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MOORESVILLE DRAGWAY
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over 50 years...
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Testing Saturdays from 1 pm
until 5 pm in February weather
permitting.
The schedule has been updated
Jan. 27. Please look below at the changes.
Mooresville Dragway is proud to announce the joint cooperation
between Zmax Dragway and Mooresville Dragway to offer the best
in bracket racing. Now you can run both series with very
little conflict between our schedules. There will even be
bonus incentives to win at both tracks on the same weekend!
More details to come...
Our sincere
condolences to the families of Doug McCraw, Kevin Scales and
Jerry Tomlinson. These great people will be missed by all.
The
Mooresville
Banquet:
A great
time!
James
Lockhart
takes
another
championship.
The 2011
Footbrake
Champion
will
surely
be tough
to beat
again in
2012.
Lonnie
Plyler
accepts
the Top
Eliminator
Championship
on
behalf
of his
brother,
Roger
who
could
not be
there.
Lonnie
commented
that he
would
like to
be
accepting
for
himself
in 2012.
Young
gun
Chris
Gibson
had a
great
year in
Junior
Dragster
and will
be a
force to
be
reckoned
with in
2012.
Kurt
Flanagan
accepts
his
second
championship
of the
2011
season.
The PTRA
7.00
Index
champ
took the
newly
contested
Pro Tree
Eliminator
category.
Robbie
Barnette
rode his
bike to
the
championship
in
Motorcycle
Eliminator
in 2011.
Jonnie
Owens
took the
Real
Street
Championship
in 2011
driving
his
familiar
Camaro.
Will he
be
switching
to
Footbrake
in 2012?
Tony
Brown
and the
"Supremes"
with
special
singing
guest
Dick
Mitchell
spilled
out a
Mooresville
Dragway
tribute
song
written
by
Brown.
Don't
expect a
tour
anytime
soon.....
THE EXCITING NEW MOSER ENGINEERING ADDITION
This year Moser Engineering has added a new level of excitement to the Summit SuperSeries program. If your Summit SuperSeries track champion in Top and Modified has Moser axles, runs the Moser decal and wins the run off at the Summit Team Finals, he will receive an extra $500 from Moser Engineering! But it gets better. The track he represents will also receive $500 from Moser Engineering.
If your Summit SuperSeries track champion in Top and Modified has Moser axles, runs the Moser decal and is runner up in the run off at the Summit Team Finals, he will receive an extra $250 from Moser Engineering!
Can this get better you ask? Yes, it can! If your Summit SuperSeries track champion in Top and Modified has Moser axles, runs the Moser decal and wins the run off at the IHRA World Finals in Memphis, he will receive another $500 from Moser Engineering! But it gets even better. The track he represents will also receive another $500 from Moser Engineering.
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Thanks to David and Rhonda Lambert and Wayne's Auto Salvage &
Recycling for sponsoring the Bracket Finals Championship
Jackets!
We have
added the Renegade Quick 8 on May 12! See if the record
can be lowered from a 4.17.....Charles Richards Jr. has already
been 4.16 testing at Mooresville!
Carolina Coalition Returns!
4 Great
Tracks, 4 Big Weekends!
Need to Test for
2012?
Do it at "the Test
Track of Champions"
Call Tony Brown 704-534-0306
or Raymond Freeze
704-658-4163
Tony
Brown Returns to Mooresville Dragway for 2012....
After
what will go down in the history books as a successful 2011
season in the drag racing arena for Mooresville Dragway, Tony
Brown will return as the track manager/operator for 2012 in a
larger capacity. The Leazer family has entered into an
innovative lease agreement with Brown to handle total operations
of the facility. He brings with him 30 years of racing
experience, 8 years of PTRA leadership, 2 years of track
management, 14 years as owner of his former speed parts
business, Atlantic Racing, and an educational background that
includes a Masters Degree in Business.
"I have
to thank the Leazers for giving me this opportunity" Brown
stated, "and I plan on bringing some new ideas that will
continue to keep the interest of the racer, the fan and the
marketing partners of Mooresville. I am so proud of our
racers for winning the Division 1 bracket finals. They are
all a class act, proving IHRA's purpose of the bracket finals,
the way the whole team came together to help and support each
other, after a season long battle against each other. We
have so many loyal racers who call Mooresville Dragway their
home, and I hope to make that allegiance even stronger somehow."
