After back-to-back runner-up finishes at Holley LS Fest and LS Fest West last year, ace driver Rich Willhoff was crowned Grand Champion of the 2nd annual Holley LS Fest West with a command performance in Las Vegas. He not only made the podium at every single event except the MSD Drag Race competition, which his

Brenda Cox ran the table with a dominating performance in the Three Pedals LSX Rumble, taking home not just the title, the trophy, and the first-place cash – she also won a brand-new TorqStorm centrifugal supercharger valued at $2,800. With the most consistent string of runs of any driver in any drag racing category at

As with the Baer Brakes 3S Challenge and the Lateral G/QA1 Autocross, Rich Willhoff had his way with the field in the Racepak Road Course Challenge, his favorite event. Driving a 2006 Corvette, Willhoff turned in metronomically consistent lap times of 1:22.338 (76.5-mph average), 1:22.650, and 1:23.264 to win going away. Duke Langley was a

Loren Healy of Farmington, N.M., swept the Off-Road Challenge, piloting his Holley-equipped Unlimited Buggy to the overall Nitto Off Road Challenge title over second-place Cody Waggoner and third-place John Goodby. In PreRunner, Blake Wilkey was the big winner and Darren Parsons took second. "It's a tighter, more compact track than the endurance races we run

Rich Willhoff, who finished second in Grand Champion points at both LS Fest West and LS Fest in 2017 and dominated LS Fest West this year, also took the Lateral G/QA1 Autocross title, winning by a margin of seven-tenths of a second over Duke Langley. Willhoff, Langley, and third-place finisher Glen Barnhouse all wheeled Corvettes, with

When the smoke settled and the sound of GM's LS V8 engines ceased following the last tandem battle of the 2018 Lucas Oil Drift Challenge, there were three podium finishers remaining inside the drift challenge course at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Brandon Sorenson and his E46 BMW battled it out against Noah Michaels and his

      Best of Show    CHRISTOPHER MADSEN    1970 Chevy Blazer   Street Rod (pre-1949)    JOSE DEGADIO    1936 Ford Coupe   Holley President's Pick    GARRETT BRUMLEY    1972 Chevy C10   Muscle Car (1964-72)    RANDY WEAVER    1968 Chevy Caprice   Late Model (1996-2018)    JOE GRAZIANO    2002 Chevy Corvette   Classic Truck (pre-1974)    CHRISTOPHER MADSEN    1970 Chevy

Corvette Power Adder    LOGAN PALMER    2017 Corvette

2018 LS Fest West Grand Champion Rich Willhoff of Woodland, Calif., also took top honors in the Baer Brakes 3S Challenge. Driving his 700-horsepower 2006 Corvette, Willhoff topped huge field of more than 60 entries with a final score of 26.174 seconds – 13.103 seconds from the left side and a 13.071 on his last shot

MONELLO WINS LS OUTLAW 275 Brian Monello of Queen Creek, Ariz., dominated competition in the LS Outlaw 275 category with one 150+ mph blast after another on The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway's eighth-mile track. He got the jump on Michael Bozner off the line in the semifinals and pulled away for a 5.01