We caught up with Wild Street racer Nick Kincade in the pits this morning – the team was just wrapping up a fresh piston installation. The 19-year-old from Phoenix is racing for the first time on a national scale – he and his dad, Bill, have been working through the gremlins with his machine. The BBC-powered Mustang is fed with two stages of nitrous.

Yvonne Lucas had quite the day yesterday. The veteran Pro Mod racer hurt the rearend during qualifying; luckily crewmember Mike Stevenson discovered the issue with the floater rear before it got ugly on the track. She enlisted the help of Ryan from RH Racecars and procured a welder from Mike Maggio’s team to get the car repaired. She also had an issue with one of the parachutes trying to separate itself from the car due to the windy conditions yesterday. She’s 14th on the Precision Turbo Pro Mod ladder and will face Dale Peterson’s Monte Carlo in round one today.

Outlaw 10.5 racer Eric Pederson’s crew was hard at work prepping his ’51 Chevy for competition this morning. The ProCharged car has just four hits on the new rearend/torque converter combination and they are still working out the bugs. The 18-hour trip from Seattle didn’t deter him from showing up, however. And in a twist of irony, first-round opponent Steve Nicholson is running a starter borrowed from Pederson.

We love Wild Street racer Jeff Bomyea’s Camaro, so we have to go find out more about it. Turns out that he hurt his actual racecar, a ’68 Nova, in the first round of qualifying, so he phoned a friend to bring the Camaro, his daily-driven street car, as a replacement. It has a pair of 64mm turbochargers feeding the small block Chevy engine on E85 fuel and has been a 5.51 (eighth-mile) so far this weekend. According to Jeff, his car sees 200 miles every weekend on the street and is no stranger to the quick motorcycles in the Phoenix area.

Yvonne Lucas’ repairs were on point this morning, and she was on her game on the tree in the first round of competition. Up against Dale Pederson, she strapped on a huge holeshot to move on to the second round, where she subsequently took out Mike Gondziola when Gondziola got sideways downtrack.

We’ve got our second Outlaw Pro Mod racer in the 5.60’s – Mike Maggio’s machine clipped off a 5.69 at 260 MPH in the first round on his single pass. Unfortunately, Maggio went out in the second round to Tommy Johanns when Johanns strapped a massive holeshot to him on the starting line.

In the first round of Outlaw Pro Mod this morning, John Stanley used up all 1,320 feet of track and then some, doing a terrific driving job when the car got out of the groove. He took the line in round two, but elected to back out and roll away on his bye run.

Mike DeMayo, Jr. lowered the bar yet again in Hot Street this morning, running an 8.10 at 166-plus on a single when Randy Jones didn’t make the call, DeMayo has a bye through the semis straight into the final round.

John Urist ran his best elapsed time of the season this morning, clipping off a 7.11 in XDR/TT5. The team consists of Urist and wife Missy, who has been on a roll all weekend, changing tires, running valves, and doing whatever’s necessary to John down the track. They face Steven Fereday in the second round of competition.

Turbo Todd Moyer’s head-gasket diagnosis appears to have been correct. The car is fixed up, and he came out and ripped off a 4.83 this morning in Wild Street.

Toaster Jones struggled through the first round – the car fell off quite a bit. An inspection in the pits found a broken rocker arm – the repairs were already underway and he’ll be back for the next round. There, Jimmy Grace outran him to the finish line, as Toaster struggled to get out of the hole and limped down the track in the upset of the day in Outlaw 8.5.

Despite crossing the finish line last in his second-round matchup with Greg Hindman, Doug Sikora got another chance when Hindman’s machine exploded just past the finish line. Hindman elected to bypass the scales, giving Sikora a second chance to race this weekend. He’ll face Mike Murillo in the quarterfinals – it looks like Doug’s been the recipient of a few second chances recently.

Tony Aneian upped the ante in Hot Street in the second round of competition, improving to an 8.07 in the process of eliminating Matt Funkhouser. He’ll have lane choice against DeMayo in the semifinal.

