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 (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 Brett Heidgerken, Decatur, IL 67 Chevelle 505 Chevy 8.871 10/11/2005
RWD Sam Moore, East Alton, IL 93 Mustang 352 Ford 161.25 7/18/2006

TRK Kevin Autenrietch, Bethalto, IL 84 S-10 355 Chevy 9.772 9/28/2004
TRK Kevin Autenrietch, Bethalto, IL 84 S-10 355 Chevy 135.39 9/28/2004

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

4CYL Joe Laramee, Decatur, IL 77 Pinto 147 Ford 10.544 4/11/2006
4CYL Joe Laramee, Decatur, IL 77 Pinto 147 Ford 129.87 4/18/2006

FWD Adam Corbitt, St. Charles, MO 85 Golf 122 Volks 11.583 5/23/2006
FWD Adam Corbitt, St. Charles, MO 85 Golf 122 Volks 126.95 5/30/2006

RTY Gary Hagner, St. Charles, MO 94 RX-7 79 Mazda 11.568 7/11/2006
RTY Derek Coffman, Valley Park, MO 94 RX-7 79 Mazda 122.21 8/10/2004

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

JULY 18th, 2006 SX PERFORMANCE STREET CAR SHOOTOUT QUALIFIERS
Pos Name Hometown ST Vehicle Engine ET MPH Date

EVENT 14 7/18/2006

1 Sam Moore E. Alton IL 93 Mustang 352 Ford 10.090 161.25
2 Tony Huff Collinsville IL 68 Nova 468 Chevy 10.170 129.90
3 Matt Crittendon St. Louis MO 89 Mustang 306 Ford 10.269 132.93
4 Hal Marshall Collinsville IL 86 S-10 350 Chevy 10.935 125.13
5 Tony Buhl Lebanon IL 89 Mustang 331 Ford 11.107 123.36
6 Joe Williams Maryville IL 70 Nova 454 Chevy 11.505 121.54
7 Jim Harris O'Fallon MO 03 Corvette 346 Chevy 11.806 123.91
8 Douglas Denton Decatur IL 88 Mustang 408 Ford 12.318 118.07
9 Raymond Arthur Edwardsville IL 67 Camaro 427 Chevy 12.403 110.31
10 Pat McNeish Granite City IL 99 Firebird 346 Pont 12.421 112.71
11 Clayton Renth New Baden IL 92 Mustang 302 Ford 12.576 116.81
12 Chris Lambert Belleville IL 03 Mustang 281 Ford 13.025 119.51
13 Harold Swindle St. Louis MO 05 Mustang 281 Ford 13.235 106.18
14 Aaron Hagen Fenton MO 70 Nova 350 Chevy 13.241 101.27
15 Brandon Rakers New Baden IL 99 Mustang 281 Ford 13.460 103.91
16 Gary Hasselmann Imperial MO 74 Challenger 340 Dodge 13.706 100.34


JULY 18th, 2006 SX PERFORMANCE STREET CAR SHOOTOUT FINAL ROUND

Pos Name Hometown ST Vehicle R.T. ET MPH

W Sam Moore, East Alton, IL 1993 352 Mustang 0.663 9.606 159.59
RU Tony Huff, Collinsville, IL 1968 468 Nova 0.236 10.099 125.37

While the race was held in the worst conditions of the series’ fifty-five events, Bill SIlva, Sam Moore
and Bob Morrill still managed to shatter the all-time speed record in the SX Performance Street Car
Shootout Series. The same trio which used a nitrous oxide-injected 427-cubic inch Mustang to set
the first SCSS speed mark over 150 miles per hour on October 4th, 2005, put their brand-new
ProCharger-equipped 352-inch Mustang to a series of mind-boggling runs on the way to their first
victory of 2006.

A small group of hardcore racers and fans ignored the heat warnings in the bi-state area to venture
into a weather scenario which was akin to racing on the surface of the sun. A track temperature of
over 140 degrees made track preparation impossible and, when the gates opned, the corrected
elevation of over 3900 feet above sea level was the worst ever recorded in the three-year history of
the SCSS...by more than a thousand feet! The air temperature, at 97 degrees when early timed trials
began, combined with 77% humidity to create a heat index of 108 degrees. The air temp never
dropped below 90 degrees during the evening and the track temp finally fell to 99 degrees during the
final rounds. A constantly moving traction “groove” made high-RPM launching disasterous for all but
the most experienced drivers. In short, conditions were abysmal.

