The heat will be on Saturday evening as eight of the baddest Torco’s CompetitionPlus.com Pro Stockers battle it out for $50,000 in posted purse in the Torco’s CompetitionPlus.com Pro Stock Showdown.

 

The first round pairings include defending event champion Robert Patrick versus John Nobile; Defending class world champion and Pete Berner versus Rob Mansfield; Steve Spiess versus Frank Gugliotta and John Montecalvo versus Brian Gahm.

 

Patrick recorded the quickest elapsed time in the history of the class en route to his 2007 Torco’s CompetitionPlus.com Pro Showdown victory with a 6.312 elapsed time at 220.94 miles per hour.

 

Patrick enters this season’s event at the top-seeded entry amongst the top point earners based on qualifying.

The heat will be on Saturday evening as eight of the baddest Torco’s CompetitionPlus.com Pro Stockers battle it out for $50,000 in posted purse in the Torco’s CompetitionPlus.com Pro Stock Showdown.

 

The first round pairings include defending event champion Robert Patrick versus John Nobile; Defending class world champion and Pete Berner versus Rob Mansfield; Steve Spiess versus Frank Gugliotta and John Montecalvo versus Brian Gahm.

 

Patrick recorded the quickest elapsed time in the history of the class en route to his 2007 Torco’s CompetitionPlus.com Pro Showdown victory with a 6.312 elapsed time at 220.94 miles per hour.

 

Patrick enters this season’s event at the top-seeded entry amongst the top point earners based on qualifying dating back to last year's event.

 

“I’m so happy Evan Knoll finances this program and puts this on for us. We’re all gunning for our spot in the Showdown and those five bonus points for the night qualifying session, so this program really gives us incentive to do our best,” Patrick said. “We won it last year and hope we can come out and have a strong showing again.”

 

Patrick defeated Frank Gugliotta in the final of the historic event.

 

“A couple of years earlier, Frank beat me in front of a packed house at the Mountain Motor Nationals,” Patrick said. “I owed him that one. We did what we had to do to win this one.”

 

“What can I say?” Gugliotta said regarding the prestige of this event. “These are the best of the best right here…the Elite Eight. Everyone is really great and this is going to be a really tough deal. I can’t say enough about Evan Knoll and Torco for sponsoring this. Evan is a great guy, they have a great fuel and we all have to thank him for everything. I’m looking forward to this.”