Bret Kepner

These results reflect the record holders, qualifiers, and final round contestants at each of the
SX Performance Street Car Shootout Series events held each Tuesday at Gateway
International Raceway in Madison, Illinois.

Tuesday SCSS Track Records can be set during official qualifying or championship rounds. The
official qualifying period begins at 6:30 PM and concludes at 9:00 PM, barring unforeseen
circumstances. At 9:30 PM, the two quickest qualifers meet in a no-handicap championship round for
trophies. Each of the Top 16 qualifiers receives a "Fastest Street Car Qualifier" decal. The SCSS
trophies and decals are presented by SX Performance Fuel Systems in St. Louis, MO (6
Sunnen Drive, 314-644-3000, http://www.sx-performance.com ). Additionally, the two
quickest Sport Tuner drivers, (open to all passenger cars except Rear-Wheel-Drive vehicles with
engines of six cylinders or more), also meet in a no-handicap championship round for trophies
presented by St. Louis Street Racing.com (http://www.stlsr.com) and the two quickest Super
Truck drivers, (open to all trucks and utility vehicles), meet in a no-handicap championship round for
trophies presented by http://www.GatewayRaceway.com .

GATEWAY INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY, MADISON, ILLINOIS

2006 SX PERFORMANCE STREET CAR SHOOTOUT TRACK RECORDS

Class Name Hometown ST Vehicle Engine ET MPH Date
RWD Sam Moore, East Alton, IL 93 Mustang 352 Ford 8.584 9/26/2006
RWD Sam Moore, East Alton, IL 93 Mustang 352 Ford 161.25 7/18/2006

4CYL Jon Huber, St. Louis, MO 79 Mustang 178 Ford 9.714 10/3/2006
4CYL Jon Huber, St. Louis, MO 79 Mustang 178 Ford 143.17 10/3/2006

TRK Kevin Autenrietch, Bethalto, IL 84 S-10 355 Chevy 9.772 9/28/2004
TRK Steven Gleghorn, Alton, IL 94 S-10 434 Chevy 140.44 9/26/2006

RTY Eric Cheatham, Belleville, IL 93 RX-7 79 Mazda 10.048 9/26/2006
RTY Eric Cheatham, Belleville, IL 93 RX-7 79 Mazda 137.95 9/26/2006

6CYL Rob Nolan, Granite City, IL 87 Regal 231 Buick 11.041 10/11/2005
6CYL Rob Nolan, Granite City, IL 87 Regal 231 Buick 124.56 4/11/2006

FWD Adam Corbitt, St. Charles, MO 85 Golf 122 Volks 11.473 9/5/2006
FWD Adam Corbitt, St. Charles, MO 85 Golf 122 Volks 126.95 5/30/2006

DSL Phillip Blackburn, Springfield, IL 03 2500 HD 403 Chevy 11.835 8/2/2005
DSL Phillip Blackburn, Springfield, IL 03 2500 HD 403 Chevy 114.29 8/2/2005

OCTOBER 10th, 2006 SX PERFORMANCE STREET CAR SHOOTOUT QUALIFIERS
Pos Name Hometown ST Vehicle Engine ET MPH Date

EVENT 25 10/10/2006

1 Tony Huff Collinsville IL 68 Nova 468 Chevy 9.496 139.39
2 Tim Mallicoat Collinsville IL 68 Camaro 468 Chevy 9.554 135.14
3 Joe Laramee Decatur IL 77 Pinto 153 Ford 10.158 135.43
4 Sam Moore E. Alton IL 92 S-10 406 Chevy 10.324 129.83
5 Paul Schoelich Owensville MO 90 Mustang 408 Ford 10.380 131.56
6 Jon Huber St. Louis MO 79 Mustang 178 Ford 10.542 116.04
7 Joe Williams Maryville IL 85 Spirit 360 Dodge 10.674 124.49
8 Orson Johnson House Springs MO 99 Mustang 281 Ford 10.794 130.24
9 Robert Tarr Aviston IL 91 Mustang 381 Ford 10.841 129.45
10 Jeremy Burch Farmington MO 03 Mustang 281 Ford 11.017 129.23
11 Raymond Arthur Edwardsville IL 67 Camaro 427 Chevy 11.025 122.89
12 Hal Marshall Collinsville IL 86 S-10 383 Chevy 11.099 121.23
13 Dan Meredith St. Louis MO 92 Mustang 302 Ford 11.183 119.17
14 George Wahby Fenton MO 74 Pinto 350 Chevy 11.235 117.98
15 Tony Buhl Lebanon IL 89 Mustang 331 Ford 11.246 119.23
16 Matthew Meyers Wood River IL 79 Malibu Wag 355 Chevy 11.410 116.74


