Maryland\u2019s Fredy Scriba has been having the best season of his PDRA Pro Nitrous career, starting with two runner-up finishes in the first three races. He then won the Summit Racing Equipment PDRA ProStars all-star event to hoist his first PDRA 660 Man trophy, but a points-earning win eluded him until Saturday night. <\/p>\n
Lined up against nitrous Pro Modified legend \u201cTricky\u201d Rickie Smith in the final round of the ProFabrication PDRA DragWars presented by PST Driveshafts at GALOT Motorsports Park, Scriba won when Smith went red on a 3.872-second, 205.16 MPH pass. Scriba was ready for a race, though, as he set low E.T. of race day with his 3.684 at 206.54 in his Musi-powered \u201cSorcerer\u201d \u201969 Camaro.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like I\u2019ve done a good job tuning, just not a good job driving the whole year,\u201d said Scriba, who thanked his parents, Fred and Anne, his crew, engine builder Pat Musi, chassis builder Robert Hayes, partners like Ty-Drive, Liberty\u2019s Gears, Neal Chance Converters, and Pro Wire, as well as his wife and kids cheering him on from home. \u201cI feel like I\u2019m driving a lot better, so hopefully it\u2019s showing now a little bit. You\u2019ve got to have both. If you don\u2019t have both, you\u2019re not going to go rounds. We\u2019ve got some stuff to work on, but we\u2019re ecstatic. We made two finals earlier in the year, won ProStars, but it means a lot to win one of these points races. The competition is really tough.\u201d<\/p>\n
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With points leader Jim Halsey suffering a weekend-ending crash in Friday\u2019s final qualifier and No. 2 in points Tommy Franklin losing in the opening round, Scriba took over the points lead with just one race remaining. The three drivers are separated by less than a round going into the Pro Line Racing Brian Olson Memorial World Finals presented by ProCharger, Oct. 17-20, at Virginia Motorsports Park.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019re more than happy no matter what happens at the next race,\u201d Scriba added. \u201cI think this has been an awesome year. We\u2019ll just go up there and do our best. That\u2019s all we can do. We have nothing to hang our heads about, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scriba qualified third and won the first round with a 3.717 at 204.63 next to a red-lighting John Vergotz. He cut a .016 reaction time and set low E.T. of the second round, a 3.709 at 205.10, to beat Brian Shrader and his 3.71 in a rematch of the final round at the season opener. His reaction times helped him win in the semifinals, where he posted a 3.721 at 204.82 to hold off Marcus Butner and his 3.718 for a holeshot win.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Smith, who qualified No. 8 in his Musi-powered Parkway Ford \u201922 Mustang, eliminated past Elite Top Sportsman world champion Buddy Perkinson in the first round on the strength of a 3.718 at 204.11. A consistent 3.717 at 204.51 followed on a second-round single. Like Scriba, a holeshot advantage helped him advance to the final round when he ran a 3.708 at 205.13 to defeat Tony Wilson and his 3.703.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This story was originally published on October 8, 2024. <\/p>\n
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