Carolina Powerfest Returns to The Rock
Yuengling Flight Carolina Powerfest returns to Rockingham Dragway for their eighth event. There were plenty of prizes for drivers and crew members to win as well as high payouts!
ROCKINGHAM, NC – Tony Saraceni’s 1320 Race Promotions presented the Yuengling Flight Carolina Powerfest Sept 5-6 at Rockingham Dragway. The two day event was for Footbrake and Top ET racers with $2,000 and $10,000 top payouts each day, respectively. Saturday also featured a Racer Appreciation BBQ and Brew that was free to everyone on the property, courtesy of Yuengling.
One of the most interesting components of the Carolina Powerfest events, is what is called the Blue Light Special. If the blue light is illuminated on the dial in board while you roll into the waterbox, both racers bring their time slip to the tower to claim one of over 250 exceptional prizes! The blue light occurs randomly, so it may be a time trial, elimination round, or even the final run.
The giveaways aren’t just for the racers though. 1320 Race Promotions brings back “The Wheel of Verdi” where random crew member ticket numbers will be drawn for an opportunity to spin the wheel for a prize. They drew approximately 70 winners from crew passes alone!
Now let’s get to the race results- as written on Rockingham Dragway’s website:
Former Carolina Coalition champion T.G. Paschal and 2018 NHRA Carolina Nationals Super Comp champion Corey Manuel were the big winners Labor Day weekend in Rockingham Dragway’s Carolina Powerfest 8 bracket races presented by Yuengling Flight.
Saturday Top ET Results
Manuel, the standout from Winston-Salem, N.C., used a .016 package to win the Top ET title and a $10,000 share of the purse on Saturday when he forced Michael Spencer of Raeford, N.C., into a final round breakout foul. Accomplished in both bracket racing and class racing, Manuel was the IHRA national series champion in Quick Rod in 2012, the IHRA equivalent of Super Comp.
Sunday Top ET Results
Paschal, who won the 2018 Coalition championship and was the Rockingham race winner this year, put together an .018 package to beat William Brewer of St. Pauls, N.C., for his $10,000 payday on Sunday.
Footbrake Results
Footbrake winners were David Hunt of Pelion, S.C., who got a free ride to the Sunday trophy when Brandon Williams of Eagle Springs, N.C., was guilty of a final round foul start, and Steve Sides of Fayetteville, N.C., who beat Doug Walton on Saturday when the latter broke out by .004 of a second.
It was Hunt’s first race since 2011 – and he made the most of it. Among those he dispatched on the way to the winners’ circle was Eric Aman of Clinton, N.C., a former Rockingham track champion.
The holiday weekend event featured a free racers barbecue on Saturday sponsored by Yuengling and HGR’s Truck and Trailers, as well as the now familiar “Blue Light Special” program which rewards a racer with cash and prizes whenever the blue light randomly is illuminated on his or her run. More than 250 such prizes were meted out during the three days.
Chris Ferguson of Fort Lauderdale, FL, son of former IHRA World Champion Glenn Ferguson, won the Top ET Gamblers race on Friday, sharing center stage with Footbrake winner Chris McBee of St. Pauls, NC.
For more race results, check out the Working Man’s 10 Grands or Sunday’s results from the BTE Labor Day $100K.
Jessica was born into a family of drag racers and fell in love with the sport at a young age. She began competing at 13 and has been hooked ever since! She even met her husband at the World Footbrake Challenge VII. Jessica works full time as an Ultrasound Technologist but spends almost every weekend chasing win lights at IHRA and NHRA bracket races.
You can contact her at Jessica@dragchamp.com or on her Facebook page.
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