Duke Wins Super Gas 5-Round Race at MCR

Goodlettsville, TN, August 19, 2007 – Back-to-back 6.30-second Super Gas runs and a stunning +.0001-second reaction time in the semi-final iced the winning night for Duke Bros. Racing Team driver Ronnie Duke at Music City Raceway’s NHRA drag racing Saturday night. The margin of victory in the finals was .0041 seconds.

2007After a gremlin-challenged first half of the year and some intense development on fuel and delivery systems, Duke has logged two runner-up showings in 5.50 heads-up and pulled into the second-place berth for the Super Gas track championship since June 30.

Duke is a seven-time Music City Raceway track champion, winning in 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 2003 and 2004.  In a racing career that began in the 1960s, Duke is a multiple International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) national event winner and has two top-ten finishes in NHRA Division 2. Duke and his wife, Peggy, live in Middle Tennessee. He is a Commercial Parts Specialist with Advance Auto Parts in Murfreesboro, TN. 

Duke was driving the Duke Bros. Racing 1996 Beretta with a 555 cubic inch big block Chevy. Associate sponsors helping to create the winning Duke Bros. Racing combinations are MoneyGram, Lucas Oil Products, Action Security Systems, Gary Jennings Race Cars, ARP High Performance Fasteners, PTC Racing Converters, Hoosier Tire, Nova Racing Computers, AFCO Shocks, K&N Filters, Milodon, Aleet Transmissions, NitroPlate, Competition Cams, Kirt’s Automotive Machine, SHY Racing Suspensions; Goodridge Performance Hose and Fittings, and Quick Fuel Technologies. See  http://www.musiccityraceway.com/.

Ron Duke #1 Qualifier and Runner Up Again in 5.50 Heads-Up at Music City Raceway

Goodlettsville, TN, July 28, 2007 – For the second time in as many races, Ron Duke was runner up at Music City Raceway’s second 5.50-second heads up race Saturday night. His 1996 Beretta also scored the number-one qualifying pass of the night.

Ron Duke Runner Up in Inaugural 5.50 Heads-Up at Music City Raceway

Goodlettsville, TN, June 30, 2007 – Ron Duke was runner up at Music City Raceway’s inaugural 5.50-second heads up class Saturday night. An eclectic year of racing venues, 2007 competitive events for the Ron Duke half of the Duke Bros. Racing Team have included Super Gas racing in Gainesville and Atlanta National events, Bowling Green’s Sports Nationals, and the first-ever 5.50 heads up class at the track formerly known as Union Hill.

Ron Duke in Finals Again; Runs Closest Race in Career

Huntsville, AL, June 11, 2006 – An untimely eight thousandths of a second red light placed Ron Duke in the runner up spot for a second time in as many weeks. His second round win was the closest race in Duke’s 38-year career with a margin of two ten-thousandths of a second. Duke was number three qualifier at Saturday night’s 5.50 Heads Up Race at the ADRL Summer Drags presented by Flowmaster at Huntsville Dragway.

Ron Duke Runner Up in 5.50 Heads Up: Bama Dragway

Sumiton, AL, June 3, 2006 – Ron Duke was number one qualifier and runner up at the new Bama Dragway’s 5.50-second heads up class in Sumiton, AL Saturday night. An eclectic year of racing venues, 2006 competitive events for the Ron Duke half of the Duke Bros. Racing Team have included Super Gas racing in Gainesville and Atlanta National events, Bowling Green’s Sports Nationals, and the 5.50 heads up class in the Outlaw Nationals in Huntsville, AL.


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Ron Duke Wins Super Gas at Beech Bend Raceway; Breaks the Points Lead Tie at Music City Raceway

Bowling Green, KY, August 15, 2005 – It was a successful racing weekend for Ronnie Duke. Sunday, he won Super Gas at Beech Bend Raceway’s NHRA Drag Racing in Bowling Green, KY. Saturday night, he broke the tie for the lead in points (http://www.musiccityraceway.com/Points%202005.htm), as he continues to defend back-to-back 2003 and 2004 Music City Raceway Super Gas Track Championships in Goodlettsville, TN.

Ron Duke Wins Super Gas at the “Hill”

Goodlettsville, TN, June 20, 2005 – Ron Duke, defending 2003 and 2004 NHRA Saturday Night Racing Super Gas Champion at Music City Raceway, won the third race of the season last night in a healthy field of competitors, pushing him into a tie for the points lead. The win joins a national event runner-up berth at the fifth annual O’Reilly Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway creating momentum for a good racing season. He will compete in the Sears Craftsman Nationals in East St. Louis, IL next week.

 Jerry Duke Runner-Up at NHRA Division 3 Sports Nationals Open

 Bowling Green, KY, June 1, 2005 – Jerry Duke was Super Gas Runner-Up at the NHRA Divison 3 Sports Nationals Open Sunday. For the second year in a row, Duke was in the finals for this race.

In the second year that Duke Bros. Racing has fielded two cars, Duke was driving the Duke Bros. Racing ’27 Ford Roadster with a big block Chevy engine. Duke Bros. Racing is a limited partnership between Jerry Duke and Ron Duke.  With over 70 years of combined drag racing experience on tracks from Michigan to Florida, Jerry and Ron have built a national reputation.

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Duke Runner-Up at NHRA National Event

Bristol, TN, May 2, 2005 – Ron Duke was Super Gas Runner-Up at the fifth annual O’Reilly Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway in Tennessee Sunday. After long rain delays plaguing the four-day event subsided, Super Gas racers completed one time trial in the morning and six rounds Sunday evening. “There was no time to think,” Duke said. “We just had to keep racing.”