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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TONGLET
EARNS FOURTH DESTROYER WIN OF THE SCREAMIN' EAGLE AHDRA CHAMPIONSHIP
SEASON
Shigematsu
Earns Nitro Top Fuel Victory
COMMERCE,
Ga. (May 28, 2007) – L.E. Tonglet has earned the Destroyer category
win at four of the first five events of the Screamin' Eagle championship
AHDRA season. Not bad for a guy who won just one race in the same
category in 2006.
Tonglet
snagged his fourth Destroyer victory of the season by beating Ronnie
Fensick Sunday in the final round at the Stone Mountain Harley-Davidson
Southern Nationals at Atlanta Dragway. Tonglet turned in a 9.343-second
pass at 136.57 mph to beat Fensick's 9.426 at 137.93 in Fensick's first
final round appearance of the season.
Tonglet
also was the top qualifier (9.195) followed by Wanda Poff (9.337) and
Fensick (9.346) to round out the top three.
Tak
Shigematsu equaled his win total in Nitro Top Fuel racing from 2006 with
his victory over Doug Vancil. The Ehime, Japan native rode his Don
Johnson Racing Harley-Davidson to the victory in his first final round
appearance of the season. Shigematsu recorded a 6.752 at 178.76, topping
Vancil's 11.341 at 74.52 on his Vance & Hines Motorsports
Harley-Davidson.
Jay
Turner was the No. 1 qualifier in the Nitro Top Fuel category after
turning in a 6.498 while Steve Stordeur was second (6.559) and Joey
Sternotti was third (6.578). Shigematsu and Vancil were fifth and
eighth, respectively.
Greg
Best beat Chip Sutinen for the Screamin' Eagle Performance (SEP) victory
on Sunday. Best earned his second win in as many final rounds with an
11.650 to top Sutinen's 11.450.
Joey
Talbott earned his first win in his second final round appearance of the
year in the ET category. Talbott recorded an 11.633 to beat Roberta
Seaman, who fouled at the starting line.
The
next AHDRA event is the Roeder Harley-Davidson Buckeye Nationals in
Norwalk, Ohio on June 9-10.