Live from Dinwidde,VA - NHRA Lucas Oil Series #1

[Jack Matyas]

Stock and S/S got their first rounds in and as promised it was tricky .Many,many double breakouts as it was blinding fast this morning because of the better weather and a big tailwind ............Round two in a few hours .

[Jack Matyas]

Stock and S/S RD 2 LADDERS

[Jack Matyas]

OK - I admit it --I ditched you guys right after the race was over to start working on some of my broken stuff and made some real headway .I wanted to get some of it at least out of the way so I could maybe get to the next race .

Anyway , today we got it all in and this reporter must tell you some great racing took place .The Stock winner -Joel Warren had no cake walk for sure plus he had two heads-ups on his way to the final - one of them being against the mighty Plymouth of Eric Bardecoff where they both recorded 10.20 et's with the win decided by thousants .

On the other side of the ladder at his home track was longtime D1 racer Sterling Simmons in his familiar Camaro SS waiting for his chance at the Wally in the all LT1 final but ran out trying.

In Superstock it was the old and the new facing each other - local racer Mark Alvey in his '02 Camaro against West Virginia's Bucky Hess who treated his HEMI car like a bracket racer recording dead on dial-ins .It was all to no avail as he went red in the final handing the win to Alvey .

Anyway I've got a bunch more pictures to post tomorrow as it's getting a little past my bedtime tonight ............

[MikeMoller]

Congrats to Joel and the Warren family, Joel lost some close races lately good to see him gets some success. And congrats to Sterling as well.

[Dan Lattimore]

Originally Posted by Jack Matyas

OK - I admit it --I ditched you guys right after the race was over to start working on some of my broken stuff and made some real headway .I wanted to get some of it at least out of the way so I could maybe get to the next race .

Anyway , today we got it all in and this reporter must tell you some great racing took place .The Stock winner -Joel Warren had no cake walk for sure plus he had two heads-ups on his way to the final - one of them being against the mighty Plymouth of Eric Bardecoff where they both recorded 10.20 et's with the win decided by thousants .

On the other side of the ladder at his home track was longtime D1 racer Sterling Simmons in his familiar Camaro SS waiting for his chance at the Wally in the all LT1 final but ran out trying.

In Superstock it was the old and the new facing each other - local racer Mark Alvey in his '02 Camaro against West Virginia's Bucky Hess who treated his HEMI car like a bracket racer recording dead on dial-ins .It was all to no avail as he went red in the final handing the win to Alvey .

Anyway I've got a bunch more pictures to post tomorrow as it's getting a little past my bedtime tonight ............

Nice of that young fella in the Moser hat to sit this one out and let someone else win one. :-)