These results reflect the record holders, qualifiers, and eliminations contestants at each of the
Doc’s Harley-Davidson Street Bike Shootout Series events held each Wednesday at Gateway International Raceway in Madison, Illinois.
All motorcycles compete utilizing street equipment including Department of Transportation (D.O.T.) approved tires without wheelie bars. All other modifications are permitted. Wednesday SBSS Track Records can be set during official qualifying or championship rounds. The Official Street Bike Shootout “suicide qualifying” period, (one qualifying run only), begins at 7:30 PM, (barring unforeseen circumstances). At 8:00 PM, the four quickest qualifiers meet in no-handicap eliminations with the championship final round held at 8:30 PM.
GATEWAY INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY, MADISON, ILLINOIS
2008 DOC’S STREET BIKE SHOOTOUT SERIES TRACK RECORDS
Class Name Hometown ST Vehicle Engine ET MPH Date
SBSS Eric Sanzottera, St. Peters, MO 03 GSX1100 Suzuki 8.131 04/18/2007
SBSS Eric Sanzottera, St. Peters, MO 03 GSX1100 Suzuki 181.72 05/08/2007
JULY 9th, 2008 DOC’S STREET BIKE SHOOTOUT SERIES QUALIFIERS
Pos Name Hometown ST Vehicle Engine ET MPH Date
EVENT 12 07/09/2008
1 Eric Sanzottera St. Peters MO 03 GSX1100 1100 Suz 8.372 172.89
2 Amir Brandy St. Louis MO 05 Hayabusa 1300 Suz 8.879 163.87
3 Shawn Ingram Robertsville MO 06 ZX1400 1400 Kaw 8.901 160.90
4 Joe Jordan St. Louis MO 04 Hayabusa 1300 Suz 9.661 150.16
JULY 9th, 2008 DOC’S STREET BIKE SHOOTOUT SERIES ELIMINATIONS
Pos Name Hometown ST Vehicle R.T. ET MPH
Round One:
W Eric Sanzottera St. Peters MO 03 GSX1100 0.625 8.223 172.36
RU Joe Jordan St. Louis MO 04 Huyabusa 0.107 9.863 146.11
W Amir Brandy St. Louis MO 05 Hayabusa 0.151 8.864 157.80
RU Shawn Ingram Robertsville MO 06 ZX1400 0.198 11.045 99.76
Final Round:
W Eric Sanzottera St. Peters MO 03 GSX1100 0.072 8.537 172.52
RU Amir Brandy St. Louis MO 05 Hayabusa Could Not Appear
The domination of QuickTime Motorsports continued as Eric Sanzottera scored his fourth victory of six completed events in the 2008 Doc’s Harley-Davidson Street Bike Shootout Series at Gateway International Raceway in Madison, Illinois. Sanzottera, the reigning SBSS season champion, has won eleven of twenty-six races since the inception of the series on March 29th, 2007, and the QuickTime conglomerate has produced the victors in twenty-one of those races!
Sanzottera tested several customer’s bikes during early timed trials but, aboard the infamous 2003 GSX100R tuned by brother Rudy Sanzottera, streaked to an 8.37/172.89 during the one-shot “suicide qualifying” session for the SBSS to claim his sixteenth career pole position. In the opening round of eliminations, Sanzottera faced Joe Jordan’s FlyRiders MC/Sport Bikes Plus ‘04 Hayabusa, a first-time SBSS qualifier, and unleashed the quickest elapsed time of the 2008 season with a brutal 8.223/172.36.
Amir Brandy, better known as “St. Louis Red”, clocked his best pass of the year at 8.87/163.87 to qualify his ‘05 Hayabusa second in the field and bettered that ET with an 8.86/157.80 in a semi-final win over current second-place point contender Shawn Ingram. The only Kawasaki to qualify of twenty-nine hopefuls, Ingram’s ZX1400 had recently been rewired by Rudy Sanzottera after an electrical disaster struck prior to the July 2nd SBSS event but the blue Kawasaki developed a stumble just off the starting line in eliminations.
Brandy, who was scheduled to meet Sanzottera in the championship round one week ago before rains washed out the title bout, found himself stranded at the end of Gateway International Raceway after the semi-finals with an empty gas tank. With his Hayabusa tuned to a specific fuel, Brandy looked throughout the pit area for a new batch but, when the search failed, opted to park his bike. Sanzottera took a sizeable advantage in the 2008 SBSS Championship point standings with an 8.53/172.52 victory in the final round.
SPECIAL NOTE: As per the posted schedule, there will be NO DRAG RACING at Gateway International Raceway from Monday, July 14, through Monday, July 21, due to facility reconfiguration for the Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250 NASCAR Nationwide Series event on the GIR oval on July 18 and 19. The next event in the 2008 Doc’s Harley-Davidson Street Bike Shootout Series at Gateway International Raceway in Madison, Illinois, is scheduled for Wednesday, July 23rd.
DOC’S STREET BIKE SHOOTOUT SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP POINT STANDINGS (as of JULY 10th, 2008)
Pos Points Name
1 (17) Eric Sanzottera
2 (13) Shawn Ingram
3 (7) Amir Brandy
4 (5) Josh McDaniel
5 (2) Janie Palm
6 (2) Jesse Gatlin
7 (2) Don Klarer
8 (1) Kevin Ellison
9 (1) Ethan Humbert
10 (1) Greg Cave
11 (1) Charles Willis
12 (1) Evan Holland
13 (1) Joe Jordan
NOTE: Points toward the 2008 Doc’s Street Bike Shootout Series Season Championship are awarded on the basis of one (1) point for qualifying in the Final Four field with one (1) bonus point awarded for winning the first round of eliminations and one (1) bonus point awarded for winning the final round of eliminations. Ties are broken by (1) the earliest date upon which the final point total is earned, (2) quickest elapsed time recorded during the current SBSS season and (3) fastest speed recorded during the current SBSS season.
Photos of the July 9th Street Bike Shootout Series event are now available for viewing at Bret Kepner Photos.com.
Eric Sanzottera, St. Peters, MO 2003 Suzuki GSX1100R
Amir Brandy, St. Louis, MO 2005 Suzuki Hayabusa
Rudy and Eric Sanzottera, St. Peters, MO 2003 Suzuki GSX1100R