HUGE PAYDAY FOR 18-YEAR OLD
Fri, 2007-05-04 08:40
18-year old Rustin Mayse added to his remarkable racing resume in a huge way
Saturday night as the Frost, TX high school student earned a $50,000 payday at
the Big Bucks Bonanza at Farmington Dragway. Mayse, who earned a complete
turn-key dragster last season for winning the DragRaceResults.com/Goodyear
Bracket Racing Series national championship, drove his American Race Cars
dragster thru a ten round field of the most talented sportsman drivers in the
nation to claim the top prize with a final round defeat of Ken Sullivan.
“How about that?” Laughed a humble Mayse. “I mean, I didn’t do anything
out of the ordinary. I had a good day on the tree, and my car was right there
all day long--but that doesn’t always mean you should win. Things just fell
into place, I made good runs when I had to, but I also got a couple breaks when
I needed them. I think that’s true about any time you come away with a
victory.”
Mayse humble Texas upbringing won’t let him tell you that he strung
together five consecutive .00-reaction times leading up to the final round, or
that he used track position to push final round opponent Sullivan into a
breakout despite an off pace .023 reaction when he dumped to a two-above 4.81
for the victory.
While Mayse’s $50,000 triumph is obviously the biggest financial win of his
young career, he has become a consistent big dollar winner throughout the
Southwest, claiming several $5,000 and $10,000 victories despite his commitment
to high school academics and athletics that prevent him from racing every
weekend. Good news for Rustin and his Mayse Motorsports team is bad news for
the competition: Rustin graduates this month, which will greatly free up his
schedule as he plans to pursue many of the big dollar races throughout the
country in the next six months!
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