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WHAT'S NEW
From all of us at the IBAA we want to wish all of our fans, supporters and tracks a very special holiday season and a happy New Year in 2010. October, 2009 BAKERSFIELD, CA - NHRA Hot Rod Reunion A few of the IBAA members went down to Bakersfield to watch the NHRA Hot Rod Reunion. In addition Joey Steckler and Cal Tebb hauled their cars down to compete in the PRO 7.0 class. The class is largely made up of front engine dragsters so it was nice to see a couple fellow funny car teams form the NWBBFC club show up who Joey and Cal had competed with earlier in the year. 24 cars qualifying for a 16 car field. Joey qualified #5 with a 7.05 with Cal right behind in #6 spot. Unfortunately, Cal hurt his engine on the burn out of the final qualifier so he was unable to make the eliminations on Sunday. Things went much better for Joey as he made all the way to the finals. After two major oil downs late in the day leaving one lane in questionable condition, Joey faced Will Martin in his 1969 Camaro funny car. Will is the defending 2008 CIFCA champion and had to beat Joey to become the 2009 champion. The Pro 7.0 class has been ruled by the front engine dragsters until now as this was the first all funny car final in the class history. Will had lane choice leaving Joey in the lane no one wanted. Both reactions were almost identical, but Joey got out of shape, crossed the center line and took out a cone. Everyone had a great time. In all there was our 2 Pro 7. 0 cars. 4 nitro F/C’s and one AA/GAS car all from the Edmonton area along with many fans. The response from the track announcers to fellow racers was great. The Reunion is a great experience for anyone who loves Nostalgia Drag Racing. Both teams are now considering attending the March Meet in Bakersfield on March 5-7 2010. Anyone interested in attending or competing could talk to them. At least make plans for the 2010 Reunion next October. On another note our past member Tim Boychuk who found time to run with us this year while also driving Barry Patton’s top fuel dragster competed at Bakersfield in his and Ron Hodgson’s “Troy Lee Design” nitro funny car. Tim qualified for the 8 car field out of 24 cars. The team battled tire shake and lost out in the semi’s.
September 21, 2009 Final point standings has been updated.
September 16, 2009 We couldn't have asked for better weather for our last race of the season. Again in Edmonton at the second CMDRA race at Castrol Raceway, we want to thank everyone at CMDRA for adding the IBAA Funny Cars to the program, see you next year. The IBAA with the support of Castrol Raceway and ACE Manufacturing saw some great qualifying times as we had Eddy Plaizier set the pace at 7.201 on the 7.20 index on Saturday night. After the smoke and rubber settled Eddy Plaizier driving the Team ACE Racing 37 Chevy Funny Car locked up his 3rd IBAA Championship with another run to the finals, in the ACE Pro Alcohol Series. Plaizier set another record for the IBAA going to the finals in 5 of 6 races in 2009. 2nd in the points is Darrell Webb and Ron Sekura moves ahead to 3rd place. Congrats Eddy, Darrell & Ron for a great season. See our Race Results for the complete details. Points update will follow shortly. All of us at the IBAA led by Race Director Sandy
Jelinski, drivers, crew September 9, 2009 The IBAA Funny Cars ventured out west of Edmonton to Drayton Valley last weekend for Race # 5 of the 6 Race - Ace Manufacturing Pro Alcohol Series. This race is put on by the Rotary Club and it's unbelievable group of volunteers who turn the local airport into a race track, car show and amusement park for the Labour Day weekend. It was met with thousands of race fans who were not disappointed with the Funny Cars, Jet Cars, Semi Drag Trucks and a Wheelstander. The weather this year for our series has been met with mostly sunny skies and at Drayton Valley there were no disappointments. We had a great weekend of racing and the packed grandstands saw some unbelievable racing starting with our side-by-side smoky burnouts, qualifying again was so ever close and in eliminations we saw one race won by 9 thousands of a second. The IBAA also had Top Fuel IHRA standout Tim Boychuk joining for a few exhibition rounds driving is old Funny Car the Happy Hour Stang, which was purchased by Arvid Fonstad ( he will be licensing next weekend). 