Tony Huff, in pursuit of both the 2006 SCSS Championship and a third consecutive event victory, (a
feat only achieved by Brian Grote from April 19th through May 10th, 2005), found his silver ‘68 Nova
floundering with the same malady which nearly cost him the win one week earlier. A strange top-end
engine miss kept his 9.7-second potential to a 10.17 at 129.90 mph on his first run, enough to pass
the 11.10/123.36 of rival Tony Buhl’s equally-plagued Vortech supercharged ‘89 Mustang for the
early pole position. Both Tonys spent the remainder of qualifying gradually slowing down; Buhl’s
maroon Ford was trapped in the 11-teens while the problems in Huff’s Chevy simply got worse.
Midway through qualifying, Hal Marshall’s white S-10 pickup hit 10.93/125.13 to steal the other
final-round berth from Buhl.

Ninety minutes into the qualifying period, Bill Silva approached the starting line crew with a simple
question. “Should I even bother bring the car to the starting line?”, asked the owner of the Silva
Bullet Mustang. After being convinced that there was, indeed, a groove to be found, (with the trick
being to find it), Silva and driver Sam Moore decided to make an attempt with the same Ford which,
in its debut one week earlier, had clocked an incredible 146 mph speed on a tire-blazing 11.54 pass.
While the team had insisted their new ride was capable of record-breaking numbers, few fans
believed the Ford could overcome the conditions with which all were faced.

While still battling carburetor problems stemming from fuel bowl modifications, Moore drove the
Mustang off the starting line as if the gas pedal rested on an egg. Although the car made it out of the
beams with traction, the massive drag radials began to fry only forty feet off the line. Moore pedaled
the gas to a ridiculous 1.86-second sixty-feet elapsed time but the car finally hooked up by the two
hundred-feet mark. The eighth-mile ET, (7.04), was nothing impressive but the half-track speed, the
second fastest in SCSS series history at 125.11 mph, gave an indication of the what was to come.
When the scoreboards rang up a 10.09, Ford fans rejoiced. When everybody realized that the speed
posted on the same display was an ungodly 161.25 miles per hour, the crowd simply stared at the
boards until announcer “Radical Rich” Tivitt assured them...and himself...the number was real.

“Looks like Brett will have to make another trip down here, huh?”, said a grinning Silva referring to
the previous speed record holder, Brett Heidgerken, whose Decatur, Illinois-based ‘67 Chevelle stole
the Bullet’s one-week-old 150.85 record with a 153.79 mph blast at the final event of the 2005
season. “I told ya this car was gonna be fast!”, added Moore, whose 146 mph run last week came
with no brakes after the master cylinder cap decided to abandon the car just past the finish line.

Silva, Moore, and team driver/crewchief Bob Morrill, (who actually drove last year’s nitrous ride to the
150 record and a best of 9.09), wisely decided to park the Mustang until the end of the qualifying
period. Only Matt Crittendon, last week’s runner-up and now St. Louis’ most famous street car
campaigner, came close to bumping his way into the final round with a 10.26/132.93. Meanwhile,
Huff made two more runs after qualifying ended trying to solve his top-end power problem; a
motor-only effort of 10.59/125.94 showed no problems but the second effort, on the bottle, brought
the top-end stumble back on a 10.17/128.91 pass. “We’ve narrowed it down to the fuel regulator”,
said Huff preparing for the championship bout in front of the main grandstands, “and we think the unit
just plain ‘went bad’. It’s not totally failing but its messing up the fuel flow to the point that it just about
stops running at the finish line”.

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The final round was certainly not a foregone conclusion. Moore had only run eight hundredths of a
second quicker than the Nova and traction was still in doubt even after the Gateway crew decided to
prep the track before the finals to rid the starting line of “bald spots” caused by hard street tires
literally ripping through the soft rubber surface. Huff knew a holeshot was mandatory and Moore
knew getting off the starting line would be the key to any hope of success for the Bullet. After a
massive two hundred feet-long burnout, Moore seemingly took several days to finally stage against a
patient Huff. When the ‘Tree went green, Moore concentrated more on driving off the line than
driving; Huff’s Nova grabbed a monstrous 0.43-second holeshot!

While Moore pedaled to keep traction, Huff’s nitrous Nova was already two car-lengths ahead at
sixty feet. At the 330-feet mark, Huff was three car-lengths out and driving away. At that point,
the worst possible situation occurred for Moore; the ProCharged Mustang blew the tires away in a
puff of smoke four hundred feet off the starting line. Moore lifted completely off the throttle and
steered the car back into the center of the lane before easing back into the gas. By then, he could
only watch as Huff stretched his lead to 86.19 feet...more than a half-second...at the eighth-mile.

