These results reflect the record holders, qualifiers, and final round contestants at each of the
Street Car Shootout Series events held each Tuesday at Gateway International Raceway in Madison, Illinois.

All vehicles compete utilizing Department of Transportation (D.O.T.) approved tires. All other modifications are permitted. Tuesday SCSS Track Records can be set during official qualifying or championship rounds. The Official Street Car Shootout qualifying period begins at 6:30 PM and concludes at 9:00 PM, (barring unforeseen circumstances). At 9:20 PM, the four quickest qualifiers meet in no-handicap eliminations with the championship final round held at 9:45 PM. Each of the Top 16 qualifiers receives a "Fastest Street Car Qualifier" decal. The SCSS trophies and decals are presented by Gateway Raceway.com. Additionally, the two quickest Sport Tuner drivers, (open to all passenger cars except Rear-Wheel-Drive vehicles with engines of eight cylinders or more), also meet in a no-handicap championship round for trophies presented by St. Louis Street Racers.com and the two quickest Super Truck drivers, (open to all trucks and utility vehicles), meet in a no-handicap championship round for trophies presented by Gateway Raceway.com. All finalists in all categories also receive free digital images from the event courtesy of Bret Kepner Photos.com and one free entry to a future SCSS event.

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2008 STREET CAR SHOOTOUT SERIES TRACK RECORDS

Class Name Hometown ST Vehicle Engine ET MPH Date
RWD Dan Saitz, St. Louis, MO 07 Mustang 434 Ford 6.195 04/01/2008
RWD Dan Saitz, St. Louis, MO 07 Mustang 434 Ford 236.23 04/01/2008

4CYL Adam Corbitt, St. Charles, MO 85 Golf 123 Volks 8.361 04/01/2008
4CYL Adam Corbitt, St. Charles, MO 85 Golf 123 Volks 171.35 04/01/2008

TRK Hal Marshall, Collinsville, IL 86 S-10 427 Chevy 8.765 04/01/2008
TRK Hal Marshall, Collinsville, IL 86 S-10 427 Chevy 160.49 04/01/2008

DSL Chris Calkins, Union, MO 70 C-10 403 Chevy 9.875 9/25/2007
DSL Chris Calkins, Union, MO 70 C-10 403 Chevy 139.41 9/25/2007

RTY Eric Cheatham, Belleville, IL 93 RX-7 79 Mazda 8.864 04/01/2008
RTY Eric Cheatham, Belleville, IL 93 RX-7 79 Mazda 178.87 04/01/2008

AWD Adnan Omerovic, St. Louis, MO 95 Talon 122 Eagle 9.001 04/01/2008
AWD Adnan Omerovic, St. Louis, MO 95 Talon 122 Eagle 170.29 04/01/2008

6CYL Rob Nolan, Granite City, IL 87 Regal 231 Buick 11.041 10/11/2005
6CYL Rob Nolan, Granite City, IL 87 Regal 231 Buick 124.56 4/11/2006

FWD Adam Corbitt, St. Charles, MO 85 Golf 123 Volks 8.361 04/01/2008
FWD Adam Corbitt, St. Charles, MO 85 Golf 123 Volks 171.35 04/01/2008




APRIL 1st, 2008 STREET CAR SHOOTOUT SERIES QUALIFIERS
Pos Name Hometown ST Vehicle Engine ET MPH Date

EVENT 01 04/01/2008

1 Tim Mallicoat Collinsville IL 68 Camaro 815 Chevy 6.409 215.47
2 Dan Saitz St. Louis MO 07 Mustang 434 Ford 7.220 197.80
3 Tony Huff Collinsville IL 66 Chevelle 706 Chevy 7.872 193.92
4 Tony Tobnick Cedar Hill MO 91 Mustang 359 Ford 7.967 186.21
5 Philip Reichardt Festus MO 67 Camaro 350 Chevy 8.238 167.65
6 Jon Huber St. Louis MO 79 Mustang 178 Ford 8.460 162.16
7 Raymond Arthur Edwardsville IL 67 Camaro 496 Chevy 8.597 161.53
8 Mickey Boyer Imperial MO 69 Nova 406 Chevy 8.739 154.85
9 Adnan Omerovic St. Louis MO 95 Talon 122 Eagle 9.001 170.29
10 Kevin Autenrieth Bethalto IL 91 S-10 434 Chevy 9.016 152.69
11 Hal Marshall Collinsville IL 86 S-10 427 Chevy 9.023 151.98
12 Matt Deason Coredell MO 57 Bel-Air 355 Chevy 9.091 152.58
13 Adam Corbitt St. Charles MO 85 Golf 123 Volks 9.316 161.91
14 Kurt Borton St. Charles MO 81 Fairmont 302 Ford 9.465 147.29
15 Joe Williams Maryville IL 72 Nova 454 Chevy 9.482 148.21
16 Eric Cheatham Belleville IL 93 RX7 79 Mazda 9.516 154.98



