It was an old school victory for the team similar to those of the match race days when teams barnstormed drag strips across the country, blowing in during the morning, qualifying and taking the event win at night. Meadors made his one and only qualifying run Saturday around lunch time, unloading a career best 6.275 @ 231.97 to qualify 4th. Post-run inspection yielded a burned up transmission requiring a lengthy pit thrash prior to opening round eliminations which Meadors survived by pedaling his way to a 6.718 victory over a red-lighting Bob Bunker Jr.

Using the alternate transmission which threw off the tune-up completely due to different gear ratios, Meadors yet again escaped with a semi-final victory, pedaling down track to defeat the '55 Chevy of Jay Deidrich. In the final, lady luck was again riding shotgun in Meadors' big silver Camaro as fellow finalist Scott Bailey instantly lost traction at the start of the race - giving Meadors an easy victory. He again pedaled all the way down track to post a final round time of a 6.950 @ 187.093 for the second win of his Pro Mod career.

In similar fashion to his last Sacramento Raceway outing back in July, Meadors got the jump on his competition off the line with superior reaction times each elimination round. "The Goodguys Racing Team keeps growing and growing this year," Meadors said. "We didn't have the right tune-up on the car after blowing the transmission. But I'm working hard on the 'Tree and it's paid off. My crew chief's Jason Bunker and Jeff Accacian with crew member Andy Fereira worked together the best they could to patch it up and get me to the starting line and we prevailed. In racing you have to catch some lucky breaks and today was ours. I'm really proud of the team for our career best ET and speed. We are gonna be tough the rest of the year."

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Thanks to all the sponsors.Red Line Oil, Comp Cams and Goodguys Rod & Custom Association.

Courtesy of John Drummond