He should have known better.
A race fan hurled a water bottle onto the Rockingham Dragway racing
surface just moments before two cars were to stage during the recently
completed ADRL Dragstock event in Rockingham, N.C.
There’s never a good time for an object to be hurled onto the racing surface but this incident had championship implications.
Charles Carpenter and Burton Auxier were battling for the last
remaining spot in the ADRL’s Battle of the Belts Championship
competition scheduled for next month in Dallas, Texas.
Carpenter came into the race ninth in the points, with Burton Auxier
trailing closely behind. When Harold Martin, who was in the eighth and
final points position, failed to qualify, it left the door wide open
for Carpenter and Auxier to stage a battle for last man standing.