Leah Pritchett Earns Factory Stock Showdown Title With Third Straight Victory

Speed Society Racing’s First Lady, Leah Pritchett, has just wrapped up the 2018 SAMTECH Factory Stock Showdown championship. With a late-season hat trick of victories at Indy, St. Louis and Dallas, Pritchett came from behind in dramatic fashion to secure the title.

Behind the wheel of her Hoonigan-wrapped Dodge Drag Pak Challenger, dubbed El Bandito by Pritchett and the FSXX Crew at DSR, Leah fell into a rhythm that found her putting up the quickest elapsed times session after session starting in Indy, where her run of sixteen straight round wins began.

After taking her first Factory Stock Showdown class victory at the US Nationals, Pritchett roll into St. Louis looking with a bit of an outside shot to win the title, but her second straight victory pulled her within a single point of the leaders, Stephen Bell and Arthur Kohn, who were tied headed into Dallas.

Qualifying at the FallNationals was shortened to only two sessions due to inclement weather, leaving Pritchett qualified in the middle of the field, relatively uncharted territory for the team that’s been used to entering race day from the top of the ladder. After taking down Aaron Stanfield in the opening round, Pritchett would have a competition-break bye in the quarterfinals when Randy Taylor didn’t make the call.

The semifinal round would be where the points championship was decided when Pritchett took out Bell and Kevin Skinner took down Kohn, putting Leah into the #1 points position, regardless of the outcome of the final round.

Skinner and Pritchett left with nearly identical reaction times in the final round, but Skinner would be forced to pedal around the 330’ mark, allowing Pritchett and El Bandito to march to victory again. We here at Speed Society send out sincerest congrats to Leah, her DSR Dodge/Mopar stablemate Mark Pawuk, and everybody involved with the El Bandito program.