2026 Summit Racing Equipment No Mercy 17 Results: Daniel, Nale, Weddle, McCain, Schwartz and Scherer Win at SGMP; Quartuccio and Schloss Repeat as Champions

One of radial racing’s marquee weeks is back at South Georgia Motorsports Park. Duck X Productions’ Summit Racing Equipment No Mercy 17 runs Oct. 19 through 25 in Valdosta, Georgia, two weeks later than planned after rain washed out the original Oct. 7 through 11 dates. It is a points race on the FuelTech Radial Outlaws Racing Series tour, with Radial vs. the World, Pro 275, Limited Drag Radial, X275, Ultra Street and X255 headlining a card that also carries index, no-time and specialty classes. This Drag Illustrated Event Hub is the permanent record of the week: every winner, both championships, the final qualifying orders, every elimination round the tower released, the storylines and Capri Wesley’s photography from the property.

Champions crowned at SGMP

Radial vs. the World: Ken Quartuccio, back-to-back. Six months out of the car, Quartuccio qualified No. 1, beat Michael Hawes and Jordan Lazic (3.473 on a .017 light in the semifinal) and clinched the championship before the final. Lyle Barnett, who came in leading the points in Tommy Youmans’ “Elvira” Camaro, lost round one to Manny Buginga, 3.485 to 3.492, and the title went to the man who had been sitting second all summer.

Pro 275: Grantley Schloss, back-to-back. The Brisbane, Australia racer needed to get past points leader Mo Hall in the semifinal to lock it up, and did. He then wheelied in the final and lost to Nale, which did not matter. Two straight Pro 275 championships for a ’67 Nova that flew across the Pacific to race.

Eliminations, round by round

Results as released by the tower and confirmed trackside. Where the tower did not release a round sheet, the pairing and winner are listed without times, with lane choice first. RT is reaction time.

Radial vs. the World, 8-car field

Final: Chris Daniel def. Ken Quartuccio. Daniel 3.463 at 214 (.050 light) to Quartuccio’s 3.482 at 212 (.042). Margin at the stripe, .010. Quartuccio clinched his second straight Radial vs. the World championship in the semifinal.

Semifinals

Round one, Saturday morning

Pro 275, 16-car field, $20,000 to win

Final: Michael Nale def. Grantley Schloss. Nale 3.636 at 206 (.040) to Schloss’s 3.767 at 206 (.065) after the Nova carried the front end and Schloss had to pedal. Schloss clinched back-to-back Pro 275 championships one round earlier by beating points leader Mo Hall in the semifinal.

Semifinals

Round two

Round one

Limited Drag Radial, 15-car field, $10,000 to win

Final: Bryan Weddle def. Chad Henderson in an all-roots-blower final. Weddle 3.816 at 189 (.067) while Henderson’s Grand National went 11.466 at 55 mph (.024).

Semifinals

Round two

Round one

X275, 32-car field, $10,000 to win

Final: DJ McCain def. Trevor Fuqua. McCain was .009 on the tree and ran 4.057 at 176 to Fuqua’s 4.091 at 179 (.027). Semifinalists were Sean Lyon and points leader Davey Hull.

Semifinals

Quarterfinals (lane choice listed first)

Round two

Round one (32-car ladder, byes to the top nine qualifiers): Tim Oswalt def. Derek Cooper; Austin Keen def. Anthony Manna; John Davidson def. Scott Carter; Shane Stride def. Marques Hatton; Andrew Tovornik def. Philip Reichardt; Cameron Marsolf def. Mike Smith; Jordan Brandon def. Tyler Johnson; Davey Hull def. Marty Pearcy. Fuqua, Hill, Lyon, Stephen Barnett, McCain, Lenny Grawburg, Moses and Ron Rhodes had byes. Grawburg and Rhodes did not return for round two.

Ultra Street, 16-car field, $5,000 to win

Final: Joshua Schwartz def. Jessie Coulter. Schwartz 4.434 at 159 (.018) to Coulter’s 4.464 at 160 (.022). Semifinalists were Bob Cook and Tommy Hull. No. 1 qualifier Ronny Rhodes went out to Hull in round two.

Semifinals

Round two

Round one

X255, 15-car field, $3,000 to win

Final: Bad Brad Scherer def. Jonathan Insley. Scherer 4.821 at 145 (.044) to Insley’s 4.889 at 148 (.039). Semifinalists were Robert Strong and Cole Luttrell. Scherer led every session of qualifying and never trailed.

Semifinals

Round two

Round one

Gangster X N/T and the specialty classes

Gangster X: Scotty Lovell def. Jake Barlow in the final of the 31-car no-time field. Round one pairings: Joshua Padovano, bye; Maddie Malone vs. Ian Hill; Jason Anderson vs. William Hayes; Justin Johnson vs. Tony Ridenour; Jake Barlow, bye; Rob Kohler vs. Evan Pixley; Chris Gootee, bye; Jeremy Welch vs. Frankie Downing; Del Holbrook, bye; Jesse Tomlinson vs. Michael Strickland; Bruce Millender vs. Haskell Mackowski; Jason Gallant vs. Dallas Harp; Tony Hill, bye; Scotty Lovell vs. Josh Varnadore; Nicholas Feliciano vs. Nick Kennedy; Randy Lewis vs. Shane Ergle.

