Danny Dean and Brian Schuetta
win the Mod & Street points championships at both tracks! El Paso's Danny Dean won the Modified points championship at El Paso Motorplex and the Modified and Track Championship in Arroyo Seco while Brian Schuetta won the street class points at both tracks this year also!
Congrats to the 2010 ASR Points Champions
Track Champion & Modified Class Champion : Danny Dean
Pro Class Champion : Andrew Jaramillo
Motorcycle Class Champion : Sean Cairns
Street Class Champion : Brian Schuetta
Tournament of Champions 2010 Results
- courtesy Ben de la Vega
Talk about saving the best for last... All four class champions ran for the overall Track Champion with El Paso's Danny Dean coming out with the title; 2010 Arroyo Seco Raceway Track Champion.The Tournament of Champions race at the Arroyo Seco Raceway was by far the greatest race of the year.
Eighty seven racers from as far as Roswell came to take on the 1/4 mile track, even with the 40 mph wind gusts coming out of the southwest. (aka) A Typical November.
Time trials started 30 minutes later than scheduled, due to the low morning temperature, but even with such a large turnout, we managed to finish at around 11:30 am. After that, Al Tombaugh took the reaction time contest with a perfect .500 light.
Starting at 1 pm with the Dash-4-Cash 37 racers took to the track. The only of the event came when a racer threw the rods out of her Camaro at half track. Thankfully she pulled over so as to not make the situation worse and we all thank her for that. As for the winner, that went to Danny Dean who dialed in at a 11.61 and ran a 11.612. He seemed quite happy with the $370 cash in his hand.
Pro class started with a field of 29 racers and no buybacks due to the limited time of daylight. The class did have a third place runoff between Liz Montoya and Trevor Ward with Trevor taking the win. In the finals Al Tombaugh took on Joe Cicskowski with Joe winning the finals.
Pro Motorcycle had a rather great turnout with 19 entries in the first round of eliminations. And in the end Juan Romero took the win over Marc De La Torre coming in second and ASR Road Racer Brian Berry taking third.
Modified also started with 19 racers who wemt toe to toe for the afternoon. And after the dust settled Ruben Gomez stood in the winners circle with the first place check in his hand. In just his third race with his new car Jeff Henry took second with Pete Vargas coming in third.
Street class had 20 racers in the first round and this class is tuning into a proverbial battle royale. With all of the great reaction times and close to the dial racing, it seemed there would be some suprises by the end of the meet. And suprises there were with Amber Ward taking her first win in her Coupe. The runner up was Brian Schuetta and third went to Stephen Grant.
Pro Class winner - Joe Ciscowski
Modified Winner - Ruben Gomez
Motorcycle Winner - Juan Romero
Street Winner - Amber Ward
Congrats to the 2010 El Paso Motorplex Points Champions
Ryan Hunt : Pro Class Champion
Danny Dean : Modified Champion
Juan Romero : Motorcycle Class Chmpion
Brian Schuetta : Street Class Champion Flashback! The pits at El Paso Dragway 1996 Courtesy Manny Chaides and Dragster Franklin
Lalo Meza - Pro class winner
RU - Rafael de la Rosa
Juan Romero - Modified/Motorcycle
RU - Andy Wiles
Dave Hartranft - Street Class Winner
RU - Brian Schuetta
Brittny Blakely, Juan Romero, Danny Dean and Sharon Nolasco
win at ASR October race : Results courtesy Ben de le Vega
Reaction time contest winner Chris Bustamante .501
Dash-4-Cash Winner Doyle Storie 9.25 dial 9.255 run $390.00.
Pro 29 Entries
Winner Brittny Blakely RU Joe Ciskowski, Third Paul Prange
Pro Motorcycle 17 Entries
Winner Juan Romero RU Marc De La Torre, Third Paul Prati Jr.
Modified 19 Entries
Winner Danny Dean RU Joel Hannig, Third Andy Wiles
Street 9 Entries
Winner Sharon Dillon Nolasco RU Bonnie Wiles, Third Roger (Iron Man) Heemsbergen
Top Speed and low et of the meet, Curtis Calof 8.359 @ 151.01 mph.
What else is there to say, the weather was beautiful, the vehicles were fast and the action was perfect. No oildowns or drama and with 74 vehicles on the grounds, that in itself was amazing.
The Arroyo Seco Raceway wishes to thenk both the staff and especially the racers for making this one of the smoothest races of the year.
Keep in mind that there will be a TNT on Saturday October 30th and everyone is welcomed to attend. The last race of the 2010 Drag Racing Season will be on Sunday Novemebr 21st.