With a
full schedule including 12 bracket points events, 6 PTRA events,
Mad Dawg, Stick Shift/Gearjammers, 4-5 second shootout series, bike events,
truck pulls, 10 inch tire Friday night racing, and one of the most successful
weekly test and tune nights in the industry, look for the 2012
Mooresville Dragway season to stand out for sure.
Mark Joyce
and Tony Brown team up for 2012!
The very
popular PTRA series has been revamped for 2012 to include a full
points series for the 4-5 Second Shootout. The "long tree"
quickest bracket racers on the planet will now be offered a full
points series and will be contested at all six PTRA events.
Drivers can enter more than one class so don't be surprised to
see racers in the 4-5 second door car segment also enter the
4.90 index and/or Pro Tree Eliminator. The possibilities
are enormous. Keep in mind that the open body cars will be
run separate from the door cars and the winners of each segment
will run off for another $1000. Don't miss the first PTRA
event on May 4-5!
Mooresville Dragway Division 1 Champions!
Our
outstanding team of racers, lead by Chris Plott and Dillon
Winkler, took the IHRA Division 1 Championship title by only one
round win over Summerduck Dragway and five other great tracks
featuring well over 300 racers. Plott took the Modified ET
win on Sunday, while Dillon Winkler grabbed the runner-up in
Junior Dragster. Roger Plyler also landed the runner-up in
the Summit Super Series shootout which qualified him for the
Summit finals in October. Mooresville also won the "Best
Banner" award, the "Best Appearing Team" award and the track operator's
race with Tony Brown behind the wheel of Eddie Jackson's truck.
Thanks goes out to the entire team, their families, and friends
for supporting Mooresville Dragway in one of the tightest points
battles in our race track's long history. G. W. Leazer was
presented the track owned IHRA Iron Man. Thanks to G. W.
and Doris Leazer for creating all this for us over the last
fifty years.
Team Mooresville Division 1 IHRA Bracket Finals
Champions!
Top
Eliminator:
Roger
Plyler, Chris Warren, Tennille Baker, Eddie Moore, Joseph
Hartsell, Rick Henry, Tim Ward, Derek Furr, Joel Hinson, Steven
Whisnant, Doug Leazer, Graham Schenck, Lonnie Plyler, Todd
Baker, Jason Strider, David Lambert, Joel Mills, Rick Fisher
Footbrake:
James
Lockhart, Aaron Kesler, Matt Finney, Ricky Greer, Chris Plott,
Ron Phipps, Allan Furr, David Spaugh, Jonathan Surratt, Scott
Yates, Myk Patterson, Corey Leazer, Jerry Hartsell, Dick
Mitchell, Bill Martz, Chad Robertson, Linn Reid, Jerry Cline,
Real
Street: (will run with Footbrake)
Jonnie
Owens
Junior Dragster:
Chris
Gibson, Mitchell Harkey, Jesse Warren, Angela Gantkowski, Landon
Russell, Dillon Winkler, Noah Strickland, Austin Leazer
Congratulations to our 2011 Champions!
Top
Eliminator
Roger Plyler
had a lot of work to do going into the final points race on
August 27 with a 5 round deficit to Chris Warren. Warren,
the man that won 25 consecutive rounds including two back to
back Top wins, needed a few more rounds to lock it up. As
fate would have it, an uncharacteristic red light ended his
evening in the second round. Plyler went on to secure the
championship by one point, winning the semifinal round. He
went on to finish in the runner-up position in the Iron Man
Classic. What a battle in Top Eliminator for the top
seventeen spots for the bracket finals team.
Footbrake
Multi-time
champion James Lockhart did it again! After a long year of
making rounds, it was not his day on August 27, exiting the
program in round number two. He had to wait patiently and
see how many rounds were won by young gun Aaron Kesler, Ricky
Greer, and Chris Plott, all with a mathematical chance for the
title. As it turned out, two rounds were won each by all
three drivers, which left a one point lead for Lockhart over
Kesler to seal the deal. The Mooresville footbrakers are
very accustomed to some of the tightest racing in the Southeast,
so bracket finals, look out!
Junior
Dragster
In the highly
competitive Junior Dragster category, Chris "Hot Rod" Gibson
went all the way to the last event with a great shot at the
championship, along with several other racers including Jesse
Warren and Mitchell Harkey, after early leads grabbed by Landon
Russell and Angela Gantkowski. The entire field of Juniors
were tough each week, which makes the Mooresville Dragway Junior
Dragster championship so special, especially when won by one
point.
