K&N SPRING FLING 5-DAY FRIDAY RESULTS
Earlier in the week, K&N Spring Fling 5-Day presented by Sparco came to the realization that the weather gods just 
might not be as excited about the event as the over 300 racers were who showed up for the event.
“We always want to stay proactive and give our customers the best chance to complete all of our races,” said co-promoter Kyle Seipel. “A successful event for us is when we can complete every race. The forecast left us little options so we decided to shorten the program and make Thursday’s race a double which would give us Friday, Saturday and Sunday to complete the event.”
After a long day of racing on Thursday followed by the Sparco Race Appreciation Barbeque, Friday dawned… cloudy but not wet. First up was the $20,000 Spring Fling Reaction Time Challenge where 20 randomly selected racers were given the chance to “hit the ‘tree,” with a .00X reaction time earning them $100 while a perfect .000 gave the driver $1,000 and the chance to come back and try one more time. One more perfect light and it’s $10,000 to the driver. Paul Rebis, Ron Campbell, TC Smith and Aaron Vail all walked away with an extra $100. However, it was Jared Pennington and Kurt Harrington who posted .000 on the scoreboard to hand them a cool grand. Both drivers were eligible to come back and do it again for $10Gs but it was not to be, although quite close. Pennington was -.001 red and Harrington was also red with a -.005.
In the actual JEGS-sponsored day of racing, the fortunate seven to come back are Tommy Kelley, Timmy Miller, Kevin Brannon, Don Hansen, Jeff Krushinkie, Tim Griffith and finally Cody Harger who will receive the luck bye run to advance him directly to the semifinals.
With Harger already advanced by virtue of his bye run, he’ll join Krushinkie, Hansen and Miller who all won their respective races. In that round, Miller had a perfect reaction time but didn’t need it as Harger turned on the redlight by -.004. In the other half, Hansen used a .003 reaction time to his advantage in a win over Krushinkie.
Between the two finalists, there was combined over 100 years of racing and neither one showed that age has anything to do with winning. Hansen left first with a .013 reaction time by virtue of his dial-in and Miller wasn’t far behind. At the finish line, Hansen ran just a little closer to his dial-in to take the $20,000 check back home to Florida.
For the last final of the week, Dave White and Kenny Underwood battled it out in the PAR Racing Engines Door Car Shootout with White taking the victory.
The overall Wiseco Points Chase saw NHRA Super Comp world champion Kevin Brannon taking home a check for $5,000 and a beautiful special points champion helmet.
“It’s been a pretty amazing week,” said Seipel. “The weather threw us a little curveball but we were able to get all the races done. Both Peter [Biondo] and I are so thankful for everyone who worked with us from the sponsors, racers and their families. They all had the faith in us that we’d get all the racing done and we did. A big THANK YOU!”
Stay tuned to www.bracketraces.com for news regarding the 2017 version of both the Spring Fling Million in Las Vegas and the Spring Fling 5-Day in Bristol.
