Dinwiddie, Va. - It was a good news - bad news kind of weekend at the Virginia Motorsports Park for Duane Shields and the PEAK Motor Oil A/Fuel Dragster team. The good news is that the car made good consistent runs in qualifying. The bad news is that Duane lost traction in the first round and took a painful loss. “We made a lot of changes with some promising signs but we still need a win” Duane confessed.
The car demonstrated that the PEAK team is as competitive as ever. Duane qualified third with an impressive 5.43 at 256 MPH in a tough field where fifteen cars were battling it out to make it into a very tight eight car show and all but one of those cars were in the five second zone.
Prior to round one the track was spayed with...