23rd Annual Run To Ruidoso Downs Photo Gallery
Shop/Team Challenge & LS vs MOD class at EPM - pics added 10-14 Perfect evening for racing! Nine teams showed up to compete for the Shop/Team Challenge and Team I-10, made up of some of the regulars from ASR including Danny Dean, Trevor Ward, James McCall, Andy Wiles, Denny Parker, and Matt Mitchell, went the most rounds and took the win!
Underdawgs Racing with 4 bikes and 2 street cars took second place with team members Juan Romero, Andrew Godinez, Jim Taylor, Alex "iceman" Aguino, Juan De La Torre and Sean Mckay (not in the pic).
Andrew Duron brought out his twin turbo Cobra for the LS vs Mod shootout. The guys decided to run the class bracket style vs heads up since there weren't enough cars for both. The Mods came out on top yhis race! Andrew had the quickest car in the class and showed his cobra is both fast and consistent taking the win.
The Gamblers race was set up for first and second round losers of the team race. Zack Torres in his NHRA stock eliminator Camaro was part of the Hunt Team but was eliminated from the team challenge so he entered into the Gamblers race. Good thing he did, he went all the way to the final round where he faced off against Andre Jefferson in the Jefferson Racing Dragster. Andre overstaged resulting in a DQ so Zack got the automatic win and took home the money. Congrats to Zack and great job by Andre going to the final in his first time racing the dragster.
The 9 Teams Competing : Team Yearwood, Luna Performance, Light 'em Up Racing, Lopez Racing Team,
Hunt Motorsports Team, Underdawg Racing, Team I-10, Team Show N Go
Caril Sand Drags September Results Mini Quads 1st Nelson Varela jr
2nd Mike Talbot - 3rd Sammy Varela Jr
2 Stroke 1st Andy varela 2nd Christopher Reese - 3rd Levy Martinez
4 stroke 1st Sammy Varela
2nd Troy Talbot - 3rd Larry rodriguez
Stock 1st Lionel Dominguez
2nd chuy nava - 3rd Rick Lugo
Modified 1st Albert payan
2nd Wolf Gang - 3rd Custom Towing
Super- Mod 1st Javier Navarrete
2nd Chilio - 3rd Blue Demon
Extreme Pro 1st El bandido
2nd 4wheel center - 3rd Ragin' Bull
Sean Cairns and Trevor Ward get double up wins at Arroyo Seco Raceway
Saturday September 18th Pro Winner Danny Ortiz
RU Andrew Jaramillo 3rd Artie Herrera Pro Motorcycle Winner Sean Cairns
RU James Taylor 3rd Juan Romero Modified Winner Trevor Ward
RU James McCall 3rd Grant Wiles Street Winner Jason Saenz
RU Stephen Grant 3rd Javier Estrada
Rt Contest Winner Ryan Cairns .504
Dash-4-Cash Winner Denny Parker 11.65 dial- 11.662 run $310
Car Counts by class Pro-30 Pro Motorcycle-15 Modified-16 Street-11 Total=72
Sunday September 19th Pro Winner Greg Woolfolk
RU Joe Ciskowski 3rd Al Tombaugh Pro Motorcycle Winner Sean Cairns
Ru Ron Comeau 3rd James Taylor Modified Winner Trevor Ward
RU Jonathan Ormond 3rd Chris Bustamante Street Winner Brian Schuetta
Ru Stephen Grant 3rd Sharon Dillon Nolasco
RT Contest Winner Danny Dean .500
Dash-4-Cash Winner Brian Schuetta 15.98 DI 15.985 pass $300!
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Sand Drags at El Paso Lake Results - 9.11.10
2 Stroke Quads:
1st place Andy Varela 2nd Christopher Reese 4 Stroke Quads:
1st Place Sammy Varela
2nd Troy Talbot - 3rd Gilbert Bailon Stock Modified:
1st Place Manny "Wolfgang" Perez
2nd Juan Monroy -
3rd Tyler Kingery Super Modified:
1st Place Javier Navarette
2nd Gino Montes -
3rd Robert Fraire Super Modified Paddles:
1st Place Javier Navarette
2ndRay "Chilio" Fraire -
3rd Max Fraire Open:
1st Place Anthony Maldonado
2nd Dean Duecher -
3rd Tony Gonzales
Caril Sand Drags August Results SUPER Class 1st Javier Navarrette
2nd Many Arando 1987 Blazer
- 3 # MAD MAX - MAX TIRE JEEP MODIFIED Class 1st C & N Chevy Blazer
2nd Wolfgang1977 Chevy Truck -
3rd Eddie Cardenas 1977 Blazer STOCK Class 1st Rafael 2005 Avalanch
2nd Chuy Nava 1986 Chevy Step-side -
3rd Jorge Chavez "Red Demon" MINI QUAD 1st JOSH CHAVEZ
2nd TALBOT - 3rd Andy Varela Jr QUAD 2 STROKE 1st Andy Varela
2nd Rudy Trejo QUAD 4 STROKE 1st Sammy Varela
2nd Larry Bailon -
3rd Troy Balbot
El Paso's Lyle Byrum took the win by .001 at the Southwest Superchargers Race in Hobbs.
