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By Rob Einaudi
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I just heard from Jason Heintz, Emilio's brother-in-law. Emilio and his Duster won it all on Pinks All Out at Englishtown this weekend! Here's how Jason broke it down once Emilio made it to the final 16:
Don Walsh Jr was the first round opponent. He is an NMRA Pro 5.0 heavy hitter and the crowd went nuts when Emilio took the win light on him. That was the first win and received the $1000 cash. 2nd round was the most amazing driving anybody had ever seen. The Duster was in the left lane against another Mopar. We were going all in with the money no matter what. In the negotiation circle the other driver only wanted to go $500 and the crowd of over 25,000 was chanting many not so nice things when they wouldn't match our bet. So we went $500. The car broke lose about 60 feet out and was crossed up in the blue paint aiming towards the centerline. He shifted that thing and stayed in it. I don't know how but that thing straightened right out and ran him down for round 2 win against a gorgeous 1970 Charger. Final 4 was against a great bunch of guys with a first gen Camaro. These guys were awesome and went all in for $1000 as did we. The driver just a few weeks ago had 6 stints put in his heart. Dead nuts race all the way down until Emilio dropped the hammer in 5th gear and pulled on him through the stripe. The tower announced the win our way by .003 !!!
Finals ended up being against a G-Force transmission Mustang that was a 4 speed clutchless against our smallblock 5 speed with clutch for the best 2 out of 3. 1st round right lane loss. The crowd as did our team thought the Mustang jumped and things got pretty heated on the starting line. We watched a quick deliberation by the All Out team and they awarded the Mustang the win and stated that he rolled while loading the clutch and was just dead on the arm drop. We applauded that team for the effort and even tried with hand clapping and hand gestures to calm the crowd down. No turning off the cars. They had to come down the return road and immediately into the water boxes for the next runs. 2nd round left lane. Side by side all the way to 1000 foot and again 5th gear pulled hard and turned on the win light. Now it is all tied up 1-1. Final run we're in the right lane again. Same thing. Had to run him down and Emilio said that another 5th gear pull got him by a fender for all the marbles. The crowd was going insane.
Emilio walked away with $13,500 in cash, plus a $8500 Napa tool chest loaded with tools. And of course the prestige of being crowned Pinks All Out Champ. Two more pics after the jump, plus you can see a ton of pics from the weekend at GoneDragRacing.com. And check out this video, too--the final round starts at about 5:45. Congrats Emilio!!!





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