NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series-Sunday from Texas Motorplex

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NHRA LUCAS OIL DRAG RACING SERIES - SOUTH CENTRAL DIVISION

TEXAS MOTORPLEX, ENNIS, TEXAS

Sunday, October 16, 2005
 

TORRENCE PUTS ANOTHER NOTCH IN HIS TOP ALCOHOL DRAGSTER BELT WITH A WIN AT
THE TEXAS MOTORPLEX

            ENNIS, Texas - In the NHRA South Central Division's final Lucas
Oil Drag Racing Series event of 2005, Steve Torrence continued his reign of
terror over his Top Alcohol Dragster competition with another win.  Top
Alcohol Funny Car driver Steve Gasparrelli kept his hopes alive for a
national title by taking his second win of the year.  Phoenix's Jim Hughes
scored two trophies, winning in Super Comp and Super Gas.

            Torrence, a 22-year-old rookie Top Alcohol Dragster driver out
of Kilgore, Texas, has already clinched both the national and South Central
Division titles in the class so his fifth divisional event win of the season
was icing on the cake.  Torrence started his first race in the class in May
in Rusk, Texas.  He was runner-up at that race and, except for a first-round
loss in Joliet, Ill., he won every other divisional event he attended.  In
the final-round at the Motorplex, Torrence beat former division champ Lee
Callaway of Channelview, Texas.  Torrence ran 5.315 seconds at 267.27 mph to
Callaway's 5.445-second, 260.01 mph effort.

            Gasparrelli, a former Pacific Division titlist from West Covina,
Calif., beat Cleburne, Texas, racer Jimmy Jones in the final.  Gasparrelli
bested Jones with a 5.711-second, 256.65 mph run over Jones' 5.783-second,
250.37 mph pass. 

            In Comp Eliminator, Jeff Taylor, Lumberton, N.C., took the win
over Daniel Mikel of Hempsted, Texas.  Super Stocker William McLemore, S.
Houston, Texas, beat Dominic Camera of Tustin, Calif., in the final and
joined Pittsgrove, N.J., Stock Eliminator racer Lee Zane in the winner's
circle.  Brian Hughes, Hughes Springs, Texas, took the win in Super Street
and Phillip Muse, Tomball, Texas, won in Top Sportsman.  The Top Dragster
winner was Wayne Baker of San Antonio, Texas, and the Sportsman Motorcycle
winner was Bruce Calhoun of Hope, Ark.

            This was the last NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series event on the
South Central Division's calendar.  Racers can still earn points toward
divisional and national titles at out-of-division races.

 

The following are the final results from the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing
Series event at the Texas Motorplex:

 

TOP ALCOHOL DRAGSTER

Round one

1) Steve Torrence, Kilgore, Texas, 5.332, 269.94 def. 8) Carl Magee,
Victoria, Texas, 5.681, 246.30; 

2) Brandon Pierce, Glendora, Calif., 5.414, 259.36 def. 7) David
Brounkowski, Cypress, Texas, 5.506, 255.19;

5) Ashley Force, Yorba Linda, Calif., 5.538, 251.49 def. 4) James Thompson,
Vernon, Texas, 14.900, 73.56;

6) Lee Callaway, Channelview, Texas, 5.522, 257.38 def. 3) Aaron Olivarez,
Sandy, Utah, 15.361, 50.77;

 

Semifinals

Callaway, 5.459, 262.44 def. Pierce, 5.454, 255.29; 

Torrence, 5.326, 269.73 def. Force, 5.790, 247.47; 

 

Final

Torrence, 5.315, 267.27 def. Callaway, 5.445, 260.01. 

 

TOP ALCOHOL FUNNY CAR

Round one

1) Steve Gasparrelli, West Covina, Calif., '00 Firebird, 5.759, 253.85 def.
10) Burl Brown, Gainesville, Texas, '98 Avenger, 16.887, 51.92

2) Steve Harker, Brisbane, Australia, '99 Avenger, 5.732, 254.14 def. 7)
Bernie Harrington, Apple Valley, Calif., '02 Camaro, 13.763, 60.54

3) Jimmy Jones, Cleburne, Texas, '99 Camaro, 5.773, 250.32 def. 6) Jay
Payne, Claremont, Calif.,

'02 Camaro, 5.857, 249.35

4) Brandon Lewis, Broken Arrow, Okla., '96 Achieva, 8.778, 100.57 def. 5)
Richard McClain, Lake Dallas, Texas, '03 Firebird, foul

 

Semifinals

Gasparrelli, 5.704, 255.68 def. Lewis, 5.748, 254.47

Jones, 5.793, 250.74 def. Harker, 9.476, 91.04

 

Final

Gasparrelli, 5.711, 256.65 def. Jones, 5.783, 250.37

 

COMP ELIMINATOR

Jeff Taylor, Lumberton, N.C., '02 Cavalier, E/SM, 8.661, 154.35 def. Daniel
Mikel, Hempsted,

Texas, '02 S-10, B/TA, 8.360, 162.20 

 

SUPER STOCK

William McLemore, S. Houston, Texas, '61 Corvette, SS/DM, 9.540, 140.50 def.
Dominic Camera,

Tustin, Calif., '87 Camaro, GT/EA, foul

 

STOCK ELIMINATOR

Lee Zane, Pittsgrove, N.J., '73 Apollo, K/SA, 12.615, 82.31 def. Jimmy
Hidalgo Jr.,

Donaldsonville, La., '98 Camaro, B/FIA, 10.758, 120.71

 

SUPER COMP

Jim Hughes, Phoenix, dragster, 8.920, 157.03 def. Linda Hoover, Copper
Canyon, Texas,

dragster, foul

 

SUPER GAS

Jim Hughes, Phoenix, '01 Corvette, 9.941, 145.61 def. Shawn Langdon, Mira
Loma, Calif., '03

Corvette, 9.896, 152.93

 

SUPER STREET

Brian Hughes, Hughes Springs, Texas, '67 Camaro, 10.901, 133.91 def. Dan
Eichem, Wamego, Kan., '69

Camaro, 10.904, 138.56

 

TOP SPORTSMAN

Phillip Muse, Tomball, Texas, '97 Firebird, 7.161, 191.89 def. J. Lee Didier
II, Fort Smith, Ark.,

'04 Cavalier, 7.090, 195.25

 

TOP DRAGSTER

Wayne Baker, San Antonio, Texas, dragster, 7.281, 180.45 def. Rocky McCain,
Ft. Worth, Texas,

dragster, 7.334, 175.82

 

SPORTSMAN MOTORCYCLE

Bruce Calhoun, Hope, Ark., '84 Kawasaki, 9.200, 137.36 def. Tom Gilligan,
Fremont, Neb., '79

Kawasaki, 9.134, 143.43