Thought it would be cool to see some links to results, stories, and photos from some Import events long ago... post up what you got everyone!

Here is a link to a NIRA event at MIR in 2000, check out these lightning fast times! haha

http://www.mirdrag.com/results/00res...x/07-23-00.htm

 

haha thats awesome. fred ellis still has an integra, sure wish he would get his *** back out there racing!

 

X2!!!! fred is the man! those were fun times when guys like him or nate romero could go rounds with the most simple setups, some ingenuity and some driving skill.
-Roger

 

Here's another from an Import Internationals Event at MIR:
http://www.mirdrag.com/results/00res...x/06-11-00.htm

 

Nate was the guy with the all motor VW back in the day right? Professor Nate?

 

lets see old pics and results links guys, I am working on putting together a 10 year history of the World Cup results here in the next day or so

 

wow...comp4 winning with a 13.5 @ 99 lol....my bolt on 98 hatch with an itr swap ran that on street tires lol... man we have progressed so far!

 

Thank guys like that for what you have today. I started about a year after that (2001), but I remember doing all of this with absolutely no aftermarket support. It was pretty much just everyone trying to figure it all out together.

Things have come a long way in 10 years.

Here is a couple of links of pics I took throughout the years of racing (early 00's)

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...8&l=cca246c4d7

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...8&l=54542db5da

 

You guys want some history of the World Cup Finals from the last 10 years?

The first ever World War III Finals was held back in 1996. Sorry, we didnt have results online from back 1996-1999. We had 420 racers in attendance and 310 car show entries and about 4,000 fans. We never thought it would take off, but it did and it has been growing every year since then. The event has history and has drawn the fastest cars on the import side and the domestic side to the east coast every year. When we first started the event we had imports and domestics competing against each other in 4cyl classes, 6 cyl power adder and non-power adder classes, etc. But we didn’t run cars of different cylinders against each other until 2002, which is when things really started to get crazy. Hope everyone enjoys!


* November 12, 2000, World War III Finals
This was the original name of the World War III Finals, before the name change to World Cup Finals, Only top 10 qualifiers posted in classes back then, sorry we didn’t list all the qualifiers and you could see how big it was even back then.
http://www.mirdrag.com/results/00res...x/11-12-00.htm


* November 11, 2001, World Cup Finals
Still only top 10 qualifiers posted in classes back then Wish we had full results.
http://www.mirdrag.com/results/01res...x/11-11-01.htm


* November 10, 2002, World Cup Finals
First year of merging 8-cylinder cars in the import classes and the switch to 16 car fields, Only top 20 qualifiers posted in classes back then though would love to have archived full qualifying lists Cause they were big even back then.
http://www.mirdrag.com/results/02res...x/11-10-02.htm


* November 9, 2003, World Cup Finals
Finally when we started posting all qualifiers in each class, but this is the year when the event really started to grow HUGE! Check out the sizes of these classes!
http://www.mirdrag.com/results/03res...dex/031109.htm


* November 7, 2004, World Cup Finals
Another huge turnout! Check out the sizes of these classes!
http://www.mirdrag.com/results/04res...411/041107.htm


* November 6, 2005, World Cup Finals
The year of madness! We ran out of food in the concessions stands, We had 750 racers on the property and we were not prepared for this huge growth spurt. We had so many cars in the classes that we had to delete cars in the heads up classes from 21 on down to keep the computer from having problems, we had like 155 cars in Street Renegade alone (which is now called True Street) I decided after this event we had to make some changes.
http://www.mirdrag.com/results/05res...511/051106.htm


* November 5, 2006, World Cup Finals
We set ET minimum limits in each class to help limit the amount of cars in each class. The event ran much smoother and the competition was closer. The spectator crowds grew even more and we were prepared!
http://www.mirdrag.com/v2/results/20...1/06-11-05.htm

* November 4, 2007, World Cup Finals
The event was awesome! 81 cars in True Street alone! All-Motor cars were still in the 11s back then.
http://importvsdomestic.com/wcf/results_07.htm

* November 9, 2008, World Cup Finals
The event went great! Big Crowds, fast ETs, and a huge car count once again!
http://importvsdomestic.com/wcf/results_08/index.htm


* November 7-8, 2009, World Cup Finals
First year for a 2-Day event, and it was a HUGE SUCCESS! Check out the results and bigger things to come for the upcoming 2010 season including 32-car fields in all classes. More media coverage, more sponsors, more purse, and much more to come, stay tuned.
http://importvsdomestic.com/wcf/results_09/index.htm

 

there are a few threads on here regarding this topic. i know i contributed some images to this one at some point. there are some red Xs but some are still up in the later pages - https://honda-tech.com/forums/showth...ighlight=yuson

also, i have this link saved for some reason - http://home.earthlink.net/~akuma/racenews.htm

 

funny! look at the times haha


Marc P

 

 

wow thats crazy i can see how i have done over the years lol my car still slow

 

Thats awesome. Some names never come off the list...

 

* November 12, 2000, World War III Finals
This was the original name of the World War III Finals, before the name change to World Cup Finals, Only top 10 qualifiers posted in classes back then, sorry we didn’t list all the qualifiers and you could see how big it was even back then.
http://www.mirdrag.com/results/00res...x/11-12-00.htm

- We were there, the Pro4 class had 62 or 63 cars in qualifiers, completely insane.

My car was #1 qual and Joel was driving (most of the runs .
And in 1st round we got to do some " Jason Huntin' " lol.
The car had wheelie bars on it, and the next year the rules wrote them out and that was the start of the Street FWD movement - which was pioneered by that same Jason dude.

 

really good times. i remember the first time i went to MIR back in 1997. ran all-motor class with my 91' integra going low 16"s. boy how time flies. MIR = my favorite track

 

i love living 45 mins from mir been going to wwIII since 2000 and havent missed a single one!!! this is a really cool compilation jason thanks!

 

Wish I worked for Paisley 3 years earlier, still was awesome working for him met alot of great people in the industry

 

Yeah, we ended up changing the name from the World War III Finals to the World Cup Finals due to 9/11. We just did a minor tweak to the name, but of course the "Import vs Domestic" part of the name has always been there.

 

Love the #2 qualifier in All Motor Street in 2009...lol

Nice to see how some guys started off...

 

what ever happen to marc braunning

 

Yes--from Kentucky. He started in an 8v all-motor Rabbit, later ran a 20v all-motor Corrado.