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Pro Classes
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Pro Mod |
Warriors Outlaw A |
Warriors Outlaw B |
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Mike "Hollywood" Decker III |
Scott Vants |
Curt Coucill |
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Real Street |
Heavy Hitters Street |
Top Sportsman |
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Justin Bowmaker |
Glennie Buckler |
Layton Sumpter |
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Friday night's Qualifier would go on
without any issues with some of the
best air these drivers would see all
season long. With the Northeast
Outlaw Pro Mod Association (NEOPMA)
racers, we would see Mike Decker Jr
take the number qualifying spot with
a record setting ET running a 3.576
at 211.90 MPH. His son Mike
"Hollywood" Decker III would take
the number two spot with a 3.591 at
218.90 MPH. The NEOPMA racers would
not see the track again until Sunday
between Saturday's cold temperatures
and afternoon rain showers. But a
great elimination session would be
set after a qualifier Sunday. One of
most anticipated match ups were with
#4 Derek Ward and #2 Hollywood in
the semi's and both drivers put on a
show. Both would drill the tree and
ride the wheelie bars from 150ft on
down with Hollywood taking the win
to race his father in the final.
Both drivers spoke highly of each
other after the match up saying that
whoever won that round could win the
race. Hollywood would manage to do
just that after beating Decker Jr,
his father, in the final for his
first Pro Mod win at MIR.
Saturday night would be the best
qualifying session for the Warriors
Outlaw with Keith Rhea putting up a
4.182 at 179.73 MPH. Defending
Warriors Outlaw Champion Harry
Troxler would be #2 with a 4.331 at
174.57 MPH. Curt Coucill would be
the B Field #1 Qualifier. In the A
Field, #1 Keith Rhea and #7 Scott
Vants would both make it to the
finals, but issues with Rhea's
Mustang would cause him to not be
able to make the final. Vants would
be the A Field Winner. The B Field
would bring a surprising final with
2024 C Field Champion Wes Mclain and
first time Warrior racer Curt
Coucill. Mclain was consistently all
day and Coucill was battling back
from hurting the car after a monster
wheel stand in qualifying. Coucill
was the quicker of the two all day
running mid 4.60's and would take
the eventual win over Mclain.
MPC Real Street would also have
their best qualifying session
Saturday night. We would be able to
see the quick side by side pass in
Real Street history with #1
Qualifier and defending Champion
Justin Bowmaker and #2 Eddie
Aleshire with both drivers going
4.771 at 146.65 and a 4.793 at
146.75. In eliminations, we would
see the 2023 and 2022 Real Street
Champions Justin Bowmaker and Justin
Reggio battle. The defending champ
would best Reggio running a 4.896 at
144.53 over Reggio's 5.020 at
141.56.
The Heavy Hitters Street field would
bring a number of faces seen at the
Late Model Performance Midnight
Madness events. Many of the racers
run the Dental Billing Group No
Clock Street series and did their
best to beat the rest of the field.
NCS racer Glennie Buckler would be
the last racer standing at the end
of Sunday.
Top Sportsman would run one
Qualifier on Saturday and one Sunday
morning. Thomas Brown would be the
#1 Qualifier running a stout 3.939
at 184.93 MPH. But the final would
be between qualifiers #11 Don Teague
and #16 Layton Sumpter. Sumpter's
worst reaction time would be in
first round with a .031, but in 2nd
and 3rd round he would be .003 and
.006. His reaction time would also
win him the final hitting the tree
going .007 compared to Teague's .120
light. Sumpter would take the win
for his first win of 2024 at MIR.
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