Live from Englishtown NJ - NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series

[Jack Matyas]

Good afternoon - It must be charma ( mostly bad ) time to race here in Division One and its raining - so what's new ?

After all the good reporting on here from the Hills' , Toby Lang and the boss from Indy I'm going to feel like I'm on the graveyard shift as this race won't have much to offer as Indy did .

The ride here was mostly uneventful with the exception of some water and mud on a few roads - except for the trucker pictured below - he's having a bad day .

Also note that we don't enter in Gate 2 - we must use Gate 3 / the main entrance and turn left about 100 yards in - follow signs .

PS - Did I mention the Sun is shining at this moment ?

[Jack Matyas]

Good morning and welcome to Day 1 here at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park - No better sound in the world that you can hear first thing in the morning is the Jet track dryer - and its going as I type .They have three hours befor things get going but Bob being Bob ( NHRA Division One Director Bob Lang ) is usually up and going before the crack of dawn .And he'll have this track whipped into shape quickly .

As for the weather - it looks great out - Sunny with the temp in the low sixties and rising .Today we'll steal a line from Mr.Rogers -- "What a wonderful day to be in the neighborhood " . Sure applies here at E-Town today ..............

No starting of engines till 10 but tech will open at 8 sharp ........I got work to do ---- later .

[Ultimate Converter Concepts]

Sounds great Jack, best of luck to ya and thanks for all your updates.

[Lew Silverman]

Looking forward to only good news from Englishtown, Jack! Best of luck with the Chieftain's this weekend!

Lew

[Jack Matyas]

Update - they finally called Stock to the lanes - we'll run around 12:45 or so ...........

[Jack Matyas]

Stock got their first ( and probably only ) qualifier in - track is about .02 slow in the sixty and most are a tad slower than they were at Cecil County .After everyone get a shot we're to finish the Cecil race and if time permits another time trial ...........

[Ken Miele]

Stock in the lanes, and a quick in car cam from Ed Bednaz.

The camera moved but you can see Ed get out of shape and then shut it down, I still thought it was worth posting and Ed gave me the ok to do so.

We got a late start, here is the weather for our first run.

Temp 88
Humd 48
bar 29.72
Da 2900
wind head 2-4

Be back later with more...

[Jack Matyas]

Hi gang - yes , I've been ignoring you guys & gals all day but its been a little busy for me - lets start off with a good yuk - I usually don't toot my own horn but this is priceless - bet you didn't know I'm multi-talented ........it took awhile but the NHRA caught on and fixed it .Shame on me ..................

[Ken Miele]

Because of the late 1:00 start, there was only one qualifying shot for SS. SG and ST got only one time shot. Stock, Comp and SC received two shots. Your guess is as good as mine for tomorrows schedule.

Congrats to Jim Boudreau on his Div 1 Cecil County rain out win over Lee Zane. It was a great race with a double breakout going to Jim, congrats to both.

What can I say Shane Carr is on a tear. He wins Indy in SS, Cecil County rain out win SS and SC.

[Jack Matyas]

OK - enough of the funny business - we finished the Cecil County race this afternoon - congrats go out to the winners - Jim Boudreau , Shane Carr , and Matt Sherman in S/G .Also an atta boy to Lee Zane and Joe Santangelo for their runner-up spots .