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.
Travis Balough wins K&N Filters/
Lucas Oil competition at Fontana
By Bob Johnson
Fontana, Calif.
package to stop Herem, who also went to
the final in Sunday’s race.
Auto Club Dragway
March 7, 2015
Vince Campa led the Pro Gas qualifiers
with his ’34 Chevy roadster, clicking a
9.902, 167.86 for the top spot. Ray CorTravis Balough picked up his first win deiro, Mike Blodgett Jr., Doug Sedmak,
of the 2015 SoCal Pro Gas Assoc., series,
Mark Miyashiro, and Val Torres Jr also postdefeating Ryan Herem in the final round of ed qualifying times between 9.904 and
the K&N Filters/Lucas Oil-sponsored event 9.906.
Round three
of eliminations
opened with Travis
Balough defeating
Brad Pierce, Val
Torres Sr., got by
Mike Boner, and
Ryan Herem advance at the expense 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 fiat Auto Club Dragway in Fontana, Calif.
nal—Balough at .006 and Herem at .003—
Balough, who won twice last season and
but Balough’s ’63 Corvette took the win at
finished third in the points used .007 second 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 California 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 Edmonton, 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 Herem getting the win via a .002 better reaction time. In the semifinal 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 Canyon 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 Dragway 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 resumes its 2015 drag racing schedule on July 11-12 at
Auto Club Dragway 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 redhot Ryan Herem in
the final round.
Next Race:
July 11-12,
at Fontana
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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
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
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
21
D Rubble Jr.
41
30
71
Mark Miyashiro
41
30
71
Doug Sedmak
30
30
60
J Phillippi
30
30
60
52
52
4
23
95
81
25
Eddie Plaizier
26
Tanner Hyatt
51
51
Steve Williams
51
51
Bob Harris
51
51
Robert Naber
51
51
Aaron Kinard
51
51