Orlando World Street Nationals 2009 Coverage

[Chevelle Rob]

Super Pro Street


Coby Rabon took out Denis with a fine 6.23 in his Alan Pittman built twin turbo charged Mustang.



Fast Frank Had some problems at the line and Benham went down right for the win. Craig Miller popped going on the trans brake handing the win to Halvor Hansen jr.

Doug Horween got the round win on the tree, running a slower 6.65 getting the win over Raynor. Tony Christian lost the scoop in the lights in his win over Rome Berry.

OutLaw 10.5


Frank meshaw recovered first in his run against Brian Hicks’ 74 Challenger .

Craig Pio rolled through the beams giving the win to Gene Bridwell.Ulsch ran a 7.86 @ 127 shutting off and getting the win over Matt Brewer.



Bryan Markiewicz had to face his first car in round one. He got the easy win.

Drag Radial



Markwich got the win over Spurgeon Adkins who sounded like the nitrous was cutting on and off on the pass. mackowski had some smoke through the lights in his win over Stephan Pitzel



7.45 @ 212 for Mel Nelson in his win over Roger Thornburg. That’s low ET for the round and top MPH for the event so far.



Big upset for Alex Vettros as he pushes through the beams staging the car, brian Criste will advance and face Danny Palm jr.

Heavy Street





Jeff Lutz also pushed through the beams giving the win to Wayne Smozanek. Lil Bull get the win over Mitch Mika who broke at the hit.



Identical 8.27’s leaves Hupp in the pits for second round loosing on the tree.

[Chevelle Rob]

Vergots rolled the beam against Horween for another big upset in Super Pro Street. King had a very close race with Benham just driving bye on the top end.







Ulsch had a lot of smoke in the lights in his win over Kyger. Stavrinos had some tire shake in his match against Scarry, Scarry gets the win as Mike shut it down..

Nelson got bye Lambert with a 7.46. Paul Major ran a 7.42 @ only 192 to get bye the daily driven street car of Randy Seward.

Turley runs a 7.94 in his victory over Mackowski.

Bernardo has a bye and run a 7.94 @ 195

[Chevelle Rob]

Things are running pretty quickly here today. There are some Pro Street cars in the lanes, Coby Rabon just took out Steve King with 6.33 @ 233, we are waiting for the next pair to come to the lanes

[Camaroguy327]

Dave French in his 632 inch powered Camaro takes out Gene Bridewell in round two of Outlaw 10.5



Nick Scavo is on a roll in his Camaro with a 6.86 at 214 on a broken opponent single.



Bryan Markiewicz takes out JC Richardson in one of the closest side by side races of the day so far.

[Chevelle Rob]

Coby Rabon drove around Steve King with a 6.33 @ 233 to King's lifting 7.48 @ 133. he will face off with tony Christian in the semis. Tony beat Merritt in a close race untill Merritt lost traction. Christian 6.34 @ 222.



Mike Hill defeated Doug Horween who shook the tires just after the hit. Hill went on to run a 6.68 shutting off to only 179 MPH.

Rini beat jose Norel with a 6.41 @ 220.

[Chevelle Rob]

Ulsch runs a 6.55 @ 224 to take out Nick Scavo. Nick spun the tires and coasted down the track.



Markiewicz took out Mitrovic with a 6.77 to the Canadian's loosing 6.96 in a clase race with Markiewicz way late on the tree with a .136 light.



Lynch and Scarry had a great race with Lynch getting the win on the tree and the top end, 6.69 @ 222 to Scarry's 6.87 @ 211.



Dave French had to face Brad Brand in Rd 3, he was late on the tree but really had nothing for Brand's 6.68 @ 230 for top MPH.

[Chevelle Rob]

Dave hance and Angelo Graham had a burn down and Graham took the tree. Hance runs a 7.37 @ 210 for the win.



Mel Nelson runs a 7.38 to get the win over EV Bernardo. Criste lost to Paul Major. Steve Turley had a close race with Archie Marasco taking the win in a close one.

[Chevelle Rob]

Naughton ran 7.23 @ 207 to get around Lee Saunders' turbo charged Viper.

Hines was a no show in his match with Souza, he will face off with Naughton in the semis.



Sam Gottier took out Russo's Chevelle with a 7.34 @ 190 and will run Schmidt next round after he got around the off pace Husted.

[Camaroguy327]

Tony Christian and Coby Rabon had a battle for the ages in their semi-final bout. Tony left first and was ahead by little more than a bumper until the 660 foot cone then the turbo car of Coby came around for the win. Coby will meet Mike the Hitman Hill who won his semi final match when Chris Rini turned on the red light.



Tim Lynch once again proved why he is one of the baddest men on a 10.5 tire. Tim beat Bad Brad Brand in the semis on a holeshot with a 6.662 to Brands 6.660. Tim will meet the number one qualifier Chuck Ulsch in the final.



In radial, Mel Nelson took out last year's radial champion Paul Major. Mel will face the first car into the sixes Dave Hance. Both car ran mid 7.30's, the final very well could be decided on the tree.



The Heavy Street final will be the number one and number two qualifiers Gary Naughton and Sam Gottier. They beat Mike Schmit and Ronnie Souza respectively.

[Chevelle Rob]

For once there is not a whole lot of action in the pits before the finals. None of the cars have major issues that need attention besides the normal round maintainance. I stopped by several pits to see what was going on, mostly just packing chutes and setting the tune-ups for the final.






Hill will face record setting performance of Coby Rabon in Super Pro Street.



The most between round work is done by the Ulsch crew and Team Mobley. it's no joke keeping this blown hemi in top shape.





Steve Petty is setting up the tune on Tim Lynch's Proline powered Mustang while Kelly packs the chutes.







David Hance will make the finals this year in Drag Radial in the North vs South final with Mel Nelson. The two cars have been getting faster with each pass and this looks to be a great matchup. Bill Futch handels the enging tune on Mel's car, while Don Baily does Hance's. Both cars have all the fans they can find to cool them off.





Again just normal stuff for the Naughton crew. A little bird told me they are looking to run an .09 for Gottier. Lets not forget Gottier is nitrous powered, with a 700 plus ci BBC built by Scotty's Racing Technology