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| The “Mike & Mike Show” At the Famous Foxhunt | |
 Mike Doushgonian has a comfortable120 point lead with one event left on the schedule—he will just need to qualify at the Governor’s Cup in September to all but wrap up the 2011 PSDCA title. |
PRO SLAMMERS Mike Doushgonian has really found his stride of late, winning his third Pro Slammer Door Car Association (PSDCA) event in a row. The points leader now has been in five straight finals going back to Funny Car Fever in April. With only one event remaining on the schedule, second place Mike Henry and his Custom Coffins-sponsored ’81 Camaro will need something special at the Governor’s Cup to overtake Doushgonian’s potent ’67 Nova. Henry, slotted into the #3 qualifying position, did not do himself any favors when Ralph Willis unceremoniously knocked him off in E1. In contrast, Doushgonian, by virtue of his number one qualifying position, received a bye into the next round. From there, Mike D. just took the ball and ran, eliminating Mark Gordon in E2 with a sweet 7.035. In the final round, he ran an unopposed 6.942 when Willis was not able to make the call. In 7.60 Slammers, it has been a yearlong duel between Atwater’s Mark Lawson and Tracy’s Rob Patten. Coming into the Famous Foxhunt, each racer had two wins under his belt with Lawson holding on to the points lead. Once again, Lawson and Patten looked like the competitors to beat when they put themselves into the first and second qualifying spots, respectively. However, Sacramento’s Karl Whisenhunt had other plans for them. In E1, Patten jumped out on Whisenhunt by 0.020 but Karl coaxed just enough horsepower out of his 604-cid Ford power plant to edge Rob in a near dead heat at 7.655 to 7.678. Subsequently, in the final, Lawson broke out with a 7.586 attempting to run down the quicker Whisenhunt. |
7.O PRO It has been a while since a FED has won a 7.0 Pro race at Sacramento Raceway. Not since Dave Rosenberg’s win at the 2010 Famous Foxhunt has a slingshot made its way back to the winner’s circle. But, this was a day for the FEDs as three out of the top four qualifiers were dragsters. Billy McDevitt led the field with a stout 7.024, but inexplicably released his bottles on the final qualifying run and was not be able to finish the race. McDevitt was followed, in order, by points leader Richard Phillips, Bob Murphy, and Mike Cross. In eliminations, the top qualifiers all advanced, setting up a showdown in E2. In that round, Mike Cross ran low of eliminations with a 7.054 over a troubled Phillips, and Murphy singled at McDevitt’s expense. In the final, Murphy taking a chance on the tree, went red by -0.051 and Cross cruised the 1320 for the automatic win. |
 Mike Cross had to beat all the tough guys to win 7.0 Pro, including the once invincible Richard Phillips and the always dangerous Bob Murphy. |
  Chaysse Trimp had quite a weekend for himself competing in both 7.0 Pro and E/G. Chaysse lost to Bob Murphy in the first round of 7.0 Pro, but made it all the way to the final of E/G. Apparently, thosethrills were not enough, so he decided to race Jeff Atamian’s jet dragster, “The Beast”—twice! Jeff Atamian was a busy guy, too. After his jet vs. altered roadster joust withTrimp, he towed over to the circle track and burned down a pair of motorhomes--the EPA would have frowned. We told the guy to move it, but he just wouldn’t listen, so…… |
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 B/G Tarii Moorhead finally got the monkey off his back at FH. After being runner up at FCF and a semi-finalist at NNF, Tarii got to savor the “thrill of victory” at FH when Cliff Boyles broke his transmission on the burnout. Winner: Tarrii Moorhead ’65 Valiant; 8.607-156.29 |
 C/G Jim Finn had the karma going at FH, cutting masterful lights, the worst of which was an .024 against Beeman in the final. Prior to that, his leaves were: .013/.002/ and .018. Winner: Jim Finn ’74 Vega; 9.604-131.36 RU: Tim Beeman ’32 Bantam; 9.602-132.32 |
 D/G Dan Fournier won D/G despite breaking out three times in eliminations. In E1, Dan dodged a bullet with a double breakout win over Joe Coppola, survived Alden Conway’s RL in E2, and finally, prevailed over Dan Stanley’s index-busting 10.560 in E3. Winner: Dan Fournier ’48 Anglia; 10.617-123.87 RU: Rick Fitzsimmons ’37 Chevy 2 Dr ; 10.578-123.73 (BO) |
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