The finals featured #7 qualifier Byrum vs. #4 Andy Mears and the Banzai Team
Buck Woolen Sr was #1 Qualifer with a 7.609 See more photos and results on the SWSC site here
The Grouch wins El Paso Motorplex August Race 'The Grouch' George Aguilar won Pro/Mod over Jerry Cordero
Sean McKay took the Street class over Robert Martin
ASR Father's Day Race Results Courtesy Ben de la Vega
Reaction Time Winner Andrew Jaramillo with a .500
Dash-4-Cash Andy Wiles by three thousands with a .066 over Trevor Ward's .069
Pro Winner Artie Herrera
RU Liz Montoya 3rd Paul Prange
Pro Motorcycle Winner Juan Romero
RU Sean (Pornstache) Cairns 3rd Mark De La Torre
Mod Winner Danny Dean
RU James McCall 3rd Chris Bustamante
Street Winner Dennis Ward RU Brian Schuetta 3rd Marios Burgos
El Paso Motorplex Big Money Race Photo Gallery Hunt Family takes the Big Money at El Paso Motorplex Mike Hunt, in his Don Davis Vette, and his son Ryan Hunt, in his Dragster, both made it down to the the final round when Ryan took out Sammy Franco in the semis. They split the money and didn't run a final round. Robert Martin in the Maverick took the $1000 street class with Brian Schuetta in his Firebird getting runner up.
Since Mother Nature decided to coat the fresh VHT with sand right before time trials the race finished up late. The track crew decided to delay time trials and wash the track down with water, scrape, sweep, vht, and ran the tire machine down the track. They did a great job and the hard work paid off. Be sure to thank the track crew guys!
EPM Pro/Mod Winners Mike and Ryan Hunt (split purse)
3rd place: Sammy Franco(Nova) EPM Street Winner Robert Martin (Maverick)
Runner-up: Brian Schuetta (Firebird) - 3rd place: Bobby Yarbrough (Magnum)
Big Thanks to the beautiful El Paso Calendar Girls Ebony and Stephanie who helped out SWD at the What's Up Best of the Best Party ... I mean Official Voting Location! The best looking girls there and of course Chuy was on hand for some pics! Check 'em out here W
El Paso Motorplex May 15th I didn't hear a car count for El Paso, but the pits were filled to capacity. Unfortunately the race had to be called when one of the Southwest Superchargers blew the engine in the burnout sending engine schrapnel all over the starting area including a chunk through one of the starting line crewman's arm. Heard he was ok, but the emergency crew took him to the hospital and the race was canceled. The 6 to 8 cars in each class split the purse.
Drag racing weekend Arroyo Seco and El Paso Motorplex both ran over the weekend. About 57 racers competed Saturday at ASR. Greg Woolfolk in his gold '69 Camaro won the Pro Class on Saturday over Andrew Jaramillo.
'The Rental Racer' Brian Schuetta won the Dash for Cash $250 on Saturday, took 3rd place in street class and then drove to El Paso where he went more rounds and split the purse - in a rental Impala! Stephen Grant ruled the street class at ASR though taking the win on both days!
ASR Saturday Pro Winner Greg Woolfolk
Runner Up Andrew Jaramillo -
3rd Place Ed Almanzar
Sunday's Pro Winner Al Tombaugh
Runner Up Russell Hudson -
3rd Place Matt Mitchell Saturdays Modified Winner Ryan Cairns
Runner Up Chris Bustamonte -
3rd Place Leo Quintara Sundays Modified Winner Danny Dean
Runner Up Chris Bustamonte - 3rd Place Andy Wiles Stephen Grant won the Street class on both Saturday and Sunday!
