One week after winning back-to-back Professional Drag Racing Association events, GDB rider Brunson Grothus entered the fourth of five Manufacturer’s Cup events at “The Rock” in Rockingham, NC in a tight points battle with veteran pro-modified racers Paul Gast and Travis Davis. Also looking to stay in the pro-mod points mix and improve upon his current fourth place position was GDB rider “Showboat” Shane Eperjesi aboard his barely broke in 2016 Grothus Dragbikes chassis.

The GDB team arrived early Friday on a mission to test and get Showboat some more on track data. And that they did, Showboat clicked off two nice laps going from A to B in the 90 plus degree heat. Early Saturday afternoon Brunson led .........

After a one-month break from the track where GDB had a career event weekend at the Professional Drag Racing Association (PDRA) Memphis drags, where they were the number one qualifier, set low elapsed time of the event with a 4.05 at 175 mph, and took out the PDRA points leader Chris Jones in the final, GDB loaded up and headed east for the biggest PDRA event of the year - Dragstock XIII at the brand new Galot Motorsports Park in Benson, NC. The GDB crew was excited to arrive at the world class eighth mile facility and get to work; however, they were delayed for several hours near Dayton, OH when they unfortunately had a flat tire during the all-night 1,000 mile trek. After multiple phone calls and getting the spare tire mounted on the rim.........