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The Mission, grab the crown in
the ultimate battle on two
wheels.
The 2018 Xtreme Dragbike
Association (XDA) ultimate
battle between the best and
baddest is scheduled to rock the
motorcycle drag racing world on
September 21-23, at Maryland
International Raceway for the
26th annual DME Racing Fall
Nationals. This promises to be
the highlight of the season for
the XDA racing community.
The DME Racing Fall Nationals
will feature hundreds of the
fiercest motorcycle drag racing
warriors will descend on this
hallowed ground to claim their
right to be crowned a class
champion.
Going into the final race, Real
Street is the only class where
the championship is already
decided. For the other seven
classes it will be all out
warfare in this contest of
speed, grit, and determination.
Over sixty of the XDA’s top
riders could be crowned a
champion come Sunday night.
That’s a hell of a lot of
opportunities, not to mention
the $49,000 that will be paid
out next weekend to our loyal
racers.
Orient Express
Pro Street
Class Points Leader – Rodney
Williford
The 650+ horsepower motorcycles
of Orient Express Racing Pro
Street will bring the biggest
showing of the year to the DME
Racing Nationals. With
thirty-six confirmed riders for
the 6th annual Battle Royale and
a total purse of $14,000, you
will see records fall in the
cooler temperatures!
Points leader Rodney Williford
has set the class ET and MPH
Records to 6.610 at 226.13 mph
for the class. And with that
6.61, everyone is on the edge of
their seat waiting for the first
6.5X to show up on the boards.
And for the first time ever, the
Battle Royale will feature a
32-bike field, making the field
that much tougher to conquer.
Thank you to our sponsors for
supporting the Battle Royale:
Dunigan Racing, DME Racing,
Brock's Performance, Vance &
Hines, MTC Engineering, Outlaw
Street Car Reunion, Platinum
Fleet Repair, Connelly Racing,
Marvic Wheels, M2 Shocks,
Robinson Industries, Williford
Racing, HTP Performance, World
Cup Finals, Mace Motorsports,
Worldwide Bearings and Penske
Racing Shocks.
It’s been six years since we
went into the final that a Pro
Street championship wasn’t
already clinched, and this year
is no different. Williford leads
by thirty-eight points over
Chris Connelly and Jeremy
Teasley, but the thirty-two bike
field will shake things up
allowing the potential of six
different riders to win the 2018
title next weekend.
And the fight doesn’t just stop
at the championship, Pro Street
racers will be fighting for a
top ten finish to qualifying for
the chance to compete in front
of 30,000+ fans at the World Cup
Finals Import vs. Domestic event
in November. The special $5,000
to win Pro Street Shootout
sponsored by Platinum General
Services has six riders already
locked in for a spot, while six
other racers will duke it out
for the remaining four spots.
On top of all this action, the
Penske Pro Street Shootout will
run for a third time this year
and feature sixteen riders
competing for $4K during
Saturday qualifying. So far this
season Jeremy Teasley has been
undefeated in the Shootouts, we
he make it three in a row?
Qualifying starts Friday night
at 8pm, this isn’t a race you
want to miss.
Confirmed
Riders for the Orient Express
Battle Royale
1 Richard Gadson
2 Luis Hornedo
3 Mark Gargiulo
4 Justin Shakir
5 Jordan Haase
6 Jake Dugan
7 James Herbert
8 Darion Payne
9 Ryan Schnitz
10 Rodney Williford
11 Jamie Lopes
12 Tony Ficher
13 Jeremy Teasley
14 Chris Connelly Jr.
15 Jason Dunigan
16 Frankie Stotz
17 Keith Correia
18 Gaige Herrera
19 Cameron Teasley
20 Donnie Taylor
21 Jeremy St Julien
22 Ryan Hable
23 Doug Witt
24 Curtis Caramel-Thunder
Ellerbe
25 Gabe Frederick
26 Jake Henderson
27 Jimmy Murphy
28 William Santana
29 Joey Jobbe
30 Brant Rossi
31 Rob Aston
32 Dave Roisen
33 Tom Ivy
34 William Thomas
35 Chris Edwards
36 Ray Lee
DME Racing
Real Street
Class Points Leader – Spencer
Claycomb
Spencer Claycomb is officially
no longer a rookie. Claycomb
needs only to show up at MDIR
and claim his 2018 DME Racing
Real Street Championship. This
season Claycomb has won two of
the four events as well as
setting an ET record earlier in
the season. At the beginning of
the year, he said he was out for
a championship, and he worked
for it. Claycomb has been
testing between events, and we
have seen his bike torn apart on
the internet so many times, we
are tired just thinking about
it!