2nd round qualifying took place Sunday because of the dew setting in on the track around 8 pm, but to the to the delight of the sold out facility, they witnessed, 4 rounds of Funny Car action on Sunday. Next up for the IBAA is the 6th race of the 6 race series sponsored by ACE Manufacturing out of Bittern Lake , Alberta, The ACE Pro Alcohol Series will have it's final race of the year this coming weekend at EDMONTON'S CASTROL RACEWAY located just off of QE 2 South of Edmonton and North on the Nisku overpass. We will be racing with the Nitro Harleys and all makes and models of high performance motorcycles that belong to the Canadian Motorcycle Drag Race Association. Please check the CMDRA website at www.cmdra.com for more info. Qualifying is scheduled for 1:00 pm and 4:00 pm on Saturday. Check out the Points Standings.... as we get down to the final race there are 3 cars tied for 4th place. Who will take over the 3rd spot. Watch and see..... August 25, 2009 The IBAA Funny Cars woke up to sunny skies at SIR and looked forward to a great day of racing and they did not disappoint the packed grandstands. SIR, lead by Skippy and his team and a strong supporter of the IBAA over the years, had the IBAA run all our cars for all 5 rounds of Funny Car action to the delight of the fans from 1 pm on through the night, side by side action that saw Ron Sekura performing double duty and running is little brother's car as Corey was unable to make it to the race. Check out the Race Results page for more detail.... Next up for the IBAA is the 5th race of the 6 race series sponsored by ACE Manufacturing out of Bittern Lake , Alberta The ACE Pro Nostalgia Funny Car Series will be in Drayton Valley located about 1 hour west of Edmonton, home to the Sekura Brothers racing team. Thunder in the Valley will start with qualifying on Saturday afternoon and eliminations Sunday for more details please check out the link www.thunderinthevalleydragrace.ca August 18, 2009 The IBAA heads to SIR - in Sunny Saskatoon Saskatchewan this weekend for a full day of racing on Saturday as Race 4 of 6 of the ACE Pro Alcohol Funny Car Series continues. Qualifying starts at 2 PM to sort out the SIR asphalt and eliminations to follow around 6 pm and run into the night. If anyone has been to SIR lately its a great track to watch drag racing the fans are unbelievably supportive of the Funny Cars and line both sides of the track and can bee seen and heard cheering wildly as their favorite drivers race the 1/4 mile and continue to cheer and greet the drivers as they tow back to the pits in front of the stands. Race 4 at SIR begins with 2 time IBAA champion Eddy Plaizier in the ACE Manufacturing backed 37 Chevy with a slim point lead over Darrel Webb - Lucas Oil backed 82 Corvette, a few rounds back is Joey Steckler in his beautifully painted 69 Corvette sponsored by Joeys Place, then a slim 2 pts back is our Mission Race Winner Ron Sekura with his first race win and the coveted NHRA Wally, where he offered up some wild, wild and lengthy burnouts (can we expect the same at SIR?), then 1 round back we find Rocky Mountain National winner Rod Elliot, for complete points standing click onto Point Standings. If you're making the trip to SIR this Saturday please stop by the pits and get your autographed handout cards from your favorite Funny Car driver, we look forward to seeing you all there. Stay tuned as results and photos will be posted next week. August 3, 2009 Just like Medicine Hat, Mission proved to be a hot one. All 10 cars arrived Friday in anticipation of the great racing Saturday. Turned out we didn't run until Saturday night 6 and 9. We didn't know that the weather in Mission had been hot and humid for a week already so of course that meant... yup Thunderstorm. The rain hit us at 5:30 and they ended up having to call the race for the day. We got our first and only qualifying hit on Sunday at Noon and went right into eliminations. Congratulations to Ron Sekura for his first win and his first Wally. Full detail on Race Results page. July 15, 2009 Check out this link on an article about Cal Tebb and his GTO. www.dragracecanada.com July 7, 2009 The following weekend was back in Edmonton for the Bike Drags June 27 & 28th. Back into the points racing. It was almost deja vu from Medicine Hat with the pairing right to the final with Darrell Webb and Eddy Plaizier in the final. It may have been a close race if Darrell hadn't done a 5' wheelie off the starting line and running and 18.25 pass giving the win to Eddy.. Go to youtube.com and search Lucas Oil Air Time for the video of Darrell's wheelie. See the Race Results page for full details. Last weekend of course was the major IHRA Rocky Mountain Nationals. The weather was awesome other than the short burst of rain late Saturday afternoon. The cars all ran excellent, too fast even. There were 15 cars in the Pro Nostalgia class this year running a 16 car field. Eddy Plaizier qualified #1 so he got a bye to the 2nd round. After 4 passes Sunday afternoon Rod Elliott was the Champion winning an Ironman. Congratulations Rod! See the results page for full details of points the races.
