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We are up and running the second round of qualifying for the index classes this morning. The plan is to try to stuff the entire event in today as there is weather on the horizon for tomorrow, so stay tuned to us for the rest of the day and likely into the early morning hours as we bring you all of the race information. There will be one round of qualifying today and then it will be right into eliminations until we’re all finished up.
[2]LSX Drag Radial standout Mike Brown struggled through qualifying yesterday and is currently fourth on the ladder with a 7.86 hit. He and the Ohio Boys Racing team were hard at work this morning trying to diagnose a CO2 leak.
[3]It looks like the late-night session went a long way towards sorting out Mark Carlyle's issues. They made a clean hit this morning and knocked off a 7.06 at 202 MPH - he told us he's looking for that six-second pass on the next hit in the first round of eliminations.
[4]Adam Preston (near side) is looking to go all the way in the LSX Real Street class. he and his team were checking the car over between qualifying and eliminations and found no issues. He is currently qualified third entering eliminations, .039 behind Rodney Massengale and tied with Kevin Roundsavall. Roundsavall takes the second position by virtue of his higher MPH.
[5]Greg Delaney is driving for Team Baskin this weekend in the LSX All Motor class. He told us the car is running very well and he's looking forward to eliminations. The only car qualified ahead of him is Jud Massingil's Camaro, and Delaney things he'll be in the hunt all afternoon.
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[9]James Rowlatt advanced to the next round in LSX Real Street when Kevin Roundsvall slowed up in round one. The MOV was .04-second.
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[12]Danny Niceley rolled on to the second round of eliminations in LSX All Motor when #3 qualifier Ron Mowen didn't make the call.
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Semifinals
[14]Mark Carlyle scores the first six-second LSX Drag Radial run in the semifinals.
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Finals
[17]It's a wire-to-wire win for LSX Real Street competitor Rodney Massengale. He took his '01 Z06 to the winner's circle over Ted Timmerman in the final round, 8.43 to Timmerman's 8.73.
[18]Mike Brown took the holeshot win over Mark Carlyle, 7.19 to 7.09. in the LSX Drag Radial final round when Carlyle slept on the tree.
[19]Jud Massingill took the wire-to-wire win in LSX All Motor this weekend. Greg Delaney redlit in the other lane, handing Massingill the win in the final round.
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The 2012 Chevrolet Performance LSX Challenge Series began in Florida in early March and continued with events in Atlanta and Bowling Green, and this weekend, the second running of the year-long LSX Challenge Series will come to a close with the LSX Shootout at the famous Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis as part of the annual NMCA World Street Finals. Championships will be decided on the track in the five LSX categories, while off the track, a sea of LS-powered show cars and manufacturers are expected to be on hand for this late model GM extravaganza!
[21]- The LSX Shootout is under way, folks. We’re here on the premises all weekend in Indianapolis and will be bringing the latest in news, rumors, and racing coverage to you. Stay tuned!
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Left - Mark Carlyle is here with his record-setting IRS Corvette to take his shot at all the marbles in LSX Radial. Will he end the weekend with a six-second pass? The weather is there...will he be able to make it happen? Right - Nick Mobus is going for the record of World's Fastest Stock CID nitrous LSX. The current record is a 9.29 and he's hoping to eclipse that at some point over the weekend. The engine was built by Steve Roden at Legend Racing Enterprises in Schaumburg, Illinois. Roden also does all of the tuning on this machine.
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[25]Mark Mathews is here with his stock-suspension Camaro to run in the LSX Drag Radial class. Mathews' x275 combination consists of a 427 cubic inch Kurt Urban Performance engine and an 88mm Precision turbocharger. It's tuned by Patrick Barnhill and Jason Lee of Part Time Performance. Mathews ran the Camaro at No Mercy III last month and went a 5.07 at 141 mph.
[26]Jud Massingil got loose in testing, but the SAM crew is hard at work trying to line the car out for the first round of LSX All Motor qualifying. This badass hotrod features a 438 cubic inch LSX engine wearing C5R cylinder heads. Massingil makes the gear changes via the Liberty transmission stuffed in the tunnel.
[27]In the LSX Rumble, Dave Harris shattered the ring gear in his Corvette on a test hit. The owner of RPM Transmission was kind enough to re-open his shop and provide replacement parts - Harris is there right now having the chunk rebuilt. The car is capable of 8.90's.
[28]The School of Automotive Machinists' crew was working hard to repair the transmission in Jud Massingil's Camaro. The shifter linkage was allowing too much slack in each gear. Jud told us that this is the best track he's been to all year and is looking forward to tomorrow.
[29]Ray Litz ran a 7.53 in the first round of qualifying, which is a personal best for both him and the car. This is his third time out this year, and he makes the claim to be the World's Fastest LSX 88mm turbo car.
[30]Mark Carlyle ran a 7.11 on his first pass of the day, which hurt third gear in the transmission. After that pas they pulled the suspension in order to repair the transmission, put it all back together, and went out to run again. Later, on his only qualifying pass of the day, he had a driveshaft failure. At this point they are working towards a fix for tomorrow.
[31]Anthony Manna's Camaro reaches for the sky on his only qualifying pass. At this point Anthony is #5 on the ladder in LSX Drag Radial.
[32]Rodney Massengale's '01 Z06 took the top spot in LSX Real Street today. His 8.43 was four ticks ahead of his closest competition, Adam Preston.
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