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DRIVER SITE STATE DATE 1 3.623 Brittany Force Mohnton PA 9/14/2019 1 338.17 Brittany Force Las Vegas NV 11/1/2019 FUNNY CAR ELIMINATOR QUICKEST & FASTEST DRIVERS (1000-feet) RANK PERF 1 6.476 Jason Line Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 2 6.477 Bo Butner Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 3 6.480 Erica Enders Mohnton PA 9/13/2019 4 6.486 Alex Laughlin Mohnton PA 9/13/2019 5 6.490 Roger Brogdon Gainesville FL 3/16/2019 6 6.491 Greg Anderson Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 7 6.491 Jeg Coughlin, Jr. Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 8 6.491 Deric Kramer Mohnton PA 9/13/2019 Brainerd MN 8/18/2017 1 339.87 Robert Hight Sonoma CA 7/28/2017 TOP ALCOHOL DRAGSTER QUICKEST & FASTEST DRIVERS (quarter-mile) DRIVER SITE Bill Reichert Baytown TX 4/1/2007 Pomona CA 11/10/2016 1 5.103 1 285.83 Don St. Arnaud STATE DATE TOP ALCOHOL FUNNY CAR QUICKEST & FASTEST DRIVERS (quarter-mile) DRIVER SITE 1 5.352 1 275.56 John Lombardo, Jr. Sean Bellemeur STATE DATE NHRA PRO STOCK ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS (EFI, quarter-mile) RANK M.P.H. DRIVER SITE STATE DATE 1 214.59 Greg Anderson Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 214.31 Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 Gainesville FL 3/17/2019 2 Gainesville FL 3/21/2016 3 214.28 Bo Butner Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 4 214.11 Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 5 214.08 Vince Nobile Gainesville FL 3/18/2017 6 214.01 Erica Enders Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 NHRA PRO STOCK ELIMINATOR QUICKEST & FASTEST DRIVERS (carbureted, quarter-mile) Jeg Coughlin, Jr. Shane Gray DRIVER SITE STATE DATE Jason Line Concord NC 3/29/2015 7 213.87 Jason Line Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 215.55 Erica Enders-Stevens Englishtown NJ 5/31/2014 8 213.37 Tanner Gray Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 1 6.455 1 NHRA PRO MODIFIED ELIMINATOR QUICKEST DRIVERS (quarter-mile) RANK E.T. 1 STATE DATE STATE DATE Robert Hight RANK PERF SITE SITE 3.793 RANK PERF DRIVER DRIVER 1 RANK PERF (EFI, quarter-mile) RANK E.T. 5.643 UNLIMITED TURBOCHARGED PRO MODIFIED ELIMINATOR QUICKEST DRIVERS (quarter-mile) RANK E.T. DRIVER SITE STATE DATE Steve Jackson Gainesville FL 3/17/2019 1 5.379 ORLANDO HOSTS INSANE RECORD-WRECKING IMPORT ROMP! Once again, the Sport Compact Finals held at Orlando (FL) Speed World drew competitors and fans from around the world and ended with a slew of world records in a variety of non-V8 classes. However, the race turned into a free-for-all among several of the sport’s best-known compact stars who traded records back and forth no less than nine times over the three-day event. Carl Brunet, the Canadian terror who owned the Four-Cylinder World Record for much of the past nine seasons until Australian Colin Willshire took it back at 6.20 seconds at Orlando in 2018, attended the event with his Jerry Haas-built, turbocharged 128-cubic inch four-cylinder EcoTech-powered 2011 Pontiac GXP sponsored by Napierville (QUE) Dragway. The driver who robbed Willshire of the record at the 2019 HalTech World Cup Finals at Maryland International Raceway at 6.16, Brazilian racer Caca Daud, entered his Jerry Bickel-constructed 2012 Chevy Cobalt with its unusual turbocharged 118-cubic inch Vauxhaul UNLIMITED SUPERCHARGED PRO MODIFIED ELIMINATOR QUICKEST DRIVERS (quarter-mile) DRIVER SITE STATE DATE Khalid Mohammed Sakhir BAH 2/28/2018 1 5.424 RANK E.T. Cosworth/Opel I-4. Bearing in mind the four-banger speed records, (quarter-mile and eighth-mile), were set at the Orlando race in 2018 by Trinidad racer Muhammed Ali’s 2005 Nissan Silvia at 229.55 miles per hour, it becomes obvious the four cylinder wars are of global concern. The 2019 Orlando event started with Caca Daud’s Cobalt resetting its own quarter-mile ET record at 6.15. However, the second day of the race found Brunet unleashing a 6.09 to push the crowd into a frenzy. Daud returned with a 6.14 but Brunet countered with a stun- ning 6.07 which also stole Ali’s year-old speed mark with a 229.94 mph timeslip. Moreover, Daud had been the only four-cylinder racer to have clocked under four seconds in the eighth- mile but Brunet scored a tremendous 3.94 ET for that record, as well. The only plaudit which remained untouched was Ali’s 184.27 mph eighth-mile speed