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These results reflect the record holders, qualifiers, and final round contestants at each of the
Street Car Shootout Series events held each Tuesday at Gateway International Raceway in Madison, Illinois.
All vehicles compete utilizing Department of Transportation (D.O.T.) approved tires. All other modifications are permitted. Tuesday SCSS Track Records can be set during official qualifying or championship rounds. The Official Street Car Shootout qualifying period begins at 6:30 PM and concludes at 9:00 PM, (barring unforeseen circumstances). At 9:20 PM, the four quickest qualifiers meet in no-handicap eliminations with the championship final round held at 9:45 PM. Each of the Top 16 qualifiers receives a "Fastest Street Car Qualifier" decal. The SCSS trophies and decals are presented by Gateway Raceway.com. Additionally, the two quickest Sport Tuner drivers, (open to all passenger cars except Rear-Wheel-Drive vehicles with engines of eight cylinders or more), also meet in a no-handicap championship round for trophies presented by St. Louis Street Racers.com and the two quickest Super Truck drivers, (open to all trucks and utility vehicles), meet in a no-handicap championship round for trophies presented by Gateway Raceway.com. All finalists in all categories also receive free digital images from the event courtesy of Bret Kepner Photos.com and one free entry to a future SCSS event.
GATEWAY INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY, MADISON, ILLINOIS
2008 STREET CAR SHOOTOUT SERIES TRACK RECORDS
Class Name Hometown ST Vehicle Engine ET MPH Date
RWD Tony Tobnick, Cedar Hill, MO 91 Mustang 359 Ford 8.341 10/16/2007
RWD Tony Tobnick, Cedar Hill, MO 91 Mustang 359 Ford 166.11 10/16/2007
4CYL Jon Huber, St. Louis, MO 79 Mustang 178 Ford 9.147 4/15/2008
4CYL Jon Huber, St. Louis, MO 79 Mustang 178 Ford 152.16 10/16/2007
TRK Kevin Autenrieth, Bethalto, IL 91 S-10 434 Chevy 9.230 6/17/2008
TRK Larry Richards, Hillsboro, MO 52 3100 427 Chevy 149.07 9/4/2007
DSL Chris Calkins, Union, MO 70 C-10 403 Chevy 9.875 9/25/2007
DSL Chris Calkins, Union, MO 70 C-10 403 Chevy 139.41 9/25/2007
RTY Eric Cheatham, Belleville, IL 93 RX-7 79 Mazda 10.048 9/26/2006
RTY Eric Cheatham, Belleville, IL 93 RX-7 79 Mazda 137.95 9/26/2006
AWD Adnan Omerovic, St. Louis, MO 95 Talon 122 Eagle 10.234 9/11/2007
AWD Adnan Omerovic, St. Louis, MO 95 Talon 122 Eagle 140.52 9/11/2007
FWD Adam Corbitt, St. Charles, MO 85 Golf 123 Volks 10.989 05/06/2008
FWD Adam Corbitt, St. Charles, MO 85 Golf 123 Volks 134.87 05/06/2008
6CYL Rob Nolan, Granite City, IL 87 Regal 231 Buick 11.041 10/11/2005
6CYL Rob Nolan, Granite City, IL 87 Regal 231 Buick 124.56 4/11/2006
JUNE 17th, 2008 STREET CAR SHOOTOUT SERIES QUALIFIERS
Pos Name Hometown ST Vehicle Engine ET MPH Date
EVENT 10 06/17/2008
1 Tim Mallicoat Collinsville IL 68 Camaro 565 Chevy 8.731 154.97
2 Tony Huff Collinsville IL 57 Bel-Air 510 Chevy 9.152 147.55
3 Kevin Autenrieth Bethalto IL 91 S-10 434 Chevy 9.342 143.32
4 Raymond Arthur Edwardsville IL 67 Camaro 496 Chevy 9.676 146.48
5 Scott Compton O'Fallon IL 70 Nova 427 Chevy 9.753 125.05
6 Dave Brand St. Clair MO 89 S-10 370 Chevy 9.878 136.80
7 Richard Terry House Springs MO 99 Camaro 427 Chevy 10.204 133.51
8 Bob Herzing Maryville IL 71 Camaro 454 Chevy 10.261 131.18
9 Tim Kirkpatrick Troy MO 88 Mustang 393 Ford 10.266 129.34
10 Hal Marshall Collinsville IL 86 S-10 383 Chevy 10.376 128.66
11 Curtis Paulfrey Brighton IL 68 Camaro 468 Chevy 10.955 122.72
12 Isaac St. Clair Troy MO 72 Chevelle 400 Chevy 10.992 120.21
13 Don Moore Pontoon Beach IL 91 S-10 468 Chevy 11.297 117.72
14 Nick Hartwig Moscow Mills MO 93 Mustang 306 Ford 11.432 122.14
