What a year what a year, The MHRA 2009 season is over. The final race of the ’09 season was did not disappoint. Getting right to the action in the Bracket class it was Randy Spearing taking the number one spot with an in-creatable .0005 reaction time. When it came down the the finals it was a battle of the Mitchell family. Father Mike Mitchell against daughter Taylor Mitchell, Taylor would pull off the win and take home the bragging rights. A champion was crowned in the 2-cell class. Chris Smith was crowned 2-cell champion after he took the top qualifier with a 1.5223 and won the race over Jim Schauer with a 1.6186. Next was the crazy Electric Funny Car class where Brain B. took the top qualifying spot with a 1.5353. Brian met up with Mark R. in the finals where Brian would take the win with a 1.6297 second pass. On the the Electric Top Fuel class it was Mike Smith taking the top spot with a 1.4034. When it came to the finals it was the number 2 qualifier Brian B. taking on number 3 qualifier Chris Smith. Chris Smith would take the win over Brian with a 1.6168 pass. The Extreme class was next where Chris Smith once again dominated with record setting runs. Chris was the number one qualifier and set both ends of the Extreme class record with a blistering 1.2608 at 110.15mph. Chris would take the win when Nic Case could not make the call. Finally it was the noise making machines of the Nitro Top Fuel class. Mark Rollings took the number one spot with a 1.6748 second pass. Mark made it to the finals where he met up with his teammate Austin Larsen who came from the number 5 spot. Mark would grab the win with a 1.7199 to Austins slowing 1.9812. While Mark won the race Brian Boudakin took the championship for the second year in a row.
Congradulations to all our 2009 MHRA Points Champions.
Bracket Class:Rosalie C
2-cell Class: Chris Smith
Electric Funny Car Class:Mark Rollings
Nitro Funny Car Class:Brian Boudakin
Electric Top Fuel Class: Brian Boudakin
Nitro Top Fuel Class:Brian Boudakin
The 2009 season is over but the 2010 season is almost here.Stay tuned form more exciting info on the 2010 season.
Cool Runnings
Written by Mark R.
Sunday, 29 November 2009
Race number 9 of the mhra’s 10 race championship series is in the books. It was a nice cool day with the temps around 75 degrees, made for some exciting close racing action. Winding down to the last 2 races of the 2009 season, championships are on everyone’s mind. After the days racing action came to a stop, four of the six championship classes were locked up. Starting off with the Bracket class it was rookie Rosalie C. locking up the point’s championship with a 288 point lead. Rosalie also took the race win in Bracket, her teammate Coty R. was top qualifier. In the Nitro Funny Car class it was Brian Boudakin who locked up the championship with his huge 380 point lead. Brian would make it to the finals to take on Mike Self, the hard charging Mike Self would take the race win. Mike was also top qualifier. In the ever exciting Electric Funny Car class it was Mark Rollings who locked up the championship. While his teammate Nick Skinner took the number one qualifying spot and the race win. Nick re-set both the ET and MPH records, lowering the ET record to a 1.4824 backed up with a 1.490. He raised the MPH record by 4 mph!! taking it from 96mph to 100.12 mph!! backed up with a 99.6mph. In the Electric Top Fuel Class Brian Boudakin would locked up the championship with his race win over Mike Smith. Mike was the top qualifier. The championship in the Nitro Top Fuel class is coming down to the last race. Brain Boudakin has a 107 point lead over Mark Rollings. These two went against each other in the race finals where Brian would take the win on a hole shot. Mark was top qualifier. There is one more class were the championship is still to be decided and that is the 2-cell class. Chris Smith leads the class but Jim “Rainman” Schauer is right on his tail only ten points behind. Jim Skinner sits in 3rd only 66 points behind Chris.
December 12th will be the MHRA’s final race of the 2009 season. With two championships on the line, it is sure to be an exciting race you don’t want to miss.
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