Team News
New power for Dan Flanigan and his Firebird Top Sportsman car will up the ante in the Quick 32 Sportsman Series
“We’re going to have 300 more horsepower. You have to run fast to qualify in this Series”
BUFFALO, NEW YORK (February, 15, 2012) – A new powerplant under the hood of Dan Flanigan’s 2002 Firebird Top Sportsman car should provide some more force for him when he takes to the track for the 2012 Quick 32 Sportsman Series presented by NAPA Auto Parts season.
“I’m super excited,” said Flanigan about the new aluminum 665-cubic inch engine. “We’re going to have 300 more horsepower. You have to run fast to qualify in this series.”
Flanigan only raced three times last year in Quick 32 Sportsman Series competition, and was a quarter-round finalist in the second event, the Xtreme Mayhem Nationals at Cayuga Dragway. He said that the car never performed as expected last year, and is looking for more success in 2012.
Corriveau looking for successful year with Chevy II Top Sportsman in Quick 32 Sportsman Series drag racing
“We’re very confident we’ll hit the ground running this year.”
FONTHILL. ONTARIO (February 7. 2012) – The Cor Con Racing 1967 Chevy II Top Sportsman entry plans to have a more successful season for 2012 in Quick 32 Sportsman Series presented by NAPA Auto Parts competition.
“Last year we had a lot of growing pains,” said Steve Corriveau, driver of the Deuce. “We had no issues with the motor, but we did with everything else.”
And although the team qualified at five Quick 32 Sportsman Series events in 2011, it struggled to get past the first round, but Corriveau added the transmission and nitrous issues have been all worked out.
“We got everything straightened out by the end of last year, and we were running some decent times in testing. Now we’re all ready to go. We just need some good weather.”
Wes Goddard looks to strong racing for 2012 Quick 32 Sportsman Series season
Metropolitan-body Top Sportsman features twin-turbo Chevy power
GUELPH, ONTARIO (January 25, 2012) – Wes Goddard may have one of the older car body styles in the Quick 32 Sportsman Series, but underneath his 1958 Nash Metropolitan is state-of-the-art in drag racing.
Powered by a 509-cubic inch Chevrolet engine, Goddard’s Nash sports a set of twin 76-millimeter Precision Turbochargers which can power the 101-inch wheelbase down the quarter mile at speeds over 200 mph.
This season will be the first full year for the Top Sportsman car, which was assembled last year and saw limited use in Quick 32 Sportsman Series presented by NAPA Auto Parts action.
“It’s been lots of learning,” noted Goddard, who is not only the driver of the Hell Billy Racing entry, but performs crew chief duties as well. “The car was all brand new when we got it down the track late last year at Cayuga.
The Top Sportsman team of Chaos Racing with driver Phil Sampson – Number One and Champions for 2011
GRANTON, ONTARIO (November 16, 2011) – The Chaos Racing Team was hoping to finish in the top five in the Quick 32 Sportsman Series presented by NAPA Auto Parts Championship Point Award Series Standings for 2011, but the Top Sportsman entry ran well all year to with the championship.
“This has been a fantastic season,” noted team driver Phil Sampson. “We had started out going for a top five finish, but obviously we went all the way.”
Headed up by Phil and Bud Sampson, the team fields a Jerry Bickel Race Cars 2002 Chevy Cavalier, powered by a 572-cubic inch Reher-Morrison Racing Engines running racing fuel through a large 1200-cfm Holley. Behind the big engine is a Powerglide two-speed from the shops of Hutch’s Transmission.
The team ran a consist and steady season, qualifying in the upper half of the 16-car fields for most events, and posting times in the low seven-second range with speeds of 185-190 mph.
Top Five for 2011 The Top Dragster team of Jamie and Lynda Bridge – Number Two
NAPANEE, ONTARIO (November 7, 2011) – Jamie Bridge has always been an innovator when it comes to his racing, and this helped pay off for the Napanee racer this year, placing second in the Quick 32 Sportsman Series presented by NAPA Auto Parts Championship Point Award Series Standings.
“We had an incredibly good year,” noted the Top Dragster driver of the Lynja Motorsports Team. “The car has been so good this year.”
Along with his success in the Quick 32 Sportsman Series, Bridge has been successful in both NHRA and IHRA divisional competition.
Bridge qualified his dragster for all of the six Quick 32 Sportsman Series events in 2011. He won the Top Dragster side of the eliminations in the first event and the last event, both held at the Cayuga Dragway. In the first race, he lost the event final to Top Sportsman driver and 2011 Champion Phil Sampson of Granton, Ontario, and was eliminated in the event final in the last race of the year by another Top Sportsman entry, Tom Orr of Shawville, Quebec.
