Live from VMP - NHRA Lucas Oil - Division 1

[Jack Matyas]

After two major traffic jams I finally got here and yep it was $170 for me to get in the gate .After parking I 'm walking around and all I've seen is racers and beer -- it'll be a sad bunch tommorow .

Spent alot of time on the phone coming here and one of the calls was with Angelo DiTocco -- seems he's needing get well soon from all his friends as yesterday he had a "gardening accident" at home and sliced up his "button hand" ( and he's a South Paw ) pretty bad and is to have surgery in the morning . Ang tells me he could be laid up for a month or more but he's still young and will mend fast .Get well buddy ........

Well gang I'm gonna grab some grub and see whats going on..........later .

PS--Almost forgot -- its not raining and there's plenty of parking on the macadam ....come on down ! ! !

[Joe Martens]

Hey Jack, thanks for the reports. Good luck this weekend!!!

[Jack Matyas]

Friday morning -- 7 am EST -- All I can say about the sunrise this morning at VMP is beautiful , simply beautiful -- even with a slight breeze its a nice picture here and I'm glad I made the trip .

Tech starts in an hour and the first time trials are to be around 8:30 with Superstreet first out followed by Stock. Super racers I spoke with last night said the track was good yesterday and everyone is hopefull that today will be the same .After I dig my weather station out of the trailer I'll post some numbers ...... gotta start getting ready ..........I'm still in my jammies ! !

[Jack Matyas]

Wow - what a difference 45 minutes makes -- my beautiful sunrise went straight into the dumper ! ! ! ! And the weather forcast went along --- temp is a nice 70 degrees but the humidity is in the low 70 percent range and the barometer -- ouch-- is 29.86 and dropping .Final DA around 1500 and climbing ...

We went to very overcast also................later .

TT order..S/Street -- Stock -- S/Comp- S/Stock .

[Casey Miles]

Good morning Jack! Just a thank you note for the reporting and taking of pictures of the past races you have attended. Good luck!
Casey Miles
248H

[Jack Matyas]

Ran SuperStreet and about ten or twelve Stock pairs and then the rain came........just a little -- they say we'll be back in 10 or 20 minutes ...........maybe ! ! !

For you CobraJet bashers out there -- I happened to be at Fuel check when a certain CJ crossed the scales in AA/SA -- three hundred pounds heavy -- I didn't have my glasses on but it looked like 3685 to me..........I'll have to look into it ! ! ! Yowser ..........

9:39am -- We're back in action -- Barton just went 9.79 in a record attempt , Bud Rowe goes 10.29 in B/SA -- I'll post 'em all when I get 'em .

[Evan Smith]

Jack,

Thanks for the report. I'm down here in sunny and not-to-hot Tampa working away from my new digs. Give me a shout later. Good luck to everyone racing this weekend, see you at E-town in a month or so.

Evan