APRIL 1st, 2008 STREET CAR SHOOTOUT SERIES FINAL ROUND

Pos Name Hometown ST Vehicle R.T. ET MPH

W Dan Saitz, St. Louis, MO 2007 434 Mustang 0.010 6.195 236.23
RU Tim Mallicoat, Collinsville, IL 1968 815 Camaro 0.051 6.382 219.24

In what may have been the most incredible night of competition since the new Gateway International Raceway opened almost twelve years ago, the first event of the twenty-four race 2008 Gateway International Raceway Street Car Shootout Series at Gateway International Raceway kicked off with performances the likes of which could never have been dreamed at the end of the 2007 season. Amid a plethora of broken records in nearly every category of competition, St. Louisan Dan Saitz slapped a set of D.O.T.-approved tires on his immaculate turbocharged 2007 Mustang GT500 and upset defending season champion Tim “Moose” Mallicoat for his first SCSS victory.

In amazing atmospheric conditions which remained more than eight hundred feet below sea level throughout the event, the top eight qualifiers in the Super Sixteen field ran quicker than nine seconds while all but two cars clocked speeds faster than 150 miles per hour! The “bump spot” eventually became an SCSS record by no less than nine-tenths of a second. An incredible one hundred thirty-six vehicles ran quicker than twelve seconds with more than one hundred fifty machines over 120 mph!

The owner of Hyperformance Motorsports
In St. Louis, Saitz, (pronounced “sights”), normally competes in National Muscle Car Association, National Mustang Racers Association and Outlaw Pro Modified events but Saitz decided to enter his sleek new Jerry Haas Race Cars-built Ford in SCSS competition to prove a point. “I’ve gotten pretty sick of the trash-talking on the local InterNet message boards”, said Saitz, “especially all the whining about ‘Moose’ Mallicoat’s Camaro. Since the only rules for the series involve the tires, I put a big ol’ set of McCreary DOTs on the back and came over to show the St. Louis fans what a real car can do on street tires”.

Unknown to Saitz and everybody else, however, Mallicoat had not been resting on his laurels during the off-season. Arriving to the track in a brand-new Peterbuilt diesel cab and accompanying 48-feet-long enclosed trailer, Mallicoat and his family unloaded a stunning new ’68 SS Camaro equipped with a state-of-the-art Sonny Leonard-built 815-cubic inch Chevrolet Pro Stock powerplant. “I told everybody I’d never use nitrous oxide”, said the beaming 2007 SCSS Champion, “and I wasn’t kidding. I’ve spent over $400,000 for the truck, the trailer and the new Camaro to make sure I’d win just as much as I did last year. The new Hemi-Chevy from Sonny’s put out over 1830 horsepower on the dyno and it’s the same motor all the IHRA Pro Stock guys are using. It oughta fly!”.

Mallicoat wasn’t boasting. On one of the first passes of early timed trials, the new orange “Hellraiser II” Camaro produced a blistering 1.023-second sixty-feet Elapsed Time, (the quickest ever recorded for D.O.T. tires!), on its new Hoosier rubber and ran an astonishing 4.35-second eighth-mile ET at a whopping 163.46 miles per hour. Although Mallicoat shut off just past the eighth-mile mark, he coasted to a new SCSS quarter-mile ET record of 8.235 seconds at only 117.65 mph! “I told ya!”, yelled Mallicoat when he jumped out of the Camaro in the pits after the half-pass. “These clowns ain‘t never seen a naturally-aspirated car like THIS!. Just wait ‘til I stay on the gas all the way down!”.

Meanwhile, Saitz was discovering that his older street-legal tires may not be up to the task of handling over twenty-five hundred horsepower from his smallblock Ford. After blowing the tires nearly off the rims on successive launches, Saitz finally nursed the car off the starting line with a 2.76-second sixty-feet ET before gently easing into the throttle of his twin 81mm turbos to led early qualifying with a 9.92 but at a new SCSS Speed Record of an incredible 191.18 miles per hour! When informed that his speed broke the previous SCSS mark by almost thirty mph, Saitz laughed and said, “I had planned to break it by twice that!”.

