Team Brock Finishes 1 and 2 in Points
By: Jack Korpela • Photos By: JordanPhotoSports.com

After a second consecutive ALL-Brock’s Performance Products final, team riders Rickey Gadson and Vince Woska finished No. 1 and No. 2 in the points chase respectively following the season’s final event, the AMA/Prostar World Finals, from Gainesville, FL, Nov. 11th-13th.

“It’s incredible, I wasn’t even going to race Prostar this year,” Gadson said. “I already said my goodbyes and planned to not be back. To be out here and win another championship is an awesome feeling. We had a great year. We got five out of eight wins, you can’t ask for much more than that.”

“I couldn’t be happier. I don’t even know how to describe it. These classes are so tight and this is the second race in a row my team did everything right,” team owner Brock Davidson said. “For Vince to get second in the championship, John Hall had to go out early and we had to find a way to get Vince to the final. Luck was on our side and we did both.”

After the toughest tech procedures in recent memory, the Brock’s Performance team poses after their World Finals 1-2 Victory… WITHOUT engines!

Gadson, who clinched the championship before even entering the race, qualified No. 1 with a 9.19 and marched to the final with times of 9.18, 9.27, and 9.25.

“What I love about this class is the close competition. One little mess-up and you’re on the trailer. One little wheelie or sleep on the light and you’re gone,” Gadson said. “It’s a really tough class.”
Woska qualified in the No. 3 spot with an on-pace 9.25 at 155 mph, and scored much needed championship points earning victories with elapsed-times of 9.18, 9.20, and 9.22 en route to the final.

“It’s been an up and down season for me,” Woska said. “It’s nice to end it on a positive note. It would have been better to win the race but I’m still happy to have made it this far at the World Finals.”

“They both rode so well,” Davidson said. “Both of them had really tight races and in each instance we came out on top.”.

Lee Shierts launching his Brock’s Performance Generation 3 exhaust equipped Gixxer during another strong performance.

“At this point in the season we couldn’t be more pleased with our new GSX-R1000’s,” Davidson said. “Vince Sr. was really on the money with his tuning calls on Vince’s bike and Rickey only lost one round the entire season on my personal bike.”

In their second final round showdown in about a month, Gadson grabbed a starting line advantage and beat out his teammate to the finish line with a 9.32 to Woska’s 9.30.

“I was on my game all day until the final,” Woska said. “I stumbled off the line and wheelied pretty hard on the top of first.”

“I’m 30 pounds heavier and a lot older than most of these guys I race against,” Gadson said. “So it’s very fulfilling for me to win this class because in the past I’ve been criticized because people thought I had unlimited resources. Well Brock is just a regular guy just like me, and together we did it. We had one heck of a season.”

The Brock’s Performance backed Pro Street entry piloted by Phil Stoll and tuned by Ronnie Mitchell ended up 3rd in the 2005 Championship chase. “Ronnie and Phil aren’t content to run exactly what everyone else is using” says Davidson. “They are testing new items at nearly every race, once they all work together, these guys will be even tougher.”

Brock’s Performance Products extended thanks to:
Marc Huelsman for his unwavering support over the years and especially his wife, Tina, for single-handedly taking care of the family in his absence.

Dave “Mr. 217.8 MPH” Owen of Boston for his technical expertise and tuning skills with our INNOVATE Motorsports LM-1 Air Fuel Meter and his wife Lauren for caring for the family while he is gone.
A VERY SPECIAL thank you goes out to Dean Shields at American Made Cycles in Dayton, Ohio for adjusting his schedule to accommodate the team (usually with little or no advance warning!)
Hindle Manufacturing of Canada for allowing us the flexibility to create exhaust systems which repeatedly PROVE that we know how to OUT ACCELERATE the competition!

Öhlins Advanced Suspension Technology, USA for believing us when we tell them what the road racers use is simply not as radical as what we need in the drag race world!

World Wide Bearings, Bates Leathers, Millennium Technologies and Alisyn Aerospace Lubricants.
Rickey Gadson would also like to thank Lucas Oil, Rance Aluminum Trailers, Joe Rocket Leathers, and Simpson Race Products.

Davidson owns and operates Brock’s Performance Products, which specializes in a vast array of performance products for sport bikes, racing, and street applications. Brock’s Performance Products can be reached at (937) 912-0054.