englishtown weather N - NON-points and '07 Top 16
T - Includes Pro 10.0
P,E - Includes Pro 8 Shootout and 11.50
16 - Top16 - NON-points
'08 National, VA
Featured Drivers
2008 East Coast Supercharging Corvette Challenge Event 4 Winner Ralph Savarese 2008 American Racing Headers Pro 8 Shootout Race 1 Winner Could be you 2008 Cartek Racing Pro 10.0 Race 2 Winner Wayne Keegan
2008 Vette Doctors Pro 11.50 Race 1 Winner John Panuzzo
06/11/05 - Englishtown, NJ
The second Vette DoctorsPro 8 Shootout presented by Neverlift Racecraft produced the first event win for a turbo Vette....Twin Turbo to be exact. Three Vettes qualified at the top of the field in the 9-second and better range with Mark Shaw making his first Pro 8 appearance of 2005 being one of them. Noticeably missing was previous event winner and 2004 Champion, Mike Mitchell, who apparently has sold his car as stated on the Corvette Forum.
Qualifying
Angelo Valla topped the qualifying in both ET, 8.762 and MPH, 163.79 in his big block nitrous fed Blue 72 Corvette. He was followed by event winner Paul Ziajski with the twin turbo C5 Black Vette with a 9.482 @ 146.24. Mark Shaw held the third spot with a 9.901 @ 137.37 with his Red 1970 C3 Corvette. The rest of the field with filled with series regulars, John Carter in his 2000 Convertible (10.274), Doug Ring in the 98 (10.334), Mike Conway in the reliable 97 Torch Red C5 (10.385), Paul Major in the blue C2 convertible (11.080) and Chris Coriell (11.819)
Runnerup John Carter
Vette Doctors Pro 8 Shootout group shot race 2 of 2005
Winner Paul Ziajski
Round 1
First out on the track were Paul Ziajski (2) and Paul Major (7). Major's C5 was not ready for this race so he went with the backup car, the C2 convertible. Anyone could have predicted that Paul would win the race....just kidding. One paper, Ziajski had a huge advantage. Ziajski left Major at the tree and crossed the finish line ahead of him with a 10.472 run to Major's 10.989 run in the C2. The next matchup with Mark Shaw (3) vs. Mike Conway (6) was closer. Shaw had a less than desirable reaction time coupled with a 10.046 ET to Conway’s better light, .185 and 10.479 ET. In the very close final, Shaw got the win by .1032. Third pair, Angelo Valla (1) was not as close as Valla's 9.908 was more than enough to cover Chris Coriell's (8) 11.595. The final pair out was a bit of a wild one. John Carter (4) took on Doug Ring (5). Each driver had an issue but it was Carter with a blistering 34.450 ET taking the win. Goes to show, anything can happen.
Round 2
Carter (4) would again provide us some excitement when this time paired with Angelo Valla (1) he took the win. Valla spun as he got out of the hole with .423 light to Carter's .220 light. Valla chased as hard as he could but he just ran out of track as Carter took the hole shot win with a 10.525 to 10.360. The win was had by only .0388. Again, anything can happen as Valla's Vette is 8-second capable. The next semi-final pair was a matchup of two 9-second cars, Paul Ziajski (2) and Mark Shaw (3). Ziajski cut a stellar .079 light and treed Shaw who seemed to have some trouble with the tree. Shaw did not have enough to make up for the tree though enough to excite the fans as his 9.897 run fell short of Ziajski's 9.599.
Round 3 - The Final
Paul Ziajski (1) now in his first final was to face John Carter (4) who has already won one of these. The drivers qualified within a second of each other. Ziajski hit the tree on Carter with a .262 and roared on to a huge margin win running 9.672 @ 145.23 to Carter's 12-second pass. Apparently Carter had a nitrous issue.
Congratulations to Paul Ziajski who has had a long hard journey to get to where he is and said "Thanks a lot, guys. I'm very happy about having won my first Pro 8. A little bit of luck and some driving really helped me this afternoon. I REALLY appreciate the genuine congratulations from some of my fellow racers who knew how badly I struggled with this car last year."
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