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SPORT COMPACT, SPEED EXPANDED; The NHRA crowns its quickest field of sport compact champions ever.(News)
Byline: JACKIE LING
With smoky ashes mixing with methanol vapors, the 2003 NHRA Summit Sport Compact Drag Racing Series came to a dramatic close at Pomona Raceway. As expected, the last race for the 10-event, $2.1 million series featured record-breaking side-by-side racing between the world's quickest sport compacts. Not expected was the smoke-filled sky and ashen grounds in typically sunny Southern California; the raging wildfires made for challenging conditions that almost ashed out an event for the first time in NHRA history.
Nevertheless, Saturday qualifying sessions brought some of the best performances to date from the series' production-based turbocharged and normally aspirated four- and six-cylinder powerplants. George Ioannou won the ProRWD class (cars with tube frames, four- or six-cylinder ohc engines) with a 6.77/206.70 mph. Lisa Kubo took ProFWD (similar rules to ProRWD except front-wheel drive) with an 8.04/185.68 mph. Vinny Ten won the Modified class (rear-drive, four- and six-cylinder engines) with a 7.87/173.64 mph. Marty Ladwig took the Hot Rod class (stock chassis, front-drive) with a 8.64/167.50 mph, and Leslie Durst won the All Motor class (stock chassis, no power enhancements), turning a 10.00/134.44 mph.
The finals winners were Hiroshi Shiobara (ProRWD), Kubo (ProFWD), Ten (Modified), Ladwig (Hot Rod) and Durst (All Motor).
Ioannou clinched the ProRWD class title with four wins in his Bullish Racing Toyota Solara. Teammate and team owner Ara Arslanian finished second in the points with an identically prepared car.
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