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Racers and fans have come to
expect record-breaking
performances when they attend an
Xtreme Dragbike Association
(XDA) event. And the 2nd annual
Superbike Showdown at Maryland
International Raceway (MDIR)
delivered just that and more
with breakthrough ET and MPH
records.
Over 600 entries were on hand to
witness history on the
world-famous quarter mile of
MDIR. The Pro classes get top
billing for bringing incredible
record-breaking performances,
but the sportsman racers kept
the show rolling with the
highest level of competitive
racing.
Orient Express
Racing Pro Street
Winner - Jeremy
Teasley 6.422
Runner-up - Frankie Stotz 6.464
#1 Qualifier - Ehren Litten
6.489
ET Record - Jeremy Teasley 6.422
MPH Record - Ehren Litten 232.59
2019 will be a year the Orient
Express Racing Pro Street class
won't soon forget. With records
dropping at every XDA event,
this class is on fire! Ehren
Litten brought the heat in round
one of qualifying, breaking a
personal record, with a lively
6.53 pass. In round two, he took
the top spot on the Pro Street
G.O.A.T. list away from Jeremy
Teasley when he went quicker
with a shocking 6.48 run! Then
in round three of qualifying,
Ehren Litten destroyed the mile
per hour record running at
232.59 mph becoming the fastest
Pro Street racer in history!
During qualifying, the Penske
Racing Shocks Shootout was
contested for the second time
this year, and it was another
Williford vs. DME final. At the
PFR Spring Nationals, Rodney
Williford won over DME Racing's
Jason Dunigan. And this weekend
Williford's Ehren Litten took
the win in an impressive
side-by-side pass running a
6.514 to Jeremy Teasley's 6.531.
During qualifying Mark Gargiulo,
Justin Shakir, Alex Moore, Gaige
Herrera, and Luis Sierra also
improved on their personal best
ET's creating round after round
excitement.
On Sunday when eliminations came
around in the heat of the day,
the records kept dropping to
depths that no one saw coming as
the sun blazed down on the
track. With DME Racing losing
their reign over the Pro Street
GOAT list the day before to
Williford Racing, Team Tuner
Andy Sawyer and EFI specialist
Steve Nichols got to work
releasing the beast in the
Connelly GSX-R1000. With Jeremy
Teasley in the saddle, they sent
him out to get their record
back. And in round two of
eliminations, he was successful
with a 6.479 at 224.55 mph pass!
And if you think that's where it
ends, Teasley was just getting
started.
Frankie Stotz, who holds the
'First to the Fifties' title,
was lucky just to be racing on
Sunday. Stotz showed up on
Thursday not feeling well from a
Kidney Stone he passed earlier
in the week. Late Saturday
night, he was taken to the
hospital after suffering from
unrelenting pain, in what would
become a series of seven kidney
stones that would pass over the
next few days. Despite the pain
and discomfort, he pushed
through the weekend, and it
would pay out in performance.
In the semi-final against Gaige
Herrea, Stotz on the only Honda
clicked off a new personal best
running a 6.496 making him the
third racer to get into the
forties! On the other side of
the ladder, Jeremy Teasley would
take out teammate Chris Connelly
Jr breaking the ET record and
his personal best mph with an
unreal 6.439 at 224mph pass!
The excitement was in the air as
two racers that just ran in the
forties were headed to the final
matchup for the battle of the
liter bikes. Both Stotz and
Teasley took their time setting
up at the tree, making sure they
were straight, and everything
was looked over before rolling
into the beams. Both bikes took
off like bullets going straight
down the center of their lanes.
The Honda had the initial edge
over the Suzuki, but it only
took two seconds for Teasley to
catch him as they stayed
side-by-side the rest of the
way. And if anyone was sitting
at the beginning of the pass,
they were standing as these two
titans rolled through the
thousand-foot beams. And in six
seconds history was made with
the first side-by-side forty
pass with Teasley breaking the
record again running a
staggering 6.422 at 222mph to
Stotz's 6.464 at 217.88 mph! Who
would have thought this time
last year that a 6.46 would be a
losing number? XDA and Miller
Prep once again set the bar in
performance records.
DME Racing
Real Street
Winner - Jeremy
Teasley 7.904
Runner-up - Spencer Claycomb
18.219
#1 Qualifier - Jeremy Teasley
7.661
Jeremy Teasley continued his Pro
dominance in DME Racing Real
Street class with a number one
qualifying position running a
7.66. Luckily for the Schnitz
Racing Shootout racers, he was
not in the mix for their race
during qualifying. In the
Shootout, Devin Ragland and
teammate Anibal Merced faced
each other in the finals after
taking out Ralphie Navarro and
Brad Stinnett in the semi-final.
Merced got the starting line
advantage, but his bike ran off
the number, and Ragland out
wheeled him to the stripe with a
7.86 to Merced's 7.92.
