Bracket Races
Fuel Factory Points Champion Dylan Witherow Collects ATI/JEGS $100,000 at the RAD Fall Fling
Bristol, TN — The final day at the 15th anniversary RAD Torque Systems Fall Fling 500K presented by OPTIMA Batteries at Bristol Dragway 
would see the last big check of the weekend awarded and determine the overall event Fuel Factory Points Champion on ATI Performance/JEGS Performance $100,000 Sunday.
The five drivers remaining on the ladder included Ray Miller III, Eric Thomas, Tyler Mosley, Cameron Manuel, and Dylan Witherow. Miller was five thousandths behind at the hit but tightened it up to just .001 at the big end for the win over the ‘67 Camaro of Thomas. In the following pair, Mosley had the starting line advantage with a .002 bulb and put together .014 total to move past Manuel. On the bye, Witherow let go .016 and coasted down towards the memorial 1.39 dial-in lit up on the scoreboard.
In the semifinals, Miller and Witherow were .009 a pair with Witherow running the ‘98 S-10 dead-on with a zero for a nine package to knock out former Fall Fling $100K winner Miller in his ‘23 NexGen dragster. Mosley staged up on the single for a hit at the tree and let go .004 to earn lane choice in the final round. Continue reading
Jack Ostrowski Crowned Moser Engineering $500,000 Champion at the RAD Fall Fling
Bristol, TN — After racers patiently waited 2 ½ days for the weather to pass, the long-awaited 15th Anniversary $500,000 main event finally 
arrived. The single entry format would be the great equalizer between the 419 individual racers from all across the country for the richest paying Fling event of the year.
The 20 drivers at the split included David Olinger, Steve Helton, Brian Martel, Ken Sweo, Billy Leber, Seth Street, Jared Pennington, James W. Holmes, Michael Carpenter, Jack Ostrowski, Jackson Worters, Hunter Patton, Cory Gulitti, Paul Mosley, Cameron Manuel, Tonya Pruett, Lester Adkins, Brandon Lane, Corey Manuel, and Jake Clayton.
At round seven Carpenter used a substantial starting line advantage to move past Olinger, while Pennington wheeled ‘Big Red’ to round eight over Leber after letting go .019 ahead at the hit. Ostrowski and Mosley were separated by just .003 on the tree with Mosley getting to the finish line first by .005 to break out by one-thousandth while Ostrowski put it dead-on his 4.52 dial with a seven. Clayton had .010 in his pocket off the starting line and ran .011 over for the win against Pruett. 2019 500K winner Patton was .006 to the .013 of Lane but broke out by four-thousands to end his chances of a repeat. Martel was red and dead-on eight in his bye run. Continue reading
Advanced Product Design $50,000 To Resume Thursday at the RAD Fall Fling 500K
Bristol, TN — Day two at the RAD Torque Systems Fall Fling 500K presented by OPTIMA Batteries would see the start of eliminations for 
Advanced Product Design $50,000 Wednesday on the mountain at Bristol Dragway. Despite the best efforts of the track crew to provide a safe racing surface, intermittent showers disrupted racing activity.
“We have almost 400 racers on the grounds that traveled from all parts of the country to get here. We have the track for all week (and Sunday if needed),” said promoter Peter Biondo. “The Bristol staff, our staff, and myself are one-hundred percent committed to make it happen for our racers, and I am confident we will. When the heavy rain comes through, we ask for your patience to hang in there with us. We will add in some fun stuff if we get long hours of down time.”
In the evening, several practice tree races and poker games were contested in a tower suite for all on property. In race one, Randy Biddle Jr. was off the bottom bulb to defeat Andy Morris, while race two saw Vicky Johnson knock out Mike Miller. In the third race, Emily Biondo used two perfect lights during eliminations and ultimately took the final round win over Vance Houston. Continue reading
Tucker Kanselaar Secures Rob’s Automotive $50,000 Shootout at the RAD Fall Fling 500K
Bristol, TN — The fog hung low between the mountains on Tuesday morning of the RAD Torque Systems Fall Fling presented by OPTIMA 
Batteries at Bristol Dragway, but with a little bit of sunlight cars hit the track for their first passes of the week.
