Bracket Races
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
Donovan Williams Clinches Last 50K on Wiseco Saturday at the Spring Fling
Benson, NC — Wiseco Performance Products $50,000 Saturday at the Strange Engineering Spring Fling presented by Optima Batteries at 
GALOT Motorsports would be the last opportunity to park in the winner’s circle for the week and wrap up the first half of the Fling Race Series season with 544 entries staging up for the first round.
The six quarterfinalists remaining included Mike Rogers, Josh Luedke, Matt Weston, Samantha Pollard, Rob Moser, and Donovan Williams. Rogers turned it red to the .012 bulb of Williams, while Moser was .006 for the starting line advantage but broke out by eight thousandths to Luedke. In the last pair, Pollard was ahead by .015 at the hit with a .003 and took .011 to move past Weston.
Luedke and Williams were .006 a pair and Williams killed what he needed to run dead-on the dial with a four while Luedke ran .022 over. On the single, Pollard was .016 in her round nose S-10.
Williams was .011 with a big time advantage on the starting line and ran .011 over the dial against Pollard for the Wiseco Performance Products $50,000 Saturday win. Williams had two prior runner-up finishes, most recently at the same event last year for $100K. He also qualified on the dragster side of the Brodix Best Package Runoff Friday evening. Continue reading
Jeff Taylor Races Himself in JEGS $50K Final and Eric Aman Captures Silverstate $50K Win on Friday at the Spring Fling
Benson, NC — Another historic showing of 547 entries rolled through eliminations on Friday at the Strange Engineering Spring Fling 
presented by Optima Batteries at GALOT Motorsports Park. The schedule for the day would be stacked with the completion of the late rounds of Thursday’s JEGS 50K, running the Silverstate $50K from start to finish, and the 1-run Brodix Shootout.
The morning began with six drivers in the quarterfinals including Howie Adams, Kevin Brannon, Jeff Taylor in two entries, Jeff Serra, and Austin Thompson. Thompson turned it two thousandths red to the .007 of Taylor in his first entry, while Brannon had the starting line advantage by .010 but broke it out against Adams. Serra was .003 ahead at the hit against Taylor in his second entry, but Taylor advanced by way of Serra’s one thousandth breakout.
The semifinal ladder worked in Taylor’s favor as he earned the bye to the final in his first entry. On the other side of the ladder Adams fouled out by four thousandths of a second to the .010 bulb of Taylor, which cemented him in the Fling record books as the second racer to ever carry two entries to a Fling main event final round for the JEGS $50,000 purse. Continue reading
Final Rounds of JEGS $50,000 Race to Conclude On Friday at the Spring Fling
Benson, NC — JEGS $50,000 Thursday at the Strange Engineering Spring Fling presented by Optima Batteries at GALOT Motorsports Park 
boasted the highest entry count seen in eight years of Fling events at the facility after 500 staged up for the first round.
The combination of new arrivals, 500 entries, and buyback round extended the program late into the evening. The decision was made to conclude for the night at the round of eight cars. The ladder is as follows: Howie Adams versus Kevin Brannon, Austin Thompson and Jeff Taylor in his first entry, and Jeff Serra versus Jeff Taylor in his second entry.
New Entry Time Runs will fire up at 8:15 a.m. before the continuation of the JEGS $50K with Silverstate $50,000 Friday eliminations to follow. The Laris Motorsports Insurance Racer Appreciation Party will kick off trackside at 7 p.m. with a free dinner, live music, and prizes for racers and their families. Continue reading