One of the biggest surprises of
the entire event was the debut
of Ashley Cotnoir into DME
Racing Real Street. Following in
the footsteps of fellow racer
Alisha Malone, Cotnoir pulled
off arguably one of the greatest
debuts in Real Street history.
Getting progressively quicker
with each pass, Cotnoir
qualified third with a 7.706 and
went on to defeat Jamie Lopes in
Round 1, her fiancé Michael
Sweeney Jr in Round 2, and
reigning champion Spencer
Claycomb in the semi-final.
Unfortunately, on that run, she
hurt her motor and knew she
wouldn't be able to make it back
for the final. In a great show
of sportsmanship, she
intentionally bypassed the
scales, which lead to her
disqualification, and Claycomb
reinstated to the final round.
In the semi-final, Jeremy
Teasley took out Anibal Merced
running the quickest
side-by-side Real Street pass in
history with a 7.630 to a 7.674.
However, Spencer Claycomb's
troubles from the semi-final
followed him to the final round
giving Teasley an easy win with
him running a 7.904.
Pro Xtreme
Winner - Kevin Clarke
4.022
Runner-up - Rodney Williford
4.182
#1 Qualifier - Rodney Williford
3.996
In the competitive Pro Xtreme
class Rodney Williford was the
quickest bike on the property
qualifying number one with a
3.99. His teammate Ehren Litten
made his XDA Pro Xtreme debut
earning the number two
qualifying spot with a 4.01 on
his black on black Hayabusa.
Williford would take out his
teammate in the semi-final
running a 3.984 to Litten's
4.630.
Kevin Clarke who won the PFR
Spring Nationals was looking for
a repeat when he met Williford
in the final on his Maxx ECU
equipped Suzuki. Going into the
final Williford had the ET
advantage over Clarke, but his
Suzuki would be sluggish leaving
the line in the final and Kevin
Clarke would take the win
carrying the front wheel the
whole way running at 4.02 to
Rodney Williford's 4.18
Pro Extreme is sponsored by Fast
by Gast, DME Racing, Rob Bush
Motorsports, McCoy Motorsports,
MTC Engineering, Maxx ECU,
Timblin Chassis, and Worldwide
Bearings.
APE Nitrous
Bulls
Winner - Dave Norris
/ Yellow Jacket
Runner-up - Richard Gadson /
Dead Man Walking
In round one of the APE Nitrous
Bulls both Billy Vose on 'The
Joker' and Brandon Tyree on 'Mad
Max' got left behind when their
competition left them at the
starting line as they shot down
the track for easy wins sending
them to the final. Richard
Gadson on 'Dead Man Walking' and
Dave on 'Yellow Jacket' would be
those racers sent to the final.
And in the final Gadson would
get the advantage early, but
Norris came around him before
the stipe and took the win!
Monster Bulls
Winner - David Page /
Pickin Pockets
Runner-up - Rendolf Torbred /
Kastigala
Pickin Pockets once again
dominated Saturday in Monster
Bulls taking out 'Family Man'
ridden by Josh Keller in round
one. Rendolf Torbed on 'Kastigala'
got a wheel on ‘Reckless’ ridden
by Josh Eubanks and stayed out
in front for the win. In the
final Page won again on 'Pickin
Pockets' when he quickly took
out 'Kastigala' by a few bike
lengths.
Unit 5
Components Brahma Bulls
The Unit 5 Brahma
class continues to grow, with a
new entry from Jeremy Teasley on
'Bad Draw'. Nicholas Mazeika on
'Clockwork' returned and took
another dramatic win when 'Bad
Draw' took the official win, but
then rolled by tech to be
disqualified giving the win back
to 'Clockwork'.
Vance & Hines
4.60
Winner - Mac McAdams
4.603
Runner-up - Michal Ostrowski
4.608
#1 Qualifier - Michal Ostrowski
4.603
The Vance & Hines 4.60
competition was hotter than ever
with six racers running dead on
4.60 in qualifying. Michael
Ostrowski who earned the top
spot with a 4.603 also went on
to win four rounds of
eliminations to face Mac McAdams
in the final.
But before this faceoff could
happen, the 4.60 Big Money
Shootout would compete during
qualifying where McAdams took
the loss in the final to winner
Ronald Procopio. Procopio would
get the win when McAdams broke
out running a 4.58. So going
into Sunday's final, McAdams
would be determined to not get
the 'Bridesmaid' title with
another runner-up finish. The
final between Ostrowski and
McAdams would be the closest of
the weekend when they chopped
the tree with an identical .032
and then both ran dead on 4.60.
McAdams would get the win by
thirteen inches with a 4.603 to
Ostrowski's 4.608!
The FBR Shop
5.60
Winner - Bob Carlson
Runner-up - Courtlan Whiting
#1 Qualifier - Boo Brown 5.606
The FBR Shop 5.60 class brings
out fierce competition with only
660 feet to the win stripe.
