ance and Greece

, FL; Norway, Fr
eo, CA; Tampa 2007
Indianap olis, IN; San Mat
OctoboregerDi1m3itr-ia1dis,4Th, e Big Oki,
October 13-14,
2007 otos by Ge nis Lekkas
he weekend of Dimitriadis // PhA. Nauta, Kyle Greer and Yian
Dr ag Rac- Text by George Michael
Annual dB
T marked the 10th
ing World Finals
. I’ve had the
years of
pr ivi
th e
lege

t eight out of ten

to attend the las we re as a competitor,
ose eight
finals. Three of th rial capacity with
were in an edito
and the last five
to & Sound.
Performance Au y other finals
ar was unlike an
The event this ye ious years, the
car audio. In prev
in the history of ation, which all
in one central loc
finals were held
as
such as Nash- n John Pouliak
WORLD Champio
d attend. US cities Street Max 3-4
competitors woul played host to
d Cleveland have
ville, Louisville an et with competi-
cles on the plan
the loudest vehi Germany, Puerto
m as far away as
tors traveling fro nada. This year
itzerland and Ca
Rico, Japan, Sw lifornia, Norway,
apolis, Tampa, Ca
we added Indian
ce to that list.
France and Gree ld Finals was
this year the Wor
As you can see, t couple of
affair. Over the las
an International DBDRA (dB Drag
rris, President of
years, Wayne Ha rking on making
n), has been wo
Racing Associatio ent, enabling GMC Typhoon)
a truly global ev ter 8,000W (Yes, it’s a real
the World Finals rld who were e with the mons Scott Van RIper
all parts of the wo Our man Georg Hifonics
competitors from n am p fro m
the year. XXV Sampso
te at the end of
eligible to compe rticipants
tal of 446 total pa
There were a to ar. ayne Harris
W
locations this ye
amongst the six to oversee the
group of judges
gathered an elite Head judges
ions worldwide.
six different locat in Greece, Tor
: Yiannis Lekkas
were as follows hane Boite in
in Norway, Step
Steinar Aamodt , Sam Horn in In
-
cLean in Tampa
France, David M lif or ni a. Al on g
ug Stockton in Ca
dianapolis and Do judg es
mentioned head
with the above-

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Bob Perillo and TEAM NWA
 Kostuch
Team Mike Skaritka vs Les

Team Maxxsonics
s an additional crew of
for each location, there wa
“Without them there’s
judges and staff on-hand.
e been possible,”
no way the Finals would hav
said Wayne Harris.
traveling with the
This year, I opted to forego
make the road trip with
corporate jet so that I can
ans that traveled from
a handful of hopeful Canadi
y all traveled with
the east coast of Canada. The
h some sort of hard-
the goal of walking away wit Team Cactus Sounds Gree
ce and Italy
ional or World Title.
ware and potentially a Nat
in six locations
With the event taking place
t was called upon to
simultaneously, the Interne
tion held its own Re-
connect them all. Each loca
winners advancing to
gional competition with the
ere the top two com-
the National competition wh
s in North America
petitors from each given clas
peted against
and Europe, respectively, com
was the National
each other to see which one
National Champions
Craig Butler Champion. From there, the Yaniv Dadoun

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 from Europe and North America would compete
head-to-head to crown the World Champion.
I decided to attend the finals at the India-
napolis location and I’ve got to tell you I’m really
glad I did. With the likes of Edge Audio, Mike
Bartells, Alan Dante, Bob Perillo, Scott Van
kas Team 420 - Rooney Riper, Chris Norris and a list of other big names,
petitors with Yiannis Lek
Group Shot of Greece Com
the roll call in Indy read like an all-star cast of
North American dB Drag Racing competitors.
Between the six locations, you had some
of the largest companies in the car audio field
taking part, including; Stetsom, Maxxsonics,
Cactus Sounds, Rockford Fosgate, Kenwood,
Kinetik, Memphis, Matrix Audio, Stinger, DD,
RE and the list goes on.
Every year, the bar is raised and just
when you think you’ve seen it all; BAM!!
You get blindsided. This happened a few
Cup
Alan Dante and the Extreme times this weekend. Two out of the three
Extreme Audio Street Categories saw over 160dB with
Peter Augustijnen from Belgium belting out
a jaw-dropping 161.4dB. In the Street A
class, it was local favourite from Greece
that took the World Championship with a
score of 159.7dB with only two 10-inch
subwoofers. Another incredible showing
was that of Team Trinlect from Brampton,
ON, Canada, who took the North American
Competitors in France title in the Street Max 1-2 class

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 Loudest vehicle on the plan
et

Tommy ‘King of Bass’ McK

150-159.9 Bass Race Clas innie & Pipo Sanchez in the
s

SPL Inc from Canada

Germany’s Big Oki and his
ride
with an amazing 161.2dB, Big Jim and Chris Norris
bringing home some
deserving gold for Team Can windshield with his very firs
ada. Fred Rajkumar t burp on Saturday on to win the National Cha
eventually ended up doing morning and continued to mpionship as well,
battle with the single compete all through
the weekend without changi an incredible showing from
most dominant competitor ng it and running in the brothers from
in the Street Max 1-2 Canada’s West Coast.
class. Christoph Herzog from Bass Race as well.
Cactus Sounds Another integral part of the
from Switzerland ended up The Extreme category, like weekend was the
wining the World every year, is Bass Racing portion, which
Championship run and in doi pushed to the limit and one is in its third year
ng so clinched his of those individuals and keeps growing by leaps
fourth consecutive World Cha that is doing that pushing and bounds. Once
mpionship. is Alan Dante with
his Extreme 1 class Volvo again, Tommy “the King of
Rounding things out in the station wagon. Dante Bass” McKinnie was
Street Max proceeded to belt out an unb crowned World Champion
category was one of the big elievable 179.7dB, of the 159.9 category
gest showings of which clinched not only a in which he battled Big Bob
the weekend. Team JP Sou World Championship Perillo who was
nds-Pouliakas from looking very well at possibl
Athens, Greece crushed the in his class but also earned y upsetting Tommy.
ir competition with him the Extreme Cup However, in the end, Tommy
an astounding score of 166 which is given to the single came out victorious,
.7dB, with the closest loudest competi- claiming his title once aga
competitor at more than 2.5 tor of the weekend. What’s in.
dB behind. In doing more amazing is
that he did that number wit Congratulations to all com
so, they brought home ano h only one 18-inch petitors worldwide
ther World Champion- who took part this weekend
ship for Greece. I can only subwoofer and four amplif and to those who
imagine what he has iers. Right on his heels
was Edge Audio and their made the event possible. A
in store for the 2008 season Pioneer-laden Ford F- special thanks go to
. 250 which also produced Wayne Harris for “allowing
In the Super Street class, the a whopping 179.5dB. us, the competitors
re where huge Another incredible showin and spectators” (according
numbers being dropped all g was that of Alber- to one competitor) to
weekend from both participate at the World Fin
sides of the pond. Howeve tans Michael and Mark Reg als this year. I person-
r, the most memo- ner of Team Rip Rock
in the Extreme 1-2 catego ally look forward to the 200
rable event was when Bob ry with their Isuzu 8 season with great
Perillo blew apart his anticipation. For more info
Trooper. They won the Reg rmation and event
ional and also went
Street Max 1-2 National coverage visit www.dbdragr
Champion TeTrinlect
Cactus Sound Booth
acing.com.

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