June 15, 2009
See our Points and Results page of more detail.
Photo Album is finally up and running. Thanks for your patience. I will get the pix from last year added soon. ***************
It's here.... the 2009 race season has begun!!!!!! 6 of our cars went down to Las Vegas for the Heritage race this weekend. At this race the index is 7.00. All our "Canadian" cars qualified, but then went too fast and didn't make it past first round. Once the guys are back, we can update more details and photos. Congratulations to all. *********** We have a couple of "Congratulations" to pass on to our members: Powerama - April 25th - Cal Tebb walked away with 3 awards: 1st place Nostalgia Funny Car - check out the Photo Gallery for the pix. ************** Congratulations to Eddy Plaizier who on May 2nd gave away his baby girl, Frankie to Garth Giroux.
************ Changes for 2009 - Those of our fans that follow our season closely will notice we have made a slight change to our program. We are trying out a new index of 7.20. This will be at Edmonton and Mission tracks only. We will still run 7.50 at the other tracks and see how things go.
Here's a sneak peeks: Cal's new body.... Here come the Judge... pretty impressive Cal.
Ron & Corey Sekura's new addition
Kato and Ron fired the newly acquired Camaro on Thursday night and it sounds great.
Also, here are a couple photos from the New Car Show of Joey's display in February 2009.
March 28, 2009 2 more races added to the
schedule. Calgary and Mission. From all of us at the IBAA we want to wish all of our fans, supporters and tracks a very special holiday season and a happy New Year. December 18, 2008 Crew update.... Rick (Kato) Yamada has made the tough decision to get out of the driver's seat. Kato is happy to announce he will be back in the Sekura pit as full time Crew Chief. A very special thanks goes out to Jerry & Brenda Kos for giving him the opportunity to get his license and drive their car toward the end of last season. December 14, 2008 Race Fans mark your calendars! The club has confirmed the following race dates for the 2009 season: June 13 & 14 Medicine Hat, Alberta December 7, 2008 More exciting news.... Cal Tebb has SOLD his beautiful Silver 69 Camero to the Sekura bros. The Sekura's plan to run two cars with the IBAA in 09. Work is already underway on Cal's new car, pictures of the new car coming soon. Cal also advises that Cory Kincaid has bought his '55 Chev body to run with the IBAA next season. Looks like Cal is going to have some surprises for us all in the spring and he also will have a lot of work over the winter months. November 29, 2008 Hi Race Fans, the IBAA has
been active through the off season and has some exciting news.
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We have had a busy, busy few weeks with races 4 weekends in a row. After
Medicine Hat we were in Calgary. 8 cars ran the 1/8th mile in a Chicago
Shoot Out style race. Rod Elliott and Joey Steckler went to the
final. It was a good weekend just going out to run and have some fun.
Medicine Hat was a scorcher! We had a great showing from 10 of our
14 members attending the first points race of the year. It was the first
time down the track for some of our drivers, and with the hot weather the first
round showed some pretty high ETs, but once that was out of the way everything
went smooth, faster and straight down the track.
A few of the cars were out
at Castrol Raceway this weekend. It was cold, but we managed to get
in 4 passes. The cars are running great and ready for our first points
race in Medicine Hat next weekend.
April 5, 2009
