NOPI Englishtown May 3-4th 2008

7 May, 2008 General Motors, NOPI, NOS Energy Drink

This weekend, for the first time ever, NOPI came to Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ. For NOPI’s inaugural event in New Jersey, NOPI sure pulled off an outstanding event. The 2008 season hasn’t been the best for NOPI when it comes to weather and this weekend was no different. Saturday the weather was cold and misty for most of the day which meant that the action would have to wait and hope for a more forgiving Sunday. The forecast looked much better for Sunday though and by 11AM the skies had cleared up and the event was filling with spectators.

There were over 21,000 people in attendance to check out variety of events that NOPI Motorsports has to offer. Englishtown is known for great racing action and this weekend didn’t disappoint. Racers from all over the country and Puerto Rico came out in full force to see who would take home top honors this weekend. NOPI had 201 drag racers show up to compete this weekend and also had 25 drifters show up to contend for the top prize in NOPI Drift. Car show competitors also arrived from all over to see who had the hottest car. There were cars on display for every type of motorsport fan, from old school Honda’s to supercharged Hummer’s. In total there were 550 entrants that registered to show their rides in the car show.

NOPI is all about motorsports, so of course there was incredible Drag Racing and Drifting all weekend long. Here are the Drag and Drift results from this weekend.

All Motor

Name Car ET

1st Jeremy Lookofsky 2006 Honda Civic 9.253

2nd Norris Prayoonto 2004 Honda Insight 9.455

Extreme Dragster

1st Dean Karns 1998 C&F Dragster 6.626

2nd Brian Fitzpatrick 2000 Spitzer Dragster 6.788

Hot Rod

1st Kenny Tran 2006 Scion Tc 8.012

2nd Bryan Jimenez 2008 Chevy Cobalt 8.302

Modified

1st Brent Rau 1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse 7.086

2nd Boris Rojas 1988 Mazda RX-7 22.060

Power Street

1st Ben Frieman 1994 Honda Civic 10.440

2nd Stephen Lockett 1996 Dodge Neon 10.671

Pro FWD

1st Marty Ladwig 2007 Chevy Cobalt 7.167

2nd Gary Gardella 2007 Chevy Cobalt 7.397

Pro RWD

1st Carlos Montano 2007 Nissan 350Z 6.953

2nd Jorge Lazcano 1996 Mazda MX6 7.061

Quick 16

1st Hector Suarez 1982 Toyota Corolla 8.501

2nd Brenda Paddock 1983 Camaro 8.722

SCTuned Pure Street

1st Loan Nguyen 1995 Honda Civic 10.961

2nd Time Grey 1994 Honda Civic 11.165

Turbo Street

1st Brian Ballard 2006 Chevy Cobalt 9.527

2nd Kevin Van Natten 2004 Dodge Neon 9.882

Unlimited Street

1st William Thomas 1986 Ford Mustang 8.786

2nd Dan Dixon 1993 Toyota Supra Broke

This was the first time NOPI Drift came to the famed road course as English Town. The drifters showed up and really put on a great show this weekend letting it all hang out.

Here is a breakdown of how the drivers fared in this weekends great competition.

Top 3

1st Ryan Tuerck

2nd Nathan Brasz

3rd Forest Wang

Round 3

Top 4

Nathan Brasz 1990 Nissan 240SX Winner

Stewart Leask 1998 Nissan 240SX

Ryan Tuerck 2007 Pontiac Solstice GXP Winner

Forrest Wang 1995 Nissan 240 SX

Round 2