"Live From" Virginia NHRA Nationals

[Dave Ribeiro]

Jack,

Accu - weather, says you may get T- Storms & Rain between 8PM-11PM tonight ??
Sat, & Sunday , look good with Temps in the 80's & 90's with No Rain , but HUMID
both days !!! Good Luck to everybody !!!

[Ken Miele]

Hey guys I'm back, Stock action today from Evan Smith, I can not get back in time to shoot Stock from my runs so I was able to get Evan to help out.

[Ken Miele]

Next batch, I will have the FSS cars up shortly.

[Ken Miele]

Factory Stock Showdown action from today......

Randy Eakins Cobra Jet made a hard move going through the traps in Q2. It looked like the engine expired and Randy hit the wall pretty hard as it spun around. Randy it okay but the car will need lots of work. Randy is a super nice guy that runs his program by himself. No one lines him up, no crew with radios, he is old school. I hated to see this happen. This is just my opinion, but the Cobra Jets are spinning there motor much higher to make up for the the pulley changes made this season. While it may slow them down it might have a negative effect on engine life.

[Ken Miele]

Next batch.....

[Ken Miele]

Good morning folks, looks like we will be starting on time as this mornings weather is nice. We get 3 rounds today and finish up with another 3 on Sunday. Start time today is 8:30. Its going to get warm today, upper 80's, Sunday looks the same.

John DiBartolomeo from Drag Racing Edge Magazine sent me some action shots from yesterdays qualifying.....

[Eric Merryfield]

My first words for this run were damn! Nothing like dualing 00 lights!

.001 to a .007


LANE DRIVER CLASS DIAL IN RT 60 FT 330 FT 660 FT 660 FT MPH 1000 FT ET MPH OV/UN
Left Anthony Bongiovanni FS/A 9.07 .001 1.288 3.707 5.760 119.53 7.539 9.057 146.26 -0.013
Right Tex Miller WIN E/SA 10.87 .007 1.449 4.357 6.836 98.20 9.005 10.881

Eric

[Jack Matyas]

Stock first round went off pretty much with the exception of the fact that the NHRA text system was not working again and the fact that I had no idea that I was one of the first three pairs .None at all so when I pulled in I was sent right to the lane and was soon to pull out without any equipment on - even after I was accused of cheating during the lane flip - really??? So it took me a few minutes to get my stuff on and the lane official even helped (thanks Bill) .My competition waited behind the water box and we went to the line together.He had a bad light and I thought it was over but while at fuel check one of his crew guys drove up and screamed about ten times that I'm a no good piece of ***** with many officials standing by - he had no idea how close he was from being ejected from the grounds. Way too much drama for me - this is supposed to be fun ……….


On to round 2.