 

As driver after driver recorded career-best performances during qualifying, Mallicoat staged up for his first full-throttle attempt with thirty-one minutes remaining in qualifying. After a 1.015-second sixty-feet ET, the new orange Camaro blasted to the numbers at which Mallicoat only hinted during his initial test run. The crowd stared at the scoreboard in stunned silence before bursting into a massive cheer when the numbers were relayed: 6.409 seconds at 215.47 miles per hour! Pulling his Camaro in front of the main grandstands even before the semi-finalists were called for eliminations, Mallicoat told the fans while being interviewed by Jason Dukes on the P.A. system, “I just became the first Shootout Series driver in the sixes at over two hundred miles per hour! Now, all you whiners come get you some! Just get in line over in the stagin’ lanes and I’ll start takin’ y’all in alphabetical order!”

Saitz merely offered a disgusted grunt upon hearing the results of Mallicoat’s pass. Pulling to the starting line with only five minutes left in the official qualifying period, the black new-generation Mustang managed a tire-spinning 1.76-second sixty-feet ET and a 7.22/197.80 to earn a spot in the semi-finals.

When eliminations began, Saitz was paired with third qualifier Tony Huff, whose Bill Silva-tuned ‘66 Chevelle debuted a new 706-inch power plant and broke into the seven-second zone with a tremendous 7.87/193.92. Although Huff gained a sizeable holeshot when Saitz again spun the tires hard, the Mustang gradually made up the deficit en route to an improving 7.09 at 199.72 mph to pass Huff’s impressive 7.76/194.48. Mallicoat, however, had done nothing since his incredible qualifying pass other than refuel the new Chevy. Against past SCSS Record Holder Tony Tobnick’s 10.5-inch nitrous-aided Mustang, (which had also clocked a career-best 7.96/186.21 during qualifying), Mallicoat simply drove away from the Mustang’s even quicker 7.81/188.32 with a brutally consistent 6.39 at 218.90 mph!

Mallicoat returned in front of the main grandstands and calmly went about the refueling process in preparation for the biggest Chevy-versus-Ford race in SCSS history. Meanwhile, Saitz discovered a key problem back in the pits. “I just took a look at the McCrearys”, said a surprised Saitz, “and it looks like we may have had the tires on backwards. I marked ’em before I put them in storage years ago and I think we just had ’em on the wrong sides!”.

After swapping the tires, Saitz pulled in front of the grandstands where Mallicoat offered a handshake before the championship match. “You better pull that thing outta my face”, said a grinning Saitz as he stared at Mallicoat’s outstretched hand, “before I rip it off and shove it down your throat!”. Stunned, Mallicoat lunged at Saitz but Mallicoat’s family and most of the GIR Security team held him back long enough for Saitz to jump in his Mustang and prepare for the final round. To a chorus of boos and cheers, Mallicoat jumped in his Camaro and pulled into the water box.

Burnouts complete, the two staged with the crowd on its collective feet. Announcer “Radical Rich” Tivitt asked the crowd to pick its favorite in a battle of over one half-million dollars of new SCSS machinery. As the green light flashed, the nearly-silent Ford shocked the crowd by hooking up solidly and leaping to a car-length advantage. By half-track, Mallicoat’s Camaro was only a few feet behind the Ford but the smallblock turbo car stayed in front for the duration of the race. While Mallicoat charged to another incredibly consistent 6.38/219.24, Saitz’s Mustang blasted out a mind-boggling 6.19-second ET at an incredible 236.23 mph…the quickest and fastest run on DOT tires in drag racing history!

Incredibly, the action didn’t stop there. The crowd soon noticed the ambulance pulling out onto the track surface past the finish line and, while Tivitt quickly assured the fans that both drivers were safe, the medical technicians arrived at the end of the shutdown area to find both Mallicoat and Saitz involved in a loud shouting match outside their cars! A physical altercation was narrowly avoided but the difference of opinion continued in front of the main grandstands during the trophy presentation. “You ain’t seen the last of me!”, shouted an angry Mallicoat as the crowd cheered him on. “I’ll be here every week waitin’ for you!”. “Yeah, yeah…whatever”, laughed Saitz. “I’ll be back next week. We’ll see if that big, bad Chevy can beat this little small block Ford!”.