OCTOBER 10th, 2006 SX PERFORMANCE STREET CAR SHOOTOUT FINAL ROUND

Pos Name Hometown ST Vehicle R.T. ET MPH

W Joe Laramee, Decatur, IL 1977 153 Pinto 0.239 9.982 137.82
RU Tony Huff, Collinsville, IL 1968 468 Nova 0.370 10.452 133.47

Scoring the biggest upset in the history of the SX Performance Street Car Shootout Series, Joe
Laramee became the first driver to win a Street Car Shootout title with something other than a
V-8 powerplant while achieving his lifelong goal of clocking a nine-second run in his 153-cubic inch
four-cylinder Ford Pinto. The Decatur, Illinois racer improved more than a half-second from his
previous career-best during the penultimate event of the 2006 series, powering to his quickest and
fastest runs ever on each successive quarter-mile assault.

Laramee’s turbocharged Ford recorded an incredible 9.982-second run at 137.82 miles per hour in
the championship round, even more astonishing considering the diminutive Pinto’s cast-iron
four-cylinder engine and D.O.T.-approved rear tires with a width of only eight inches. Battling
Tony Huff, the all-time winningest driver in the Street Car Shootout, Laramee scored the biggest of
two separate victories in the season’s next-to-last SCSS race. Laramee earned the honor of
becoming the first competitor to twice race for two eliminator titles in one event and, in the
process, he also became only the second racer ever to win both trophies in the same night!

Although forecasted rain and cloudy skies held down temperatures, the corrected elevation hovered
between 958 feet and 891 feet above sea level. Despite the cloud cover, the track surface
temperature remained between 76 and 71 degrees even after a brief shower interrupted the official
qualifying period. Traction was plentiful enough to yield the second-quickest Super Sixteen field ever
with a “bump spot” of 11.410 seconds!

The event was plagued with “Octoberitis”; end-of-the-season parts failures and the resulting damage
put many vehicles out of commission before the conclusion of qualifying, In fact, some never made it
to the qualifying round. An example was Steven Gleghorn’s nitrous oxide-aided 434-cubic inch ‘94
S-10 pickup which, only two weeks prior, had become the series’ fastest truck with a record 140.44
mph effort. The Alton, Illinois, driver appeared in early timed trials and, despite frying the tires for the
first twenty feet, recovered to hit an 11.25 at an amazing 142.46 mph. However, enough damage was
done on the pass to park the truck before the official qualifying period even began!

Tim “Moose” Mallicoat’s new lowrider ‘68 Camaro shot to a best-ever 9.554/135.14 only ten minutes
into qualifying but the naturally-aspirated 468-inch bigblock suffered vavletrain damage on the pass
and also retired. Only five minutes later, Huff’s well-known Team Silva Bullet 468-inch ‘68 Nova ran a
9.496/138.39 to secure yet another pole position for the fifteen-time SCSS finalist. Two pairs later,
Joe WIlliams launched the new Team Silva Bullet Dodge 360-powered ‘85 AMC Spirit to a best-yet
10.67/124.49 only to disintegrate the engine at the finish line. The end of the subsequent
twenty-minute clean-up coincided with the passing rain storm which delayed the event another
twenty-five minutes but track temperature allowed qualifying to quickly resume.

Laramee was hoping to better his recent 10.53/130.19 blast recorded during the Sport Tuner battle
on September 26th. His first run, which came after the delays, resulted in a 10.46 at a surprising
133.66 mph which proved his recent tuning decision, made just before the recent NMRA World
Finals in Bowling Green, Kentucky, was correct. “This is just a little cast-iron four-cylinder engine
with a Ford Ranger cylinder head which I reworked”, explained Laramee, whose Performance
Porting Service (217-412-4056) built the powerplant, “and it kept telling us it wanted more and more
fuel. It just wouldn’t run on the top end, though, so we finally decided we’d go back to our original
dynomometer tune-up, which was much leaner, and it just came alive at Bowling Green”.

Meanwhile, Jon Huber pulled to the line with his silver turbocharged four-cylinder ‘79 Mustang which,
only one week ago, annihilated Laramee’s 10.53/130 SCSS Four-Cylinder Records with
mind-boggling bests of 9.71 seconds and 143.17 mph. Prior to the pass, Huber warned that the car
my not be in top form, explaining, “The top-end problems we had last week may still be there and, if
the problem still exists, we’re not going to run it any more tonight. I’m making one pass and we’ll
decide after that”. After a tremendous wheelstanding launch and a 1.57-second sixty-feet elapsed
time, the Huber Performance Mustang again slowed in the “backhalf” and the resulting 10.54/116.04
was enough reason for Huber to pull the plug on his evening.

