All Canadian TAD Final!
NHRA’s very last Lucas Oil Regional drag racing event of the season (held last weekend at Las Vegas) featured a final round battle between two Canadian based entries….
The final NHRA Lucas Oil Regional race of the 2012 season featured a pairing of two Canadian-based dragsters
Ray Martin (who is from Anchorage Alaska) and driver for the British Columbia-based Ridley Racing team, owned by Hugh Ridley, faced off against Edmonton’s Don St. Arnaud in the final round.
It was a battle between the #7 and #8 qualified cars and it was Martin that took the win with a 5.853 secs 250.32 mph which defeated St. Arnaud who had a 16/1000th red light start.
Martin (in a supercharged car) and St. Arnaud (in an injected nitro machine) had both taken out the perennial favorites in earlier action — beating the 3rd nationally ranked car of Chris Demke and newly crowned 2012 world champ Jim Whiteley in consecutive pairs in round one.
In fact 3 of the 4 semi finalists were Canadian-based cars. Martin beat Greg Hunter, driver of Kenny Gilmour’s ExactAir-sponsored dragster from Calgary on his side of the ladder, benefiting too from another red light start by Hunter.
Posted by: Bruce Biegler – Photo by: Bob Johnson
