Stephan Papadakis wins in Record breaking fashion and Runs 6.90 @ 200mph!!!!

Friday evening rolled around pretty quick for the continuation of the GM/NHRA sport compact race in Las Vegas, NV… the temperature was HOT and the air was thin… this extreme weather is not very friendly to the already oxygen hungry race cars!

Stephan Papadakis:
Stephan’s weekend really started off on the right foot! As qualifying was finished he was at the top of his game securing the #3 Qualifying spot with a run of 7.196 @ 195 mph… really showing the field what the car was capable of! In his first round match up he was lined up against the ever presence Venom Tundra of Grant Downing, Steph had to fight back some heavy tire shake to drive around downing with personal NHRA best of 7.009 @ 197 mph… only .009 from the elusive 6 second club! Round 2 ended up being an all Honda NSX powered race! As Steph lined up against Adam Saruwatari, Stephan solidified his place as the world quickest and fastest Drag Honda with a run of 7.680 @195 mph… this lined up Steph against the 2002 NHRA champion Matt Scranton. The Scranton brothers thrashed on their car after a broken tranny slowed them in the previous round… well Steph got up the line the Scranton's were no where to be found, so Stephan made a single pass down the track in record breaking style running a career best 6.900 @ 200.56 mph becoming the 5th member of the Summit racking 200mph club! Congrats to steph and the Whole AEM team!!!!

Jeremy Lookofsky:
The night started off with the all motor cars which meant Jeremy really had to step it up to move up in the qualifying field… he was in the #14 spot after the first round that was run back in March, after experiencing some Major Fuel Delivery problems… After Qualifying had completed Jeremy moved way up the charts and locked in the #7 Qualifying spot with an 11.26 @118mph… far off from the cars potential because of the air the whole filed was off .4 - .6 of a second… As eliminations started our first round opponent was Chad Barber, this race ended up pretty much like we expected with the L’Natural civic droving around Chad to take the win… this lined up the race we wanted all weekend! Jeremy was up against the #2 qualifier and Season points leader Ken Scheepers… this was a tall task but Jeremy was up to the task as he left Ken at the line and never looked back! Running his best time of the event a 10.978 @123mph… Things did not get easy from there, in the semi-finals he lined up against 2002 NHRA champion Jesus Padilla, right when the race started Jeremy had his hands full and drifted towards the center line of the track and came narrowly close to crossing over… he gave Jesus a side by side race until a 3rd gear mis-shift wrapped it up for Jeremy… Congrats to Jeremy and the whole L’Natural crew!!!

Shaun Carlson:
It was a tough weekend for Shaun and the NuFormz / Mopar Dodge Neon… from the First qualifying pass Shaun suffered the same clutch / Transmission problems that everyone using the Fortin tranny seems to be having… and they couldn’t seem to get the problems fixed… although officially they made it all the way to the Semi-finals they never really made a full run down the track. I know they will back in the shop and back on their game for the next race in Texas…

Christian Rado:
As it was for Shaun the World Electronics Drag Celica also suffered some Mechanical problems… but they seem to have the tranny problems pretty sorted out… this was more of an electrical problem weekend! Christian was able to Secure the #1 Qualifying position for the 2nd time this season with a pass of 8.462 @ 176 mph more than .6 of a second over the #2 Qualifier… he broke in a strange double loss as his car and that of Jerrold Rhodes both broke after the burnout… like Shaun, I know the Chris will be hard at work to make sure the car is at the top of the field in Texas!!!

Thanks to everyone who came out to support the DVS race cars and we look forward to seeing you and the next NHRA Sport Compact event being run August 8th & 9th at Texas Motorplex in Ennis, Texas!

