few racers at NPR as parts shortages kept some bikes unassembled and away from the track. One racer who tried new, bigger carburetor bowls was champion Bad Apple Mary” Dangrow, who eventually had to ditch them for the old ones in Q3.“ We were very happy when we ran a 7.32( at 168) taking the number one qualifier spot,” said Dangrow. She was followed by Jim“ Bad Influence” Martin with a 7.48( also at 168), Loren Potter with a 7.50 / 166, Sam White with a 7.54 / 171, John
Jenkins at 7.78 / 159, Kaiser Heidt at 8.08 / 161, and Kyle Rogers at 8.15 at 155.“ Leaving everything pretty much the same we came out in E1 having a bye run and ran a 7.29,” continued Mary. Heidt took out Potter, Martin defeated Rogers, and White raced past Jenkins.“ As the ladder fell, we had Sam in the semi,” added Mary.“ He is always a tough person to race against. We won that round running a 7.34. With the bike slowing down a bit we suspected we had a hurt motor, but went with it
as it was. In the other semi, Martin and Heidt left together, but Martin’ s bike was able to leg it out to a 7.46 while Heidt dropped off to a 7.88. That set up an all-Bad final between“ Bad Influence” Martin
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and“ Bad Apple Mary.”“ In the final against Jim Martin, I knew I needed to hit the tree hard. Our reaction times were very close(. 002 between them), and I could see him out of my peripheral. It was a good race until I got out of the groove down track and spun the tire. Watching him pull away at that moment and not wanting to end the race like we started it with a blown-up motor, I closed the throttle and watched Jim fly down the track. I had been undefeated for over a year and that ended at that moment but, if it had to come to an end, I’ m glad it was Jim.” Gas Harley winners were Nick Boey in Zipper’ s Performance Pro Bagger and Thundermax Street Bagger, Billy Doherty in Pro Outlaw, Cody Hayworth in Zipper’ s Performance Modified and Top Eliminator 9.30, Jimmy Smith in Huffman Performance Super Gas 9.90, Chad Caplinger in BK Electric Super Pro 10.30, John Powers in Thundermax Street Eliminator 11.50 and S & S Cycle Pro Eliminator 10.90, and Bryce Creek in Baker Drivetrain Eliminator. Next race for the AMRA Harley drags is the Ohio Nitro Nationals on May 1-3 at Darana National Trail Raceway in Hebron, Ohio. Brought to you by Bad Apple Racing, Hawaya Racing, Johnny Mancuso’ s Circle M Ranch, Armon Furr Racing, and Fairview Tavern
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