Even though the 9th Annual FueLab NMCA World Street Finals was held at a different venue this year, the racing action and car counts were stellar. With Memphis Motorsports Park closed, Gateway International Raceway in St. Louis was the battleground this year, and when combined with the 4th annual GM Performance Parts LSX Shootout, it made for a tremendous event to end the 2010 season.     

In Scorpion Performance Pro Street, Troy Coughlin topped the field with a 6.27, but it was Chris Rini who prevailed at Gateway. After getting past a redlighting John Sullivan, Rini put together a killer 6.16 at 234 mph to take out Troy Coughlin, advancing him to the final to meet Tony Williams. Rini also is the 2010 Pro Street champion.  

Mickey Thompson Tires Super Street 10.5W drew a killer field of eleven racecars, at the end of the first round of qualifying Bill Lutz ran a 6.68, but actually hurt the engine in the process and ended up losing in the second round. It came down to Nick Scavo and Frank Mewshaw in the final, but Mewshaw was a bit lazy out of the gate, allowing Scavo to get the win. Mewshaw is unofficially the Super Street World Champion for 2010.

Even though the 9th Annual FueLab NMCA World Street Finals was held at a different venue this year, the racing action and car counts were stellar. With Memphis Motorsports Park closed, Gateway International Raceway in St. Louis was the battleground this year, and when combined with the 4th annual GM Performance Parts LSX Shootout, it made for a tremendous event to end the 2010 season.     

In Scorpion Performance Pro Street, Troy Coughlin topped the field with a 6.27, but it was Chris Rini who prevailed at Gateway. After getting past a redlighting John Sullivan, Rini put together a killer 6.16 at 234 mph to take out Troy Coughlin, advancing him to the final to meet Tony Williams. Rini also is the 2010 Pro Street champion.  

Mickey Thompson Tires Super Street 10.5W drew a killer field of eleven racecars, at the end of the first round of qualifying Bill Lutz ran a 6.68, but actually hurt the engine in the process and ended up losing in the second round. It came down to Nick Scavo and Frank Mewshaw in the final, but Mewshaw was a bit lazy out of the gate, allowing Scavo to get the win. Mewshaw is unofficially the Super Street World Champion for 2010.     

In the NMCA’s big tire heads-up class, ARP Nostalgia Pro Street, Chuck DeMory was on a tear all weekend, but Dave Beeson ran a 7.16 at 192 mph to take the number one qualifying spot. Both racers met in the finals, but Beeson had a backfire allowing DeMory to run another consistent 7.26 to take the win. In other NPS news, Jeff Colletta was able to take the championship.    

Going into this event, Jamie Stanton and Bill Trovato were neck in neck in the points, and when Trovato posted a 7.88 to get the number one spot in qualifying, it wasn’t looking good for Stanton. These two met in the semifinal, and in a killer drag race, Stanton took out his rival with a clean holeshot. In the final round, Stanton faced Dan Kroll, but he redlit handing the win to Stanton. Stanton is now your Vortech Superchargers Xtreme Street champ.                

BFGoodrich Street Radial Mike Frantena was the man to beat all weekend, as he posted a string of 8.5X’s to top the field, take out Brad Schehr in the second round, and then Jay Canella in the final with another wicked pass. This win was enough to make Fratena the Street Radial World Champion.   

In Comp Cams Pro Stock, Skip Baskin topped the field with 8.47 at 155 mph. He then went on to take out Max Gross, despite Gross’ .003 reaction time. Greg Delaney met up with Baskin in the final where Delaney took out Baskin with an 8.54. Baskin is also the 2010 Comp Cams Pro Stock World Champion.       

Drag Racer Magazine Mean Street drew nine cars, with Don Baskin getting the number one spot in qualifying with a 9.92 at 132 mph, but he lost to Jeremy Gillam on a holeshot. Gillam then went on to the finals to face Alan VonAhnen. The two were neck and neck but in the end, Gillam got the win in a 9.92 to 10.01 race. This win makes Gillam the 2010 World Champ as well.         

TREMEC True Street was huge at this event, drawing well over 120 cars. The overall winner was David Childress with his Trans Am, who averaged 8.95. Justin May was the 10-second winner, Gene Griffith won in the 11-second index, Michael Frumusa won the 12-second category, Mark Hinkes took the 13-second title, Karen Louge won the 14-second class, and Roger Ensley got the 15-second win.        

In other action, Andy Warren won at Gateway, grabbing another championship in FSC Nostalgia Muscle Car. In Indy Cylinder Head Nostalgia Super Stock, Donnie Wilson took out Joe Midile by running dead-on his index. In Hawk Performance Open Comp, Donnie Bowles won, getting the 2010 championship. In Eaton Performance Late Model EFI, Al Corda beat Edgar Perez.    

In LSX Shootout news, Kurt Anderson won the Proform Performance LS Rumble class, in LSX Real Street, Adam Preston won the gold at Gateway, in ERL Performance All Motor, Judd Massingill dominated, and in JE Pistons Drag Radial Steven Fereday won it all, and even posted a killer 7.24 at 209 mph in the semifinals.  

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