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The 2 Day Power Jam is Back for 2008! The popular 2 day Big Dog Shootout is back with two action packed days full of side by side racing. Three rounds of qualifying for the $10,000 Power Jam highlight Wednesday's line up along with Limited Street plus our growing 6.49 Heads Up class sponsored by We Fly Together Motorsports and Southern Automotive! Thursday features one special "last chance" qualifying run for Big Dog and eliminations for the 16 car field. Also on Thursday is Stock/Super Stock and 7.90 Pro Tree Jr.'s. Gates open both days at 4 PM. On Wednesday, qualifying runs at 6:30, 7:45, and 8:45 PM. Thursday, the "last chance" qualifying run is at 6 and then eliminations begin at 7 PM. General admission is $15 on Wednesday and $20 on Thursday. Kids 12 and under are always FREE!
Moss, Lister, Ritts and Buckner in bracket race finals. If there is ever a drought, Piedmont Dragway is here to help. To eliminate any drought, we simply plan a bracket race. Wham, a 50% chance of rain will pop up. Today, we ran the guys hard. We were worried about the threat of rain, so we ran the program a little faster than usual. Piedmont is known for a quick program and today was no exception. We really appreciate the racers working with us to get the event over by 5pm. Not bad to run 4 classes, 2 time runs and eliminations in 4.5 hours!
Jet Truck and Thrill Show on July 17th
Hot Thursday Nights The weather wasn't the only thing that was hot this past Thursday night at Piedmont Dragway. Our Southern Automotive Rico's Real Street 7.49 and 8.99 Index classes featured some hot races on the track. To start the day, we quickly realized our timing equipment had been struck by lightning earlier in the week. Herb Jr. spent hours diligently working to get us ready to race only to find out our power was out to the scoreboards and half of the pit side track lights. With a call to Duke Power and nearly 3 hours later, we were ready to race right at 6 PM! After qualifying, a $25 bounty was put on "The Outlaw" Owen Teague simply because "he's won too much." In the first round race, Owen lined up against Robert Cone and rolled deep, causing the foul and giving the win light to Cone. I am sure that $25 will spend well at lunch tomorrow. The first round was stacked with big match ups including Ken Myrick against Derek Harris and Randall Cantrell against Bobby Stokes. Congratulations to Mike Jefferies for being the number one qualifier giving him a first round bye. Both Randall and Tootsie Roll moved on to the next round and into the semi's as well. The finals featured Jeff Faucette vs. Cantrell and by now I am sure you can take a guess at who won by the number of times I have said his name thus far. Randall Cantrell ran dead on with a zero to pick up the win and some bonus money from Southern Automotive for running 7.490 in the finals!
I also need to give a shout out to the previous winner and runner up of 7.49 from 2 weeks ago, Owen Teague and Ken Multer. Sorry we missed you guys two weeks ago Tonight also featured our 8.99 class, always paired with 7.49 on the second and fourth Thursday of every month. Points leader Robbie Dalrymple helped his cause by moving on to the finals but rolled deep, giving Robbie Gibson and the Anger Management Racing Mustang an easy 8.99 win. I also want to thank the street cars and imports from Imports NC and Carolina Hondas for coming out and supporting our Test & Tune. We are hoping to get a great Street ET following for the end of this year and into 2009. Be on the lookout for some special races specifically for street cars! Thanks to everyone who came out tonight and battled through the early heat, but once it cooled down, the racing is what heated things up!
Bike Night this Saturday Back for the summer are our popular Bike Nights! Come out to Piedmont Dragway this Saturday night from 5:30-10 PM to see some of the fastest bikes in NC. There will be a little something for everyone at this Bike Night from open Test & Tune, a free race, and a class for all of our big riders. Trust me when I say that this race is going to be HUGE! We are debuting the highly anticipated "Big Boy" class which caters to the riders who like to eat that extra hot dog or hamburger at the concession stand. All riders in the Big Boy class have to be 230 lbs. or heavier. There is no entry fee and it will pay $200 to win and $100 runner up. Pairings will be made by a random draw and all races ran on a .4 pro tree. If you run a grudge bike, don't worry because this will be a no time event and the boards will be off. Finally, the rider weight determines the bike's wheelbase: 230-275 lbs. = 70" max w/ 2" GC
Also on Saturday night, we' are giving away a brand new race tire courtesy of Richie's Tires in the Richie's Reaction Time competition. This is also free to enter and open to anyone on a bike. Each entrant will get one time run and the two racers with the best reaction times will go head to head in a final round for the tire. If you think you can cut two good lights in a row, bring your bike and enter this FREE contest.
GrudgeFest, RainFest, or Oil Fest? If North Carolina is in the midst of a drought, all Piedmont Dragway has to do is schedule a GrudgeFest and the rain will follow. There was a great turnout of racers and spectators on Saturday afternoon when GrudgeFest was scheduled to begin. The rain bounced all around the track on the radar map and things were looking promising. Races were locked in, trash was being talked, and races started going down. Then, the inevitable happened, rain. The track crew did everything they could, but it wasn't enough as the bottom fell out around 6:30. GrudgeFest was moved to Sunday. While a lot of out of towners packed up and went home, some did stay. One of the first races of the day was Team Xtreme vs Street King. This race came down to the wire as you can see from this photo:
We had the conclusion to the Busa Shootout from back in April. It was to decide who has the fastest Busa at Piedmont Dragway. Greg, riding the Willy Wonka entry, was to take on the Friday the 13th bike being rode by Ray Lee. Ray jumped the lights, turned it red, and Wonka took the win. There were a handful of other bike races, including those by MotorCycle Jack/Alex. You can watch the video of the bike races here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcNzv2PE3I8 Near the end of GrudgeFest on Sunday, a certain dog from down south got walked. Baby Boy got called every name in the book by DOG during negotiations, but Baby Boy laughed last. Baby Boy taking the win: The Trouble Maker owned by Lance Stafford and driven by Travis Harvey were in attendance and ready for action as well. They lined it up against the Richmond Boys. The Trouble Maker made a great debut at Piedmont Dragway: They ran it back with the same outcome. At the end of the day, our boards were hit by lightning so the last 2 races were done by hand. Countless runs going on throughout the day. Many more than what we talked about here. I took some pictures over both days and hope you guys enjoy them. NdaCut will be the man to see with the video as always. We appreciate all you guys coming out to Piedmont Dragway and we'll see you again at the next GrudgeFest in September! http://s241.photobucket.com/albums/ff10/PiedmontDragway/GrudgeFestJune/ |
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Piedmont Dragway along with Southern Automotive and We Fly Together Motorsports announce the new 6.49 HEADS UP SHOOTOUT to be run on the 3rd Thursday of every month.
There is a $500 total purse with a $10 entry, $5 of which will go to an end of year points fund with Piedmont putting the first $200 into the points fund. |
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Wednesday 7/2 BIG DOG SHOOTOUT POWER JAM Qualifying |
Thursday 7/3
BIG DOG SHOOTOUT POWER JAM Eliminations |
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