CLASH OF THE TITANS PT1 EOISODE II
By: Lloyd Moore
Picture by: DV1 crew

Judging from the response we got from the first two pages, we could see you were hungry for more none stop, go fast actions. Don’t worry about a thing because were just warming up; what you want baby we got it and we aim to give you the full hundred (a.k.a every thing). If you haven’t feel the excitement from the previous pages grabbing and tugging at your imaginations yet; well it’s safe to say “ THIS SPORT AINT FOR YOU BUB! SO SCRAM!” The hype was live it was real from the start of it because of the teams and their willing ness to put on a heart throbbing show for their perspective fans.

The intensity of the crowd grew immensely with each passing rounds. As the competition got stiffer, the crowd got more into it showing their love for the sport and good competition. The electric vibes from the crowd seemed to set off a spark in the racers as well. They were more charged up than a lightening rod in a Frankenstein movie. You could see how pumped and determine they were, but beside the crowd there were a little more incentive like the big 25,000 cash to the first import who broke the 200mph barrier. The crowd were OOHING &AAHING at every big burnouts and low ET’s. There were a few sigh of disappointment when a few cars broke at the line after a massive burn out, like big papa Rado. We were impressed with all the teams that were on hand, even the wretched Hondas. The HOT ROD class was dominated by them from the first qualifying rounds to the final eliminations. Not only were the running well, but the out numbered every thing in that class 10 to 1. No bullshitting the class started out with 14 cars and out of that 14 one was the Chevy Sun fire; the other was a Dodge neon, a Toyota Celica and 11 Hondas. How could they lose? Out of the 14 cars, we were interested in the Celica. The Celica is known as HARD TARGET, and it was driven by Luis Ferrer Jr. On it’s one and only passes on day one it stopped the clock with a 10.520 @114.65mph, but was unable to continue because of head problems. All though it didn’t run for the remainder of qualifications, it’s time stood until the beginning rounds of eliminations when it lost to Bruce Mortensen Venom civics’ 8.953@ 164.91 because of a no show. There were much more YOTAS in the modified class that ran pretty well, but they had to go up against the likes of Stephen Papadakis and his AEM Honda with a time of 8.314 @ 174.30mph and Carlos Gonzalez’s RX-3 Mazda’s 8.220@167.12mph and the Both well motor sport Chevy’s 8.821@170.02mph.

Jose Mendez 1.8 corolla ran a 9.551@136.44mph in the first qualifying round then backed it up with a 9.394@138.14mph in the second round. He missed the third round but his #’s still stood until he went up against Ed Alessi Jr. whom was driving Paisley’s Supra at the time. Ed managed to knock off Jose’s 10.395@99mph with ease with an 8.872@155.92mph. Ed represented Toyotas down to the semifinals, but were scorched by the RX-3’s 8.150@164mph to his9.034@156.43mph. With a little more time and practice behind the wheels, we know that Ed would get the car to run up to its proper standard. All the Toyotas were bumped because of one thing or another, but they went down fighting. Even Sandy Gonzales another old school 1.8 corolla got bumped by the Hoyos Chevrolet in the first rounds of elimination with a 8.914@169.59, to Sandy’s 9.648@137.18. It seemed as if Sandy fell asleep at the light.

Team Toyota wasn’t done yet because they still had two other classes in which to compete. They had the Pro-class in which they had good representatives such as the Venom Tundra, which is capable of hitting the sevens. In the first qualification run, we could see it was going to be a long night for the Venom truck. On its first pass, it just managed to squeeze a lousy 11.896@77.73mph. On the second run it did a wicked burn out backed by a perfect launched which would’ve launched it into the sevens, but had to shut down half way through the run because of mechanical problems. Although it was shut down early, driver Grant Downing still managed to steer the truck down the tract stopping the clock with a 9.850@99mph. The little drag Tercel driven by Michael Improta made it’s first debuted in this event with a mediocre 13.966@63.27mph in the first qualifying round, but quickly erases it with a 10.228@113.93mph. Although it didn’t break any records, it was something different, but the owner promised to be quicker with a few more tuning and track time.

The Bullish racing team also debuted their two-rear wheel drag Solaras, with a wild intake set up. Both cars put on a good show with the big burnouts and low trap speeds. George Ioannou stopped the clock at 7.947@152.81 mph on his first run but broke the second time around after a huge burn out. Ara Arslainian the owner of the team hangs on to make the final cut with a 9.141@119.75mph. He ended up getting eliminated on his best run of the day by the HKS 180sx’s 7.596@188.91 to Ara’s no time due to his red light start. His solara still picked an award for best appearing car. Now team Toyota was down to one class, which was the V8 class and it was just Yotas, so how could we lose. In this field there were only three cars going for the buck. First, up was the Turbonetics Celica (Bulldog on the pages of inside scoop) driven by Matt Scranton of the Scranton brothers? On his first qualifying pass he laid down the law with a 7.138@198.09mph, just two miles shy of that elusive 200mph and a big pay day. The next heavy hitter to face the plate was the Blast racing sc400 Lexus. It didn’t disappoint the crowd either when it laid down a 7.785@170.51mph. Next up was big papa Craig Paisley. His first run was horrible as he rolled to a 21.411@32.75mph. In the second round Paisley’s truck and the Turbonetics sat out, but the Blast Lexus ran a 7.626@170mph. After the second round, that was it for the Blast Lexus, but it’s time stood all through the qualifying rounds to the semi finals in elimination. On the third, pass things started heating up as Matt Scranton and his Celica choke hold the clock with a 7.107@198.99mph, just missing the 200mph. big papa Craig lit up the clock with an 8.063@169.21mph. That was the end of the qualifying round and the standing was as followed: matt Scranton, Tadatoshi Wakita, and then Paisley.

In the first round of elimination Matt went first and set shit off once again with a reaction time of 0.471 and lit up the pole with a 7.113@198.61mph, but Paisley wasn’t about to be out done as he lined up against the Blast Lexus after a huge burn out. As the lights dropped, the Lexus stumbled and pulled to the side while Paisley’s reaction time of 0.472 propelled him through the run clipping the clock at 7.993@169.47mph. This was the sign of things to come and the fans couldn’t wait. In the final round, both Yotas lined up in the water box waiting for the signal to start from the officials. As the sign was given you could hear both turbo’s starting to spool up as the huge slicks started tearing up the pavement, when he released the car all you could hear was Whoosh As the car pass by with a big trail of smoke behind it. Oh no, hell no Paisley must have said to himself as he left everyone gasping for air from his smoke screen. Both Yotas went about 1/8 of the track before they hit reverse, as they were backing up both teams assist in clearing the smoke from their perspective vehicle. Now both cars are lined up, every one in the stands including other racers. Everyone were anxious as the lights dropped to green, the juice VS the boost. The first out the hole was Paisley with a reaction time of 0.467 to Matt 0.702, but before Paisley could stretch, the gap any further matt put a chokehold on the truck. The Celica reached the 1/8 marking in 4.716 at a speed of 158.69mph as it hold the clock hostage at 7.159@202mph to Paisley’s 7.961.66@169.66, his best time of the day. The whole place erupted as the time flashes on the board. You could see Christ Rado and I had our joyful monkey face on as we celebrated the first 200mph import in the history of drag racing, and it was done by a Toyota. When it’s all said and done Toyota run shit big time!

Sorry we took so long to post. We are trying our best to keep up with this crazy season, but as my Granny used to say, “patient man rides a donkey” in other words good things come to those who wait. See you at Atco where Team Toyota Plans on taking revenge, so in the mean time keep logging on to this site. PEACE!