6.00 Index: JR Burkett def. Maddie Malone, 6.066 on the 6.00 index (.040) to Malone’s breakout 5.955 with a -.020 light. No. 1 qualifier Scott Travers ran 6.002.
Open Comp: Jon Pickering def. Joe Conley, 5.454 on a 5.45 dial (.068) to Conley’s 6.057 on a 6.09 with a -.002 light.
No Billet 10.5: Austin Vincent def. Mike Farrell.
N/T Outlaw 275: Tyler Lowman def. Carlos Sanchez.
ASAG (All Steel All Glass): Bradley Thompson def. Richard Disher.
N/T Pro Truck: Hank Williams def. Nicholas Bell.

Final Qualifying Orders

Official CompuLink orders as the fields were set Friday night, Oct. 23. Every car that made a pass is listed. Round-one byes went to the top qualifiers in each ladder.

Radial vs. the World, final order

Eight-car field, set Friday night. Round one ran Saturday morning.

Pro 275, final order

Sixteen-car field, set Friday night. *Positions 17 through 20 did not make the field.

Limited Drag Radial, final order

X275, final order

Ultra Street, final order

X255, final order

Gangster X N/T, entry list

No-time class, 27 entries qualified against a 5.30 index. Order is as listed by the tower, not by elapsed time.

Joshua Padovano, Brooks, Ga., ’80 Monza
Del Holbrook, Livonia, Mich.
Tony Hill, Steele, Ala., ’78 Malibu
Chris Gootee, Coneyville, Ky., ’93 S10
Nicholas Feliciano, Zebulon, Ga., ’70 Chevelle
Bruce Millender, East Point, Fla., ’70 Nova
Randy Lewis, Cottonwood, Ala., ’03 Mustang
Jason Gallant, Ontario, Canada
Jeremy Welch, Richland, Ga., ’91 Mustang
Jake Barlow, Pearson, Ga., ’66 Nova
Rob Kohler, Camaro
Scotty Lovell, Hamersville, Ohio, ’89 Mustang
Jesse Tomlinson, Elko, Ga., ’89 Mustang
Maddie Malone, Tuscumbia, Ala., ’69 Camaro
Justin Johnson
Ian Hill, Welland, Ontario, ’69 Camaro
Jason Anderson, Oviedo, Fla., ’71 Dart
Michael Strickland, Douglas, Ga.
Josh Varnadore, Baxley, Ga.
Frankie Downing, Brundidge, Ala., ’69 Camaro
Shane Ergle, Fayetteville, Ga., ’72 Impala
Dallas Harp, Dothan, Ala., ’68 Camaro
Evan Pixley, Clearwater, Fla., ’87 S10 Blazer
Tony Ridenour, Florida, ’99 Ford
William Hayes, Brewton, Ala.
Haskell Mackowski, Miami, Fla., ’90 Mustang
Nick Kennedy, Ty Ty, Ga., ’93 Mustang

Storylines

Daniel by a hundredth, and Quartuccio wins the war anyway

The best final of the weekend was the last one. Chris Daniel, the Cartersville, Georgia racer whose ’19 Camaro carried the field’s best speed all week, went 3.463 at 214 on a .050 light. Ken Quartuccio, who had the quickest pass of the event in qualifying at 3.479, went 3.482 at 212 on a .042. At the stripe it was Daniel by a hundredth. Quartuccio, more to the point, had already wrapped up the championship.

Quartuccio’s path: 3.482 over Hawes in round one, then a 3.473 on a .017 light to put away Jordan Lazic in the semifinal, the run that clinched his second straight title. Lazic had gotten there by beating Kyle Dvorak on a holeshot in round one, 3.495 to Dvorak’s quicker 3.482. On the other side, Buginga ended points leader Lyle Barnett’s weekend in round one, 3.485 to 3.492, with the better light. Adam Preston’s ’63 Corvette, the fastest car of the week at 224.73 mph in qualifying, went 4.262 against Daniel and was done.

Nale from the five hole; Schloss takes the title on the tree

Luke Smith took the Pro 275 pole Friday night at 3.618 and never got a chance to use it. He was .220 red against Ernie Dampier in round two, which let Dampier through on a 5.065. Lyle Barnett, trying to salvage his weekend in the Youmans Mustang, went 6.664 against Michael Nale in the same round. Nale, the Lincolnton, North Carolina racer who qualified fifth at 3.654 in his ’68 Camaro, ran 3.636 to put Barnett out, beat Dampier in the semifinal and then ran another 3.636 at 206 on a .040 light in the final.