15 John Brawley Granite City IL 93 S-10 355 Chevy 11.725 114.32
16 Brett Marshall Collinsville IL 86 S-10 406 Chevy 11.779 105.73
JUNE 17th, 2008 STREET CAR SHOOTOUT SERIES FINAL ROUND
Pos Name Hometown ST Vehicle R.T. ET MPH
W Tim Mallicoat, Collinsville, IL 1968 565 Camaro 0.309 8.637 156.12
RU Ray Arthur, Edwardsville, IL 1967 496 Camaro 0.606 16.890 56.38
Reigning season champion Tim “Moose” Mallicoat returned to his winning ways while earning a record twentieth career victory in the 2008 Street Car Shootout Series at Gateway International Raceway in Madison, Illinois. After suffering only his fourth loss in forty-three career competition rounds one week earlier to rival Tony Huff, Mallicoat gained revenge by securing his twentieth top qualifying position and winning the event while keeping his lifetime round-win average at a staggering 91.11%. In addition, Mallicoat’s “Hellraiser” ‘68 Camaro once again set Low Elapsed Time and Top Speed of the Meet!
Amazing atmospheric conditions greeted competitors on a nearly perfect day for drag racing. Under a cloudless sky, the worst corrected elevation of the event was 1789 feet above sea level while the best “air”, produced during the final rounds, dropped to 963 feet above sea level; it was only the third race in the five-year history of the SCSS at which the corrected elevation fell below one thousand feet above seal level during the month of June. However, the clear skies presented a problem during the daylight portion of the event. When the first vehicles took to the track in early timed trials, the track surface temperature was 138 degrees…by far the hottest temperature of the season. Traction was difficult to find for those who failed to adapt to the conditions but, once the sun reached the horizon, the surface dropped to 90 degrees where it remained through the championship rounds. For most competitors, it was a nearly perfect scenario for early summer racing.
The surface temperature softened the rubber enough that GIR chief starter Chuck Westcoat and assistant starter David Price diligently maintained the starting line with heavy doses of rosin after nearly every pair of cars launched. Although the effort was substantial, the GIR crew was rewarded by a faultless “groove” which stretched nearly the width of the concrete starting line itself. By the close of the event, at least one new SCSS record entered the books and many drivers clocked their career-best runs in the late timed trials which followed the official qualifying period.
After an early barrage of ten-second passes when qualifying began, Ray Arthur’s nitrous oxide-aided “Suspicion” ‘67 Camaro posted the first nine-second effort at 9.67/146.48 mph. Mallicoat’s naturally-aspirated 565-cubic inch Chevy waited more than thirty minutes after qualifying began to make its only pass but, covering the first sixty feet in 1.28 seconds, the black Chevy proved that plenty of traction was available for those who knew how to efficiently apply power. After an 8.73 at 154.97 mph, Mallicoat returned to the pits to see what the competition could offer.
One week after clocking an 8.44 at over 161 mph, Tony Huff was poised to repeat his June 10th event title and decided to wait until the track surface was shaded before launching his nitrous-fed 510-inch ‘57 Bel-Air. More than an hour after Mallicoat’s run, Huff and crew chief Bill Silva finally pulled to the line and, with a 1.29-second “sixty” of its own, the black Bel-Air launched perfectly. The run began to deteriorate shortly after, however; with the motor sounding ragged for the duration of the run, Huff posted only a 9.15/147.55 in an attempt to grab the pole for the second consecutive week.