However, when Moore got back into the guts of the smallblock Ford, things began to happen. The
car literally charged toward the Nova...at the exact same time that Huff’s fuel problems returned. At
the thousand-feet pylon, Huff was still two car legnths in front but the Nova was slowing rapidly. “I
was just hanging on, hoping he was too far back to get me”, said Huff after the final round,”but that’s
about when he came by me like a rocket ship”. Somehow, someway, Moore ripped past the Nova at
the last possible moment to cross the stripe in the lead by 15.56 feet; the Ford passed the Chevy
with a 34 mph differential on a 9.60 at 159.59 mph against Huff’s nearly coasting 10.09/125.37. With
only sixty-six thousandths of a second between them at the finish line, it was the second closest
SCSS final round ever behind the 6.54-feet, 0.034-second win by Daryl Jauernig over Dave Brand
on July 6th, 2004.

“It’s amazing how nicely Jim Hallowell got this car straightened out”, said Moore during the trophy
presentation, referring to Hallowell Custom Fabrication, the shop which helped build the car. “ We
really feel this car can be a player in NMRA Drag Radial or even NMCA Xtreme Street. We’re going
to Joliet (Illinois, site of the NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street Car Racing) next week to find out.
We’re just glad we got one of the records back. This is a direct challenge to the Decatur guys to
come down here and get it back. That’ll be a show in itself! Heck, we might even bring it out to
Midnight Madness this Friday to make a few laps!”.



NOTES FROM THE SCSS: Tony Buhl’s nightmarish evening didn’t keep him from qualifying so
he’s still tied with Hal Marshall for the lead in the point standings for the 2006 SCSS Championship
with ten “Fastest Street Car Qualifier” decals each. The point championship is determined by the
number of Qualifier stickers earned with each driver’s best ET of the season used as a
tie-breaker...Jim Harris drove his blue 2003 ZO6 to perfection, hitting an 11.83/124.52 in early timed
trials when both the air and the track were worst and managing to hook up on street tires when
nearly every other “narrow rubber” pilot was spinning...Although it shouldn’t have been possible, Joe
Williams actually clocked a career-best of 11.50/121.54 with his canary-yellow ‘70 454 Nova to
become the 89th member of the SCSS 120 MPH Club...Joe Moore joined the SCSS 10-Second and
9-Second Clubs in the same night while becoming the only member of the new SCSS 160 MPH
Club... The 13.706-second “bump spot” for the Super Sixteen field was the slowest of the fifty-five
SCSS events held since April 6th, 2004...Chris Lambert’s ‘03 Mustang from Granite City, Illinois,
produced some of the weirdest runs ever during qualifying. His first run, a shut-off 13.02 at only 70
mph, was followed by another 13.37 at only 82. The Ford then returned to clock a 14.57 at 119.51
mph!...St. Charles, Missouri, racer Cody Hubertas set a record of his own during the event. His ‘91
Astro Van, sponsored by DoorstopNation.com, ran a full-throttle best of 22.66 seconds at 59.44 mph,
certainly the slowest vehicle of the year and possibly the slowest in SCSS history...Gateway
International Raceway’s dragstrip will be closed from Sunday, July 23rd to Monday, July 31st, for the
upcoming NASCAR Shop ‘n Save 250 on the big oval. The next SCSS event will be on Tuesday,
August 1st.


SX PERFORMANCE STREET CAR SHOOTOUT SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP POINT
STANDINGS (as of JULY 19th, 2006)

Pos Points Name Hometown ST Vehicle Engine

1 (10) Tony Buhl Lebanon IL 89 Mustang 331 Ford
2 (10) Hal Marshall Collinsville IL 86 S-10 350 Chevy
3 (9) Tony Huff Collinsville IL 68 Nova 468 Chevy
4 (7) Jim Harris O'Fallon MO 03 Corvette 346 Chevy
5 (3) Dave Odehnal Waterloo IL 93 Camaro 350 Chevy
6 (3) Greg Boschert St. Louis MO 66 Mustang 331 Ford
7 (3) David Starns St. Louis MO 91 Mustang 355 Ford
8 (3) Joe Laramee Decatur IL 77 Pinto 147 Ford
9 (3) William Page Gillespie IL 87 Regal 231 Buick
10 (3) Matt Crittendon St. Louis MO 89 Mustang 306 Ford
11 (3) Joe Williams Maryville IL 70 Nova 454 Chevy
12 (3) Raymond Arthur Edwardsville IL 67 Camaro 427 Chevy


JULY 18th, 2006 STLSR.COM SPORT TUNER SHOWDOWN FINAL ROUND

Pos Name Hometown ST Vehicle R.T. ET MPH

W Rick Lotspeich, Florissant, MO 1988 110 CRX 0.498 13.903 105.99
RU John Meagher, O’Fallon, MO 2005 152 Neon 0.524 14.754 93.69

Although the horrific conditions should have slowed the competitors in the St. Louis Street
Racing.com Sport Tuner Showdown Series, one of the most impressive performances of the event
came only fifteen minutes into early timed trials when the corrected elevation was near four thousand
feet above sea level. Adnan “Otto” Omerovic, whose turbocharged, all-wheel-drive Eagle Talon won
the June 13th event and scored a runner-up last week, clocked an amazing 11.98 at 118.84 mph to
place a stranglehold on the Tuner field. Unfortunately, a subsequent 12.97/112 included the total
destruction of Adnan’s clutch and his third run, the only one recorded during the official qualifying
session, left him far from the two quickest efforts with a coasting 17.00 at 57 mph.

