratulations to all our race
winners, record breakers and
champions. Despite a full swing
pandemic, we saw many new racers
at each race and would like to
welcome them to the XDA family!
We look forward to your support
in 2021 as the serious continues
to evolve.
Don't miss a weekend of racing
with the quickest and fastest
motorcycle drag racing sanction
in the country; put XDA on your
2021 calendar now!
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for event information, class
rules, schedule, and more.
About XDA Racing
The Xtreme Dragbike Association
(XDA) is an east coast
motorcycle drag racing series
with 700+ motorcycle racers
competing at each event. Every
XDA event hosts professional
classes, sportsman classes,
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
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