Kevin Autenrieth’s smallblock nitrous S-10 pickup clocked 9.42/142.66 and 9.34/143.32 shots to move into the third qualifying position but, when the qualifying period ended and the top four qualifiers from the Super Sixteen field were called to report in front of the main grandstands, the entire program quickly began to change. Upon returning to the pits from his subpar 9.15 attempt, Tony Huff reported to crew chief Silva that the Bel-Air had lost all oil pressure. After attempting to diagnose the problem onsite, the decision was made to withdraw rather than risk more damage. Autenrieth, who lost the June 10th final round when he ran out of nitrous oxide for his S-10, elected to compete only in the Super Truck Showdown portion of the program. Therefore, the call went out for alternates to replace Huff and Autenrieth in the SCSS eliminations.
Fifth qualifier Scott Compton and seventh qualifier Richard Terry were both in the process of completing their NHRA Licensing Runs and were not eligible to compete. Sixth qualifer Dave Brand decided to run his ’92 S-10 pickup only in the Super Truck battle with Autenrieth. Bob Herzing, at the wheel of Dale Huff’s striking red ’71 454 Camaro, blasted to a career-best 10.26/131.18 for eighth but encountered problems which kept him parked in the pits. Finally, ninth qualifier Tim Kirkpatrick, whose wild flamed green ‘88 393 Mustang put down a best-ever 10.26 at only 121.44 mph on a run which included an eighth-mile ET a half-second quicker than on a later 10.58/129.34 pass (!), pulled in front of the grandstands ready to race along with tenth qualifier Hal Marshall’s familiar red-and-white ‘86 S-10 which, despite a best of 10.37/128.66, had failed to qualify for the Super Truck Showdown!
The first battle of the semi-finals pitted Mallicoat’s Camaro against Kirkpatrick’s Mustang. Mallicoat gained a slight holeshot of two hundredths of a second and streaked to a 1.27-second “sixty” on his way to an 8.69/155.60 against the Ford’s gallant 10.22/127.23, (with an eighth-mile ET still eight hundredths of a second slower than on its shut-off 10.26 pass). Ray Arthur took an advantage of eight hundredths against Marshall and then lost the lead almost immediately; Marshall’s truck pulled ahead and stayed there until the red Camaro moved back in front at halftrack to manage a 9.92/139.67 win against the truck’s close 10.11/133.42.
In the championship match, Mallicoat strapped a huge holeshot of three tenths of a second on Arthur and rocketed to a 1.26-second sixty-feet ET en route to an 8.63/156.12. However, all eyes were on the “Suspicion” Chevy which launched with the front wheels in the air and headed straight for the left lane retaining wall. Arthur yanked the Camaro back into the center of his lane but realized the cause was lost and idled through the quarter-mile.
“That was as close to the wall as I’ve ever been”, said a wide-eyed Arthur after the final round. “I couldn’t really see where it was going until it landed and then all I saw was wall. I steered it back but I saw that concrete goin’ by pretty close. After that, I said, ‘The heck with it’ and just let ‘Moose’ go”. During the trophy presentation in front of the grandstands, Mallicoat admitted, “I never saw any of that! The car hooked nicely and I was just takin’ it down through there and never saw Ray. I guess he had a bit more to do on that run that I did! It was nice having the weather go our way tonight since it seems like we’re the only naturally-aspirated car in the field anymore. I’ve got a feeling the hot days are coming, though. It’s gonna get rough!“.
