Brian Amrosini, the acknowledged "Wheelie King" from Kenosha Wisconsin was crowned overall winner of the 26th World Power Wheel Standing Championships at Byron Dragway.

After climbing atop the leader board with a 410-footer in Round 1, Ambrosini sealed the deal with his 447-foot wheelie in his second attempt of three in Round 2. Ambrosini was presented with the $10,000 Champion's check and handcrafted trophy by Byron Dragway owner B.J. Vangsness.

Newly licensed Pro Modified Driver Luis De Leon will make his NHRA debut this weekend in the E3 Spark Plugs Pro Modified Series presented by J&A Service at the FallNationals at Texas Motorplex. He will be piloting the 2018 Imperial Construction Chevrolet Corvette owned by PJS Racing.

“I am very excited for this opportunity,” De Leon said. “We stayed after the St. Louis national event last week, despite the track conditions, for me to make the passes I needed to get my Pro Mod license. I drove all three team cars back to back and made 8 total runs. The car is different than what I am used to.”

Sydney Marshall quite literally came of age within the confines of Orlando Speedworld Dragway. His parents met there in the mid-'90s and he frequently visited the track as a young boy, developing a true and deep love of drag racing long before he was even out of grade school.

"So it just felt natural to ask for a job when I got old enough to work," Marshall recalls of starting in the OSD water box as a 16-year-old high school student.

Now 21 and studying engineering at University of Central Florida, Marshall also serves as OSD track manager and track prep specialist. He says "trying to make everybody happy" is the greatest day-to-day challenge he faces.

Chris McGaha and his Harlow Sammons racing team will run the Reher-Morrison wrap this weekend at the AAA Fall Nationals at the Texas Motorplex in honor of the late four-time NHRA Pro Stock world champion Lee Shepherd.  

“Lee Shepherd was a Pro Stock racer you strive to be like,” McGaha said. “He was a good old racer from Texas that I have wanted to commemorate for some time now. What better opportunity than racing in front of not only my home crowd, but Lee Shepherd’s home crowd, too, to pay my respects.” 

The twin-turboed '02 Mustang of Bridgewater, MA's Manny Buginga rocketed to the top of X275 qualifying with a 4.238-seconds pass at 170.04 mph in the sixth of seven rounds during Duck X Productions' Sweet 16 Ver. 3.0 at South Georgia Motorsports Park..

Charles Hull of Brunswick, GA, also stepped up in the final session with a 4.251 at 168.14 that boosted his turbocharged '92 Mustang from eighth to second place. With a 4.257 at 166.70-mph pass, Delaware's Ron Rhodes rounded out the top three over the quickest field in class history, anchored at 16th by a 4.335-seconds effort at 165.94 mph by New Jersey racer Robert Williams.

With a unique screw-blown small-block powerplant beneath the hood of "El Diablo," his Reese Brother's Race Cars 2019 Camaro, David Reese stepped up with a 3.531-seconds pass at 211.33 mph in Saturday's fifth round of qualifying to take over the top spot in Radials vs. the World qualifying for Duck X Productions' Sweet 16 Ver. 3.0 at South Georgia Motorsports Park.
Then he sat back through three additional qualifying sessions on Sunday while 22 rivals took shot after shot trying to unseat the Temple, GA-based chassis builder from his lofty perch.

Eric Dillard returned at Sweet 16 after a long layoff from the driver's seat and proved he hadn't missed a beat by steering team owner Manny Buginga's Procharger-boosted 2002 Mustang to the top position over the quickest Pro 275 qualifying field ever at Duck X Productions' Sweet 16 Ver. 3.0 at South Georgia Motorsports Park..

Dillard took over the lead position from Jeff Miller and his supercharged "Bumblebee" Camaro with a 3.777-seconds run at 194.80 mph in the seventh-and-final qualifying session.

Five years ago, Tony Caswell made the nearly 20-hour drive from his home in Durand, MI, just to experience a Duck X Production for himself at South Georgia Motorsports Park. This weekend he's back as team owner of a brand-new Pro 275 entry for promoter Donald "Duck" Long's third annual Sweet 16 event.

As a 13-year Top Alcohol Dragster racer, Caswell is no stranger to drag racing, however. For his first visit to SGMP he helped out as a crew member for doorslammer veterans Scott Carter and Bob Adel, but this time around he's teamed up with crew chief Jason French and chassis man Rich McCarren behind the wheel of his unique, twin-turboed '84 Chevy S-10 Blazer.

Pro Nitrous veteran turned Pro Boost rookie Johnny Camp secured his first-ever Professional Drag Racers Association (PDRA) “660 Man” trophy Saturday night when he won PDRA DragWars presented by Modern Racing. Racing in Penske/PRS Pro Boost presented by WS Construction, Camp recorded a 3.693 at 203.16 mph on a single when final-round opponent James Beadling couldn’t fire up. 

David Reese and his screw-blown 2019 Camaro climbed their way to the top of Radials vs. the World qualifying for Sweet 16 Ver. 3.0 at South Georgia Motorsports Park, capping five sessions with a track ET record 3.531 at an also class-leading 211.33 mph. Reese steadily improved from a 3.68 that had him fourth after round three and 3.58 in round four that boosted him to second behind then leader Marcus Birt at 3.575 seconds and 205.75 mph.

Birt sat out the late-night fifth round with his nitrous-breathing C7 Corvette, but dropped only to second, with J.R. Gray third at 5.93 and 205.22 mph in a second Reese-built 2020 Camaro. Melanie Salemi was fourth at day's end with a 3.597 at 208.42 in her screw-blown '16 Camaro, and rookie driver Luis de Leon placed his nitrous-fed '69 Camaro fifth with a 3.614-seconds blast at 200.74 mph.