Bartone and jackson boys take baytown title

BARTONE AND JACKSON BOYS TAKE BAYTOWN TITLE

<img src="http://www.insidetopalcohol.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=219&thumb=1&d=1271038484" align="right" borders="0"/>Baytown, Texas – It’s been said, consistency wins championships in the high-powered sport of NHRA Championship Drag Racing. After running 3-consecutive 5.66-second elapsed times at this past weekend’s Division 4 Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series event contested at Houston Raceway Park, the Rick Jackson Racing Top Alcohol Funny Car team captured their second straight Division 4 event title.


Tony Bartone, the talented driver of Rick Jackson’s potent Ford Mustang Centre Pointe Collision Center sponsored flopper qualified in the number one spot in a talented field of four TAFC’s in Baytown, Texas. His pole position set up a round one match-up against the reigning NHRA Division 3 champion Chris Foster and his talented crew chief Will Hanna. Foster did his job at the flash of the green light, capturing a solid reaction time advantage, but he could not run with Bartone and the tuning talents of Steve Boggs. Bartone was in the lead by the time they reached the 330-foot marker and never looked back, taking the round one victory with a solid 5.668 second elapsed time.

On the other side of the ladder, Lee Calloway defeated Ro Yale, recording his best pass of the weekend, a 5.766 ET, while Yale struggled down the HRP quarter-mile recording a 6.948 ET. With Calloway’s victory, the final round with Jackson’s Santa Clarita, Calif. based team was set. Bartone entered the money round with a tenth of a second advantage, but in drag racing, past performance is no guarantee of success.

In this case, past performance was a perfect indicator for Bartone, running yet another 5.66, this time with a 3 while, Callaway chattered the tires hard on the launch and eventually crossed the center-line trying to step things up against the California invaders, then coasted to a 13-second ET, handing the Wally to the Centre Pointe / FireIce.com team.

“I am very proud of the efforts of our team once again this weekend,” noted team owner Rick Jackson, the owner of Centre Pointe Collision Center in Southern California. “When you can run three elapsed times within 0.006 seconds in changing weather conditions during the weekend, your car is going to be hard to beat. And we accomplished this task. Racing in Division 4 against some very good racers challenges our team to provide their best efforts at all times. They always work very hard and I’m very pleased with our team effort once again.”

Tony Bartone and the Rick Jackson Racing team realize their race victory is not without the efforts of their hard working crew of Chris, Lew, Javier and Scott, who put in count-less hours working behind the scenes to insure the Centre Pointe Collision Center's / FireIce.com TAFC is race ready no matter what conditions may hold. The next event for the Jackson Racing team will be held in Tulsa, Ok scheduled for June 25-27.

To learn more about Rick Jackson Racing please visit their website at http://www.rickjacksonracing.com