2002 IDRC Race Results

2002 O'Reilly Auto Parts IDRC Lone Star Nationals
River City Raceway, San Antonio, TX

April 13-14, 2002

The Count that counts: 3816 fans / 141 Racers / 89 Show Cars

290 MPH Jets, Broken Records and Great Weather Make the Show

Complete Race Results [ Microsoft Excel Format]

(SAN ANTONIO, TX) After going two for two with the IDRC’s first two events in 2002, the IDRC continued its streak with a third successful event. This time, in the Lone Star state. All-Motor, Quick Class and Street Class competitors stole the show after an exciting SR-1 Team Drag competition on Saturday.

In Turbo Magazine Quick Class action, Saverio Leone, Mike “Low-Buck Brawler” Laskey, Dominic Conti, Brent Leivestad, Chad Doerr and Andrew Tran had plans of putting the power to the pavement to overtake points leaders Jojo Callos and Bruce Mortensen. However, Texas’ Carboy, Hyper and PYR Racing had hopes of the home-court advantage. In qualifying, Leivestad and Carboy’s Henry Yeung seemed to have the advantage both qualifying in the 9s. Laskey, Leone and especially Tran seemed to chasing gremlins. In fact, Tran’s traction problems didn’t allow him to even qualify in the field. By the quarterfinals, the momentum seemed to have shifted. Leivestad, Yeung, Laskey and Leone would shut down the rest of the field to advance. In the semis, Brent Leivestad and the PFIspeed.com Civic narrowly escaped elimination running a 9.64 to Yeung’s 9.69. Next, Laskey would face Leone. Laskey had run 9.60s previous to this encounter so Leone and the Impo/AC Autotechnic crew knew they had to step it up. Leone stepped it up to a 9.48 to beat Laskey’s 9.95. In the final, Leone and Leivestad lined up with the crowd on its feat. Leivestad took the holeshot and the chase was on. Saverio Leone would capture his first IDRC victory with a personal best 9.452 to Leivestad’s 9.654. This performance was also enough to put Leone in second in the IDRC’s $186,000 National Championship.

In Import Tuner Magazine All-Motor action, VTEC power would reign supreme with all but two qualifying spots captured by Hondas. Shawn Geers, the IDRC’s class record holder for elapsed time (10.58), would capture the number-two qualifying position behind Erick Aguilar. Aguilar would make history with a 10.602 elapsed time at 127.94mph. This represents the quickest elapsed time ever for an All-Motor Honda. Aaron Schley has been running stronger and stronger after blasting into the 10s. For this outing, the KG Engineering/SP Tools civic was struggling a bit, but still managed a number three qualifying position. In eliminations, all three and the RX-7 rotary of Michael Duarte would make it to the Semis. Schley and Geers would pair up. Geers was consistently killing the tree all weekend and this time Schley stepped up as both drivers cut .400 lights. However, the VW would edge out the Civic with a 10.90 to a losing 11.04. Erick wasted no time in getting lane choice. He shut down the rotary with a 10.630. Erick and Geers would meet in the finals. Geers had not run better than 10.80s and he knew he needed every advantage that Erick was willing to give him. The veteran Geers tried to get the staging advantage by waiting to the last second to light the stage light. With a .440 light to Erick’s .577, Geers’ had a .137-second advantage right off the line. However it wouldn’t be enough as Aguilar and the Erick’s Racing Civic would motor past the Bug with a 10.62 to a losing 10.88. This victory allowed Erick Aguilar to move past Geers for the lead in the IDRC’s $186,000 National Championship.

In the BFGoodrich Tires Street Class presented by Sport Compact Car magazine, the field would be all Texan with the exception of Poway, California’s Ryan Carwin. Carwin made the trek with his ‘71 Celica with the hopes of gaining more national points and establishing himself in the IDRC’s Central Divisional championship also. Steven Kan captured the number one qualifying position with his 10.53 while the Supra of Henry Nguyen would be on his tail with a 10.58 effort. The two would eliminate the rest of the field on the way to an anticipated Toyota versus Mazda final. In the end, Kan would get the holeshot and take it to the winner’s circle.

In Saturday’s SR-1 Team Drag Challenge presented by Super Street, the Supra Club of Houston, Azatic, All-Motor Racing and Jisatsu racing met and put on a great show. In the end, the Supra Club of Houston would go undefeated on the way to winning The SR-1 Team drag challenge presented by Super Street. The IDRC presented the team with $1000 for the being the quickest crew in Texas.

Regarding the event, IDRC National Director Michael Ferrara said, "The All-Motor class has gone from a side show to center stage in our first three 2002 events. We never expected these racers to be able to put on such an exciting show. It’s the most competitive class in all of import and sport compact drag racing.” With planned promotions through nearly 200 O’Reilly Auto Parts stores in Texas for the November 9th and 10th return to San Antonio, it's expected that the crowd and racer participation will double. The IDRC would like to thank all of the racers, fans, media, sponsor and tracks continuing to make IDRC number one.

The IDRC's next stop will be the IDRC East Coast Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway in Reading, PA. This is the East Coast’s quickest track and more world records will be set. All of the top racers have already confirmed appearances and the event is looking to bring over 10,000 to Pennsylvania to establish a new state record for events.