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Sport front wheel drive drag racing has blown up into the hottest sport compact class there is. When you match giant turbochargers up with the extremely efficient engines that the automotive companies are turning out these days, you get big horsepower and big mph! You can see all the action in this coverage of the elimination rounds of the IDRC/DSport Magazine International Finals race. SFWD racing with the IDRC is listed as: Pro-Am FWD – FWD, 4/6 cylinder cars, with 2 power adders allowed. This race class is run on a .400 Pro-Tree, with 4-cylinder engines limited to a maximum displacement of 2850cc, with no wheelie bars allowed. Here are the race results, there were some single passes because no race alternates were available to take the place of the cars that broke:

Quarter Finals :reaction time: :e.t.: :mph:
7312 Jeremy Bretschneider 1994 Civic 0.279 10.104 150.60
808 Omar Gonzalez Civic 1.8L 0.366 11.331 99.05
730 Jerry Carranza 1993 Civic 0.219 10.231 152.93
723 driver unknown 0.267 11.380 92.64
3146 Gus Diaz 1997 Honda 0.500 10.391 137.53
2822 Donnie Hendricks 2002 Tiburon foul broke
712 Anthony Di Nallo 1994 Civic 1.648 11.951 82.88
7981 Angie Sripoona 1997 Acura foul broke
Semi Finals
712 Anthony Di Nallo 1994 Civic 0.256 9.882 155.85
7312 Jeremy Bretschneider 1994 Civic 0.211 10.176 149.71
3146 Gus Diaz 1997 Honda 0.129 9.983 148.66
730 Jency Carranza 1993 Civic 0.308 10.037 154.19
Finals
712 Anthony Di Nallo 1994 Honda 0.291 9.836 154.65
3146 Gus Diaz 1997 Honda 0.207 10.150 147.05

IDRC DSport Magazine International Finals race from Fontana CA. The third and forth rounds of qualifying saw some improvements in top end speed from the Honda cars.

More sport front wheel drive drag racing from the IDRC/DSport Magazine International Finals at Fontana. These turbocharged, electronic fuel injected four cylinder engines really make some big horsepower! Check out the AEM Toyota Scion tC vs. Honda round.