Yet another year has come and gone and the biggest Shootout to date is now a part of history.
The weather forecast really stunk this year. It went from a 30% chance to a 70% chance rain. We got a real small shower during the dyno competition on Saturday and it was late enough in the day it didn't effect anything. Sunday the weather prediction was really bad........man do I want a job where I can constantly be wrong and keep my job. It was beautiful all day long. Not a drop of rain, hot as hell with a slight breeze. The race was over for atleast an hour before a brief down pour came through and then was gone.
This year for me will be remembered for a few reasons. Here is my list:
1. The year the autocross came back to the shootout.
2. The year I made my first ever 10 second pass in an AWD or a 5 speed!!!
3. The year of the race car.
The weekend was started off with the car show/dyno competition at Buschur Racing. Once again the streets through town were closed off for the huge crowd that showed up. This years crowd was even larger than in the past and I'd give an honest estimate of 1,000 or more people being here in town. It's quite rediculous, in a good way! We had food vendors/pizza on hand and the highest horsepower cars as a whole that we've ever seen.
The Stock appearing turbo Dyno King was Chris Young with his EVO9 and 554 whp.
The Non stock appearing turbo Dyno Kind was given to Mike Reichen with his EVO2 and 941 whp.
Mike Reichen's 941 whp was also the highest number we've ever had made on our dyno by any car.
Just out of curiousity I took all the cars dyno'd and added up their horsepower and divided it out to see the average, average of all the cars dyno'd worked out to 525 whp. That is a strong field of cars. We dyno'd 20 cars Saturday.
This year we added a class called Max Effort. This class had 4 sub divisions which were divided into DSM/Mitsubishi powered cars on street and race tires and a class for EVO's on street/race tires. This was also the first year since 2002 that I personally competed in the shootout and I really enjoyed it. I was in the Max Effort E/Race class. 4th place with the BadBish in the autocross and I made my first ever 10 second AWD/5 Speed pass running a 10.5 and 10.4 on low boost.
The winners were awarded a nice plaque (Made in the USA) and $250 for 1st, $100 for runner up and $50 for semi finals
Here are the winners for the Max Effort and their combined time:
D/Race
1st-Ian Harvey 56.39
2nd-Aaron Rupert 63.13
D/Street
1st-Jason Mahan 57.17
2nd-Eric Jones 57.59
3rd-Shannon Montgomery 58.29
E/Race
1st-Dave Sutton 47.15
2nd-Jarrod Hoops 48.61
3rd-David Buschur 51.16
E/Street
1st-Chris Wirth 53.69
2nd-Kevin Lawson 55.22
3rd-Pat Kenny 56.94
DSM Eliminator NAME CITY/STATE VEHICLE DI R/T ET MPH
Winner Brian Capuano Narragahett RI 92 Eclipse 0.669 10.933 134.790
Runner-Up Marcus Carter Aurora CO 98 Talon Broke
DSM Stock Turbo
Winner Michael Faggiano Rochester NY 90 Talon TSI 0.389 11.116 127.800
Runner-Up Ryan Wandas Granby MA 91 Talon 0.425 11.442 121.940
EVO Stock Appearing
Winner Chris Young Barberton OH 06 EVO 0.428 10.750 118.050
Runner-Up Jason Flesher Plainfield IL 03 EVO 0.483 12.424 106.430
EVO Eliminator
Winner John Shepherd North Lawrence OH 0.352 9.626 147.760
Runner-Up Kasey Harris Hiddenite NC 06 EVO 1.395 11.552 138.060
Bracket 1
Winner Erik Koepfgen Munith MI 94 RAGE 0.179 12.330 118.970
Runner-Up Vaser Afif Lackawanna NY 03 EVO 0.113 13.782 103.940
Bracket 2
Winner Elvin Rivera Cleveland OH 91 Talon TSI 0.418 13.739 98.970
Runner-Up Kevin Kaltenbach Maple Hts OH 90 Eclipse GSX 0.645 13.974 100.020
Quick Gamblers
Winner Brad Gary Lavale MD 95 Talon 0.639 10.524 140.140
Runner-Up Jesse Abele Pewee Valley KY 92 Talon Broke
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