Rob’s Automotive, Collision, and Towing presented the test and tune and 32-Car $50,000 Shootout. The format guaranteed a door car versus dragster final with 16 door cars on one side of the ladder and 16 dragsters on the other.
After the second round Scott Sanders, Vinny DiMino, Tim Markoglu, and Tucker Kanselaar remained on the dragster side and Pete D’Agnolo, Nick Folk, Chad Duke, and Kevin Crawford were the last door cars standing. Sanders bowed out with a redlight against DiMino, while Kanselaar took .002 against Markoglu to advance. Summer Fling Shootout Winner Duke broke out by four-thousandths for the loss against D’Agnolo, while Folk turned it .003 red to the .007 of Crawford. Continue reading
2024 RAD Torque Systems Fall Fling 500K Presented by Optima Batteries Pre-Race
Bristol, TN — The highly anticipated RAD Torque Systems 15th Anniversary Fall Fling 500K presented by OPTIMA Batteries at Bristol 
Dragway will celebrate a decade and a half of support from racers all over the country with the richest paying purse of the Fling season at half of a million dollars on Friday.
Racer appreciation prizes and activities will be bigger and better than ever with the Premier Moving Fling Kids Fun Zone & Treasure Hunt, free coffee and donuts Thursday through Saturday, a mechanical bull, axe throwing, and Laris Motorsports Insurance Racer Party with live music from Trainwreck Country Band and fresh smoked barbeque Friday night. Over $62,000 in cash and products will be given away from the prize vault for perfect lights, dead-on runs, best winning (and best losing) packages, and more.
Rob’s Automotive Tuesday will host a test and tune, 32-Car Shootout, and two time run sessions for all racers on property weather-permitting. Advanced Product Design Wednesday, ATI Performance Products Thursday, and JEGS Performance Saturday will each pay $50,000-to-win, while Moser Engineering presents Friday’s guaranteed $500,000 main event. Continue reading
Jayden Lawler Crowned Silver State HVAC $50,000 Saturday Champion at the Summer Fling
Bristol, TN — Saturday brought the highest car count of the week with 331 entries staging up for the first round of the Silver State HVAC 
$50,000 race at the JEGS Performance Summer Fling presented by OPTIMA Batteries at Bristol Dragway.
The fifth and final day of the event meant an event MVP would be crowned. A shortlist of racers was narrowed down to two including Jon Corbin and Jeff Taylor. Round wins and average reaction times came into consideration, but it was ultimately Taylor’s Wednesday $15,000 Warm-Up win and Friday $50,000 runner-up that led the Fling Team to present Taylor with the 2024 Summer Fling MVP Award. The title follows Taylor’s Spring Fling GALOT MVP Award after racing himself in a 50K final round back in April, making him the Fling Race Series’ first ever two-time MVP.
The ladder for the last day for 50K included Matt Dadas in two entries, Matt Cooke, Wallace Wilson, Carson Brown, Jayden Lawler, Cameron Manuel, and Shannon Gilmore. Cooke was .009 taking .003 to be dead-on nine to knock out the .013 and dead-on eight of Dadas’s first entry. The next pair saw Brown put together .014 over Wilson, while Lawler was .020 and dead-on one crossing the stripe first by .003 while Manuel was .003 on the tree and a few hundredths above. On his second entry, Dadas and Gilmore were separated by just .001 on the tree but it was Dadas who put it dead-on eight taking .003 to move on to the semifinals. Continue reading
Jacob Stolworthy Picks Up FuelTech $50,000 Friday at the Summer Fling
Bristol, TN — The JEGS Summer Fling presented by OPTIMA Batteries at Bristol Dragway rolled into FuelTech Friday with an action-packed 
schedule with the Reaction Time Challenge, Brodix Best Package Runoff, Laris Motorsports Insurance Racer Appreciation Dinner, Micro Strategies 16-Car Dragster Shootout, the $50,000 main event, and a grudge match to end the evening.
