his start wrenching with Top Fuel star Tak Shigematu , also from Japan . “ When D . J . passed away , I lost support , and Tracy and the Bad Apple team reached out to me . To reward their support , I will become a winner .” Champion Sam White started his Hawaya Racing Pro Fuel title defense in the best possible way - with number one qualifier and the win . White posted a sharp 7.18 at nearly 177 in Q1 and promptly put his Hawaya Racing T-Too on the trailer until eliminations . Like Saitou , White gave up a chunk at the tree in the final against Curt Sexton and - despite being down on power - still mustered a winning 7.47 . “ Shout out and thanks to Hawaya Racing , Matt Coleman , Lynn Rogers , April White and Cathy Rogers ,” said Sam . Riding a Jeremy Williamson whip , Rick Hunnicutt qualified number one with an 8.52 at 162 mph and won Zipper ’ s Performance Pro Bagger , beating Jeremy Justice on a holeshot in the final . Hunnicutt ’ s . 008 light was a superb cut of honey indeed . Justice ’ s . 145 set himself a hurdle he couldn ’ t clear , putting his 8.80 at 166 behind at the stripe to Hunnicutt ’ s much slower 8.92 at 151 . Hunnicutt thanked Justice , Jason Crisp and his dad , Crosby Blair , Williamson Racing , GRC , Murray Performance , Rodney ‘ Bubba ’ Shrum , Melissa Cressler Shrum , Revolution Performance , onefortyonespeed , Jason Clasquin and CS Speedshop . Lafayette ’ s Scott Tomsu looked prepared to defend his home turf with lane choice in the Thundermax Street Bagger final . But fellow finalist Keith Evans was right there with him , ready to pounce if Tomsu should falter . And that ’ s what happened . Tomsu had a slight . 013 reaction time advantage , but gave up . 023 to the 60 foot . Totally recoverable , but things went really south for Tomsu when his kill switch
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lanyard got sucked into his velocity stack and Evans cruised to the win . “ It ’ s Darren Sheffer ’ s bike from Sheffer Performance Shop ,” Evans said about the brilliant blue Bagger . Virginia racer Jason Crisp qualified number one and outdueled the Axtell Cylinders Hot Street field to take the win . Runner-up Casey Smith took the tree by . 038 , but gave up . 069 to the 60 foot . His 9.48 at 131 came up short against Crisp ’ s crisp indeed 9.20 at 140 . Crisp thanked Dan Daffner at Axtell Cylinders and Phil Darcy of Darcy Racing Services . Hot Street runner-up Smith also entered his no-bar bike in Zippers Performance Modified , where he qualified number one with a 9.54 at 127 and took the win over Kimberly “ K-Charm ” Deshields . “ I couldn ' t do it without the help of Chad Hart from XLXBHORSEPOWER ,” said Smith , who also thanked Andy Simon at Simon Motorsports and Harley-Davidson of Macon , Georgia . As the only entrant , Billy Doherty had
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