With or without wheelie bars, Mark Paquette has always been known for setting dragstrips on fire with blistering performance. But in 2016, Paquette—also the tuner on his 700 horsepower, turbocharged, Pro Street Suzuki Hayabusa—added season dominating consistency to his resume.…
Mark Paquette and Bud Yoder Peaking at Season’s End
It’s the right time of year to get hot. Teammates Mark Paquette and Bud Yoder swept the McIntosh Machine & Fabrication Pro Street table on their turbocharged Suzuki Hayabusas at the double-race NHDRO World Finals on September 25-27 at Lucas…
Terry McIntosh Machine and Bud Yoder Planning for Another Record Performance
Where will the Pro Street record stand at the end of 2015? There are some races known for record-setting performances on the horizon. In the first half of the season in 2014, Pro Street competitors were racing to be the…
Paquette Motorcycle Drag Racing Winning With and Without Bars
With wheelie bars or without, in Pro Comp or Pro Street, the Mark Paquette Racing team proved up to the task of breaking records and winning in 2014. Everybody knows that Paquette’s turbo-methanol Kawasaki Funnybike is an absolute monster. When…
MIROCK’s Dragbike Battle Royale – a Record Breaker
The MIROCK Fast by Gast Fall Nationals, featuring the $10,000 Pro Street Battle Royale, Oct. 3-5, from Maryland International Raceway, amidst cool Autumn air, lush surroundings and an expert track prep, was expected to be a record-breaker. The event still managed to…
Three Championship Year for RMR
No one raced a Pro Street bike as often, as hard, and as winningly as Ronnie Mitchell Racing did in 2011. Riding the hot pink Suzuki Hayabusa known as Rizzo, Bud Yoder took both the Milan Dragway and NHDRO (No…
Huge Crowd Witnesses Rockingham Opener
A large, grudge-hungry crowd flocked down from North Carolina’s Sand Hills to Steve Earwood’s Rockingham Dragway for the March 19-20 Mickey Thompson Performance Tires MIRock Superbike Series Honda/Suzuki of Sanford Spring Bike Open. They witnessed Northeast motormouth “Chachi” trashtalk his…
Yoder Records Quickest Ever Street Bike Run
The crisp, cool air and low corrected altitude at Maryland International Raceway in early autumn for the MIROCK Fast by Gast Superbike Finals, Oct. 2-3, had fans and racers alike anticipating unprecedented elapsed-times. Orient Express Pro Street racer Bud Yoder…
MIR’s Bikefest a Stroke of Brilliance
The annual all-out motorcycle party known as the Fast By Gast / WPGC Bikefest played out in unseasonably perfect weather at Royce Miller’s Maryland International Raceway. The event’s largest crowd ever gathered for record-breaking motorcycle drag racing, crazy stunts, gorgeous…