Laramee remained fifth in SCSS qualifying and planned one more run before the Sport Tuner
Showdown final round, for which he was still qualified on top ahead of Huber. Having leaned out the
air-fuel ratio, Laramee was expecting a slight improvement but the black Pinto posted a tremendous
10.15 at 135.43 mph to move to third in the SCSS standings! Moreover, with Mallicoat’s early
retirement, Laramee was now the first alternate to be called for the Street Car Shootout final round!

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Sure enough, immediately after the conclusion of the official qualifying period, announcer Rich Tivitt
made the call for Laramee to prepare to run in both the Street Car and Sport Tuner championship
matches, which Huber had accomplished only the previous week. However, unlike Randy Christy,
who won both the Street Car and Super Truck finals on June 7th, 2005, and Huber, who failed to
score in either of the October 3rd battles, Laramee had been there before. On April 18th, 2006,
Laramee won the Sport Tuner title but rolled through the starting line beams in the Street Car
Shootout against SCSS veteran Dave Odenahl’s fabled Camaro.

As Laramee prepared the Pinto in front of the main grandstands for its first title bout, he was shocked
to see his final-round opponent Huff pull to the line for a late timed trial only ten minutes before the
scheduled finale. As Laramee turned to watch the silver Nova’s test run, he heard the bigblock
Chevy’s RPMs head for the moon just off the line; Huff’s Nova limped to the finish line. Amazingly,
Huff drove back in front of the grandstands to meet Laramee for the final round! “We’re fine!”, said
Huff as he jumped out of the car to confer with team captain Bill Silva. Meanwhile, Laramee went
back to suiting up for the Sport Tuner final round.

Only ten minutes after winning his third career Sport Tuner Showdown with another career-best, (a
10.11/136.88), Laramee was pulling into the water burnout box to face the silver Nova. Just before
jumping into the tight confines of the Pinto, Laramee joking asked Huff for “five car lengths”, adding,
“C’mon, man! You’ve got me covered by three-quarters of a second!”. Huff laughed but knew his
advantage was gone; his two-speed PowerGlide transmission’s planetary gears were destroyed on
the timed trial and the Nova pilot planned to leave the line in second gear for a high-gear-only
attempt to beat the Pinto. Laramee, however, had been too busy with the first final to check into
Huff’s status.

When the two staged up, only a handful of racers knew of Huff’s ruse. When the Christmas Tree
countdown began, however, Laramee stayed green and held on. The Pinto’s eighth-mile of
6.44/111.98 was a full twelve hundredths quicker than on the 10.11 pass and the crowd roared its
approval when the win light not only shone in Laramee’s lane but the scoreboards read 9.98
seconds at 137.82 mph!

Elated with the victory, Laramee stopped to pick up his timeslip and quickly glanced at the numbers.
He threw the slip in the passenger seat and headed to the trophy presentation back in front of the
main grandstands. When he jumped from the car, Kerry Swearingen, the Chief Head Porter at
Performance Porting and Joe’s crew for the event, greeted him with big grin and a hefty slap on the
back. “What was that for?” asked a confused Laramee. Swearingen replied, “For those numbers,
man!”. Still confused, Laramee noted with almost sadness in his voice, “I really thought it would run
better than a 10.45!”. At that point, Swearingen understood the problem. In his elation, Laramee had
glanced at the timeslip but had only seen Huff’s ET and, even in front of the crowd, was unaware
he’d broken into the nine-second zone!

“Actually, a 10.45 wasn’t too bad for second gear”, laughed Huff as he received the second-place
trophy. For Laramore, however, the event was truly the culmination of his determination to put his
cast-iron, thirty-year-old four-cylinder Ford into the nines. “I’m pretty sure this is the first iron motor to
do it”, said Laramee with a wide smile. After being informed that he was most likely also the first in
the nines on eight-inch DOT tires, the smile just got bigger. Most importantly, however, Joe Laramee
became the first driver in the sixty-five event history of the SCSS to win the top prize using less than
eight cylinders. Now, that’s worth a slap on the back!







