this weekend a couple of the great sport compact teams went over to The Strip in Las Vegas immediately following the SEMA show to participate in the 2005 Street Car SuperNationals.

Brad Personett and his Scion tC from Titan Motorsports
Ed Marx in his personal car
Matt Scranton in the Ride Revolutions Celica

ran in the Pro Street Class with a chance to win $25,000

Personett qualified 14th
Marx qualified 12th
Scranton qualified 8th

Scranton lost first round on an unfortunate red light
Personett lost in 2nd round of eliminations
Marx lost in 2nd round of eliminations

also in Attendance was the RaceRedi Motorsports team of Justin Humphries running in the Outlaw Street class on 10.5" tires in a bid to win $15,000

Humphries with very little testing on the 10.5" tire qualified 4th but was defeated in the quarterfinals.

all results can be seen here - check out the Message Board for actual event results

http://www.streetcarsupernationals.com/

Congrats to each team in their efforts to expand the sport compact racing industry towards more mainstream type events

 

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I second that...hopefully in the future our new breed of speed will be able to overcome those domestic monsters

 

What is Ed's personal car?

 

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not 100% sure - some prostock chassis v8 thing-of-a-ma-jig

i will have nero or bottle chime in with the correct answer

 

any pictures from the event?

 

I believe Ed has a Cavalier with a IHRA mountain motor in it (dont' have the exact specs).

 

Speed Scene was there shooting video. Got a great interview with the titan team, and race footage of all the cars. Will be on an upcoming show soon.
http://www.speedsceneracing.com

 

As far as the sport compact versus the domestic thing, I like the cars competing and crossing over. I think it's all drag racing and it's time to drop the labels.
The car that won the bracket class at Pomona was driven by Debbie Pierce. It also competed in the NHRA Divisional race at Vegas with all the domestics in the stock class. It won there too! A perfect example of a car that can race it all.
The Street Car Supernationals and the Pacific Street Car events are great events and they welcome sport compacts as well. Three diferent bracket classes. They are an untapped place to bring your sport compact car and race. I'm glad to see these high profile teams blaze a trail that will be hopefully followed by lots of other sport compacts.

 

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all those people you listed run at national events that have major sponsorship and national tv coverage... the scsn/psca had none of that, so i don't think that you can call it "mainstream"... if anything, turbos and nitrous are about as anti-nhra-mainstream-v8 as you can get.

what you could have remarked on was how those mainstream sport compact racers were drawn to come all the way out here to run a local, non-points series, inaugural event put on by the same crew that runs the local psca series... what can the sport compact sanctions learn from that?

congrats to those sc guys in vegas, but also props to kris lauffer of vw paradise, who ran his vw bug street car to a 9.29 @ 134.32 at the scsn, coasting across the line with the tips burnt off the plugs

 

That's funny -

I've wanted to run PSCA events, but ya know... Didn't want to bring a 10 second car to a 8 second fight....

But brackets are okay...

Maybe next year.