Competition 4th Annual DPM Diesel Shootout Results

[DavidTD]

More racers, more purses, and loads of fun were at Atlanta Dragway for the DPM Diesel Shootout and DHRA 2005 Pro Street Race #3.



Diesel Shootout Winner Earl Talley from TS Performance outpaced 2nd place winner Randy Cobb by only a few clicks of the clock for a very exciting and competitive final round. One thing I noticed all day was how improved all the bracket racers were in both reaction times and selecting dial-in times. Great job guys and with a field of 30 plus trucks, making it to the final round was no easy task.



The DPM Manual transmission winner was Will Harris. He took home a $200 bonus for making the quickest pass in a manual transmission truck at 15. 42. Congrats Will.



The Diesel Garage who sponsored $100 each for the quickest of the brands in the Diesel Shootout was on hand to witness some great passes.



Ford winner was Levi Cuthrell with a 13. 84

GMC winner was Kevin Meredith of TS Performance with a 14. 34

Dodge winner was Matt Wells with a 12. 99



Congrats to all the winners and a sincere thanks to all the guys from the Diesel Garage for sponsoring a fun award.



DHRA Pro Street was the most competitive I have seen to date. Teams present were No Limit Diesel Performance, DJ's Performance, Stuckey Racing, TS Performacne, Garmon's Racing, and private racers Buck Spruill and Russell Hilton.



The crowd witnessed some great side by side action. Darren Morrison made a pass Friday night of 11. 00 only to discover that he had an engine problem that would eliminate him from Saturday's action. With the current ET record holder on the sidelines, this left 7 racers to compete for the prize and bragging rights of fastest at Atlanta 2005.



The ladder after qualifying had low ET qualifier at 10. 91 @ 126. 61 mph Phillip Palmer of Stuckey racing getting the solo pass of 11. 55.



Aaron Jess of No Limit qualifying at 11. 37 @ 117. 84 was to face Buck Spruill who qualified at 11. 49 @ 118. 74. No Limit unfortunately had an engine failure so Spruill made a solo run of 12. 87.



Kevin Meredith of TS Performance qualified with a 10. 95 @ 123. 18 and faced Domingo Jimenez of DJ's Performance who qualified with a 12. 32 @ 111. 26. Meredith had too much for Jimenez winning on a 11. 06 over the slower 13. 39.



Jeff Garmon of Garmon's Racing qualified with a 11. 07 @ 123. 96 faced Russell Hilton who qualified at 12. 24 @ 115. 77. A great first round race had Garmon out power Hilton with a close finish 11. 18 to 11. 89 round.



2nd round action had Palmer (Stuckey Racing) facing Spruill. Palmer clicked off a winning 10. 87 to Spruill's 11. 52



Meredith (TS Performance) faced Garmon with the TS Performance truck winning 10. 97 over the slower Garmon pass of 11. 17.



The final round pitted the two 10 second trucks against each other. Palmer pulled out a win over Meredith in a great drag race with Palmer running a 10. 83 to the slower 10. 97 for TS Performance.



Congrats to Stuckey Racing for their first victory and Philip Palmer with an outstanding job driving.



I'd like to personally thank everyone that came out to support the efforts of everyone involved.



No Limit gets my "big thanks" for driving all night Friday to make the race Saturday only to break then drive all night Saturday to make it home Sunday.



A special thanks to Mike Batterson for running the dyno all weekend which is no easy task.



A special thanks to the event sponsors:



Sun Coast Transmissions (was good to see you Joe)

TS Performance

Garmon's Diesel

DHRA

The Diesel Garage

and of course, the Hayes Family of Dealerships who without I wouldn't have a race.



Thanks to all the racers, spectators, crews and fans that support this great sport. We'll see you all next year.

 

[DHRA]

The usual r/t for Kevin Meredith should have put him on Palmer's door hinges in the final round. It was odd to see a . 100 reaction for him.

Thanks for all of your hard work David! The crowd loved the diesels, did anyone else notice the lack of SRT action once the diesels had laid down some 10-second passes?

We definitely have 4 10-second racers in the Pro Street Shootout! It was too bad that the track sucked the whole weekend. Next stop is Virginia October 15th! See everyone there.

One note for SDM, we would like to pit with the diesels next year please!

 

[DavidTD]

Please note though, I edited my post. Kevin Meredith of TS Performance won the award for fastest GM not Ronald Lott. My sincere apologies to Kevin and the TS Team. I can't even claim it was a Rum induced error... just stupidity...

 

[DHRA]

Oh yea, and I was honored to have met and spent time with Gary Scelzi. Andrew, SDM crew chief, got to hang out and get a tour with the Mopar Pro Stock pits. Strangest thing, despite what I have been told and read on here, Gary had no idea who COMP 461 was????? :-laf

 

[LPreston]

David,



Sounds like you guys had a good time. How hot did it get? Was it Indy hot?