In the battle of the round in XDR/TT5, John Urist came up against Steven Fereday. After a lengthy staging battle, Fereday launched and immediately the transmission let loose, trailing fluid all the way down the track. In the other lane, Urist went for the ride of his life, sending the car up, and up, and up onto the bumper before coming down hard. Urist crossed the finish line first with a 9.92 to get the win.

It was an absolutely insane round in Outlaw Pro Mod. Pro Line Racing teammates Troy Coughlin and Eric Dillard met up in the semifinal round, and for the first time this weekend, Troy ran a quicker elapsed time over Dillard to take the win. John Stanley advanced over Tommy Johanns in the other pairing to set up the final between Coughlin and Stanley.

Greg Seth-Hunter ended Yvonne Lucas’ run in the Turbo Pro Mod class, running a 6.24 to Lucas’ shutdown 23.55.

Eric Latino made a statement that he’s here to win with a strong win over Clint Hairston in Turbo Pro Mod – a 6.11 come-from-behind win over Hairston.

It’s not often that Billy Glidden sees the bottom side of a reaction time battle, but Steve Nicholson strapped one on him in the quarterfinals of Outlaw 10.5, then won the elapsed time battle as well, sending Glidden home.

Ken Sihota continued his great weekend in Outlaw 10.5, running low ET of the day in the quarters to take out Rick Snavely.

Doug Sikora’s lucky horseshoe was on board in his Mustang-on-Mustang battle with Mike Murillo. Mike took the advantage on the tree, but Doug simply powered around him as Murillo shut it down,. Doug moves on to face Sihota in one semi, while Nicholson faces Arnie Fisher’s S-10 in the other.

Look how close it was at the thousand-foot mark in the semifinals of Hot Street! Mike DeMayo lit the winner’s bulb with an 8.09 at 166, sending top qualifier Tony Aneian home. DeMayo will meet Vic Brum in the final round.

In the final round of XDR/TT5, Roger Holder’s weekend came to an unexpected end. Despite having a few tenths in the bag against the field, his Camaro failed to fire. The crew rushed over to try to get the car to turn over with no success.

Jeff Kyle pulled to the line and waited for Holder, idling away, before finally taking the tree when it became clear that Holder wasn’t going to make the call. Kyle made an easy hit for the win.

Chase Driskell ran the table in Wild Street to take home the pile of cash, taking out Gary Glessen, Armen Magdhessian, and Lamar Swindoll, Jr. on his way to the final against Eric Gustafson. Gustafson had been ‘the man’ all weekend, but when both racers had to pedal in the final round, Driskell recovered more quickly to take home the win, 5.82 to Gustafson’s 6.47.

All weekend long, Mike DeMayo, Jr. (left) had been chipping away at his elapsed time, and was most successful in the final round, where he ran an 8.08, the quickest Hot Street pass of the weekend, to Vic Brum’s 9.74.

Scott Bieschke (right) had a long drive from his Henderson, Nevada home base to enter the Outlaw 8.5 class. With Krusty Ramsey out in the previous round thanks to a backfire, the final round was wide open, and Bieschke charged through the door against Anthony Smith in the final. Despite giving up the holeshot, Bieschke had a tenth advantage at the finish line.

In the first final-round Battle Of Canadians, Ken Sihota (right) entered the Outlaw 10.5 final round against Steve Nicholson (left) after getting quicker and quicker all day long. Unfortunately, he was too quick on the draw when it counted most in a battle of nitrous cars and handed Nicholson the win at the starting line.

The second Battle Of Canadians came in the Turbo Pro Mod final round, between Eric Latino (left) and Joe Delahay (right). Latino gave up over a tenth on the tree and was unable to gain it back by the stripe, despite running the quicker elapsed time.

Outlaw Pro Mod saw the unexpected as well, as John Stanley’s luck finally ran out against Troy Coughlin. Stanley had been fighting ignition issues and the car didn’t make a clean run, while Coughlin made a clean run right down Broadway to take home the win.