Maggio Dominates the WCOPMA Mission Event!

assignment, BC –final weekend the West Coast Outlaw pro Mod association held their 1/3 event of the 2012 season at assignment Raceway Park in challenge, British Columbia, Canada. It marked the first time the WCOPMA held an event outside of the ‘States and Mike Maggio made certain it would be memorable.

Maggio led qualifying with a string of 3 5-2d runs, the great being a five.826/253.73 to take to #1 spot. not far at the back of Maggio was Dan Nickelson with a profession high-quality five.890/229.29 accompanied through Rod Burbage’s 6.022/239.36. Jay Syverson, Joe Delehay, Wade Sjostrom, Duane Grosart and Trevor Lowe crammed out the rest of the 8-vehicle area.

lamentably Lowe had a pinnacle quit crash at some point of the second qualifying session on Saturday. thankfully he walked faraway from the accident with no severe harm however could no longer be capable of go back on Sunday for eliminations which gave Maggio a unmarried in spherical 1. Maggio ripped off every other 5-second skip going 5.905/261.09 on his first round single; a world report MPH quantity for a pro Mod type car that is stirring pretty a debate in the course of the net.

Maggio would emerge as being the handiest pinnacle 1/2 qualifier going on to round 2 after Burbage went -.004 pink towards Sjostrom, Delehay ran his fine bypass of the weekend going 6.187/223.10 driving via tire shake to defeat Syverson. Grosart picked up the spherical win after Nickelson went on a wild journey at approximately 330 ft crossing lanes and tagging the wall. Nickelson also walked away with out a serious injury after the spoil.

In spherical two Maggio might face Delehay and Sjostrom would face Grosart. Delehay knew he had to hop it up to conquer the constant 5-2nd automobile of Maggio however he hopped it up a little too much shaking the tires at the hit and watching Maggio run his slowest skip of the weekend but nevertheless taking the spherical win with a 6.194/255.39. Sjostrom become running in the mid 6.50-range all weekend and got round Grosart in round 2 with a 6.653/209.49 to assert a gap inside the final spherical in opposition to the Maggio Motorsports group.

while the remaining  automobiles had been equipped for the final spherical it turned into time to declare an event winner. Maggio turned into up for the mission and ran a five.940/261.02 to get the event win over Sjostrom’s tire smoking 10.116/176.02.

Mike Maggio and the Maggio Motorsports team ran the desk in project qualifying #1, putting a new WCOPMA ET report (five.826), winning the event, claiming the RBS Superchargers low qualifier bonus as well as the Brad Anderson corporations event winner bonus and to top all of it off walking world report speeds, backing it up within 1-percentage and giving every person some thing to speak about until the following time the crew hits the song.

The West Coast Outlaw seasoned Mod affiliation’s next occasion could be at Sonoma Raceway (officially Infineon Raceway) in Sonoma, California on July 20-22 and the Maggio Motorsports group will be in attendance seeking to lower back up the 260+ MPH runs visible in venture to show it became now not a fluke. The track, air and electricity will absolutely be there for Maggio to repeat records and take claim of the world’s fastest pro Mod.