Across from him, Grantley Schloss had done the thing that mattered one round earlier. The semifinal put the Australian against Mo Hall, who came in leading the points in his Fulton-powered Corvette. Schloss took the win and, with it, the championship. The final was anticlimax: the Nova stood up, Schloss pedaled to a 3.767, and Nale took the $20,000 and the trophy.

Weddle over Henderson in an all-roots final

Chad Henderson’s ’87 Grand National led Limited Drag Radial qualifying at 3.820, got a round-one bye, beat Huston Dial and then beat Kevin Young in the semifinal. Bryan Weddle’s ’67 Camaro qualified a thousandth behind him, 3.821, and got there through Tim Dutton, Tommy Youmans and Bryan Priest. Two roots-blown cars in the final. Weddle ran 3.816 at 189 on a .067 light. Henderson’s car went into shutdown mode almost immediately, an 11.466 at 55, and Weddle had the $10,000.

Points leader Jamie Hancock, winner of the previous two series races, won round one over Jody Voyles and lost round two to Priest. The round-two upset of the class was Young over Shane Stack on a holeshot, 3.843 on a .050 to Stack’s quicker 3.823 on a .093.

McCain’s .009 light beats the four-door Mercury

The two cars that defined X275 qualifying met in the final. Trevor Fuqua’s four-door ’86 Mercury, “Mamaw,” the Precision Turbo-fed sedan that posted the class’s quickest pass of the week at 4.042 and a 186.07 mph speed that Precision Turbo called a new X275 record, had the quicker car on paper. DJ McCain had the light. McCain was .009 on the tree in the McCain Racing, Musi-powered C6 Corvette and ran 4.057 at 176; Fuqua was .027 and ran 4.091 at 179. The defending Radial Outlaws X275 champion took the $10,000.

McCain’s weekend turned Friday night, when he and his brother Ryan McCain of RM Tuned went from ninth to second with a 4.080 at 174.53, a pass the family posted as a reclaimed X275 big-block nitrous record on Fuel Factory F21 fuel. Both brothers were named to the Drag Illustrated 30 Under 30 earlier in their careers. On race day McCain beat Andrew Tovornik, Cameron Marsolf and points leader Davey Hull on his side of the 32-car ladder; Fuqua went through Tim Oswalt, Ian Hill and Sean Lyon on his. Hull’s run to the semifinal went through Marty Pearcy, a bye and Jeff Moses.

Schwartz over Coulter in Ultra Street; Scherer never trailed in X255

Ultra Street’s No. 1 qualifier, Ronny Rhodes, went out in round two to Tommy Hull, which opened the top half of the ladder for Jessie Coulter’s ’03 Mustang. On the bottom half, Joshua Schwartz’s ’10 Challenger, which had won round one on a 9.147 when Rodney Ragen went red, beat Ryan Grigsby and Bob Cook to reach the final. Schwartz ran 4.434 at 159 on a .018 light to Coulter’s 4.464 on a .022.

In X255, Bad Brad Scherer’s ’89 Mustang sat No. 1 after every session, 4.883 in Q3 and 4.863 Friday night, then beat Dean Fluhart, Cole Luttrell and Jonathan Insley on Sunday. The final was 4.821 at 145 on a .044 light to Insley’s 4.889 at 148. Enmauel Castillo’s ’89 Chevette, the sheet’s last qualifier at 5.498, made the field and lost to Insley in round one.

The points leaders’ weekend

Four of the four points leaders who came to Valdosta left without a win. Barnett (RvW) lost round one. Hall (Pro 275) lost the semifinal, and the championship, to Schloss. Hancock (LDR) lost round two. Hull (X275) got the furthest, to the semifinal, and lost to the eventual winner. Only the RvW and Pro 275 championships were decided this weekend; DI has not confirmed final standings in LDR, X275, Ultra Street or X255 and will update when the series posts them.

Capri Wesley Photo Gallery, Winner’s Circle

Sunday’s winner’s circle at South Georgia Motorsports Park. Tap any photo to open it full size.

Capri Wesley Photo Gallery, Friday Night

Friday night at SGMP through Capri Wesley’s lens. Tap any photo to open it full size.

Classes and Payouts

Also running: No Billet 10.5, Gangster X, N/T Outlaw 275, ASAG (All Steel All Glass) and N/T Pro Truck.

Schedule

Gates open at 8 a.m. every day. Times are per Duck X Productions and subject to change on site.

Wednesday, Oct. 21
· Testing 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
· Qualifying 5 to 10 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 22
· Testing 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
· Qualifying 5 to 10 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 23
· Two rounds of qualifying, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 24
· Final round of qualifying 10 a.m.
· Eliminations begin 6 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 25
· Eliminations continue through completion

By the Numbers

Watch

No Mercy 17 streams live on FloRacing through Sunday’s finals.

Track Info

Summit Racing Equipment No Mercy 17, South Georgia Motorsports Park, Oct. 19 through 25, 2026. Photos by Capri Wesley for Drag Illustrated.

This story was originally published on October 23, 2026.