Drag Racing News

 Record car count again for popular 10.90 sportsman series!

by Lewis Robinson

CAYUGA, ONTARIO (May 27, 2010)   One week after setting an all-time series record for car count, the Joe's Transmission TNT Super Series set another new record - this time for cars at a Canadian event.  Twenty-four racers set out to compete in the highly competitive sportsman series this past weekend at the Cayuga Dragway of Toronto Motorsports Park in Cayuga, Ontario.

After Saturday's racing got rained out, the $1000 event presented by The Second City Toronto was moved to Sunday.  And when the dust settled, it was Dave Surmatchewski of Oakland, Ontario in the winner's circle.  Also the winner of the very first Canadian TNT event back in 2006, this is Dave's second event win and fifth final round appearance in the highly competitive Joe's Transmission TNT Super Series.

Round one saw Dave set the tone for the day with a near perfect .001 reaction time and a 10.916 elapsed time to Macedon, New York's Gary Stowell who cut an .026 light and broke out running a 10.892 trying to catch him.

Then it was Brampton, Ontario's Fred Gross and his newly painted 1984 Camaro in the other lane.  Almost even on the tree, Dave had a slight advantage (.020 to a .022) and held on for the win light by a margin of only .005 seconds running a 10.961 to Fred's 10.964.