NOTES FROM THE SCSS: While the full moon made its presence felt, the June 17th SCSS event included the most lopsided qualified field in the ninety-three event history of the series. The two lonely Ford qualifiers of Tim Kirkpatrick and Nick Hartwig tied the record for the least number of FoMoCo products in a Super Sixteen but never had a single manufacturer produced fourteen qualifiers as did Chevrolet. It was definitely a GM rout!…Scott Compton qualified the new black ‘70 427 Nova of veteran street car standout Kevin Dedmon with a coasting 9.75/125.05 but the Wise Speed Shop/Elite Pro Streets Chevy eventually clocked 9.69/141.18 and 9.67/140.96 passes during late timed trials…Also making power was the new 427-powered ‘99 Z28 of Richard Terry which made the field at 10.20/133.51 and improved to a 10.15/133.62 after qualifying concluded…Brett Marshall murdered the motor in father Hal’s original white ‘86 S-10 during qualifying and barely made the field with a coasting 11.77/105.73...Want to talk about consistency? Kevin Autenrieth qualified for the June 10th SCSS field with a 9.343/143.35. Seven days later, he qualified again at 9.342/143.32!…Matt Gosch took his wheelstanding 455-powered ‘83 Regal wagon to the High School Eliminator crown with a brutal 0.002-second Reaction Time in the final round to win it for Bunker Hill (IL) High School; he defeated Ashleigh Tepen’s ‘95 Camaro from Jerseyville (IL) HS…There will be no SCSS event on June 24th due to the taping of Pinks: All Out! The following weekend. The SCSS will return on Tuesday, July 1st…Gateway International Raceway will offer a special test session open to the public on Monday, June 23rd. Gates open at 5 PM.
STREET CAR SHOOTOUT SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP POINT STANDINGS (as of JUNE 18th, 2008)
Pos Points Name Hometown ST Vehicle Engine
1 (13) Tim Mallicoat Collinsville IL 68 Camaro 565 Chevy
2 (12) Tony Huff Collinsville IL 57 Bel-Air 510 Chevy
3 (10) Kevin Autenrieth Bethalto IL 91 S-10 434 Chevy
4 (8) Brett Marshall Collinsville IL 86 S-10 406 Chevy
5 (7) Hal Marshall Collinsville IL 86 S-10 383 Chevy
6 (6) Raymond Arthur Edwardsville IL 67 Camaro 496 Chevy
7 (5) Curtis Paulfrey Brighton IL 68 Camaro 468 Chevy
8 (4) Dan Schell High Ridge MO 85 Monte Carlo 438 Chevy
9 (4) Jon Huber St. Louis MO 79 Mustang 178 Ford
10 (4) Mike Mester Valley Park MO 00 Firebird 402 Pont
11 (4) John Brawley Granite City IL 93 S-10 355 Chevy
NOTE: Points toward the 2008 Street Car Shootout Series Season Championship are awarded on the basis of one (1) point for qualifying in the Super Sixteen field with one (1) bonus point awarded for qualifying in the top four positions. Ties are broken by (1) the earliest date upon which the final point total is earned, (2) quickest elapsed time recorded during the current SCSS season and (3) fastest speed recorded during the current SCSS season.
JUNE 17th, 2008 STLSR.COM SPORT TUNER SHOWDOWN FINAL ROUND
Pos Name Hometown ST Vehicle R.T. ET MPH
W Gary McClain, Barnhart. MO 2004 146 Neon 0.535 13.417 103.19
RU Bob Baldwin, Geln Carbon, IL 1969 116 Beetle Could Not Start
Gary McClain piloted his show-quality ‘04 Neon SRT-4 to his second title in the St. Louis Street Racing.com Sport Tuner Showdown. Running more than a tenth of a second quicker than when he scored the October 9th, 2007 trophy, McClain needed only to stage for the victory when Bob Baldwin’s wild Volkswagen Bug failed to fire up for the final round.
Jared Strecker’s rear-wheel-drive ‘89 Nissan 240SX actually led qualifying with a 13.28/107.07 effort ahead of Tom Sitek’s ‘96 version of the same body style, (13.32/105.82). McClain qualified third, (13.40/104.66), followed by April 22nd runner-up Ryan Sedej’s blue Neon, (13.43/110.54), Stephen Russell’s 4G63T-powered ’91 Galant, (13.46/102.90), and Jason Grubb’s ’04 Neon SRT-4, (13.60/103.01). When the call went out for the finalists to report for eliminations, however, neither Strecker nor Sitek appeared. McClain was called as the first alternate but none of the three drivers qualified behind him showed, either. It was fifty-year old Bob Baldwin, who campaigns his turbocharged ’69 VW with his thirty-two year-old son, Robert, who eventually pulled in front of the grandstands for the final as fifth alternate after running a best of 13.86/102.85.