DVS Team Report - NDRA, St. Louis July 26 & 27

Norris Prayoonto

HOT HOT HOT was the Theme in St. Louis... It was the Hottest event of the year & with the corrected 3800ft elevation it was tough tunning for everyone. Norris missed the first qualifying pass as he was ready to roll up to the staging lanes he went to put the front end on and a piece that holds on the front end broke off. Later with the help of Saturn Motorsports, he was back on the strip and qualified #2 with a 10.47. behind Erick Aguilar's run of 10.35. In the first round of eliminations Norris Expirienced a major Egine failure which put his Type R racing Integra on the Trailer for the rest of the event. Look for Norris to back on the right track at the Next NDRA event at Maple Grove Raceway in PA taking place August 2nd & 3rd...


Modified by DVSshoeco at 8:45 AM 7/30/2003

 

to me for missing steph's run

 

Congrats to Steph on the big win in Vegas. Good to see the car running good now. I look forward to lower et's in the future from him.

 

to Steph for breaking the 6 second and 200 mph barrier. I hope Abel will be the next to break the 6s.

 

Once again Steph proves he still is "the man"

 

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he needs to get out the FWD car and keep up on that game... everyones catching up....

 

6.9@200!!!

does the car have built in diapers?

 

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he needs to get out the FWD car and keep up on that game... everyones catching up....</TD></TR></TABLE>

He will be racing the FWD car at Fontana Later this year for the NOPI Finals...

 

Hay ( DVSshoeco) You guy's are A#1, it was nice meeting you. John@M&H

 

John - Thanks alot it was great meeting you too! hopefully we can work together in the future! we would love to fly the M & H Flag!

 

I HOPE SO TOO John@M&H

 

i agree allmotor car ran very good congrats and also congrats steph on that glide

 

to DVS. BTW, Mike and I wear DVS. just need to get some for Ben, Earl, and Brian and our whole team can have them.

art

 

I left right before Papadakis' run too .

Good show though .

 

DVSshoeco....will Steph be at the NOPI event in VA on August 16-17?

 

Yes. Tell Jeremy thanks again! We need a full field like this at every race. Not the first time ole Scheepers has left the door open. Just this time someone was there to take advantage of it.

Damn that race between Leslie and I was close. That was great. Excellent run for Leslie and her team.

See everyone in Dallas.

Scott

 

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Yes. Tell Jeremy thanks again! We need a full field like this at every race. </TD></TR></TABLE>

It was our Pleasure Scott! and congrats... it was nice to see a FWD car take a win finally! a full field meant that everyone had to make passes everty round! no bye runs! that is what we need at every race!

 

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he will not... but he'll be back on the east coast at E-Town in October... look for some low 6.80's at E-town if the weather is good!

 

Hell yeah the race between Mohler in Durst was so close, congratulation to Mohler
and allmotorgurl herself Lesile Durst!!

 

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and allmotorgurl herself Lesile Durst!! </TD></TR></TABLE>

man, doesn;t surprise me any, Leslie is always driving 200% she's incredible, mad props to her and the crew, especially after all the blockades and mishaps lately ...

As for the DVS guys, you are all awesome and deserve to be on top of your game, keep up the excellent work ... you guys are building an incredible fan-base, fans are loving it !!!


Greg

 

Greg - Thanks for the kind words.. we are definately trying to make sure that the fans understand that we are serious about supporting the Sportcompact Drag racing scene...

 

I was at the race in las vegas, did steph see matt scranton coming to the burn out pits?...i was hoping he would have waited so that he could have raced him. i know that the celica was hurt and steph would have creamed him. im still mad i missed that i had my camcorder off when steph click off that 6.9 @ 200..DAMMIT!!!!!

 

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he will not... but he'll be back on the east coast at E-Town in October... look for some low 6.80's at E-town if the weather is good!</TD></TR></TABLE>
POWER!!
-Roger who still wishes he bet some money on steph last week

 

Congrats to Steph!

......And tell him he owes me some nachos! I ended up dropping them on the floor due to the kick-*** run!

 

Go Steph!!!!! Power errrr Power hehe LOL!