As the Glass Doctor Showdown at Huntsville Dragway drew near this past weekend, the Huddleston Family prepped their Huddleston Performance Lowmad for battle. At the last hour they discovered issues with the iconic machine that would put them out of competition for the weekend. As luck would have it, David Elsberry’s recently acquired Screw Blown 1957 Chevy was available and he was gracious enough to loan it to Thomas Huddleston to compete for the weekend.
The newly formed partnership came with a lot of unknown variables to start the weekend, as the new car had not made a full pull in testing prior to the event. Friday would prove to have gremlins as the Huddleston Family and young crew chief Michael Elsberry would fight off small issues. However, by the end of Friday evening the team had found a number of answers and Saturday’s race would be a much different story.
Saturday morning Thomas came to the starting line against current #2 in the Southern Outlaw points, Tim Segars. When the ambers lit, Thomas jumped to a sizeable advantage with his .014 light to Segars .062. That would prove to be enough, as the 57 Chevy thundered to a 3.98 in its first full run to edge out Segars 3.95 elapsed time. In the finals it would be the young team coming up against the current #1 qualifier, John Sullivan. Huddleston would be all over the tree again as he got out of the gate first with a .031 light. Crew chief Michael Elsberry stepped on the tune-up, giving Thomas a nice 3.91 to beat out Sullivan’s quicker 3.87 for the race win!
The Huddleston Family would like to personally thank both David Elsberry and Michael Elsberry for their over the top efforts in taking home the Glass Doctor Showdown victory!
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