Live from VMP - NHRA Lucas Oil - Division 1

[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

[Casey Miles]

Evan: Suggestion to kill time! You can race Sunshine tonight in St. Petersburg in sportsman and deep staging is allowed if you have just a street car with you, then tomorrow night there is Bradenton. It makes for a great racing weekend!
Casey Miles
248H

[Jack Matyas]

Just a little observation -- racing in Stock since the early Seventies I've never seen the season opener having less than forty cars........we are in deep stuff my friends ..........very deep stuff indeed .

[r garvey]

hey jack thanks for the reports! any news on why a handfull of guys are on the dq sheet? bad gas maybe?

[Smitty]

Originally Posted by 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

Evan,

How are you liking our Tampa area weather so far?

Smitty

[Jack Matyas]

3:50 pm EST -- And the rains came again -- we're on hold -- they had just started "clean-ups" for the sportsman classes -- weather is moving fast .OMG -- I think Wolfman Jack is on the PA . Before you go there , yes - I've had my meds today ! ! Funny things happen during a storm ........ they're calling cars back to the lanes as I type -- shorty storm like I said .