NOTES FROM THE SCSS: Despite over three hundred cars in attendance, not a single oildown occurred during the event and the GIR crew was sending cars down the quarter-mile at the rate of four pairs per minute for four consecutive hours!…Jason Dukes, the Drag Racing Manager of GIR, instituted a new weekly program in which any driver who overshoots the starting line and stages up at the Christmas Tree must pay a ten dollar fine before restaging and making the run. The program took in a surprising $1,180 in its first night. Said Dukes, “This deal is gonna make a fortune at Midnight Madness”…On a related note, fan reaction was mixed concerning GIR’s new pay toilets…Past SCSS event winner Daryl Jauernig, whose Ford Mustang failed to qualify for the Super Sixteen field, was escorted from the premises by GIR Security after the St. Louis driver took several swings at GIR Tech Director “Big Al” DeVan. “I just couldn’t hold back anymore”, said Jauernig…Spectators were treated to new music on the P.A. system by announcer “Radical Rich” Tivitt, who now uses a Sears Silvertone turntable to spin his favorite vinyl records during each event. “This year, I’ll only be playing albums recorded in August of 1969”, said Tivitt from his “fishbowl” in the GIR timing tower complex as Blue Cheer‘s “Vincebus Eruptum“ thundered in the background. Younger fans seemed confused when, in the middle of the official qualifying period, Tivitt repeatedly screamed over the P.A., “Don’t take the brown acid!“…The new NHRA Safety Rule which states all nitrous oxide systems must be purged inside the cockpit was well-received by racers who apparently thought the new regulation was hilarious…Although not a regular at GIR, Elwyn Hubbard won the first High School Eliminator trophy of 2008 at the event in his 1966 Rambler American. The 27-year old Hubbard represented Poplar Bluff (MO) High School…During selected 2008 SCSS events, GIR will simultaneously hold several Drifting events on Gateway’s famous 1.25-mile oval track. Admission is only $10. Helmets are optional but in-car video is mandatory. See Gateway Raceway.com for details.

 

APRIL 1st, 2008 STLSR.COM SPORT TUNER SHOWDOWN FINAL ROUND

Pos Name Hometown ST Vehicle R.T. ET MPH

W Adam Corbitt, St. Charles, MO 1985 123 Golf Gti 0.009 8.361 171.35
RU Eric Cheatham, Belleville, IL 1993 79 RX7 -0.058 (foul) 8.864 178.87

Throughout the history of the St. Louis Street Racing.com Sport Tuner Showdown Series, Dave and Adam Corbitt have supplied plenty of surprises with their turbocharged ’85 Volkswagen Golf. Test runs at GIR‘s season-opening Icebreaker event produced multiple 131 mph speeds from the Front-Wheel-Drive VW. However, nobody was ready for the performances produced by the white Polk Audio team car once the Tuner Showdown kicked off for 2008.

After team manager Dave Corbitt insisted the team was just “hoping for a ten-second timeslip”, brother Adam staged up for his first run of the season just after the official qualifying period began. In a flash, the little Volkswagen charged off the starting line with a brilliant 1.31-second sixty-feet ET and proceeded to post a spectacular 9.31 at an astounding 161.91 mph to reset the STSS FWD Records by almost 1.7 seconds and thirty miles per hour!

Incredibly, Corbitt was not the quickest qualifier for the Showdown. Jon Huber, whose amazing turbocharged four-cylinder ‘79 Mustang shattered the 150 mph mark in 2007, debuted a new 114mm turbocharger on his 178-inch engine and rocketed to an 8.46/162.16 but withdrew before eliminations in order to save his equipment for the upcoming Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash. The Spectre Performance/Huber Performance Ford will enter the 3,398-mile race over public highways towing the same trailer with which it won Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week program two years running.

Adnan “Otto” Omerovic, the winningest Sport Tuner driver ever, reset the STSS All-Wheel-Drive records during qualifying when his familiar black turbocharged ‘95 Talon clocked a brutal 9.00 while becoming the first Tuner Showdown entry to break 170 mph with a 170.29 mph blast. Unfortunately, Omerovic broke all four axles on the Talon. Upon returning to the pits, Omerovic found that he had also broken all axles on both his trailer and support truck during the run, as well. Lamented Omerovic, “This isn’t the first time I‘ve broken twelve axles in one night!”.

Corbitt’s number three qualifying run not only gained him entry into the Tuner Showdown finale but renewed an old rivalry. The fourth qualifier was also called as an alternate to compete in the championship run allowing Eric Cheatham to line up against the Corbitts for the trophy. Cheatham appeared with his renowned blue ‘93 Mazda RX7, still the STSS Rotary Record Holder. When questioned about the reported sale of his trusty RX7 and the rumors of a Toyota Corolla under construction, Cheatham replied, “I can’t believe all those people on the InterNet fell for that stuff. I told folks I sold this thing for under $20,000 to some guy halfway across the country and they believed it! Why would I sell this car? It’s the quickest rotary in the area and that’s worth more than $20,000 alone! I could post a note on the ‘Net that this car was powered by a stray poodle and they’d believe me”.