Saturday runner up was Shelly
Storie - Brian Schuetta 3rd
Sunday Denny Rae
Herrin runner up - Shelly Storie 3rd Saturday Bike winner BB Maldonado
event over Houston Storie -
Ryan Carins
finished 3rd
Sunday Bike Winner Marios Burgos over "Captain" Jack Cairns -
James
Taylor placed 3rd
Sand Drags at Carril 1/4 De Milla
04/24/2010 Photos by Chuy Nava
Photo Gallery
EXTREME Class 1 # DUST DEVIL 2 # David Macias
3 # SUM FEAR
SUPER Class 1 #69 Javier Navarrette 2 #1010 Raul Torres -
3 #07 Mr Brown
MODIFIED Class 1 #66 Big Bad Dodge 2 #08 Alex Delgado -
3 #19 Cesar
STOCK Class 1 #00 Charolastra 2 #77 Jorge Chavez - 3
#07 Ponch Castro QUAD 2 STROKE 1 #28 Andres Varela 2 #52 Edgardo Rosado - 3 #15 Chris Anaya
QUAD 4 STROKE 1 #71 Sammy Varela 2 #01 Troy Talbot -
3 #64 Larry Rodriquez
ASR April 18th
Winners Denny Parker, James McCall, Sean Cairns, and Lorenzo Maldonado
By Ben de la Vega
All I can say is that if you didn't attend this past race at the Arroyo Secco Raceway, you really missed a great race.
83 racers took to the track for time trials which ran quite smoothly until Ernesto Hernandez III ate up a transmission in the shutdown lane and created quite a spill. After the clean up the rest of the timing sessions went well.
The reaction time contest was over within the first five passes of the morning when Trevor Ward of Wilcox Arizona hit a perfect .500 rt. on his first pass of the day.
Time trials ended at 1:10 pm and after a abbreviated lunch the Dash-4-Cash started at 1:45. 34 entries showed up for the one round showdown with John Arzibal dialing in at an 11.16 and running an 11.161 and taking home $340 cold hard cash.
Street Class started out as the largest class with 24 racers and there were many new racers in this class and all did rather well. In the finals it was Lorenzo Maldonado taking the win over Cara Parker with Cara's Brother, Stephen Grant, taking the third place runoff over Juan Moral.
Modified was a rather tight battle which started out with 21 vehicles. At the end of the day it turned out to be the regular cast of characters who would be taking home the money. In the final it was James McCall in the winners circle with his Mac's Deisel Services Gremlin. Pete Vargas was the runner up with Andy Wiles taking the semifinal runoff over Danny Dean.
Pro Class also started out with 21 racers and this class really ran quickly thanks to the cooperation of all the teams. With wild close racing being the order of the day. With three cars left in the semi's there would be no third place runoff. It was "Smiling" Artie Hererra taking home the third place money with the finals going to Denny Parker taking the win over El Pasoan Matt Smith coming in at the runner up position.
The Pro Motorcycle class was still feeling the pinch of not having most of the DFC Racing Team MIA for the second race in a row. That didn't stop the 17 racers from making the call to the first round. And, as with the last race, it was an all Yo Mama Racing Team final between Lightning Computers own Marc Delatorre taking on Sean Cairns for the money with Sean coming up the winner. The Semifinal runoff was between Ryan Cairns and Bibiano (Bibi) Maldonado, with Bibi taking home third.
It is really nice to see new racers coming out to the track and some of that was due to Marc Delatorre putting an add in the Thrifty Nickel, in Las Cruces, offering to pay entrie fees to all Street Class racers coming to the track with a coupon. Marc brought in either six or seven racers. Thanks Marc!
I also finally got to meet Jerry Porche, aka Twin Turbo Tiger. If you like turbos and engineering marvels, you absolutely have to see this Sunbeam Tiger close up to see how amazing it trully is. As a matter of fact, his first pass netted Jerry a 9.84 at over 130 mph!
Low ET and top speed of the meet went to Al Tombaugh, of Mesilla, with an elapsed time of 8.283 at 158.99 mph.
The best newbie pass went to Deming's Joe Lemay. In only his second race, he took his Chevy Luv to a 15.405 run on his 15.40 dial.
Keep in mind that the next race will be a two day affair and the date is May 15th & 16th and we all hope to see you there!
Ben
Mission Chevrolet Car Show Photos
El Paso Motorplex April Points Race #2 A good turnout of racers and nice weather along with a smooth day at the races, Vic and the track crew did a great job running the race.
