O’Reilly E.T. Bracket Series Results 09/10/2011 - Footbrake

Winner – Henry Canales, Jr.

Runner-Up – Tim Ray

Semis – James Day

Henry Canales, Jr. and "Coach" Tim Ray

Fifty-one drivers lined their cars up in the lanes for first round on Saturday, but only one would take home the $800 cash prize and the Royal Purple Raceway trophy.  This time, it was Henry Canales, Jr., driving his silver 2001 Chevrolet Camaro.  The points championship was all locked up by Jay Robinson, but the other spots in the top 10 and the bracket finals team were still up for grabs.  In the first round, Henry played spoiler to Bryan Day’s efforts to move up the ladder, and it didn’t get any easier after that.  Canales went on to defeat Jaime Haines, Joe Villareal, Tiffany Butler and Lloyd Mikeska on his way to face the silver 2002 Camaro driven by “Coach” Tim Ray in the final round.  Coach was taken out in the first round by Sheila Day, but was able to buy back in and get his revenge in the 3^rd round.  Ray used a .011 light and .007 off his dial pass to send Gilbert Munoz home in the second round, earned the 4^th round bye, put in a solid performance to take out Gordon Smith in the 5^th round and survived a double breakout with James Day in the semi’s, logging a .000 reaction time and .003 under pass.  In the final round, the Cy-Ridge Ram’s wrestling coach was first off the starting line, but encountered mechanical problems, giving Henry Canales, Jr. his first win in the series.  Congrats to Henry, Coach and the other money winners James and Brian Day, Gordon Smith, Lloyd Mikeska, Tiffany Butler, Robert Penn, David Lissman, Jason Wittenburg and Nathan Gallagher. 

O'Reilly E.T. Bracket Racing Series Footbrake Results 8-21-2011



Billy & Hope Talbot, Bryan, James and Sheila Day, Paul Smith

With the season nearing the end and the final preparations for the Royal Purple Raceway bracket finals team being made, the competition was red-hot on this scorching August afternoon.  The call for first round brought 40 cars to the staging lanes for the Footbrake class, 6 of which would log a perfect or near perfect .00 reaction time and 9 of which would turn on the red light.  After the smoke cleared, it was James Day's turn to represent the family in the winner's circle at Royal Purple Raceway.  James was able to stop Jay Robinson from recording his 5th win in the series by breaking out the 5 time champion by .02 in the final round.  Runner-Up Jay Robinson won every round at the tree except the 4th round, but Sheila Day broke out by 2 tenths due to having the wrong dial in entered.  In typical Day Ja Vu Racing fashion, James used solid reaction times, top end driving and some luck in the form of red lights from Thomas Iven, Joey Cram and Jason Patterson and a semi-final bye run to top the 40 car field.  The other money winners on Sunday were Joey Cram, Sheila Day, Rickey Nelson, Nathan Gallagher, Jason Patterson, Gordon Smith and Billy Talbot.