With Thursday’s 16-Car Shootout being for the door cars, Friday’s Shootout hosted 16 dragsters presented by Micro Strategies. Chase Conley, Paul Warwick, Jordan Eaker, and Jerry Hollingsworth paired up on the ladder. Warwick took the win over Conley after the two were separated by .001 at the hit, while Hollingsworth turned it three thousandths red to advance Eaker. By way of Eaker’s two thousandths breakout, Warwick picked up the $3,000 check.
The main event started with 315 and eventually narrowed down to eight including Will Holloman, Ritchie Howard, Mark Price, Dustin Chesnut, Jacob Stolworthy, Adam Quesenberry, Jeff Taylor, and Donovan Williams. Quesenberry turned it .005 red against Price, while Stolworthy took .003 on Chesnut to put together .019 total. Taylor knocked out Howard while Donovan crossed the stripe first by .001 to break out by .011 against the .011 package of Holloman. Continue reading
Jeff Taylor Secures Wednesday Advanced Product Design $15,000 at the Summer Fling
Bristol, TN — Day two of the Jegs Summer Fling presented by Optima Batteries felt more like autumn with high temperatures in the 
seventies and a comfortable breeze blowing across the scenic Bristol Dragway. However, the competition was far from cool with multiple racers displaying perfect reaction times, dead-on zero passes, and nearly invisible margins of victory.
Advanced Product Design Wednesday opened with 240 cars breaking the stage beam in round one with $15,000 on the line. Seventh round featured seven remaining drivers on the ladder: Jeff Taylor, Will Holloman, Cory Gulitti, Kevin Pollard, Joe Julsrud, Clifford Davidson, and Gage Burch.
In the first quarterfinal pairing, Pollard lets go .002 but finds himself .003 behind at the finish line beside Burch, who had an .010 reaction time and ran dead-on with an eight for the win. Holloman is .015 up front and one above to advance over Julsrud, who was left mathematically ineligible. Davidson launches .002 too soon to advance Taylor who was .006 green and rolls out of the throttle after the automatic win. On the bye, Gulitti is .009 on the tree and runs dead on with a zero on his way to the semifinal. Continue reading
Duke Picks Up Race Tech Dragster Chassis on Law Chevrolet Tuesday at the Summer Fling
Bristol, TN — The first day of on-track action fired up on Tuesday at the JEGS Performance Summer Fling presented by OPTIMA Batteries at 
Bristol Dragway. A great week of racing would be in store for racers on the mountain at one of the most picturesque facilities in the country.
Law Chevrolet hosted the test and tune session in addition to a 32-Car Shootout where the winner would walk away with a Race Tech dragster chassis. The format guaranteed a door car versus dragster final with 16 door cars on one side of the ladder and 16 dragsters on the other.
After the second round Chase Conley, John Taylor Sr., Donovan Williams, and Antoine Jett remained on the dragster side and Chad Duke, Vinny Guido, TJ Owens, and Adrew Stirk were the last door cars standing. Conley was .015 taking .003 to be dead-on three over Taylor, while Jett turned it two thousandths red to the .005 of Williams. Duke had the starting line advantage and the winlight over Guido, and Stirk took .004 to knock out Owens. Continue reading
2024 JEGS Performance Summer Fling Presented by Optima Batteries Pre-Race
Bristol, TN — The Fling Team has arrived at Bristol Dragway to ignite the second half of the Fling Race Series tour with the JEGS 
Performance Summer Fling presented by Optima Batteries September 3-7.
The first of two Flings to be held at Thunder Valley is bringing three $50K races Thursday through Saturday, over $55,000 in racer appreciation giveaways, and a free Laris Motorsports Insurance Racer Appreciation Dinner with live music Friday night. The full ‘Fling Experience’ will be delivered with a fun, family atmosphere at a professionally-run race including activities for the kids with a bounce house and treasure hunt for toys.
“With it being the fifteenth anniversary of the Flings, we knew our Fall Fling 500K entries would sell out quickly,” said promoter Peter Biondo. “Now the Bristol racers who didn’t make it in the 500K event, can race the Summer Fling at the same track.” Continue reading