ASR Opening Day winners:
Greg Woolfolk, Nacho Nelasco, Javier Estrada and Sean Cairns
ASR Race Winners Sunday March 21 Opening Day at ASR
Report by
Ben de la Vega
A beautiful Sunday morning greeted both racers and spectators for the opening day of the 2010 Drag Racing season at the Arroyo Seco Raceway.
83 race vehicles took to the track to make their time trial runs with the only major incident involivng a lady in a Chevelle who blew the bottom end of her engine and created quite a slick, however she was fantastic and slowed quickly enough to safely pull her car off of the track to minimize the amount of cleanup. ASR would also like to thank the volunteers who assisted with the cleaning of the track so the downtime would be minimal. Because of which, time trials were over by 1:15 pm.
The reaction time contest was hotly contested when Troy Renteria fired the first shot with a .502 rt.. Not to be outdone Denny Parker took the top spot with his .501 but that only lasted for a short time as Greg "The Wolfman" Woolfolk made his return to drag racing by posting a perfect .500 rt.. Low et and top speed of the meet was also run during time trials as Al Tombaugh blasted his dragster to a 8.23 @ 160.72 mph.
After lunch and the drivers meeting, 29 entries went directly into the Dash-4-Cash. One round of eliminations with the winner being the driver to come closest to their dial in. After that round the winner was Nacho Nolasco who dialed an 11.93 and hit an 11.938 to take home the $290 cash prize.
Modified had 23 entries answer the first call for five rounds of racing during the event. The drag racing Gods were smiling on Nacho Nolasco once again as he came up the winner over Danny Dean with Joel Hannig taking third.
Pro was next up with 21 racers doing their thing with five rounds. After some really close racing during the day it was Greg "The Wolfman" Woolfolk showing that he still has what it takes to end up in the winners circle. Taking the runner up spot was Arizona's Denny Parker with the "Stude Dude", Doug Hollars, taking third.
Street started out with 21 entries as well and really turned out to be a fast growing and entertaining class. When their day was finished, it was Javier Estrada taking the big win with John Pardone coming in second and Jason Saenz coming in third.
Pro Motorcycle was the smallest class with 13 entries as a lot of the regulars were missing in action. The finals were an all Yo Mama affair with Mark De La Torre and Sean Cairns taking the green and when all were said and done it was Sean taking first place and Mark coming in second with El Paso' Juan Romero taking the third spot. Hopefully team DFC can make the next race.
Other notables:
The King Family were there with their "Kings Ransom" T-Bird sporting a new nitrous assisted 517 ci Pontiac engine. Gordy King Jr. got the "Bird" down to a 8.47 pass, but a broken lifter ended his TNT for the day.
Reiging Track Champion, Pat "Sasquach" Mueller was at the track on Sunday without his Torino. It seems that Pat has contracted mercury poisoning and is suffering from vertigo. His doctors may release him to race later on in the season. Get well soon Pat.
The next points meet at ASR will be on Sunday April 18th! See you there!
Ben
EPM Race Winners Sunday March 14
Ryan Hunt, RE Dragster - Super Pro Danny Dean, Duster - ModOtter El Camino - Street
2010 El Paso Motorplex Points Series Info
From Vic Hernandez post on the SWD forum -
"We at the El Paso Motorplex would like to invite All Interested Racers to Sign up for our First Points Series. Sign ups will be at Pacific Audio, Wednesday March 3rd at 7:30pm. Pacific Audio is located at 11245 Rojas, between Lomaland and Lee Trevino.
At this time i will go over the Program and general Rules of the Motorplex. So Far we raised over $4,000.00 toward the end of the year Awards with more Sponsors to Come. Entry for the Points Series will be only $25.00 and all money Collected will go back to the Racers in way of cash and Trophies. There will be 8 Point Races,( Schedule to be Posted later this Week), with Attendance being a Big Part of earning points. We will racing 4 Classes this Year : Super Pro, (electronics) ,Pro-modified ( Non-electronics), Street, and Motorcycle. Class Champions will receive a Champion's Jacket, Cash and a Special Trophy. We will paying out Cash and Prizes thru 6th Place. Upon Registering for the Series you will receive a Racers Hand-book with all of our Rules and Tech Info. We will be Enforcing the Rules Stated in your Hand-book.
We are really excited about this year and we will do our best to have a safe and fun time.
Pits are partially Paved and the Track is Vastly improving. Look forward to seeing everyone again at the meeting and looking forward to a great show and race on March 14th.
For more info contact me at 915-588-8119
Thanks Vic Hernandez
If you cannot make the Meeting you can sign up anytime before any race, But remember, Points are earned for Showing up and only Start After you register. Thanks Again"
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