There is no room for error to
win a race in this class, and
the final round would prove
that. Bob Carlson and Courtlan
Whiting won five rounds before
meeting in the final. Carlson
got off the tree first while
Whiting had an uncharacteristic
slower light that would cost him
the race. Whiting ran a closer
5.61 to Carlson's 5.645 time,
but Carlson's better reaction
time would give him the win in
this final.
Shinko Tires
Crazy 8's
Winner - Dustin Lee
8.796
Runner-up - Courtlan Whiting
8.769
#1 Qualifier - Boo Brown 8.906
In Shinko Tires Crazy 8's two
racers that were winning rounds
in multiple classes would face
each other in the final.
Courtlan Whiting and Dustin Lee
who had already earned wins in
other classes that day would now
battle for another victory. With
close reaction times, the win
for this race would be taken at
the stripe. Courtlan Whiting ran
an 8.769 breaking out to give
Dustin Lee another win for the
weekend.
Mickey
Thompson Performance Top
Sportsman
Winner - Bobby
Holland 7.866
Runner-up - Dylan Wood 12.881
#1 Qualifier - Luis Quiles 7.443
Luis Quiles earned the number
one qualifying spot in Mickey
Thompson Performance Top
Sportsman with a 7.44. With the
number thirty-two qualifier
running an 8.21, this made it
one of the quickest fields in
history. Bobby Holland and Dylan
Wood would face each other in
the final after taking out Robin
Procopio and Bob Carlson in the
semi-final. Dylan Wood who would
leave first on a slower dial,
turned on a -.006 red light to
give Bobby Holland the win
before his bulbs dropped. This
win would send Holland back into
Pro ET for a second chance at a
payday.
MPS Racing Pro
ET - Saturday
Winner - Shayne
Proctor
Runner-up - Ryan Bonitatis
In Saturday's MPS Pro ET it took
eight rounds of competition for
the 145 riders that entered to
get down to the final battle.
Shayne Proctor lost the first
round but took advantage of
re-entry for another chance at
the win. This decision would pay
off big as he would go on to win
six rounds of competition to
meet Ryan Bonitatis in the
final. Proctor who dialed an
8.46 left the tree first to
Bonitatis's quicker 7.50 dial.
Proctor drilled the tree with an
.008, but he would take the win
a second later when Bonitatis
went red by -.024 to hand him
the win!
MPS Racing Pro
ET - Sunday
Winner - Johnny
Mullikin
Runner-up - Bobby Hollland
It was two bar bikes that would
make it to the final round of
MPS Racing's Pro ET on Sunday.
Johnny Mullikin would face the
Top Sportsman winner Bobby
Holland. Holland who just came
off a win was entered back into
round six of Pro ET, he then
went on to win two more rounds
before the final against
Mullikin. Mullikin who struggled
with his lights the last few
rounds pulled it together for
the final to cut a .018 reaction
and run a 8.27 on his 8.24 dial
to win over Holland's .108
reaction and 7.87 run on his
7.86 dial.
Brock's
Performance Street ET - Saturday
Winner - Dustin Lee
Runner-up - Jeff Sweeney
Brock's Performance Street ET
delivered seven rounds of fierce
competition on Saturday. With
new racers and veterans stuffed
in this entry-level class, you
have to be on your game every
round. By the fifth round of
competition, only the veterans
survived and the reaction times
were getting dangerously close
to red lights. Dustin Lee who is
the class champion, met Bob
Carlson in the final. Lee cut
the tree with a .003 light and
ran an 8.934 on his 8.89 dial to
take the win over Carlson's
break out 8.89 on his 8.90 dial.
Brock's
Performance Street ET - Sunday
Winner - Dustin Lee
Runner-up - Bob Carlson
On Sunday Dustin Lee was looking
for a repeat on Saturday's win
in the Brock's Performance
Street ET class. Jeff Sweeney
who did not run in Saturday's
race came in fresh on Sunday to
win six rounds of competition
before meeting our class
champion in the finals. Dustin
Lee cut another impressive .010
light and ran 8.89 on his 8.88
dial to win over Sweeney's 8.96
on an 8.95 dial for his third
win of the weekend.
Gambler's Race
In the Friday night's Gambler's
race Harvey Powell from Delaware
overtook Heavy Hitter Derrick
Milbourne with a slightly better
light while running dead on his
8.40 dial with an 8.409 to
Milbourne's break out 8.92 on
his 8.94 dial.
For full qualifying and
round-by-round results of the
event, visit
xdaracing.com.
The next stop for the 2019 XDA
season will be back at the
Maryland International Raceway
for the 19th annual WPGC Bike
Fest on July 26-28, 2019! This
is the biggest XDA event of the
year! The event will feature
Live Bands, Bikini Contest,
Freestyle MX Show, Sound
Competition, Custom Bike Show,
Beer Garden with Bikini
Bartenders and a vendor midway
full of great deals on
motorcycle parts, accessories
and apparel.
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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