[Rich Biebel]

1970 SummerNationals was the first year for that race and it was held at York Dragway. There were no class runoffs and the eliminator was made up of low qualifiers compared to their class records. My partner and I raced in H/S and we never made a decent run and did not make the show on Sunday. I don't recall the number of cars that made up the field but vaguely remember needing to run somewhere close to the record to get in and the record was in the 12.30's at the time. I can distinctly recall some of the good runs made.... Bobby Warren in his brown Chevy II in J/S running in the 12.2's and that was amazing to me at the time. I think the winner on Sunday was Dave Boertman in a full size Impala or Caprice with a 350/255 and that is also what Bobby Warren was running in his Chevy II...........The first round of SS was full of red lights in the right lane......Word got spread back to the racers that something wasn't right up there so a lot of racers that came up in that lane and cars that could easily have won that day were out early......one was Ray Allen in the Chevelle.......well that's how I remember it......