{"id":624208,"date":"2017-12-24T01:52:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T09:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangshift.com\/?p=624208"},"modified":"2017-12-23T23:09:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T07:09:36","slug":"southeast-gassers-bitchen-weve-got-50-photos-right-prove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangshift.com\/bangshift1320\/southeast-gassers-bitchen-weve-got-50-photos-right-prove\/","title":{"rendered":"The Southeast Gassers Are Bitchen and We’ve Got 50 More Photos Right Here To Prove It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday we showed you 50 photos from the Season Finale of the Southeast Gassers Association and today we’ve got another 50. Next year we’ll have a gallery of photos and full event results from every one of these races, and will hopefully be on site with in person coverage for one or two as well!<\/p>\n

(Photos by Caleb Sewell, Words by Stephen Smith)<\/p>\n

November 4th in the small town of Shelby, NC a vintage championship gasser series wrapped up its 2017 season. Yes, we said a \u201cgasser championship\u201d, in the form of the ever-growing Southeast Gassers Association (SEGA). Founded, owned, and operated by 2006 IHRA Champion, Quain Stott, the series has expanded from a single small class of gassers to three, with talks of a fourth. There were three point\u2019s classes this year, which yielded champions in A, C & D\/Gas. Just like the classes of the original gasser era, the SEGA is split by pounds per cubic inch, (6lbs for A\/Gas, 8lbs for C\/Gas, and 10lbs for D\/Gas).<\/p>\n

Straight axles and straight drives are the foundation of an SEGA legal race car and have proven to provide true heads-up, first to the finish line, no breakout class racing at each event. While launching from a pro style tree with a plethora of back up girls that keep em straight, the caliber of gasser racing cannot be denied.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s final race dubbed, \u201cThe Battle at Shadyside\u201d began with the on-track firing of a real civil war cannon. 61 Gassers came from all over the southeastern United States and some as far as TX, MO, WI, MI, & Canada. In between rounds, exhibitions included Paul Combest\u2019s H\/Gas VW Bug, and A\/FX match racing of the Huston and Hubert Platt tribute cars that are driven by their sons, cousins Rocky and Allen Platt.<\/p>\n

The A & D\/Gas champions were settled before Shadyside with D\/Gas Champion Todd Oden in his \u201cDouble XX\u201d \u201858 Chevy Delray. Todd and his Dad from Alabama formed this deadly duo for the first ever D\/Gas SEGA Champion. A\/Gas would find a familiar face in that of the 2015 returning Champion, Donovan Stott in his \u201cWhite Trash\u201d \u201848 Anglia. Donovan is the son of 2003 IHRA Promod Champion Mitch Stott (brother of Quain Stott). The C\/Gas Championship started with three probable winners in that of Rusty Sampsel, Doug Dobbins, and Jerry Birch of the popular Chevy II \u201cFreebird\u201d of Birch Bros Racing. Michigan\u2019s own Rusty Sampsel in the \u201cBad Banana\u201d \u201855 Chevy that his late father raced in the 1960\u2019s. Rusty would capture the feature win at the Shadyside battle, but he just couldn\u2019t win the war. Doug Dobbins from right up the road in Hendersonville, NC would take home the 2017 C\/Gas Championship. Doug and his wife Ingrid have been a powerful combination for the \u201866 \u201cMedicine Man\u201d Nova.<\/p>\n

The SEGA mantra is as follows: \u201cWe make it our purpose to protect the overused marketing ploy of the \u2018GASSER\u2019 name, as we breath new life into heads-up class racing of the 1960\u2019s.\u201d Challenge their claims and go see for yourself as they open the 2018 season back in Shelby, NC on April 14th<\/sup>\u00a0at Shadyside Dragway. Be sure to look for future race coverage here on Bangshift throughout the 2018 Southeast Gassers Association Championship Season.<\/p>\n

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