Live from Englishtown-NHRA Lucas Oil Series

[racerhead]

Jack,

80 cars at Englishtown plus 50 at Epping equals 130 stockers competing in division one at the same time...not bad.

Thanks for the great reports.

Bruce Deveau

[Jack Matyas]

Stock -- S/S and Comp all got their last pop in this morning .Picked up some fresh cars in all categories and the Ficacci Family took over the top spot in Stock with their G/S 70 Camaro .Other results not printed yet .All the "leakers" are on the track now with the Super cars to follow if it doesn't rain first -- and it looks like it may start any minute .Looking out at the track the flags are straight accross and flapping a bunch -- I think we might be in for "the big one" .

From a performance standpoint its all trash here as the humidity is in the high seventies and the barometer dropped two tenths...........its all downhill from here .

I can't believe it but they just called us to the lanes for first round.................later .Opps ,we have to go after the super classes and another round of leakers......never happen today ..wind is picking up ...flags ripping even more .We'll see............
PS-- the photo is this morning as the stockers went thru Englishtown's famous "hole in the wall".Stick with me on this photo thing --I'm learning but it may take awhile .

[BobUnkefer]

Jack,
Reports are great, photo works as well,,,,,, do me a favor and hold on to Hanna while she's @ your place. we're running here @ Epping and dry. 1st rd of 100K P/S shootout in the lanes.
Best of luck this weekend to you and the GTO!

Unk

[Jack Matyas]

Thanks Unk but here's the deal - its now raining here and on its way to you .Some of the Super classes got in but if I had to guess we're done for the day as the wind is picking up and you can now see the backside of the leaves (old wives tale?) with very dark clouds on the horizon .

NEWS FLASH --They just called all racing for today and will resume tomorrow at 10am


Why are the guys running with coolers ? Guess they need to fill-up with adult beverages for tonight ! !

Here's some interesting match-ups for 1st round-- all heads-up -- E/SA Kopecky vs Fetch
E/SA Matyas vs Molle
B/SA DeMarzo vs Pappas
H/SA Lynch vs Young
H/SA Hartzler vs Parker
I/SA Sepanek vs Ohanesian
We ended up with 89 stockers.......And for those of you who like long handicaps check this out--Tommy Goldman (driving Ed Fernandez' little Gremlin T/SA) vs Barry Parkers big block 69 Camaro B/SA -- about 3 1/2 seconds..........

[alan r caraway]

Originally Posted by Jack Matyas

Thanks Unk but here's the deal - its now raining here and on its way to you .Some of the Super classes got in but if I had to guess we're done for the day as the wind is picking up and you can now see the backside of the leaves (old wives tale?) with very dark clouds on the horizon .

NEWS FLASH --They just called all racing for today and will resume tomorrow at 10am


Why are the guys running with coolers ? Guess they need to fill-up with adult beverages for tonight ! !

Here's some interesting match-ups for 1st round-- all heads-up -- E/SA Kopecky vs Fetch
E/SA Matyas vs Molle
B/SA DeMarzo vs Pappas
H/SA Lynch vs Young
H/SA Hartzler vs Parker
I/SA Sepanek vs Ohanesian
We ended up with 89 stockers.......And for those of you who like long handicaps check this out--Tommy Goldman (driving Ed Fernandez' little Gremlin T/SA) vs Barry Parkers big block 69 Camaro B/SA -- about 3 1/2 seconds..........

Many Moons Ago at a S/SS at Atco had to race Clayton Wright, me in a w/sa and clayton in his SS/AA I think it was 6.5 sec. head start,when he went by me in the traps it took me 3 days to find out which way I was headed.

[Jack Matyas]

Wow-------the Sun is back and we've chased Hanna towards New England (sorry you guys at Epping) -- looks like a beautiful morning in the neighborhood ----- temps in the mid-sixties already..........I'll be back after a nice walk..............

Evan Smith showed-up this morning with a new Shelby "Super Snake" in my favorite color - if I was ever going to junp ship and change camps this would be my choice - its one nice car ! !

Bob Lang and co. were out early this morning prepping the track and it looked really good -- we should have great conditions to race today -- the barometer is back up and the vapor pressure is decent again - most cars will pick-up a bunch first round.......still a little windy and the humidity is burning off ...

[BobUnkefer]

Jack,

it's Ok, Hanna is gone from Epping as well. Got some water in the pits to deal with, but that's being handled, should be on track by 10:30.

Sure was wet last night though........

Dealt with Gustav in KC and here in Epping (Sat morn rain), Hanna last night,,,,,
Now it looks like I get to deal with Ike next week in Shreveport...... Can someone turn the hurricane nozzle down a bit?


Unk

[Jack Matyas]

1st round of Stock was a dusie.......plenty fast...lots of heads-ups ans at the end there were a half dozen no shows .Also there was the normal stuff -- lots of racers dialing soft producing big runouts .As far as the heads-up went it was myself over Molle , Kopecky over Fetch , DeMarzo got a bye when Pappas didn't show , Parker passed Hartzler and Sepanek beat Ohanesian . Leakers out there now -- S/S up soon...

Unk-- 10/4 on the Hurricane nozzle .

[Jack Matyas]

2nd round in without much fanfare -- usual suspects still in --Zane , a couple of Ficacci's ,Williams , Wendy is still around and the fairy tale continues -- I'm in rd 3 .It'll be a few hours as they must run two rounds of alcohol before we go out again

[Jack Matyas]

With Zane in the final (again) against Kopecky its anybodys' race........Zane's .001 in the semi's looked good...........

Congrats to Gary Richard S/S winner

Great light to Kenny and the win........In Stock

Aragona wins Comp but takes a tenth CIC hit........

Sawyer over Altillo in SuperGas

Albrect over Szilagyi in SuperComp

Great weekend that no one thought would get in the books.........

Till Atco we'll sign off.................Jack & Debbie