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Sacramento, Ca – The Don Carter Motorsports team, with Bret Williamson driving the ’53 Studebaker, wrapped up the 2010 West Coast Outlaw Pro Mod Associations (WCOPMA) points championship with their win last weekend at Bandimere Speedway during the Super Chevy Show event, an event the WCOPMA was booked in to headline for Bandimere Speedway.

Going into the Denver event, all that was needed for the team was for Williamson to qualify anywhere in the 8-car field and the championship was theirs…but like the team has done all season long they were set to run hard and not take it “easy” with a main goal to make it to yet another final round and win another event this 2010 season.

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Boise, ID – The Don Carter Motorsports team had a great weekend of racing at one of the biggest events on the West Coast, Firebird Raceway’s 39^th annual Nightfire Nationals event.

For everyone on the team this was their first trip to Firebird Raceway in Boise, Idaho and they were all blown away with the quality of race track the New family runs, both on and off the racing surface. When talking to the team members many stated it was one of the greatest events they have ever attended, the win was just icing on the cake for them.

Driver, Bret Williamson, set the bar high his first time down the track in round 1 of qualifying when running a 6.21 taking the top qualifying spot. The team opted out of running the second qualifying session and was bumped down to the number 3 spot as John Scialpi ran a 6.17 and Randy Kay ran a 6.18. In the third and final session Bret blasted down Firebird Raceway’s quarter-mile in 6.09 seconds, easily setting a new Pro Mod track record and placing an 8-hundreths of a second gap between him and the number 2 qualifier (Scialpi at 6.17)!

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Sacramento, Ca – Bret Williamson, driving the Don Carter Motorsports 53 Studebaker, is looking to keep his top spot in the West Coast Outlaw Pro Mod Association point’s standings after Boise. With a pretty big 81-point lead (3 rounds) over number 2 in points, Jay Diedrich, all Bret needs to do is qualify for the 8-car field this weekend in Boise and he will have his spot secured.

Of course the Don Carter Motorsports team is looking to do more than just qualify in Boise, they want to make it 4-for-4 in final round appearances this year running with the WCOPMA as they have had 1 event win and 2 runner-up’s in the first 3 events this season.

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Sacramento, Ca – Don Carter’s driver, Bret Williamson, is 3-for-3 in final round appearances this season while running with the West Coast Outlaw Pro Mod Association. During the July 10-11 weekend, Bret once again made it to the final round at Woodburn Dragstrip to face Jay Diedrich.

The team traveled to Woodburn, Oregon chasing an engine problem. They worked with the fuel system and MSD timing boxes before the event and unloaded the car untested after the changes. On the first qualifying pass they made it down with a very soft 6.66. They adjusted the tune up for the second qualifying hit and ran another mid 6-second pass but dropped a couple cylinders during the run. On the third and final session they improved to a 6.42 which placed them in the number three qualifying position.

During Sunday’s eliminations Williamson was faced against Cecil Matthews in his 1955 T-Bird in the first round. Off the line Cecil took the early lead with a great .007 reaction time but by half track the Studebaker drove around Cecil and charged down the back half of the track to take the win with an improving 6.34.

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Sacramento, Ca – The 1953 Studebaker of the Don Carter Motorsports team will head to Woodburn, Oregon this upcoming weekend (July 10-11) to run with the West Coast Outlaw Pro Mod Association for the third event of the season for the association.

Coming off a runner up finish at the last WCOPMA event in Sacramento a couple weeks back, Bret Williamson plans to make it 3-for-3 as far as final round appearances go while running with the WCOPMA this year. The team won the first event of the season and was the runner up at the second. They are currently number 1 in the point’s standings with about a 2-round lead over Dan Myers.

The team’s main focus is to get a tune up on this track that they have no data from. The car runs good at Sacramento Raceway, they have that track figured out, but when they travel to new tracks it is back to square 1. Luckily for them, it will be most racers’ first time running at Woodburn this weekend so everyone is in square 1.

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Sacramento, Ca – Going into the Nitro Nite of Fire event at Sacramento Raceway last weekend, Bret Williamson, driver of the Don Carter Motorsports 1953 Studebaker, was leading the West Coast Outlaw Pro Mod Association’s point’s standings after winning the first event of the season. Williamson and crew were looking at getting the car and tune-up back where it should be.

After having a stellar first outing with the car they went to Bakersfield a few weeks later and could not get the car down the track from “A-to-B” under power. Before heading to Sacramento this past weekend their goal was to get back to where they started, where they know it works. On Friday they made a descent test pass with an early shut off to see where they were. When the Friday night qualifying session came around they did not get the ‘Stude down the track after a peddling and early shutoff 7.85.

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Sacramento, Ca – The last time the Don Carter Motorsports 1953 Studebaker ran at Sacramento Raceway was the debut event with the car. It also was the first time the team grabbed the number one qualifying position and the first event win for the team. On top of all that they set low ET for the event and set a new track and West Coast Outlaw Pro Mod Association ET record with a 5.90 backed up with a 5.92.

After an unsuccessful outing last weekend in Bakersfield the team is looking to get back to their hometown track, looking at the data from the last Sacramento event and get their “Sacramento Tune-Up” back into the car.
They will be attending the West Coast Outlaw Pro Mod Association’s Nitro Nite if Fire event on June 11-12 to race in front of the hometown crowd and hopefully get back into their groove to lay down some passes that shocked everyone in attendance at the last event.