Pro Tree
Eliminator
Second
generation racer Kurt Flanagan put together a come from behind
championship victory after stepping up his program from the mid
season onward. He took his family owned, Huntersville
CarQuest backed Camaro to victory lane no less than four times
during the series. He is also in the chase for another
championship within the PTRA program. It just so happens
his single missed race in 2011 was his wedding day. I
think if Michelle had a way to make it work, they would have
been racing on the way to the honeymoon......More on the entire
Flanagan family soon.
Real Street
In some
unbelievably close racing, the Real Street title was finally
clinched at the next to last event by Camaro driver, Jonnie
Owens. In a points battle with number two, Tim Finney, the
two quickest racers in the field had to chase down other drivers
each week. With new racers finding their way quickly
around the idea of footbraking and top end driving, in addition
to some veterans jumping in the game weekly, gaining points was
not easy. Jonnie will be representing Mooresville Dragway
at the bracket finals in the Footbrake division as our Real
Street champion.
Motorcycle
One could say
that Robby Barnette dominated the motorcycle division at
Mooresville Dragway, posting more wins than anyone this season.
He will head to the bracket finals to go up against some of the
best bike riders in the Southeast and hopefully come back with
an IHRA Iron Man.
What a HOT Weekend at Mad Dawgpalooza
Chris Rini Takes Third Mag Dawg
Win: Defeats Greg Godwin In Finals
Both Driver's Go 3.94 ET's in the
HEAT to Join the Mega Machine Shop 3 second Club
Click Here for Event Results
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2012
Event Dates:
3rd Annual
Mad Dawg Jam-A-Rama
May 26th
I would like to personally
THANK all Racers and Fans for your support of Mad Dawg, Stick
Shift , ALL Door Cars and Open Bodied racing this past
year at Mooresville Dragway.
Once again Thank You and
always feel free to call me.
Mark at 336-480-8481
Chris
Rini and Greg Godwin Become the Newsest Members of the Mega
Machine Shop 3 second club at Mooresville Dragway
Todd Tutterow lead the way in posting the
first 3 second pass.
Tommy Mauney driving Andy Merrell's
Camaro recorded a 3.96 ET for the seocnd spot in the 3 second
club.
Charlotte, NC's
Bobby Baucom clicked a 3.97 ET off in round one to become the
third member of the Mega Machine Shop, Inc. 3 second Club.
Defending race winner and
Saturday's Runner-up Darren Hoyle put his Bickel Built/ Fulton
powered Automatic Camaro in the club with a 3.99 ET.
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Larry Holland used the
Mooresville facility for a great cause on a Thursday in April.
In a raffle for St. Jude's Children's Hospital, a few ticket
holders were treated to a trip down the track in Larry's blown
Olds 5.30 machine.
The riders were strapped in
with all protective gear under supervision of NHRA/IHRA tech
Tony Brown, and given the ride of their life, despite a mild
tune up. Larry Holland has always been a strong supporter
of charitable causes dating back to the Shuffletown days and we
appreciate the opportunity to be a part of St. Jude's efforts.
Mooresville Bracket Series
sponsored by Doug Herbert Performance Parts, PBM and Calico
Coatings has over $16,000 of payout with more to be added!
Need to Test for
2012?
Do it at "the Test
Track of Champions"
Call Tony Brown 704-534-0306
or Raymond Freeze 704-658-4163
2009 & 2010 PTE Champion- Mike
Hutchens
For More
Information click
below.................
www.headsupsuperseries.com
MJ Starts New Drag City News Blog
Check out the new DRAG CITY NEWS blog. It
features lots of old and new pictures with the latest news mixed in. Go
to
www.dragcitynews.blogspot.com
I hope to feature here the next few weeks Farmington, Mooresville and
Piedmont champions and its racers. Thanks Mark
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CONGRATULATIONS to
the 2011 Mooresville
Dragway Track
CHAMPIONS!
TOP ELIMINATOR-
Roger Plyler
FOOT BRAKE- James
Lockhart
Pro Tree
Eliminator-Kurt Flanagan
JUNIOR DRAGSTER-
Chris Gibson
REAL STREET- Jonnie
Owens
MOTORCYCLES-Robby
Barnette
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Mooresville
Dragway will once again be a part of
the 2012 Summit Super Series. Call
today to get your X number for
2012. You MUST have this
number before the first points race! 