BRANNON, HOLZHAUER WIN JR. TOP FUEL TITLES; ROBERSON RUNS 4.25!

Alex Brannon of Rogersville, Ala., and Braeden Holzhauer from Nashville, Ill., earned Top Fuel Eliminator honors with solid low four-second runs...in 330 feet! Gateway International Raceway in Madison, Ill., hosted the two-day/two-event Midwest Junior Dragster Super Series and attracted an amazing 24 Top Fuel Junior Dragsters for two days of competition. Holzhauer won the Mychron Outlaw battle over Georgian Matt Gillen on the first day of competition with a best of 4.30 while Brannon, (shown above), stopped Ohio's Scott Chitty in the second day's Holzhauer Auto & Motorsports program finale after five rounds between 4.273 and 4.286.

North Carolina's Megan Roberson, (shown), pushed her wheelstanding (!) Monster Energy Drink rig to an amazing 4.255 for Low ET in a corrected elevation of over 3500 feet. Although speeds aren't clocked for the 330-foot distance, most of the TF Juniors exceed 75 mph. Low 1.3-second sixty-foot ETs are common and the performances show potential for 6.5-second, 105 mph eighth-mile clockings and 10.2-second, 130 mph quarter-mile passes...if their single-cylinder fuel motors weren't equipped with a 331-foot-long fuse! 

The Midwest Junior Series holds twelve events at six different tracks during the season with each two-event weekend offering a total of eleven different eliminator categories as well as Top Fuel qualifying and eliminations each day. The Gateway event drew more than two hundred sportsman entries. For more information, go to http://www.midwestjrseries.com.  (Bret Kepner photos) [6/10/2008]