MUTT & JEFF PROMOTIONS – DAY 1 RESULTS
Beaver Springs, PA – For 50 years, Beaver Springs Dragway, located amongst Amish farmlands in central Pennsylvania, has hosted a number 
of big events, maybe though, none bigger than the seventh edition of the Mutt & Jeff Promotions big bracket race.
Built in 1971 as a 30-day wonder by “Beaver Bob” McCardle and his family, the track is now owned by Mike McCracken and his Zoo Crew Racing organization. When built, the order of the day was pick-up trucks, open trailers and other flat-towed race cars. Today, quite a bit has changed in that regard and for this weekend, the facility is stretched to its limits with motorhomes and stacker trailers carrying multiple race cars. A limited pre-entered field of 250 racers came to do battle for big bucks.
“We’re over the top excited to get this event underway,” says Mutt & Jeff Promotions promoter Paul Burruss earlier in the week. “With a great weather forecast, along with a great Mutt & Jeff staff along with the track’s staff, this is going to be great event.”
Today’s race featured $10,000-to-win for the all-run field. Also on tap for today is a limited field of dragsters vying for $4,000-to-win. In addition to the purse, thousandths more in random prizes were given away as part of the day and will continue all weekend. Because of the great weather, time trials began promptly at 10:00 with every entrant afforded one time run. By 1:00, eliminations were set to begin after the traditional singing of our National Anthem.
Footbrake racers were run separately down to one winner, with Jesse Alberts and Evan Poust facing off with Alberts turning on the red-light to advance Poust to the sixth round of the Top Bulb box class after round five of the top bulb cars.
Round five, top bulb and the ten remaining racers were placed on the ladder; Steve Lenig, Stacy Shrawder, Andrew Davis, Bryan Source, Paul Skinger, Tim Castetter, Tim Armstrong, Jason Weaver, Mark Decker and Marc McClure. Survivors from that round moving into round six were Shrawder, Decker, Castetter, Skinger. and Davis.
First up in round six were the two door cars of Shrawder and Poust with footbrake winner Poust taking the win. Next up, Castetter and Davis squared off with another door car win by Davis. Finally, Skinger and Decker faced off with Skinger moving on to the semifinals where at three cars left, Skinger will receive the odd car bye run to the final. Two door cars and one dragster left for $10K.
Semifinals and the Cinderella Footbrake story for Poust continued with a win over Davis, setting up the final round of a dragster versus door car. A New York versus Pennsylvania final round and the Footbraker leaves first with a .002 reaction time to hold off Stinger wheeling Jimmy DiCiacco’s dragster for the big $10K win.
In the 32-car Dragster Shootout, the two finalists were Bill Prest Jr. and Cody Hoover. Only .005 separated them at the starting line but a double break-out gave the win to Prest to close out the night.
All the action this weekend is being streamed live across the world on the internet by MotorManiaTV. For more information, visit www.muttandjeffpromotions.com.