When McClain and Baldwin got the signal to fire up for the title bout, Baldwin’s Bug refused to light. After waiting patiently for his opponent to start, McClain was eventually ordered by starter Westcoat to stage up for a solo run. As an added insult, Baldwin’s VW roared to life the instant McClain took the green light on his way to a consistent 13.41/103.19.
“Other than different front tires, it’s basically identical to how I ran it last year”, said McClain during his trophy presentation. “Actually, tires were a problem tonight; I had a flat rear tire in the staging lanes and I borrowed a wheel and tire from a complete stranger to run the final round! I was just lucky somebody had one or I’d have been in trouble. I thought it was pretty cool that somebody just loaned me one out of the blue!”.
JUNE 17th, 2008 GATEWAYRACEWAY.COM SUPER TRUCK SHOWDOWN FINAL ROUND
Pos Name Hometown ST Vehicle R.T. ET MPH
W Kevin Autenrieth, Bethalto, IL 1991 434 S-10 0.234 9.230 143.14
RU Dave Brand, St. Clair, MO 1992 370 S-10 -0.058 (foul) 10.198 126.00
During the recent Midnight Madness event on Friday, June 13th, Kevin Autenrieth knew he was within reach of a personal goal. A run of 9.27 seconds put him within thousandths of a second of Larry Richards’ SCSS record and the weather forecast for the June 17th SCSS event was just about perfect.
Four days later, the driver of the Lowe Performance ‘91 S-10 pickup made his standard “all motor” checkout run at 10.30/130.86 and then hit the “squeeze” to passes of 9.42/142.66 and 9.34/143.32 to qualify on top of the GatewayRaceway.com Super Truck Showdown. Incredibly, Autenrieth was the leader of a parade of General Motors S-series pickups; a total of seven of them made qualifying attempts and an equally astounding six S-10s qualified for the Super Sixteen field. Behind Autenrieth’s orange 434-inch smallblock version were the S-10s of Dave Brand (his best run ever at 9.87/136.80), Hal Marshall (10.37/128.66), Don Moore (a best-ever 11.29/117.72), John Brawley in Ray Arthur’s “S-10 Revenge” (a best-ever 11.72/114.32), and Brett Marshall, (an engine-killing 11.77/105.73).
Outside of the Super Sixteen was the GMC S-15 of Sean Cobb, (12.47/106.87). Eighth in the Super Truck lineup was the astonishing ’06 Silverado 2500 HD of Jeff Avery; the Avery Diesel Performance 403-inch “smoker” produced the third-quickest diesel run in SCSS history at 12.60/107.90. There was even an impressive 13.30/98.96 pass by Cameron Zoedel’s ’93 GMC Typhoon, a run which stood as the quickest six-cylinder pass of the event.
Brand, a past SSCS finalist, low qualifier and Super Truck record holder, knew he was at a disadvanatge in the final round and pushed the Christmas Tree to a redlight by fifty-eighth thousandths of a second but it would’ve mattered little. Autenrieth, knowing conditions might be as good as they would get until after summer’s end, took flight to an incredible 9.23--the quickest run in Super Truck Showdown history--at 143.14 mph against the 10.19/126.00 of Brand, who later admitted he simply ran out of nitrous oxide on the pass…the same mistake which cost Autenrieth the June 10th final round against Hal Marshall!
“That was far from a perfect pass”, said an elated Autenrieth during winners’ circle ceremonies. “It spun a bit on the launch and it moved around a bunch on the run. Still, we really wanted to get the Truck record and it’s nice to have it back. It’s been a long time”. Indeed, Autenrieth last set the SCSS Truck record on September 28th, 2004, when he broke the mark held by….Dave Brand!
Photos of the June 17th Street Car Shootout Series event are now available for viewing at Bret Kepner Photos.com.
Tim “Moose” Mallicoat, Collinsville, IL 1968 565 Camaro
Ray Arthur, Edwardsville, IL 1967 496 Camaro
Gary McClain, Barnhart, MO 2004 146 Neon SRT-4
Bob Baldwin, Glen Carbon, IL 1999 116 Beetle
Kevin Autenrieth, Bethalto, IL 1991 434 S-10
New SCSS Truck Elapsed Time Record at 9.23 seconds!
Dave Brand, St. Clair, MO 1992 370 S-10
