With a solid history of their main event, The Circuit – A Charity With Horsepower, Michael Narx and Eric White of Drag Drive Repeat added a second event to their roster in 2025 with ‘Short Circuit,’ a two-day format drag and drive event.
After the initial event was held at Tulsa Raceway Park in 2025, Drag Drive Repeat moved it to the grassroots and well-storied Ray's Wildcat Dragstrip in Arkansas for the second helping of Short Circuit.
The Friday and Saturday format was well received, and when final racing was complete, it was a mix of familiar names in the drag and drive community, as well as some new people, on the winners list.
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The quickest class on the property would be the Power Adder class, where Mark Richardson put his name in the top spot with a 6.165 average, while Anthony Foster’s 6.192 average would claim the second spot.
The Tailgate class had a familiar name at the top of the standings, as Robert Lamparek used a 6.338 average for the win over the 6.638 average from Matthew Sixt in second.
For those that prefer the naturally aspirated way of street driving and racing, the All Motor put those machines on display, with the 6.443 average of Chad Maggard earning the victory spoils. A multi-time drag and drive participant in 2026, Corey Pant grabbed second with a 6.486 average.
The class that highlights the H-pattern manual transmission, the Stick Shift class found BJ Bax at the helm after 2 days of work with a 7.207 average, and a 7.822 average got Rich Van Allen second place.
The You Vs You class, based on the consistency and spread between a competitor’s time slips, can be a dogfight. And Short Circuit was no exception, with the top twenty competitors having less then a tenth of a second spread between their passes!
The best of the best in You vs You would be Bobby Bell and Mike Turner, with Bell’s nearly perfect .002 spread getting the slight win over the equally impressive .007 spread from Turner.
The fans of 6.50 Index got a double dose of the popular index fun, as Short Circuit hosted a 6.50 Index Heads Up class for side-by-side action, as well as a 6.50 Index class, based on averages.
The average version of the 6.50 Index class found four driver less than .025 of-a-second apart in the results, and it would be Joshua Peterson with his 6.539 average getting the win, and Paul Polizzo’s 6.557 average would be good enough for the second spot.
The heads-up version of 6.50 Index also saw a familiar name turn on the final win light, as Redhat Scotty and his Mustang GT got the win, while Chucky Skinner was the winner from the lower side of the bracket.
A no-prep heads-up OG Small Tire class, inspired by fellow drag and drive event Back to the Streets, had Shawn Fensler topping the field, and Jacoby Betts got the win on the loser side of things.
Written by Derek Putnam. Photos courtesy of Drag Drive Repeat and Redhat Scotty.
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