June 19, 2015 – Shayne Lawson was the first to compete in the Randy Meyer Racing Team’s brand new Top Alcohol Dragster, and piloted the Smart Chicken, Reasor’s dragster to the semi-finals at Tulsa Raceway Park for the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Central Regional event.
Built by Copeland Race Cars and Fabrication, the new A/Fuel Dragster was tested on Wednesday and Thursday of last week for the first time, and powered to the quarter-mile finish line in 5.41 seconds.
“It handles like a Cadillac,” said Shayne. “Chase built an outstanding race car.”
Shayne drove a best time of 5.51 seconds at 261 mph during qualifying to claim the 8th position out of 14 cars, while Randy Meyer piloted his Top Alcohol Dragster to claim the 2nd qualifying spot with a 5.36 ET at 269 mph.
With high temperatures close to 100°F, tuning the injected nitro cars were tricky, but Randy Meyer was able to tune the Smart Chicken, Reasor’s dragster to run a 5.43 ET at 257 mph for the first round win over the number one qualifier. Unfortunately, Randy had trouble with his car, and smoked the tires to lose round one of eliminations.
Moving onto second round, Shayne was up against Michael Manners. Shayne had a handle on the A/Fuel car and got off the starting line first, but soon had trouble as the tires went up in smoke and Shayne had to let off the throttle to abort the run.
“Randy Meyer and his team did an excellent job of putting the new car together and making me as comfortable as possible in it. I couldn’t ask for a better car or crew and owner. Thanks to Smart Chicken and Reasor’s for the support,” said Shayne.
“We are very proud of the results we saw this weekend from the new car,” said Randy Meyer. “We were hoping for a Randy Meyer Racing all final round like last year, but we will take what we got. The hot and rainy conditions were hard to tune around, but we were able to make the best of it to get to the semi-finals. We see promising results, and hope the momentum continues this year for Shayne and the new car from Copeland’s.”
Thank you to Smart Chicken, Reasor’s grocery store, and Meyer Truck Center for helping us this weekend.
We would like to thank our other Randy Meyer Racing partners: Lucas Oil, NGK Spark Plugs, GUNK, Quik-Latch Products, Boninfante, Taylor Cable, ARP, MAHLE Clevite, Hedman Hedders, Moroso, Good Year Tires.
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