Bakersfield, CA - March 05-08, 2010: Horrible economy and a mixed bag of adverse weather conditions aside, the 2010 edition of the March Meet wrapped up on Monday with a hugely popular win in Top Fuel. After getting the best of Brad Thompson in the High Speed Motorsports entry in the semis, Adam Sorokin went on to win his first race in a fuel dragster carding a 5.764 at 241.61 to beat Howard Haight's 5.935 at 248.23.

In his first start as the new driver for HSMS, Thompson did a masterful job of keeping his still unfamiliar ride on all fours during two days of a very tricky track during qualifying. After winning the first round of eliminations on a hole shot, and flat outrunning his opponent in round two, Brad got his one mistake of the season over with when he caught his first red light ever in Top Fuel against eventual winner, Adam Sorokin.

All in all, the team left Bakersfiled confident that they are a contender for the 2010 points chase and plan to contest all the Hot Rod Heritage Racing Series through out the season.

High Speed Motorsports wish to thank their loyal supporters for the role they play in helping them to continue to do what they love; Mastercam, Cad-Cam Consulting, Highspeed Steel Treating, SilverThin Bearings, RMS Healthcare, A & A Precision CNC, Donovan Engineering, Howard's Rods, The Blower Shop, East-West Clutches, Arias Pistons, SCE Gaskets, Titan Speed Eng., Dyda Race Engineering, Hoosier Tires West, C&C Automotive and NGK spark plugs.

Friday - Qualifying Session One

Following 55 minute clean up of a 2500 ft oildown from a car in another class, the first session of TFquaifying got under way 2 hours late and 20 degrees too cold. Brad Thompson would be paired with Mike Chrisman.

But the cold track was unforgiving and Thompson was unable to stay in the groove (as if there was one).

After a couple of fruitless attempts to hook up Brad, getting close to the wall, called it quits and coasted through with a 7.23 and just 131.35.

With time already running short and the weather still a problem, the third quaifying session was scrubbed from the progam leaving just one more shot for the fuelers to figure out how to get down a very tricky track. Once again the session was late in the afternoon and the track temp had dipped into the 60s.

Before the 330' mark the tires spun hard and Thompson was out of the groove again only this time to the left.

Both Thompson and Day coasted through. To illustrate just how tough getting down the track in quaifying was, Thompson held on to the #10 spot with his 7.23.