Josh Davis, Chuck Greer and Nicholas Feliciano Lead Winners List From 3rd Annual Street Car Braggin Rights Event at Carolina Dragway
The brainchild of promotor Nate Prater, the inaugural Street Car Braggin Rights in 2022 kick started Prater’s vision of how to gather the country’s best street cars for a weekend of racing at Carolina Dragway in Aiken, South Carolina.
Since then, Prater has expanded to doing stand alone classes as part of larger venues, including the Duck X Productions Lights Out and No Mercy drag radial-themed events, but he focused to continually improve Street Car Braggin Rights by adding new classes, expanding the event to three days and ending the night with a huge fireworks and fire show.
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After Thursday rain led to a cancelation of that day’s activities, Friday afternoon had the track ready to complete two rounds of qualifying, as well as the massive Street Car Shootout class eliminations.
After five rounds of action, the final would be a Ford versus Chevrolet contest, with Dustin Carroll’s 1968 Chevrolet Camaro against the 1985 Ford Mustang of James Story.
Running on indexes of 12.00 and 9.00, Carroll got the handicap start and Story played chase, and the finish line found Story with the victory with a 9.15 pass when Carroll ran under his index by three thousandths.
Friday night would also stage the final round of the N/T Small Tire Shootout, and from a very quick field of entries, the final would be Jarrod Wood against Anthony Sellars in an all-turbocharged battle. Sellars wheeling the TKM-backed Mustang is always a threat to win, but Wood made the trip from Australia pay off when he kept the C7 Corvette out in front of Sellars.
Saturday would be a jamb-packed day, with Thursday’s No-Time (N/T) Overdrive Shootout and the popular N/T ASAG (All Steel All Glass) joining the six classes slated for final qualifying and eliminations. Just over twelve hours after the first pair had done their burnouts, champions were crowned in eight different classes.
The N/T Overdrive class featured a sixteen-car field, and the final would pit a pair of S550-chassis Ford Mustangs against each other, Zac Patterson against Derek Dufour. They left together at the start, but Patterson would pull ahead for a two-car length victory at the quarter-mile mark.
N/T ASAG would stage a pair of turbocharged entries for the final, with Robert Brigan’s Mustang against the Mazda RX-7 of Nicholas Feliciano, and Feliciano got a multi car-length victory.
All Motor featured a classic pair of Chevrolets in the final, with Chris McNeeley’s 1964 Chevelle getting the win over Tony Hayes, 9.10 at 145 mph to a tire-spinning 11.16 at 91 mph.
Stick Shift had a wide variety of entries, and the final came down to an import versus domestic shootout with Heath Maxwell versus Matt Stover. Maxwell left the starting line first, and denied the defending champ any chance of repeating with an 8.04 at 162 mph holding off the 8.97 from Stover.
Daily Driver would be a late model shootout between Robert Powell’s 2016 Dodge Challenger and Douglas Washburn’s 2018 Chevrolet Camaro, and Powell would get the win via an 8.41 at 154 mph to the 9.06 at 153 mph pass from Washburn.
Wild Street would be the biggest class of the day, with 30 entrants qualifying for eliminations. Michael Chambley qualified atop the pack with a 7.53 from his 2014 Ford Mustang, and he made his way to the final against Chuck Greer. Chambley had made the better passes in route to the final round, but in the final pairing, Chambley spun the tires, allowing Greer’s consistent 7.82 pass to snag the win.
Heavyweights requires a minimum weight of 4200 pounds, and class defending champion Colby Davis reset the Hellcat Charger record during qualifying with a 7.27 at 181 mph, earning the top qualifying spot.
Davis advanced to the semifinal round before losing to a resurgent Derek Downing, who staged against Donald Keller’s Hellcat Charger one round later. That would be a wire-to-wire win for Downing, who used an 8.60 pass to deny the 9.19 from Keller.
RWYB (Run What You Brung) had eleven combatants in the class, but all eyes were on Brett LaSala’s Snot Rocket 2.0 Mustang, and the Devin Vanderhoof Mustang driven by Josh Davis.
The pair of Sick Week Presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive winners qualified number one and two, and three rounds later they met on the starting line for the class title. The final was over by the 60-foot mark, as tire spin ended LaSala’s chances while Davis posted a 4.12 at 186.46 mph for the win.
Written by Derek Putnam. Photos courtesy of Sean Chartier Media.
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