The Curious Case of the 2015 Pro Street Power Adder class finale!

I've been talking about it often, but it bears repeating just how interesting the PS/PA class was in 2015. Let's face it, as soon as news spread that Lutz wasn't going to make the second day, all the drama went right out of Unlimited. The new Ultimate Iron class only had two entries, but PS/PA had 12, including guys with multiple class wins, including guys with multiple 7 second averages before, so it figured to be a barn burner right from the start, and for the first four days, that group didn't disappoint despite several of the heavies fading out early.

Steve Fagan's Pro-Charged BBC 94 Blazer has averaged 9.18 for the five days as far back as 2010, and ran as quick as 9.04 on Drag week. 2015 was the ole' workhorse Blazer's 9th Drag Week, so when Steve had to settle for an off the pace 10.24 on the 4th day, you can understand how he might feel he had nothing left to prove at St. Louis, after all he had been in fifth place most of the week, behind three seven second machines, and another solidly in the eights. Forty-five minutes into Friday's the first session, on a hot and greasy surface, the Blazer spun pretty hard at the hit, black tracked and wiggled for the first hundred feet or so, and carded a 9.86-148. Could he have came back and shaved a couple tenths off? Sure he could've, the thing went 9.29 at the same mph on Monday, but, as I mentioned, he and the Blazer had nothing left to prove, and he turned the slip in, one , done, DW15 in the books.

The same scenario played out for our resident hitter, Matt Blasco, and his awesome '72 Dart. His Friday blast proved once again that the Predator headed monster was the class of the field as he carded yet another 7.71-178. Perhaps the only clue that he may have left a little on the table was that he was down a few mph from his previous 7.7 romps, but really did he need to squeeze into the 7.6's to impress us? Certainly not, and with the untimely 16.9 from Thursday it wasn't like he was going to sweeten the average any.

Tom McGilton's Mega-buck '13 ZL-1 Camaro ran a 7.88-186 to clinch his first class win in five attempts, despite the fact that he wasn't the quickest car in the class on any of the five days. Meanwhile Tina and David Pierce finished up with an 8.88 which was a couple tenths off the consistent 8.50's from earlier. The Colorado is a true street Truck, and nearly eight hundred pounds heavier than her old pro-stock style S-10, so finishing the week only a couple tenths slower than last years average had to be rewarding for them.