XDA Super Stock Eliminations - Heads up Naturally Aspirated Stock Motorcycle Drag Bike Racing

Описание: XDA - Xtreme Dragbike Association
2nd annual MTC Engineering Bike Bash
Virginia Motorsports Park
August 21-23, 2020

XDA - David Fondon Merino Takes Back-to-Back Wins in the HTP Performance Racing Super Stock class.

Winner - David Fondon
Runner-up - Jeremy Teasley
#1 Qualifier - David Fondon 8.834
Record - David Fondon 161.96 mph

The MTC Engineering Bike Bash was the second event for the newly added HTP Super Stock class, and their attendance increased by six to qualify an impressive thirty-one riders. Dustin Clark from Indiana recently qualified #1 at an NHDRO event and decided to make the ten-hour trip to Virginia to see how he would perform with XDA. Clark qualified in the #2 spot with an 8.848 behind points leader David Fondon's 8.834. Fondon also reset the MPH record on his first qualifying pass running 161.96 mph.

We also welcomed our second competitor from Puerto Rico, Pablo Gonzalez, he qualified with a 9.04 on his 2019 Kawasaki ZX-14. This was not Brandon Pryer's first event; however, at the last event, he ran a 2018 Suzuki GSX-R1000. For this event, he entered the first BMW into the class aboard a 2020 S1000RR. Unfortunately for Pryer, he found himself paired with Jeremy Teasley in round one, who ran an 8.88 to his 9.53 ending his weekend early.

In round one of eliminations, Jyrec Givens, who runner-upped at the last event, took a round one loss to Russell Dennison, opening up the #2 spot in points that he no longer holds. Dustin Clark ran the quickest lap at 8.783, while the session's fastest lap belonged to Ryan Schnitz at 160.12 mph.

Because this class is all about the rider's clutch hand control, this class has the worst reaction time average of all of the other classes held at XDA. For example, riders were winning rounds with .176, .196, and .200 reaction times. In two events, we have only seen eleven passes with reactions times under .100, demonstrating how hard these riders are working to control their horsepower at the starting line. The best reaction time of five rounds of competition came from Chris Moore, who had a .052 but unfortunately lost to Richard Gadson running an 8.896 to his 8.985 in round three of eliminations.

Points leader David Fondon took out Schnitz, Dennison, and Richard Gadson to reach his second final round appearance. On the other side of the ladder hand clutch master Jeremy Teasley took out Pryer, Gonzalez, Curtis McDougald, and Clark to meet Fondon. At the last event, Fondon took Teasley out in round two of competition. Going into the final, Teasley had just won Pro Street, then lost the Real Street final, and would now be looking for another win, not another loss.

In two events, David Fondon has always held the quickest pass of every session, however, in the semi-final, Teasley was quicker with an 8.919 when he took out Dustin Clark. Fondon ran a 8.994 when he sent Richard Gadson to the trailer. So, for the final Teasley had hoped to outrun the points leader. Teasley cut a better light, but Fondon threw down his quickest pass of the weekend running an 8.756 to Teasley's 8.895. We might need to check Fondon's bike for an override button. The rider from Puerto Rico has a stronghold on the points lead and taking the championship from him now will be nearly impossible.

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► Video Courtesy of http://www.SchnitzRacing.com

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