Over 500 Competitors and 16 Classes Highlight 4th Annual Street Car Braggin Rights – Jim Braun, Keith Rhea and Aaron Miller Led Winners List
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For the fourth time, Street Car Braggin Rights and its creator, Nate Prater, hosted a slew of street-legal rides in the Carolinas, with record attendance pushing racing action into the early morning hours.
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The 2025 edition of Street Car Braggin Rights (SCBR) would mark a few firsts for the event. It would be the first time SCBR would be held at Rockingham Dragway in Richmond, North Carolina, as well as the first time roll racing was added to the event. It would also expand the event to three full days of racing, May 15th through the 17th, with an optional test day for drag racing on May 14th.
Roll racing would take center stage on Thursday, May 15th, with four groups of vehicles based on qualifying speeds. Group A had one car qualified above 200 mph, and the 205 mph blast from Aaron Miller’s Viper got him the top spot. He worked his way through the field to match-up with number two qualifier, Jeremy Cummins, and Miller would earn the win with a 194.72 mph blast covering the 181.16 mph from Cummins.
The top qualifier in Group B was the 155 mph blast of Manny Costales, but Costales would exit eliminations at the hands of Ricardo Espinosa. The GT-R of Espinosa would enter the final round opposite fellow GT-R driver Dustin Rogers, and Espinosa would hold off Rogers’ charge for the title.
Group C came down to a lesser of foul starts, as Matthew Tyler took the title with his 2024 Toyota Supra when runner-up Josh Pickell fouled twice to disqualify himself in the final round.
Group D would come together as a consolation grouping on non-qualifiers, and the Mustang Shelby GT500 of Donna Cyrus would earn the title.
Switching to drag racing action on Friday brought a pair of qualifying runs for the main Saturday classes, as well as the start to Friday’s racing classes: SCBR index, No-Time Overdrive and No-Time Small Tire. To prove the streetability of the SCBR index class, they got to do 30 minutes of travel time around legendary Rockingham Speedway before rolling into round one.
After six rounds of competition, it would be Jimmy King opposite Keith Vaughn for the title and a $5,000 payday, and the all 10.00 index final would be over immediately when Vaughn red lighted by a heartbreaking -.0003 of-a-second, giving King the win.
The No-Time classes would draw chips for pairings, with the N/T Overdrive class sporting 28 entries for round one. The final would be a couple familiar faces, Tanner Walker and Zac Patterson, and the all-Mustang final had Walker taking out the defending champ.
On the Small Tire side, a blower versus turbo final round pitted Charles Potter opposite Kevin Mullins, and it would be Mullins piloting the twin-turbo Corvette to the win when Potter lost traction at the hit.
After three full days of racing action, the finals were set for the main classes on Saturday, and with nine classes to crown champions in from over three hundred entries, the final rounds stretched into the early hours of Sunday morning.
The All Motor class had Chad Dailey at the top of the qualifying sheet, but by the final round, it would be Stephen Shoaf and Brandon Hill battling it out, where Shoaf’s Corvette got the 9.13 to 9.44 victory.
The DCT (Dual Clutch Transmission) versus AWD (All-Wheel-Drive) class sported a twenty-car field, and after four rounds of work, an all Nissan GT-R battle with Rich Rainey and Pascal LeGault would decide the winner. LeGault got a big jump off the starting line, and that got him a holeshot win, 7.37 beating the quicker 7.28 of Rainey.
The Stick Shift class would see 32 qualifiers split into two fields of sixteen, and the slower of the two fields staged up an all 8-second final round between the Ford Mustangs of Tony Politano and Steve Shrader. At the green light, Politano left first, and stayed ahead to win via an 8.66 to an 8.89 result.
The Stick Shift Outlaw class pitted the fourth-generation Chevrolet Camaros of Jonathan Atkins and Troy Klutts, and the ‘Grubbworm’ Camaro of Atkins clocked his third-straight 6.8-second pass, a 6.85 at 208 mph, to dismiss the 7.14 at 196 mph from Klutts.
The Heavyweight class required a minimum 4200-pound ride to play, and 2024 Sick Summer winner Alan Whitaker would take not only the top qualifying spot, but the class win as well, as his 7.38 at 194 mph final round pass handled the 8.21 at 170 mph from Brian Moore.
The second largest class of Street Car Braggin Rights was the SCBR Shootout class. With 125 cars pre-registered, and room for only 64 cars in four fields of sixteen cars each, qualifying was an interesting deal. Prater made qualifying ‘blind’ with scoreboards off for all three sessions, and although driver got their run results, fields were not revealed until just before round one.
Every driver that qualified received an engraved coin to mark their spot, and with a 9.10-second bump spot for the final spot, every round of eliminations would be tough.
The quickest field, the SCBR Shootout Elite class, featured several familiar drag and drive names, including Josh Davis, Graham Hayes, and Richard Flint. The final staged up the 6-second Mustangs of Jim Braun and Jeremy Sparks, and Braun would get the win with a 6.92 at 201 mph pass.
The SCBR Shootout Wild class saw Sick Summer competitor Jeremy Ortiz roll his unique purple Nissan 240 to the final round to stage up with Florida racer Michael Chambley. Coming off a personal best 7.92 in the semifinal round, Ortiz backed it up with a 7.97 at 168 mph to stop the 8.01 at 171 mph from Chambley for the class win.
Following in the footsteps of his Street Race 8.60 class win at Sick At The Rock a month earlier, Logan Day returned to the winner circle with his supercharged Mustang in the SCBR Shootout Mild class. Facing the Honda of Jesus Chavez in the final round, Day used a better reaction time to edge out Chavez by a narrow 8.41 at 166 mph run over the 8.39 at 159 mph pass from Chavez.
The final SCBR Shootout class was the Daily one, and former National Mustang Racer Association champion Gavin Black ran the table. He qualified number one, and used superior reaction times and consistent performance to make the final round, where an 8.84 dismissed the quicker 8.75 from Tim Singleton for the victory.
That left one class remaining, the Extreme 28s, and it would be an import versus domestic final round. Keith Rhea would stage his twin-turbo Mustang opposite Mac Bronson and his single-turbo GT-R. At the start Rhea got the jump, and although Bronson stayed right with him to the finish line, Rhea got the final win light of the event via a 6.34 at 229 mph over Bronson’s close 6.35 at 228 mph.
We will have more details and photos in the next print issue of Sick The Magazine.
Written by Derek Putnam. Photos courtesy of 1320 Video.
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