2025 Pure Stock Muscle Car Drag Race
 

It's just four short months away for some great pure stock racing action at the Pure Stock Muscle Car Drag Races at Mid-Michigan Motorplex near Stanton, Michigan! Please see the PSMCDR website (www.purestockdrags.com) if you need to see the rules if you are bringing a car to race and have a ton of fun. Open to spectators on Friday (qualifying) & Saturday (race day). Dan, Lyndon and I hope to see a lot of the Pontiac (and PY) faithful there!

Mid-Michigan Motorplex a little north and east of Stanton, MI. Address is 2589 N. Wyman Rd., Stanton, MI 48888

Sept. 11th, Thursday is early tech (no time trials)
Sept. 12th, Friday is tech & time trials
Sept. 13th, Saturday is the shoot-outs

Feel free to PM me with any questions...rules, cars allowable, schedule, etc.

This is an awesome event - and I plan to go again this year!!

Thanks for your support! We appreciate it!

Dennis

The weather report is looking pretty promising with a return to summer temps in the upper 70's/low 80's! What better way to spend the swan song of summer than coming to the Pure Stock Drags in beautiful mid-Michigan at the Mid-Michigan Motorplex. If you are considering bringing your Pontiac muscle car, be sure to read the rules on PSMCDR.org. The gates open for early tech on Thursday, continued tech and time trials on Friday, pairings and shoot-outs on Saturday. Spectators are welcome on Friday and Saturday.

Hope to see many of the PY family there! Introduce yourselves to Dan, Lyndon, and I at the tech table at the head of the staging lanes.

Dennis

By the way...I forgot to remind everyone that the race is open to spectators on Friday (Sept. 12) and Saturday (Sept. 13). The race flyer is broken into 2 parts since it was too big to make a single copy...

Dennis

We had another good year with great weather and a good car count. Saturday morning started with little scattered showers, but the racetrack saw it split and go north and south, so just a minor sprinkle that never got the ground wet. Morning dews were heavier! The skies cleared up and warm-up runs began at the scheduled time of 10:00 am. The total car count was down a little due to border issues for the Canadians, unfortunately, lots of aging-out in the Studebaker community, and the weather scaring some regulars from attending (their loss I guess). We had 118 cars teched by the end of Friday and by the time racing began on Saturday, we lost 10 cars to one malady, or another.

Here are the Pontiacs that brought the action. Firebirds first, then GTO’s, followed by some GP’s.

Dennis

Here are some 2nd Gen Firebirds and the A-bodies...

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More A & G bodies...

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More...

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...and a few more.

Dennis

Rick driving the T37 or Scott?

One more G body.

Scott drove the T-37 and Rick drove his '71 Hemi Super Bee.

Dennis

Thanks for adding Clark's '69 SJ GP that is loaded and managed 14.30's! I thought I posted a pic of it, but it appears I didn't. (It has the 370 hp 428, not the HO - AC, Auto, loaded.)

Dennis

Thanks for posting the pictures. Love this type of racing. Wish it was closer! Can you post some more times?

Gary, I will do that this weekend. My brother has all the printouts from the track, so I need to get them. We had 3 racers from Florida (all Chevy's).

Dennis

X2 with Gary! Great pics, Dennis

1965 GTO Bruce Hayes Tri-Power/M20/4.10 13.60’s

1967 GTO Lee Harms HO/TH400/3.73 13.40’s

1967 GTO Doug Messman HO/M20/3.90 13.30’s

1969 GTO Tony Rosenthall RAIII/M20/3.90 14.80’s

1970 GT-37 Chris Smetana 400/M20/4.33 13.20’s

1971 GTO Ron Hammer 455HO/TH400/3.31 13.20’s

1971 GTO New Guy 400/TH400/3.73 15.20’s

1971 GT-37 Kevin Ross 455HO/M22/4.10 13.40’s

1971 GT-37 Rick Mahoney 455HO/TH400/4.10 11.90’s

1972 GTO Anthony Herzog 455HO/M22/3.55 14.10’s

1969 GP-SJ Joe Zelinski 428HO/M20/3.90 14.40’s

1969 GP-SJ Clark Lumsden 428/TH400/3.23 14.30’s

1968 Firebird 400 Ryne Sanders RAII/TH400/4.10 12.50’s

1968 Firebird 400 Rick Watson RAII/M21/4.10 12.60’s

1968 Firebird 400 Lara Smetana 400HO/TH400/3.36 14.20’s

1969 Firebird 400 New Guy 400HO/M20/3.73 13.60’s

1969 Firebird 400 Adrian Beltrame RAIV/M21/4.33 12.20’s

1972 Trans Am Tyler Messman 455HO/M22/3.73 12.70’s

1974 Formula 455 Paul Aragona SD455/TH400/3.90 12.20’s

I need to confirm names and ET's yet...best guesses as I recall in the tower on race day.

Dennis

Impressive times! I'm especially impressed by the 72' and 74' Fbody times as they are so heavy. Trying to get them off the starting line with stockish tires has got to be a trick.

Ian Ashton has a great video of this year's race, so check it out on YouTube. He did some drone coverage, all the rounds from Saturday and even a couple of in-car videos down the track. Very nicely done and you can see how the 2nd Gen Firebirds launch.

Dennis