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The NMCA (National Muscle Car Association) is the sister organization to the NMRA (National Mustang Racers Association) owned and operated by Charlie Harmon and Steve Walcott. Two awesome guys for the sport of drag racing. This is an NMCA race.

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What happened? CWjr went 8.46 against a broke Tasca?????

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video of race here...

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In the first round of the 4.0L Supercharged class Darrell Dietz beat a red lighting Randy Hopkins

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Chris Agee was victorious over Car Tasca who also redlighted

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In the CIC Cobra Jet class, Rock Haas GT/AA lost to Bret Candies SS/EA Cobra Jet who ran 9.38 et

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Anthony Bongiovanni ran an 8.92 in SS/CA to beat a red lighting Chris Holbrook who ran a 10.24 in SS/JA

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A wheelstanding Don Fezell won n first round of 2.3 liter supercharged class with a 9.65 et after lifting to get the car off the center line.

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In the second round of the 2.3L Supercharged class, Don Fezell cut a .0002 light and ran a 9.38 at 147 mph to defeat Brett Candies 2012 Cobra Jet

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Evan Smith's AA/SA defeated Rick Rogers AA/SA in the second round with a 9.40 at 142 mph

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Darrell Dietz red lit to Ben Cole. Cole won with a 8.91 et at 160 mph

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Carl Tasca driving the 2.3L Supercharged Cobra Jet defeated Gary Kicharv with a 9.47 at 143 mph

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We are down to the finals in all three classes.


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In the semi final round of 2.3 liter supercharger class, Don Fezell singled with a 9.37


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In the other run, Evan Smith left on Carl Tasca to take the win with a 9.41.

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Finals in the 3 Cobra Jet classes are complete - good close racing in each

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CIC Cobra Jet - Flat out and no break out
Charlie Downing in his K/S 4.6 modular Cobra Jet runs a 11.02 to win vs. Anthony Bongiovanni in his SS/CA Cobra Jet

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2.3 Supercharger Cobra Jet - heads up
Evan Smith driving Anthony Bongiovanni's AA/SA Cobra Jet ran a stout 9.35 to hold off Don Fezel in his AA/S Cobra Jet that ran a 9.36. Good close racing!

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4.0 Supercharger Cobra Jet - heads up
Blaine Ramey won with an 8.80 while Ben Cole left early and ran a 8.90.

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Ford Racing's George Goddu congratulates Charlie Downing on his CIC Cobra Jet Showdown class win

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Ford Racing's George Goddu congratulates Blaine Ramey on his 4.0L Supercharger class Cobra Jet Showdown class win

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Ford Racing's George Goddu congratulates driver Evan Smith and car owner Anthony Bongiovanni on the 2.3L Supercharger class Cobra Jet Showdown class win

The winners of the 4.0 and 2.3 supercharger classes will return and run for the title of King Cobra Jet. They will be handicapped off their quickest run in eliminations. Also - the 2 quickest CJs - Carl Tasca and Randy Hopkins will run a match race during this final.


Stay tuned for more photos and videos to be posted later.

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Thanks for the great reporting!

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This is a great event of true performance based drag racing, thank you for your posts!
:)

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To prepare for the 2.3L vs 4.0L supercharger showdown race, Evan Smith and the Bongiovanni crew cooled down the Cobra Jet modular engines with bags of ice and fans

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Evan Smith topped Blaine Ramey in the 2.3L vs 4.0L supercharger showdown with a 9.34 et at 143.69 mph

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In Saturday's Cobra Jet match race, #2 qualifier Randy Hopkins faced #1 qualifier Carl Tasca. Both cars launched hard but tasca went red and shut off at 600 feet. Hopkins took the win with a 8.37 et at 147 mph