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Quartuccio meanwhile put together a solid 3.76 at 200.35-mph lap to take the Lights Out 13 RVW trophy and traditional Duck X winner's leather cowboy hat home to Wallingford, CT.Īfter having gone to the final at No Mercy 12 last fall at SGMP, Quartuccio revealed he came to Lights Out with the same tune-up.

Not helping matters, his car quickly entered a significant wheelstand, forcing Markiewicz to pedal and slow to a 3.77 at 198.76-mph pass. 055 reaction time, while Markiewicz was uncharacteristically late with a. That final saw Quartuccio leave with a decent if not stellar. 021 holeshot by Jamie Hancock and earn lane choice for the final against Quartuccio. Markiewicz came back on Sunday with a 3.68 at 199.32 to beat Calvin Franco, then ran 3.64 at 202.24 to negate a. Meeting him there would be Markiewicz, who also made a pair of solo runs on Saturday after Justin Swanstrom was a no show for round two in his unique, turbocharged 2018 Lexus. 021 lead, while Quartuccio dug in for a 3.68-seconds trip at 203.46 mph to the final round. Waiting for him in the semis was the soon-to-be-traction-deprived Lee, who got away first with a solid. 018 headstart, but Quartuccio's 3.60 at 204.88 package was enough to beat Giust's 3.64 at 205.7 mph by 11-thousandths of a second. Regardless, he advanced to the quarterfinals on Sunday against Giust, where the Canadian earned a. Meanwhile, Quartuccio opened his race day with a solid 3.68-seconds solo pass, then had another very fortunate single in round two when he opened with a red light start, then lost traction and coasted to a nine-second finish. He again set low ET for the round in Sunday's quarterfinals with a 3.54 win over Tim Meisner and appeared a lock to the final however, his race ultimately ended with another loss of traction off the hit in the semis against Quartuccio.

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Series standouts Eric Dillard, Shawn Ayers, and Ev Bernardo were not so fortunate, however, as each was eliminated in the first round by significantly lower qualified entries.īut Lee reestablished himself as the class of the field in round two on Saturday night with a 3.49 solo pass, marking the lone foray into the forties by anyone for the weekend. The opening round of racing Saturday afternoon came under unseasonably hot conditions and saw a tricky track surface take several teams by surprise, including Lee, who got away with a tire-striking, eight-second result thanks to a competition bye. Next came Georgia's own Norm Bryson with a 3.57 at 206.57 in his nitrous-fed '19 Corvette, with Bryan Markiewicz of Florida third at 3.61 at 204.73 mph in another Procharger-boosted '69 Camaro.Ĭanadian racer Paolo Giust put his supercharged '69 Camaro fourth with a 3.65 blast at 205.60 mph and Connecticut's Quartuccio filled out the top five with a 3.68 at 201.13 in his Procharger '69 Camaro. So yeah, that extra round just makes it that much harder to be perfect and that's why this win means so much to us.'Ĭalifornia's Jason Lee qualified his Procharger-equipped '69 Camaro on top of the 24-car RVW entry list with a 3.54-seconds effort at an also class-leading 208.07 mph. I don't even know how those guys do that. That extra round throws a lot more into it, right? You've gotta' give those bracket guys credit that run six, seven, eight rounds for a win. But you add another round and now it's five times. 'To get the trophy at the end of the day, you have to be perfect four times in a row. But drag racing by its nature pits 16 or 32 teams against each other and requires a perfect result from each of them to win every time they go to the line. He explains traditional stick-and-ball sports like football, baseball, hockey, provide a 50:50 opportunity for each team to win and plenty of opportunities for good plays to overcome bad plays throughout a game. 'It's a huge win because the extra round of competition throws a dynamic into it that makes it super hard,' Quartuccio stated. the World win on a 32-car ladder at Lights Out 13. No stranger to the Duck X winner's circle at SGMP with a couple of Outlaw 632 wins in his past, and even a Magic 8 win over the top eight RVW qualifiers for No Mercy 12 just last fall, Ken Quartuccio finally broke through with his first Duck X Radials vs. 24-27, for Lights Out 13, the first of three major Duck X Productions events at the track this year. the World class drew heavy hitters from across the country and even a couple of Canucks to South Georgia Motorsports Park Mar.

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