Keating had a local street pull truck he had helped someone throw together (literally) take first on Fri night and then 2nd on Sat night at the Tn Valley Fair.

 

[DavidTD]

Lenny, we did and congrats on the sled pulls.



I'm not sure of the actual temps, but it was supposed to be 90 degrees. It was pretty hot but not Indy hot.



We missed you guys not being here. Eric wow'ed the crowd all weekend with the Scheid Dragster all weekend running mid 8's at mid 150's. Was fun to see and hear the crowds response.

 

[DHRA]

Neal got a good shot of my only 1. 18 60' of the day:

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[DavidTD]

http://www.atlantadragway.com/apcm/templates/results.asp?articleid=7876&zoneid=37



Here is a link to the Atlanta Dragway for their posted results...



Eric, when you said the track was horrible I started asking around the other racers. I couldn't find anyone that said it was bad. Obviously the track cannot be perfect all the time, but I know much attention was paid to the track prep at this event. So I went and looked up the final round of the 2005 Southern Nationals Pro Stock class.



"Anderson was pumped for his race with W. J. , scorching him at the lights and never looking back, winning with a 6. 79 to a 6. 84. "



This is a quote from the NHRA site. The Dodge Boys were running 6. 8's at 200 + all weekend in both lanes right inline with the National event numbers which to me indicates the track surface was not "bad".



This is the second time in this thread you have indicated poor track prep and since I know Hayes put forth a big time effort to make it good, I don't want people to think this event doesn't provide a nice surface to compete on.

 

[DHRA]

I don't want to take away from the effort Hayes made, it was incredible. They made us feel like kings. You did a wonderful job also.

 

[Turbo Thom]

Although I didn't run with the HP you did , Eric, the only "spinning I did was when I failed to get a burn out. When I did, the truck hook so good I red lighted. Only once though. I thought the track was in great shape and everybody I talked to thought so too. I really don't know where you get the greasy part. I never felt it. Of course 109 MPH didn't match what you ran.



Maybe I just had so much fun I didn't notice it.



. . Preston. .

 

[turbomatt1]

I thought the track was awesome, as were it's officials. I was managing 1. 8 60's out of a 6000lb 2x4... . but as expected, traction did go away a bit late in the day after a couple of hundred passes were made!

the Diesel dragster was a real crowd pleaser! everyone was looking at the smoke & mph, as opposed to the ET anyway.

1. 1 60's !! :--) ... I'll bet you feel that the next day!

 

[Fletcher]

http://www.atlantadragway.com/apcm/templates/results.asp?articleid=7876&zoneid=37



Eric, when you said the track was horrible I started asking around the other racers. I couldn't find anyone that said it was bad.

Cousteau spoke for the Sea live. Now, McFly is disseminating his intellect on track conditions? Isn't that an oxymoron (Just kidding) Hey!!! you guys call me if you need more info on asymmetry gene synchronization segmentation… :-laf

 

[Turbo Thom]

Bill... ... ... ... ... . If it don't make us go faster or go in the tank, what good is it? What does that have to do with traction?

 

[Fletcher]

Oh yea, and I was honored to have met and spent time with Gary Scelzi. Andrew, SDM crew chief, got to hang out and get a tour with the Mopar Pro Stock pits. Strangest thing, despite what I have been told and read on here, Gary had no idea who COMP 461 was????? :-laf

I'm sure, a man of your stature really left an impression

 

[fest3er]

... Eric, when you said the track was horrible I started asking around the other racers... .

David, I didn't race, so I can only comment on what I saw a time or three in the right lane, when a car or three tended to get really sideways during burnout, and one headed toward the wall after launch. The right lane seemed to have problems at some point. The track crew *did* work to correct it right quickly, though I don't know how successful they were. They stayed on top of other track conditions all day. Debris was removed right away, and photographers were herded back to the 1/8 mile for their own safety. The track crew earned their pay Saturday; I didn't see any slackers.



Would it be fair to say that sometimes one lane or t'other can take a dump and be lousy despite the crew's best efforts?



On Meredith's last run, he got a few loud pops (and flame) out the exhaust when he launched, which was probably the source of his poor R/T for that run. Perhaps he applied too much nitrous too soon?



N

 

[DavidTD]

David, I didn't race, so I can only comment on what I saw a time or three in the right lane, when a car or three tended to get really sideways during burnout, and one headed toward the wall after launch. The right lane seemed to have problems at some point. The track crew *did* work to correct it right quickly, though I don't know how successful they were. They stayed on top of other track conditions all day. Debris was removed right away, and photographers were herded back to the 1/8 mile for their own safety. The track crew earned their pay Saturday; I didn't see any slackers.



Would it be fair to say that sometimes one lane or t'other can take a dump and be lousy despite the crew's best efforts?





N

You are correct Neal the track can come and go. I also understand sometimes even when you put forth your best efforts, the track can still be horrible due to other reasons.