NOTES FROM THE SCSS: The 2006 SCSS Season Championship will officially be decided at
next week’s final event. Tony Buhl still leads the 2006 Season Championship point standings
with his Vortech-blown ‘89 331 Mustang and he must qualify in the Super Sixteen to lock Tony
Huff out of the chase. If Buhl fails to qualify and Huff makes the field, Huff will win the title based
on his season-best ET of 9.352 seconds. The point championship is determined by the number of
Qualifier stickers earned with the date on which the driver’s point total is earned, followed by each
driver’s best ET of the season, used as tie-breakers...Tony Buhl qualified for the field but only
barely, landing in the fifteenth spot with a sub-par best of 11.24/119.23. Buhl’s final attempt to
improve ended at three hundred feet when the Mustang’s fiberglass hood peeled back onto the
windshield! Buhl did a masterful job of keeping the car off the wall. Tony also became the first SCSS
driver to earn twenty Qualifier decals in a season, an expectional feat considering only
twenty-one of the twenty-five scheduled events have been completed...Jeremy Burch hadn’t
qualified for an SCSS event since opening night back on April 4th when his Farmington,
Missouri-based modular-motored ‘03 Mustang made the field with a 12.22/116 effort. He returned in
serious form, however, clocking an 11.01 at a whopping 129.23 mph to become the 112th member of
the SCSS 120 MPH Club...Dan Meredith, whose father Dave “PeeWee” Meredith is a
past NHRA National Event winner and local legend, has improved his new 302-powered ‘93 Mustang
from a 13-second ride to an 11.18/119.17 beast in the span of a month...George Wahby,
whose ‘71 Pinto is a past SCSS event winner, (September 14th, 2004), and a 10-second player,
absoluted obliterated its 350 LT1 Chevy engine during qualifying on an 11.23/117.98 pass...Bobby
Tarr tied his career best to the thousandth of a second with a 10.841 in his white ‘91 351 Mustang
en route to a best-ever 129.45 speed...The event marked the first time down a dragstrip for the
simply magnificent Procharger-equipped 469-inch ‘77 Dodge Charger of past Sport Tuner Record
Holder and nine-time Sport Tuner finalist Justin Bondurant. The show winner, already the
subject of multiple magazine features, hit 11.86/118.11...The quickest and fastest six-cylinder on the
property was the red ‘94 Toyota Supra of Arnold, Missouri’s Mark Jarves at 11.64/122.03,
making Jarves the 113th member of the SCSS 120 MPH Club while just missing Rob Nolan’s 124.56
mph SCSS Six-Cylinder Speed Record...The regular SCSS event was preceded by the annual
Rankin Technical Institute Drag Challenge, which featured a full day of competition featuring
over one hundred student racers from the Rankin system.




SX PERFORMANCE STREET CAR SHOOTOUT SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP POINT
STANDINGS (as of OCTOBER 11th, 2006)

Pos Points Name Hometown ST Vehicle Engine

1 (20) Tony Buhl Lebanon IL 89 Mustang 331 Ford
2 (19) Tony Huff Collinsville IL 68 Nova 468 Chevy
3 (16) Hal Marshall Collinsville IL 86 S-10 383 Chevy
4 (12) Raymond Arthur Edwardsville IL 67 Camaro 427 Chevy
5 (12) Jim Harris O'Fallon MO 03 Corvette 346 Chevy
6 (10) Joe Williams Maryville IL 85 Spirit 360 Dodge
7 (7) Gary Tripp Imperial MO 69 Camaro 496 Chevy
8 (5) Adam Corbitt St. Charles MO 85 Golf 122 Volks
9 (5) Joe Laramee Decatur IL 77 Pinto 153 Ford
10 (5) Sam Moore E. Alton IL 93 Mustang 352 Ford
11 (5) Orson Johnson House Springs MO 99 Mustang 281 Ford
12 (4) Matt Crittendon St. Louis MO 89 Mustang 306 Ford
13 (4) Rusty Schneider Owensville MO 99 Mustang 281 Ford
14 (4) Tim Mallicoat Collinsville IL 68 Camaro 468 Chevy

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OCTOBER 10th, 2006 STLSR.COM SPORT TUNER SHOWDOWN FINAL ROUND

Pos Name Hometown ST Vehicle R.T. ET MPH

W Joe Laramee, Decatur, IL 1977 153 Pinto 0.763 10.114 136.88
RU Ross Randall, Chesterfield, MO 2005 122 Evolution 0.416 12.828 104.44

While Joe Laramee’s domination of the St. Louis Street
Racing.com Sport Tuner Showdown Series was total and complete, there was plenty of
carnage in the Tuner ranks during the event. After second qualifier Jon Huber withdrew his
record-holding turbo four-banger Mustang, Adnan Omerovic was called as first alternate after an
11.79/127.61 best in his revamped All-Wheel-Drive Eagle Talon. Last week’s massive rearend
damage was repaired and, true to his word, Adnan was back in competition seven days later.
Unfortunately, Omerovic’s 130 mph Eagle ran into other undisclosed problems which forced the
three-time winner to also head for the house after qualifying was completed. That opened the door
for two-time finalist Ross Randall, whose ‘05 Mitsubishi Lancer was making its first appearance since
its opening night win on April 4th and, ironically, its runner-up to Joe Laramee on Apil 11th on the
first night Laramee was in both final rounds!