record which Brunet and Daud barely missed at 183.57 and 182.97, respectively. Edwin Burgos, the Puerto Rican veteran who wheels the renowned “Loquito Killer” 2008 Mazda RX8 Rotary record holder, be- came the event’s biggest story. While Brunet’s four-cylinder won the honors in the Modified Pro Compact division, Burgos’ screaming tur- bocharged 120-inch Wankel was thrown to the wolves in the Extreme Compact category; the class contained no less than a dozen five-sec- ond six-cylinder-powered machines. Burgos, already royalty at the Orlando bash, wheeled his Mech-Tech College sponsored three-rotor through five rounds of insane com- petition resetting his own five year-old all-time speed record for Rotary racers at 233.52 mph. Although Burgos holds the Rotary ET record at UNLIMITED NITROUS OXIDE PRO MODIFIED ELIMINATOR QUICKEST DRIVERS (quarter-mile) DRIVER SITE STATE DATE DRIVER SITE John Zappia Dinwiddie VA 10/19/2017 RANK E.T. 1 5.572 Dean Marinis Budds Creek MD STATE DATE 10/5/2019 2 5.657 Jose Gonzalez Concord NC 4/26/2019 2 5.403 Jose Gonzalez Cecil GA 3/10/2017 2 5.476 Frankie Taylor Madison IL 8/23/2014 2 5.622 Fred Scriba Budds Creek MD 10/5/2019 3 5.662 Todd Tutterow Gainesville FL 3/17/2019 3 5.440 Eric Dillard Las Vegas NV 11/19/2017 3 5.513 Justin Jones Las Vegas NV 11/23/2019 3 5.690 Rickie Smith Bithlo FL 1/17/2018 4 5.674 Jeremy Ray Gainesville FL 3/16/2019 4 5.461 Turki al Zafiri Madison IL 8/23/2014 4 5.521 Kevin McCurdy Budds Creek MD 10/5/2019 4 5.710 Khalid al Balooshi Gainesville FL 3/16/2019 5 5.676 Mike Castellana Madison IL 9/22/2018 5 5.524 Rick Hord Las Vegas NV 11/15/2018 5 5.522 Aaron Wells Las Vegas NV 11/24/2019 5 5.713 Bob Rahaim Gainesville FL 3/16/2019 6 5.681 Rick Hord Concord NC 10/13/2018 6 5.543 Ed Thornton Las Vegas NV 11/18/2018 6 5.527 Jason Scruggs Bradenton FL 3/15/2016 6 5.718 Chad Green Gainesville FL 3/16/2019 7 5.690 Michael Biehle II Gainesville FL 3/16/2019 7 5.565 Paul Mouhayet Las Vegas NV 11/21/2015 7 5.527 Scott McLean Willowbank QLD 6/2/2018 7 5.734 Ed Burnley Crofton MD 9/9/2017 10/14/2018 8 5.591 Troy Coughlin Las Vegas NV 11/20/2016 8 5.534 Mattias Wulcan Poddington ENG 5/20/2018 8 5.753 Mahana al Naemi Doha QAT 1/15/2016 8 5.693 Mike Janis Concord NC NHRA PRO MODIFIED ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS (quarter-mile) UNLIMITED TURBOCHARGED PRO MODIFIED ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS (quarter-mile) SITE STATE DATE SITE STATE DATE SITE STATE DATE 261.22 Erica Enders Norwalk OH 6/22/2019 1 278.79 Khalid Mohammed Sakhir BAH 2/28/2018 1 266.74 John Stanley Las Vegas NV 11/19/2017 1 255.19 Dean Marinis Budds Creek MD 10/5/2019 2 260.41 Steve Matusek Norwalk OH 6/22/2019 2 275.45 Eric Dillard Las Vegas NV 11/19/2017 2 266.42 Aaron Wells Las Vegas NV 11/24/2019 2 253.47 Rickie Smith Gainesville FL 3/17/2017 DRIVER DRIVER UNLIMITED NITROUS OXIDE PRO MODIFIED ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS (quarter-mile) 1 RANK M.P.H. RANK M.P.H. UNLIMITED SUPERCHARGED PRO MODIFIED ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS (quarter-mile) RANK M.P.H. DRIVER RANK M.P.H. DRIVER SITE STATE DATE 3 259.96 Jose Gonzalez Concord NC 4/27/2019 3 274.83 Troy Coughlin Las Vegas NV 11/21/2015 3 265.33 John Zappia Dinwiddie VA 10/19/2017 3 252.85 Khalid al Balooshi Gainesville FL 3/16/2019 4 259.91 Mike Bowman Las Vegas NV 10/27/2017 4 274.61 Ed Thornton Las Vegas NV 11/18/2018 4 263.82 Mike Maggio Las Vegas NV 11/24/2014 4 251.58 Fred Scriba Budds Creek MD 10/5/2019 5 259.66 Don Walsh Las Vegas NV 10/31/2015 5 274.33 Paul Mouhayet Madison IL 8/28/2015 5 263.77 Frankie Taylor Madison IL 8/23/2014 5 251.49 Bob Rahaim Topeka 5/20/2017 IL ENG 5/20/2018 6 251.34 Chad Green Norwalk OH 6/22/2019 7 250.97 Jonathan Gray Baytown TX 4/21/2017 8 250.92 Erica Enders Clermont IN 9/1/2018 6 259.56 Sidnei Frigo Concord NC 10/14/2018 6 272.83 Turki al Zafiri Madison 8/23/2014 6 262.67 Mattias Wulcan Poddington 7 259.31 Troy Coughlin Norwalk OH 6/24/2017 7 272.34 Greg Tsakiridis Eastern Creek NSW 7/20/2019 7 261.02 Steve King Budds Creek MD 8 259.16 Alex Laughlin Norwalk OH 6/22/2019 8 267.64 Rick Snavely Las Vegas 8 260.95 Paul Mouhayet Kwinana Beach NV 11/23/2019 10/5/2019 WAU 3/3/2018 KS ATTENTION READERS & RACERS: The Drag Illustrated Top Eight lists do not include the eight quickest elapsed times or eight fastest speeds recorded in each class. 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