But don’t worry, Real Street is
still going to be exciting next
weekend. Michael Sweeney Jr will
be hunting for his first win,
Alisha Malone will try for her
first seven-second pass, and
Anibal Merced will be looking
for redemption after a runner-up
finish last month.
HTP
Performance Grudge
The HTP Performance Grudge class
will be off the hook at the
finals with grudge racers
already getting races locked in.
‘Uncle Sam’ vs. ‘Cash in King’
and ‘Bad News’ vs. ‘Red Bull’
are locked in. These are
pairings everyone wants to see,
and the online betting has
already started!
But if you want the real action,
you have to be at the track.
That’s when you get to see who
is really willing to put it on
the line and lock-in and who has
the excuses on lockdown.
The Grudge class has the best
track prep available in the
country and runs with every Pro
session all weekend, even Sunday
Chris Moore, #holyday. This is
the last chance you have to get
off the keyboard and show us
what you got. Are you a Bull, or
just full of it?
Limited spots are available,
sign up now and reserve yours at
www.xdaracing.com/bulls.
Vance & Hines
4.60
Class Points Leader – Richard
Gadson
The Vance & Hines 4.60 class has
grown into a monster featuring
the toughest competition around
in eight-mile racing. Richard
Gadson, with two wins under his
belt this year, goes into the
final with a thirty-eight point
lead over Michael Thyen. Michael
Ostrowski, Mac McAdams, and Boo
Brown round out the top five
spots. These guys must take out
Gadson in round one to have a
chance of beating him and
grabbing the championship. There
will be blood.
The FBR Shop
5.60
Class Points Leader – Jeremy
Teasley
The FBR Shop 5.60 is one of two
classes that Jeremy Teasley
leads the points in. But this
eighth-mile class will be the
harder of the two for Teasley to
win, as he only has a ten-point
lead over Boo Brown, but a
130-point lead over number five
points holder Jim Mauro, making
this a fight at the top of the
class. Nine racers have a chance
to win this title, nothing is
guaranteed for Teasley.
Shinko Tires
Crazy 8’s
Class Points Leader – Jeremy
Teasley
Jeremy Teasley has led the
Shinko Tires Crazy 8’s points
since June, and he is the
front-runner of the championship
chase in this class. However, if
Teasley falters in the first
round, the door swings wide open
for Boo Brown, Duane Jackson,
and Spencer Claycomb to take the
lead from him. With Teasley
running in numerous classes, he
will have to bring his ‘A Game’
to the table next weekend, or he
could end the year empty-handed.
Mickey
Thompson Top Sportsman
Class Points Leader – Mac
McAdams
Mickey Thompson Top Sportsman
has seventeen riders eligible
for the championship this year.
Mac McAdams, Jay Windsor, and
George Shriver are all within
one point of each other as the
leaders of the class. But when
we sat down with our chief
statistician, Fabian Brown,
mathematically this championship
is still up for grabs for
seventeen racers! That’s a lot
of scenarios, but anything can
happen on a Sunday!
MPS Racing Pro
ET
Class Points Leader – Dale
Hamilton
Dale Hamilton leads the MPS
Racing Pro ET points, and he
wants the championship in this
class. Hamilton has taken two
wins, and a runner-up finish
this year and leads over Mac
McAdams by only three rounds.
Hamilton will need to make it to
the later rounds of racing and
stay in front of the competition
on both days if he wants to hold
that lead. Saturday night Chris
Miller will be up late tallying
the points before the Sunday
race hits.
Brock’s
Performance Street ET
Class Points Leader – Dustin Lee
The Brock’s Performance Street
ET class has seen over two
hundred riders this year in this
class, from the beginner to the
seasoned racer. And going into
the final event, there are so
many possible combinations that
the champion cannot be
predicted. Dustin Lee leads the
class by only one round over
Shayne Proctor. Mike Schulz,
Austin Bridge, Derrick Milbourne
hold the top five spots. With
two races in one weekend the
re-entry after a first round
lose available, competitors in
the top twenty of points,
mathematically have a chance.
Head to Maryland International
Raceway next weekend for an
exciting weekend of two-wheel
racing action and history-making
runs!
Visit
www.XDAracing.com
for event information, class
rules, schedule and more.
The Xtreme Dragbike Association
is an east coast motorcycle drag
racing series with 700+
motorcycle racers in
competition. The XDA features
professional and sportsman
classes along with grudge racing
and a vendor midway. Lifestyle
activities such as bike shows,
bikini contests, DJ and live
bands are also held at select
events. For more info on the XDA,
visit
www.XDAracing.com
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