The first day of on-track action fired up on Tuesday at the JEGS Performance Summer Fling presented by OPTIMA Batteries at Bristol Dragway. A great week of racing would be in store for racers on the mountain at one of the most picturesque facilities in the country.
Law Chevrolet hosted the test and tune session in addition to a 32-Car Shootout where the winner would walk away with a Race Tech dragster chassis. The format guaranteed a door car versus dragster final with 16 door cars on one side of the ladder and 16 dragsters on the other.
After the second round Chase Conley, John Taylor Sr., Donovan Williams, and Antoine Jett remained on the dragster side and Chad Duke, Vinny Guido, TJ Owens, and Adrew Stirk were the last door cars standing. Conley was .015 taking .003 to be dead-on three over Taylor, while Jett turned it two thousandths red to the .005 of Williams. Duke had the starting line advantage and the winlight over Guido, and Stirk took .004 to knock out Owens.
In the semifinals, Conley advanced past Williams on a hole shot victory. In the following pair, Stirk was perfect on the tree and broke out by just four-thousandths of a second to bow out against the .010 and one above of Duke.
The ‘68 Camaro of Duke faced off with the dragster of Conley, and by way of Conley’s redlight Duke scored the 2025 Race Tech Dragster Chassis and was the first of the week to roll into the Fling Winner’s Circle.
Race fans can tune in on Advanced Product Design $15,000 Wednesday at 8:15 a.m. where all drivers on property will receive a time run prior to eliminations. Everything will be streamed live from @RaceTheFlings on YouTube where our in-house camera crew is slated to deliver another high-quality broadcast with live timing, starting line camera, exclusive interviews, and more in partnership with Strange Engineering.
For more information, visit www.BracketRaces.com, the Spring Fling Bracket Races Facebook page, watch live @RaceTheFlings on YouTube, or text the word BRISTOL to (374) 974-7007 for race updates.
This story was originally published on September 4, 2024. 