Randall was running substantially slower than his 12.50/110 pace in April. “I’ve got no fourth gear”,
lamented Randall after his 12.81/105.62 best qualified fourth in the Tuner field. “I’m just shoving it
from third to fifth and doing what I can with it. I don’t get many Tuesday nights off work but the car
has been down most of the season after a high-dollar ‘super tune’ I got early in the year turned out to
be not so ‘super’. I’ve spent most of the summer trying to get it right again!”.

A three-tenths of a second holeshot actually led Laramee through the first two hundred feet of the
championship dash but the outcome was inevitable. Unfortunately for Randall, just after he actually
got the Evo to accept fourth gear, the Lancer dropped a large portion of its turbo plumbing just past
the finish line. As he accepted the second-place trophy in front of the main grandstands, he
contemplated the remainder of the night. “They’ll let me stay here tonight to fix this, won’t they?”, he
asked. “It’s gonna take some work before i can drive it home!”.





OCTOBER 10th, 2006 GATEWAYRACEWAY.COM SUPER TRUCK SHOWDOWN FINAL
ROUND

Pos Name Hometown ST Vehicle R.T. ET MPH

W Sam Moore, East Alton, IL 1992 406 S-10 0.062 10.604 127.69
RU Hal Marshall, Collinsville, IL 1986 383 S-10 0.379 10.608 127.68

Those numbers aren’t a misprint.

In their third GatewayRaceway.com Super Truck
Showdown final-round battle in four weeks, Sam Moore and Hal Marshall recorded elapsed times
within four thousandths of a second and speeds within ONE HUNDREDTH of a mile per
hour. Unfortunately, it wasn’t even a close race; 59.23 feet separated the two at the stripe due solely
to Sam Moore’s massive holeshot in the trophy match.

After Steven Cleghorn’s 142 mph S-10 failed to qualify, it was all Sam and Hal for position. Moore, at
the wheel of the Team Silva Bullet 406-inch ‘92 S-10 hit a 10.32/129.83 to lead the Truck field with
Hal second in his white 383-inch ‘86 S-10 at 11.09/121.33. A surprisingly strong group of machines
rounded out the top six with Grant West’s “Rumble Bee” ‘03 Ram (13.06/104.79), Matt Hamilton’s ‘01
F-150 (13.15/104.82), Bill Gallahue’s potent ‘06 SRT-10 (13.27/106.01), and even SCSS superstar
Randy Christy’s ‘97 Dakota (13.31/103.02) all clocking career bests.

After the conclsuion of the official qualifying period, both Moore and Marshall elected to make late
timed trials. Moore’s effort was a nasty-sounding stumblefest in which the red lowrider struggled to
an 11.80 at 124.37 mph. However, “Animal Hal” decided to show his hand, streaking to a best-ever
10.49 at 128.60!

Bill Silva, whose three entered machines were quickly becoming nightmares, was not pleased with
the result of the test pass. “First, we blew the AMC Spirit to pieces, a minute ago we tore first gear
right out of Huff’s Nova, and now the truck has a dead hole”, said a disgusted Silva before the final
round. “I’m glad the Mustang is at home!”.

Moore proved his value as a team driver, however, with an exceptional reation time which proved to
be the sole determining factor in the race. However, the fun wasn’t over yet. “It’s hurt again!”,
grimaced Moore in the winner’s circle. “It sucked the intake gasket on the last pass so we’ve got
plenty of work to do...again”. Despite the problems, it remains intriguing that Moore seems to have
Hal Marshall’s number; in their three meetings, the now twenty-time winner and twenty-six-time
finalist has yet to win against the red S-10. “Things were better before that thing came along”,
said Marshall, gesturing to the red Silva rig. “but I can only blame myself for this one. You can’t win
with a three-minute reaction time!’.





Photos of the October 10th SX Performance Street Car Shootout Series event, (and the preceding
Rankin Technical Institute Drag Racing Challenge), are now available for viewing at
Bret Kepner Photos.com.





Joe Laramee, Decatur, IL 1977 153 Pinto



Tony Huff, Collinsville, IL 1968 468 Nova



Joe Laramee, Decatur, IL 1977 153 Pinto



Ross Randall, Chesterfield, MO 2005 122 Evolution



Sam Moore, East Alton, IL 1992 406 S-10



Hal Marshall, Collinsville, IL 1986 383 S-10