"BATTERY BEACH BURNOUT", January 25-26 in Miami
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The Florida Electric Auto Association (www.floridaeaa.org) is pleased to announce the 3rd Annual "Battery Beach Burnout" electric vehicle drag racing and autocross competition will be held on January 25-26 at Countyline Dragway (www.countylinedragwayinc.com) in Miami. The EV drag race will be Friday evening from 6pm to midnight, and the EV autocross and Show 'n Shine will be Saturday from 10am to 4pm at the same location. The event will wrap up Saturday evening, with no activities presently scheduled for Sunday, January 27.

Countyline Dragway, the former Opa Locka West airstrip, is located at the intersection of W. Okeechobee Rd. (Route 27) and N. Krome Ave. (Route 997) in the far northwest corner of Miami-Dade County, a quarter mile south of the Miami-Dade/Broward County line.

Countyline is a 1/8-mile drag strip. Note that 1/8 mile records are now available for all voltage classes with the recent approval by NEDRA, the National Electric Drag Racing Association (www.nedra.com), of recording 1/8 mile records for all NEDRA classes.

The Florida EAA is staging "Battery Beach Burnout" (BBB) in conjunction and collaboration with the Electric Vehicle Association of San Diego (www.evaosd.com) and its own EV drag racing & autocross competition, "Electric Dragin'" (www.electricdragin.com), at Barona Dragstrip
(www.baronadrags.com, also a 1/8 mile dragstrip) in San Diego on the same weekend. There is a possibility of a joint east-coast/west-coast media link-up and simulcast for parts of the dual events, with some interesting dueling match-ups as well:

Hopefully, AC Propulsion will be bringing one of their eBoxes (www.acpropulsion.com/ebox/) to Electric Dragin' in San Diego, for a head-to-head against Andrew Roddy with his eBox at BBB in Miami.

Dan Wolfson in San Diego will hopefully face off on his Vectrix electric motorcycle (www.vectrix.com) against Charles Whalen on his Vectrix bike in Miami. Dan and Charles will also each be competing against Jeff Patterson and Shawn Waggoner on their respective Patterson Cycles electric motorcycles (www.pattersoncycles.com), the latter two both in Miami.

If Matt Graham and Shawn Waggoner can complete repairs and upgrades to Matt's "Joule Injected" electric Nissan 240SX (www.jouleinjected.com) in time for BBB, Matt will be looking to fend off an aggressive challenge from Michael Kadie in San Diego with his electric Cobra (http://ssi-racing.com), which is hot on the heels of Joule Injected's current position as the second
fastest street-legal electric car in the world. No shrinking violet and certainly not lacking in ambition, Michael has said that he won't even have time to blink as he blows right past Joule Injected's Number 2 position on his way to knocking off and unseating the current world champion, John "Plasma Boy" Wayland's "White Zombie"
(www.plasmaboyracing.com/whitezombie.php), of Portland, Oregon.

Miami's own Cliff Rassweiler of ProEV (www.proev.com) will be taking on all-comers on both coasts in defense of his dominant reign as the longtime world champion EV autocross racer.

Another longtime, dominant world champion, Lowell Simmons of Broward County's Miramar High School (www.miramarev.com), will be defending his drag racing and autocross titles against other high schools in Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, and Southern California.

The Florida EAA's "Battery Beach Burnout" will again be an international event, this year with Electro Autos Eficaces de Mexico bringing their electric Nissan Tsuru from Mexico City back to Florida, where it was originally converted by Grassroots EV (www.grassrootsev.com), a Steve Clunn "screamer"!

With all of these competitive match-ups and intense rivalries, these joint, simultaneous, east-coast/west-coast dual events promise a lot of excitement; especially with the 1/8 mile record books now open in all voltage classes, just waiting to be filled, a lot of new world records are going to be set!