It was Rick Lotspeich’s “sleeper CRX” which actually led qualifying with consistent 13-second runs.
The turbocharged and only mildly-modified Honda hit a best of 13.81 at 106.02 mph and just barely
missed making the Super Sixteen field. Lotspeich, who rarely gets a chance to race on Tuesday
because of his work schedule, enjoyed a reprieve of sorts when his workplace experienced a total
power failure early in the afternoon. “Somebody cut through the main powerline”, said Lotspeich, “so
I figured it was a great chance to come race, even with the weather!”. The CRX’s closest competition
was the ‘05 Subaru WRX of Cuba, Missouri’s Johnny Herman, (with a best of 14.34/95.72), but when
Herman failed to show in front of the grandstands before the final round, third qualifier John
Meagher’s ‘05 SRT-4 Neon was called in as an alternate.

“This is the first time I’ve ever raced!”, exclaimed Meagher before the trophy dash, “and when the
staging steward came up to me and told me I was in the final round, I couldn’t believe it!”. Meagher’s
SRT-4 is equipped with the unique ACR (American Club Racing) performance package from MoPar
which includes wider BFGoodrich KDW2 tires on lightweight BBS sixteen-inch wheels , a Tokico
adjustable suspension, a larger front anti-roll bar, and special seats which can accommodate a
racing harness. The non-turbocharged four-cylinder hit a best of 14.73 at 95.55 and ran a consistent
14.75/93 in the final round but Lotspeich’s holeshot and 13.90/105.99 easily handled the Dodge.

For Lotspeich, the trophy symbolized the complete return of his Honda; only ten months ago, the car
was totalled in a crash but the Florissant, Missourian rebuilt the car in his own garage to winning
potential!

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JULY 18th, 2006 GATEWAYRACEWAY.COM SUPER TRUCK SHOWDOWN FINAL
ROUND

Pos Name Hometown ST Vehicle R.T. ET MPH

W Hal Marshall, Collinsville, IL 1986 350 S-10 0.227 11.000 124.94
RU Jeff Lancaster, Maryland Heights, MO 2000 360 Dakota 0.754 15.663 88.59

It seems Hal Marshall has run out of other racers’ records to break, so he’s starting to rewrite his
own. Only four races away from a one-loss YEAR, the Illinois veteran continued his seemingly
unbeatable win streak to six straight victories, tying his own mark of consecutive wins set in the final
six events of 2005. Actually, Hal’s at eight straight wins in ‘06 but missed the May 9th event.

Hal also managed a personal victory by sorting out his well-known ‘86 S-10 to record a best of 10.93
at 125.13 mph, only seven hundredths of a second and a quarter mile-per-hour slower than his
career best. Once again, several potential finalists failed to make the call until sixth qualifier Jeff
Lancaster pulled to the lanes. Lancaster, a member of the Street Kings car club, is known for his
immaculate bronze Dakota complimented with exceptional graphics by Wicked Stickers. However,
the west county resident is even better known for blowing the tires completely off his 360-cubic
inch Dodge pickup...intentionally...having won the last two Burnout Championships at the
NDRA/NOPI Nationals at Gateway. In fact, at the very moment Lancaster was staging up for the
championship round, he and his truck were being shown on SpeedTV’s coverage of Gateway’s 2006
NOPI event!

In the final round, Hal actually grabbed a holeshot and charged to an 11.00/124.94 for his fourteenth
career victory in the GatewayRaceway.com Super Truck Showdown. Can anybody stop this guy?


Photos of the July 18th SX Performance Street Car Shootout Series event are now available for
viewing at Bret Kepner Photos.




Sam Moore, East Alton, IL 1993 352 Mustang



Tony Huff, Collinsville, IL 1968 468 Nova



Rick Lotspeich, Florissant, MO 1999 110 CRX



John Meagher, O’Fallon, MO 2005 146 SRT-4 ARC



Hal Marshall, Collinsville, IL 1986 350 S-10



Jeff Lancaster, Maryland Heights, MO 2000 360 Dakota