“I think we’ll see a bump spot in the .30s,” DME tuner Andy Sawyer also said in Indy. “You could say the .20s, but that’s gonna be tough.”
Dunigan went out in the first round of eliminations, but the semis boiled down to the top four qualifiers. Ficher’s 6.95 beat Teasley and Angela took out teammate Gladstone—an unfortunate pairing for the team—7.002 to 7.017. So after all was said and done, the final of the biggest Pro Street race ever would be settled between two riders—Ficher and DME’s Angela—who’d only very recently entered the class and neither whom had ever won. NO ONE predicted two Pro Street neophytes would reach the final and battle for the big check, but that’s exactly what happened.
“Terence stayed in the 7.0s from testing all the way through the 6.90s on raceday,” said DME team boss Dimey Eddinger. “He kept his head straight and I couldn’t ask for anything better. And Andy and Skip (Gladstone, Joey’s dad) made a tuning change that made a big difference in the final.
“To have won three straight Pro Street races with three different riders (Gladstone at Indy NHDRO/ManCup, Dunigan at Atco MIRock, and Angela’s Battle Royale win), I really couldn’t ask for a better performance from my team than what we have going on right now.”
Joey Gladstone and the DME team take the Pro Street points lead into the final MIRock Superbike Series race of 2013, the Lee’s Performance World Finals, November 1-3 at legendary Rockingham Dragway, North Carolina.
Terence Angela and Dimey Eddinger thank DME Racing http://www.dmeracing.com/ , Penske Shocks http://www.penskeshocks.com/ , Catalyst Racing Composites http://www.catalystracingcomposites.com/ , NLR http://www.nlrsystems.com/ , Vanson Leathers http://www.vansonleathers.com/ , Lucas Oil http://www.lucasoil.com/ , CP/Carillo http://www.cp-carrillo.com/ , Web Cams http://www.webcamshafts.com/ , Worldwide Bearings http://www.worldwidebearings.com/ , Cometic Gaskets http://www.cometic.com/ , R&D Motorsports http://www.r-dmotorsports.com/ , VP Racing Fuel http://www.vpracingfuels.com/ , Dunigan Racing http://www.duniganracing.com/ , and MTC http://www.mtceng.com/
This report was prepared by Tim Hailey. Enjoy everything there is to read, see and watch about motorcycle drag racing and more at http://www.eatmyink.com