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Sudden Impact Racing Team Profile Ray Sawyer A true veteran of the sport of drag racing, always came
to the races with his friends as a high schooler growing up. He took to the track once in the 1970's and won his class
(G/Stock) in his only appearance. Mike Sawyer Ray and Denise's oldest son started his racing career back on August 18th,
1995, the exact day he received his driver's license. He began racing the family's 1967 Camaro, Sudden Impact I, and later
purchased a 1967 Nova which he raced in 1998, 1999, and 2000. Brian Sawyer The younger of the two Sawyer brothers started his racing
career, just after receiving his driver's license in September of 1998. He began by driving the family's 1967 Camaro, the
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After starting a family and opening his buisness, he returned to racing in 1984 behind the
wheel of the 1967 Camaro that he has sinced passed down to his two sons, Mike and Brian. Ray raced the 1967 Camaro until
1993 when his won his first New England Dragway Top ET (Super Pro) points championship. He purchased a 1987 Pontiac Firebird
from Mike Marion for the 1994 Season. He transplanted the engine and transmission out of the old Camaro and stepped up from
9.70's to 9.20's. He raced the Pontiac through the 1999 season, capturing yet another New England Dragway Top ET Points
Championship in 1998. He ran a best of 8.61 @ 155 in the Pontiac. For the 2000 season, Ray debuted a 2000 Camaro built by
Dan Page Race Cars. The car has been a best ET of 7.82 @ 175 MPH. The car was updated to a 2002 Camaro for the 2003 season.
In 2001, Ray won Super Gas at the NHRA Division 1 event at Lebanon Valley Dragway and at the National Open at Atco Raceway,
finishing fifth in the Division One Super Gas point standings.
Mike has found
success in every level of racing he's competed in. He won Super Street at 2003 NHRA Mac Tools Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol, TN and was the
2002 NHRA Division 1 Super Street Champion. During the 2002 season, Mike finished runner-up twice in Super
Street, at Maple Grove and Englishtown, as part of the NHRA Division 1 Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series. Mike was also runner-up
at the 1998 IHRA North American Nationals in Super Rod, as well as the IHRA Divisional race at Epping, NH in 1999. Mike also
has a Super Street Gamblers race win in Atco (2002) and a Super Street Top 8 win (2000) to his credit along with 4 VP Fuels
ET Series race wins in his short career along with many gamblers races and 3 New England Dragway Major Event wins. In 1997,
Mike finished 4th in New England Dragway Super Pro points. Mike is licensed to drive both doorcars and dragsters, having
best ET's in the 8.30-range in both, with a high MPH of 171 coming in Ray's 2002 Camaro.
He has run a best ET of 9.13 at 148 Miles Per Hour in the Camaro and has captured an
IHRA Divisional win in Hot Rod along with two New England Dragway VP Fuels ET Series wins in Top ET and one win in Street ET.
He also has two semi-final finishes in NHRA Divisional competition and won the Super Street Top 8 race at Cecil County in
2001.He took the 2002 season off to focus on work and school, graciously allowing Mike to drive his "baby".
