Mon, 03 Nov 2014, 20:02 PM Biondo, Williams Clinch World Championships

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GLENDORA, Calif. - Peter Biondo locked up the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Super Stock World Championship and Austin Williams clinched his first in Stock Eliminator this past weekend.

Peter Biondo

Biondo racked up 690 points with four wins in five final rounds to secure his fifth Super Stock title to go along with one each in both Stock and Super Gas. The Maspeth, N.Y. , racer grabbed a pair of wins early in the season winning the divisional event at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park in Phoenix, and the NHRA National event in Vegas in March where he also won in Stock Eliminator taking his national event win total to 48. He then added another pair of divisional wins at Atlanta Dragway and Maple Grove Raceway and was well on his way to the championship.

Biondo added a runner-up finish at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park before securing the championship this past weekend when Jimmy DeFrank, the only competitor that could catch Biondo, lost in round four of the NHRA Toyota Nationals in Las Vegas.

Biondo's seven championships put him second only to Frank Manzo in NHRA Lucas Oil Series World Championships. He has also clinched the 2014 Super Stock Northeast Division Championship giving him 14 titles at the division level.

Austin Williams

Williams also had a hot streak early in the season grabbing three wins in his first six outings. He won the JEGS Cajun SPORTSnationals at No Problem Raceway, Belle Rose, La., and then followed it up with a divisional win at Texas Motorplex and a win in Topeka, Kan., at the NHRA Kansas Nationals. He added a win at the Heartland Park Topeka divisional event in July, and runner up finishes at S.R.C.A. Dragstrip in Great Bend, Kan., and at the O'Reilly NHRA Route 66 Nationals at Route 66 Raceway near Chicago.

Topping out at 712 points, the only one that could mathematically catch Williams was second generation driver Jimmy Hidalgo Jr., but he lost in the fourth round in Las Vegas giving the 24 year old Williams the championship to go along with his 2013 NHRA Lucas Oil South Central Division Super Comp Championship.

The Burleson, Texas, racer was also in the hunt for the Super Comp World Championship and should finish in the top three having closed out two of his three final round appearances with wins at the national event in Houston and at Thunder Valley Raceway Park outside Oklahoma City.