Charlie Westcott, Jr. is Top Qualifier in MoparR HEMI Challenge at NHRA U.S. Nationals

August 3, 2009

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MOPAR HEMI(r) CHALLENGE QUALIFYING REPORT
2009 NHRA FULL THROTTLE DRAG RACING SERIES
Event 1 of 3
September 2-7
Mac Tools NHRA U.S. Nationals

O'Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Charlie Westcott, Jr. is Top Qualifier in Mopar(r) HEMI Challenge at Mac
Tools NHRA U.S. Nationals


Indianapolis, Ind. (August 3, 2009) - Charlie Westcott, Jr., of Parma,
Mich., leads a field of 21 Super Stock HEMI(r) Dodge Darts and Plymouth
Barracudas after final qualifying for the Mopar HEMI Challenge at the
Mac Tools NHRA U.S. Nationals. Westcott, Jr., blistered the quarter mile
track at O'Reilly Raceway Part at Indianapolis with an 8.491 second
elapsed time in his 1968 HEMI Barracuda.

 

Westcott, Jr., has a bye run in the first round.

 

Jim Daniels, Yardley, Pa., drove his 1968 Dodge Dart HEMI to the second
fastest time with an 8.519 second clocking. Daniels won the most recent
Hemi Challenge at Maple Grove Raceway in Reading, Pa. 

 

Westcott's father, Charlie Westcott, Sr., also of Parma, Mich., had
third fast time at 8.571 seconds in his 1968 HEMI Barracuda. He and his
son have met in the finals of previous Hemi Challenge events, with dad
besting his son more often than not.

 

All cars in the class-Super Stock A Hemi, shortened to SS/AH-are
HEMI-powered 1968 Dodge Darts or Plymouth Barracudas. The cars first won
the class, then known as SS/BA, in 1968 at this same Indianapolis track.


 

Other qualifiers in the top ten include David Barton, Robesonia, Pa.,
Barracuda, 8.574; John Rains, Santa Paula, Calif., Dart, 8.612; Gary
Wolkowitz, Annandale, N.J., Dart, 8.626; Stephen Hebert, Westlake, La.,
Barracuda, 8.627; Wendell Howes, Rathesay, Neb., Barracuda, 8.634;
Randall Warford, Nashville, Ind., Barracuda, 8.714; Jim Pancake,
Delaware, Ohio, Dart, 8.742.

 

Final eliminations for the class will be during the day, Thursday, Sept.
4, with the final run early that evening.