Bob Harris started the Thanksgiving Tradition of the $20,000 Footbrake race at Piedmont Dragway in 2003. Anthony Walton started the Fall Footbrake Frenzy in 2009 at Coastal Plains. When the 20K went away in 2010, Walton and Michael Beard teamed up to bring it back. In 2011, the Fall Footbrake Frenzy III was moved to Thanksgiving weekend, and the 20K Footbrake Tradition was reborn... and with it, Loose Rocker Promotions was born. We set out to give racers the kind of races that *we* wanted to race in.

An incredible 358 entries competed at the ATI Performance Products Fall Footbrake Frenzy IX last year, making it the biggest Footbrake race of 2017. This is what teamwork looks like! Due to your ever-growing support, we've raised the purse several times over the years. For 2018, we've made the 5K-20K-5K into a 10K-20K-10K for THE SAME $380/Weekend Entry! We're on-pace to pay out about $40,000 more than the FFF III in 2012! It's all because of your support.

YOU made it happen. Thank you!

Last year, Jesse Betterton scooped up the Sunday FAT $5K win. Temperatures had fallen into the 30's, yet it was two 5-second cars in the finals. Kevin Pollard turned it red to hand the win to Betteron, but both drivers ran dead-on the dial!





This year, the Friday and Sunday champions will battle for $10,000 instead of $5K!

2017 was an incredible year for "Nasty" Nick Hastings, and he capped it all off with an emotional $20,000 victory at last year's Thanksgiving Tradition.

Fall Footbrake Frenzy $20,000 Event Champions
2011 Dave Harvey
2012 William Roberts
2013 Adam Davis
2014 Jeff Flood
2015 Adam Vanderslice
2016 Denny Maclosky
2017 Nick Hastings
2018 "...it could be you!"

ATI FALL FOOTBRAKE X SCHEDULE

We are going to proceed with racing this weekend, with a two-fold plan in mind:

Plan A: We will run two $20K's, the first utilizing Friday-Saturday as we are able, and the second $20K on Sunday. We would be looking at about a 12 Noon start on Friday. If conditions prove to be unraceable on Friday-Saturday, we will go to Plan B.

Plan B: If we are unable to race Friday-Saturday, we will run for $40,000 to Win on Sunday.

The Thanksgiving Tradition continues at Piedmont Dragway this weekend! $20K Footbrake action, homemade chocolate chip cookies, and new this year, year-end drawings from the whole year's Weekend Entries for 2019 Loose Rocker Gold Cards, a $2500 Trick Flow gift certificate, and a new, decked-out 28' Vintage Outlaw trailer from Walton Trailer Sales!

Gates will be open all night on Thursday. You can come to the gate Friday morning to purchase your tech cards and crew wristbands.

Plan B start time Sunday? Time runs?

If regular rules apply they can't start engines till 12 on Sunday----Church nearby.....

Rodney Finchum over Kevin Pollard for the Friday $20,000

High temp was 38 it was 33 in the final, track worked all day.

They said it couldn't be done.

The ATI Fall Footbrake Frenzy X Friday $20K wrapped up with the slowest car on the property taking the win over the second fastest car in the final round after hours of mid 30-degree temps. Hot Rod Rodney Finchum took his biggest career win over a red-lighting Kevin Pollard in the finals. Kurt Holland was the lone semifinalist. Also notably, the two fastest cars on the property squared off in the quarterfinals, with Pollard stopping Chris Plott in a super tight race, just another testimony to the Piedmont staff and the top-notch machines driven by some of the very best in the sport.












Quarterfinal action Friday night at 34 degrees, between the two fastest cars on the property!

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IT'S PLAN A!
We completed Friday's $20K. Following the rain on Saturday, the Piedmont Dragway crew will utilize that time to scrape the track and prepare for another $20K on Sunday with some absolutely beautiful racing weather on tap!

SUNDAY FORMAT AND SCHEDULE
$20K Entry: $230

$20,000/WIN
$6,000/RU
$2,000/Semi
$200/Rnd starting Rnd 3 Win
Re-Entry (1st Rnd Only): $150

NO ENGINES FIRED BEFORE 12 NOON.
New entries, get them warmed up and bring them to lanes 3-4. Must be both new car AND new driver.
NEW ENTRY TIME RUN: 12:15
Rnd 1 $20K Eliminations to follow.

Racers converged on Piedmont Dragway from numerous states just for one last shot at $20,000 on a beautiful Sunday for the ATI Performance Products Fall Footbrake Frenzy X. After completing a very cold Friday $20K "Warmup", and losing an entire Saturday to rain, racers' patience was rewarded with a great Sunday finale. The ranks swelled to 243 entries despite the weather-induced schedule changes.







2017 Champion Nick Hastings backed up his title this year, stopping third generation youngster Jason McCandless in the finals. It was Hastings' second victory of the year, following the ATI BIGFOOT $40K in April, making Hastings the winningest driver in Loose Rocker history, with five.



Hastings defeated Don Baugher in the semis, while Mccandless advanced to the finals via an earned bye run.

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12:18-- I hope you went to bed Ducky. Good to see you, Jill, Anthony, and Stacey. Thanks for the hospitality and doing such a good job with these races.

Great seeing you Fern! Thanks for coming out.

The people are what it's really all about.


Soggy Dunn, Tim Douglas, Joe Theodore, Rodney Finchum, Big Ern




Adam Vanderslice won the commemorative event cornhole set with the Best Losing Package of Round 5. He also took home a big Summit Racing Equipment prize package for having the second best package of the day, .007 (the first of several .007 packages from drivers throughout the day!)


The best package of the day came within the first fifteen pair, when Maryland's Tony Mattera laid down a PERFECT RUN to win a new converter from Abruzzi.


Recently engaged Randy Biddle, Jr. made it down for Sunday's race to wheel Dave Stebner's community rent-a-ride Duster.

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Randall and Ashley Cantrell


Timbo Blevins



NMCA standout Chad Brewer



Tim Alexander and Carson Robbins


Kevin Locklear and his dad


Creed Coontz


Bob Mullaney, Darrell Powell, Dave Stebner, Randy Biddle Jr.


Seth Phillips, Meagan Dean, Kevin Pollard, Raider Campbell

GIBBS RACE CARS
BEST ENGINEERED CAR
Chris & Tommy Plott



CALIFORNIA CAR COVER
BEST APPEARING CAR
Scott Embley

Get links to the complete round-by-round results from this weekend's ATI Performance Products Fall Footbrake Frenzy X, as well as all of the MotorManiaTV video coverage presented by Summit Racing Equipment on the Loose Rocker website at http://looserocker.com/?page_id=33

Thanks for yet another GREAT event, racers! YOU made it happen.