Maddern Racing Dedicates Gatornational Victory to Walt Rhoades

Salt Lake City, UT, March 18, 2011 --(PR.com)-- With weather conditions as good as 1200 feet below sea level in the morning hours at Florida’s premier racing facility, Gainesville Raceway, the timing couldn’t have been better for all the teams in attendance.

The Peen Rite / Clean Boost Top Alcohol Dragster of Chris Demke and Jerry Maddern was in fact one of the benefactors of those conditions.

With an oversized DMPE MKII injector hat mounted on the dragster for the first round of qualifying, Demke led his team to a 5.255 elapse time that held up through three sessions into the first round of eliminations.

“The Gorilla Injector hat received a lot of attention,” lamented Demke. “Unfortunately, for the second and third qualifier, the dragster pulled the front end and I had to abort both runs.

“Since we were there in honor of Adam’s dad, Walt, we wanted to go back to basics with what we knew and put the original injector back on for eliminations. In the second and third rounds of eliminations, at a race where every round was so tough, we still ran in the mid 5.30’s even though the dragster was shaking and I was having to pedal the throttle each time.

“Prior to the final round, Adam Rhoades made a key tuning correction and the car went straight down the groove for the win. When we were handed the trophy, it was just amazing that we accomplished what we set out to do and that was to dedicate this race with a Win to Adam’s father, Walt Rhoades.”

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