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Bradenton 2000

The Bradenton Fun Ford race was held during the weekend of March 11, 2000 and is the initial race of the 2000 Fun Ford Weekend race series.  This page is dedicated to event finals summary as well as pictures and video.  Below, find links to the various aspects of the race in review.

• Race Finals

• Race News

• Race Pictures

• Race Videos

Race Finals

The final races for each of the top classes were as follows:

Race News

Outlaw:  John "Fireball" Urist runs an 8.55 @ 161 on the first full pass!!!  This was with only 20 psi boost and they've seen as much as 30 psi (1,648 hp) on the dyno!! Look out!!  See pix and video below.
Friday, March 10, 2000

Outlaw:  Looks like Fireball Urist has fireballed his power glide (hey, it WAS originally designed by GM after all) and is out for the race.  Too bad.!!
Saturday, March 11, 2000

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Race Pictures

John "Fireball" Urist:  John has moved from "the bottle" to boost with this incredible turbo setup.  Video is below.

In the pits with "Fireball" et al.  John and family (not shown) have done a fantastic job of preparing this car in a short period of time.  If you get a chance, check out all the custom fabrication/welding that has gone into this car... by John himself!

Travis Franklin:  Travis is running a stroked 351 Windsor with a big bottle.  He ran 8.50's all day long with no back-fires or other signs of mortality.  This deserves recognition!!!

Steve Barton:  Steve has made the move from a Street Stock setup to a Street Bandit setup for this year.  He is still running the same 347 motor from last year with upgrades (higher compression, changed intake/carb).  With the upgrade motor he's running consistent 10.30's.  The new 400+ cube motor should be ready soon.

www.potterracing.com.  Nice car, nice web-site.  He's based out of West-Columbia, SC.  We're both (Mike and Mike) from SC.

8-second car for sale.  Yes, for the last time, it was a little old lady from Pasadena......

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Race Videos

Video Notes:  The race videos are available in MPEG format.  If you have software capable of displaying MPEG video, your browser should automatically start it when you click on the links below.  If not, it should be downloaded into your normal download location.  If you are given the choice of opening the video or saving it to disk, you may want to save it if you think you may want to view it again later.

Video 1:  John Urist - Outlaw Running a full (and FAST) pass [Friday, March 10, 2000 - 319 kB]

Video 2:  Travis Franklin - Outlaw Running a full pass [Saturday, March 11, 2000 - 271 kB]

Video 3:  General Night Racing Kind of dark. [Saturday, March 11, 2000 - 213 kB]

Video 4:  General Night Racing Again, kind of dark [Saturday, March 11, 2000 - 319 kB]

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