SoCal Pro Gas

Elapsed Times Newsletter by Bob Johnson 877-221-1419 July 2015

Brenden and Ryan Herem Take Pro Gas Series

Points lead into July races at Fontana

What a season the Herem’s are having. They’ll go into the

July race first and second in the point’s standings.

Travis Balough earned the K&N Filters/Lucas Oil-event

win, beating Ryan Herem in the final.

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Travis Balough wins K&N Filters/

Lucas Oil competition at Fontana By Bob Johnson Auto Club Dragway

Fontana, Calif. March 7, 2015

Travis Balough picked up his first win

of the 2015 SoCal Pro Gas Assoc., series,

defeating Ryan Herem in the final round of

the K&N Filters/Lucas Oil-sponsored event

at Auto Club Dragway in Fontana, Calif.

Balough, who won twice last season and

finished third in the points used .007 second

package to stop Herem, who also went to

the final in Sunday’s race.

Vince Campa led the Pro Gas qualifiers

with his ’34 Chevy roadster, clicking a

9.902, 167.86 for the top spot. Ray Cor-

deiro, Mike Blodgett Jr., Doug Sedmak,

Mark Miyashiro, and Val Torres Jr also post-

ed qualifying times between 9.904 and

9.906.

Round three

of eliminations

opened with Travis

Balough defeating

Brad Pierce, Val

Torres Sr., got by

Mike Boner, and

Ryan Herem ad-

vance at the ex-

pense of Mike

Wiblishouser.

Travis got a bye run

in the semifinals,

and Herem defeated

Torres in a .002

double-breakout

race.

Both Herem and

Balough had great reaction times in the fi-

nal—Balough at .006 and Herem at .003—

but Balough’s ’63 Corvette took the win at

9.901 to Herem’s losing ’62 Corvette at

9.917. Special thanks to

K&N Filters and Lucas

Oil Products for

Sponsoring the March 7

event at Auto Club

Dragway

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Father/Son Pro Gas final

highlights Race #3 at Auto

Club Dragway By Bob Johnson Auto Club Dragway Fontana, Calif.,

March 8, 2015

A father-son Pro Gas final round highlighted the SoCal

drag racing series competition at Auto Club Dragway, when

Brenden Herem and son Ryan Herem of Quartz Hill, Calif.,

met in the final round of competition in the Southern Califor-

nia Pro Gas series, with dad Brenden using a .006 reaction

time for the association-sponsored event win.

Karen Comstock recorded a perfect 9.900 with her ’57

Chevy BelAir for the number one qualifying spot, followed by

Travis Balough, Brad Pierce, and Mike Boner, all recording

9.90 qualifying times.

Brenden Herem went to the final round by defeating

Randy Fabbro in the first round, he used a 9.901 in the second

round to beat Mike Boner, and in round 3 he defeated Edmon-

ton, AB, Canada-racer Eddy Plaizier with a .009 light.

Brenden got a bye into the final.

Brenden’s son Ryan—a former Indy Nationals Super

Gas champion and NHRA Division champion in Super

Street—had his finest racing weekend of the season by going

to both Pro Gas finals. Ryan squeaked by Kevin McClelland

in the first round of Sunday’s race, he beat the previous day’s

winner Travis Balough in round two, and in the third round he

and Mike Blodgett Jr both ran identical 9.941 times with Her-

em getting the win via a .002 better reaction time. In the sem-

ifinal he stopped defending series champion Val Torres Jr,

9.906 to a 9.901---Herem had a .011 better reaction.

The final round was a classic between two tough Can-

yon Racing drag racers from Quartz Hill, Calif., as

Brenden used a .006 light and 9.911, 140.84 mph with his

’69 Camaro to stop son Ryan, losing with a 9.910, 153.13

with his ’62 Corvette. Moving into the July races at Auto

Club Dragway, Ryan has 178 points, followed by

Brenden and Val Torres Jr., tied with 177.

Brenden Herem has really adopted to Auto Club Drag-

way in Fontana this season, as he also was the grand prize

winner of a Huntsville Racing Engines complete 582

Chevy engine for winning the Huntsville Super Pro

Shootout at the recent Figspeed West Coast Classic at

Fontana.

The Southern California Pro Gas Association re-

sumes its 2015 drag racing schedule on July 11-12 at

Auto Club Drag-

way in Fontana.

Congratulations

to Greg Ventura

for winning Super

Gas at the Lucas

Oil Drag Racing

Series event in

Fontana, stopping

Dave Meziere in

the final, and Scott

Rollins for taking

the Super Gas title

at the Jegs

SportsNationals,

stopping that red-

hot Ryan Herem in

the final round.

Next Race:

July 11-12,

at Fontana

SoCal Pro Gas Points As of June 30, 2015

Position Name Race Race Race Race TOTAL

1 Ryan Herem 30 74 74 178

2 Brenden Herem 62 30 85 177

Val Torres Jr. 73 41 63 177

4 Brad Pierce 62 52 52 166

Mike Blodgett Jr. 84 30 52 166

6 Travis Balough 30 85 41 156

7 Mike Wiblishouser 62 52 30 144

8 Michael Boner 30 52 41 123

9 Randy Balough 40 41 41 122

10 Kevin McClelland 40 41 30 111

11 Val Torres Sr. 63 41 104

12 Kate Harper 30 30 41 101

13 Karen Comstock 40 30 30 100

Ray Cordeiro 40 30 30 100

15 Keith Monogue 95 95

16 Greg Vining 30 30 30 90

Randy Fabbro 30 30 30 90

Mike Blodgett Sr. 30 30 30 90

Mike Lang 30 30 30 90

20 Vicente Campa 51 30 81

21 D Rubble Jr. 41 30 71

Mark Miyashiro 41 30 71

23 Doug Sedmak 30 30 60

J Phillippi 30 30 60

25 Eddie Plaizier 52 52

26 Tanner Hyatt 51 51

Steve Williams 51 51

Bob Harris 51 51

Robert Naber 51 51

Aaron Kinard 51 51