Cheatham qualified the rotary with another record at 9.51/154.98 but had an idea of why the Mazda ran a half-second quicker than its last outing. “I’ve been in the gym and I lost two hundred and fourteen pounds”, said Cheatham. “I’m down to one seventy-five so that’s at least a quarter-second drop in ET right there”. The Corbitts, meanwhile, were at a loss to explain their VW’s newfound power. “I don’t get it. We didn’t touch the thing since the Icebreaker”, said Adam. “There’s absolutely no reason for it to have run 9.31!”.

In front of the main grandstands prior to the final round, Cheatham pointed a finger at Corbitt and announced, “You may have gone 9.31 but that won’t be enough to keep up with me in the final!”. True to his word, Cheatham’s Mazda unleashed an incredible 8.86 at a nearly unbelievable 178.87 mph speed but, unfortunately, it wasn‘t enough; Corbitt’s Polk Audio VW improved almost a full second and ten mph from its qualifying effort to record a stellar 8.36 at 171.35 mph!

A speechless Cheatham could only offer congratulations to the Corbitts during the trophy presentation. Adam, meanwhile, tried to find words to explain the car’s world-record numbers. “Well, we just ran the quickest FWD pass ever on DOT tires and the car is now almost four seconds and forty miles per hour faster than it was last week”, said a confused Adam Corbitt as he accepted his ninth STSS winner‘s trophy. “We just have no idea why”.






APRIL 1st, 2008 GATEWAYRACEWAY.COM SUPER TRUCK SHOWDOWN FINAL ROUND

Pos Name Hometown ST Vehicle R.T. ET MPH

W Kevin Autenrieth, Bethalto, IL 1991 434 S-10 0.029 8.859 158.24
RU Hal Marshall, Collinsville, IL 1986 427 S-10 0.203 8.765 160.49

Another driver who was testing at the season-opening Icebreaker for the first race of the 2008 GatewayRaceway.com Super Truck Showdown Series was Kevin Autenreith, who clocked runs in the 9.20s with an amazing 1.27-second sixty-feet ET. The driver of the Lowe Performance ‘91 S-10
Made even quicker runs with his Scott Shafiroff-built 434-inch smallblock during qualifying, however, eventually hitting a 9.01/152.69 to become the first Truck Showdown pilot over 150 mph and achieve his goal of resetting the Truck Showdown records.

Despite the strength of his runs, Autenreith didn’t stay far ahead of the all-time King of the SCSS, Hal Marshall. The returning veteran, whose twenty-four wins in the Truck Showdown remain the most victories of any driver in any SCSS category, debuted his all-new red-and-white 427-inch smallblock ’86 S-10 during the Icebreaker with his first nine-second run, (a 9.83), but improved to a 9.02/151.98 to qualify a mere seven thousandths of a second behind Autenrieth. “It’s a whole new truck”, said a smiling Marshall before the championship dash, “but I haven’t even used the nitrous system yet!”.

As Autenrieth prepared the the Lowe Performance pickup for the title bout, he had to wonder the true performance of Marshall’s rig if, indeed, Hal used “the squeeze” in the final round. Autenrieth knew he’d need every bit of his well-known starting line reactions to change the outcome. Sure enough, the Bethalto, Illinois driver left the starting line only twenty-nine thousandths of a second after the green light and immediately grabbed a twelve hundredths of a second advantage. Hal Marshall thundered to an amazing 8.76 at a huge 160.49 mph speed but still fell short of Autenrieth’s best-ever 8.85/158.24!

“Nobody asked me”, noted Autenrieth while accepting his fifth Truck Showdown trophy, “but I had a few tricks up my sleeve for Hal in the final. I may have lost the records to him but I can get them back. I’m just glad to be in the eights. I owe it all to the guys at Lowe Performance”.






Photos of the April 1st Street Car Shootout Series event are now available for viewing at Bret Kepner Photos.com.






Dan Saitz, St. Louis, MO 2007 434 Mustang



Tim “Moose” Mallicoat, Collinsville, IL 1968 815 Camaro



Adam Corbitt, St. Charles, MO 1985 123 Golf GTi



Eric Cheatham, Collinsville, IL 1993 79 RX-7



Kevin Autenrieth, Bethalto, IL 1991 434 S-10



Hal Marshall, Collinsville, IL 1986 427 S-10

 

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