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- The trip to Englishtown has been a rather tumultuous one for Steve Petty, Eric Dillard, and the rest of the Proline team this week. While testing with a handful of other teams at Maryland International Raceway mid-week, Dillard suffered a driveline failure on his first crack at the racetrack, while Tim Lynch fared much worse, experiencing a turbocharger explosion that cause extensive fire damage to his beautiful Outlaw 10.5 Corvette. Dillard and company, who are competing in Outlaw Drag Radial this weekend, were busy this afternoon buttoning their twin-turbocharged back up for tomorrow’s first round of qualifying.
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- Fete Farber and crew are busily rebuilding the supercharged bullet in their Dodge Daytona after discovering some valvetrain issues after the ADRL event in Norwalk two weeks ago.
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- Last summer, Super Street and Outlaw 10.5 racer Mike Yedgarian experience a devastating transmission explosion in his trick WS6 Trans Am machine, and after making the necessary repairs, placed the car for sale. It was then that Canadian John Carinci jumped at the opportunity to purchase the car, and the result has been nothing but positive. The Trans Am still features the NMCA-legal 550-inch Proline powerplant with twin 88mm turbos, with tuning assistance from Yedgarian and Steve Petty. Carinci won the OSCA Super Street title this season and set the class record at 4.31 seconds over the eighth-mile and has been 6.59 in the quarter. According to Carinci, he and his team are still sneaking up on the combination, and while down some cubic inches on the competition, believe they have the potential to compete with the field on the shorter distance.
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- Jason Enis is plenty confident coming into the Shakedown this weekend in what is traditionally a stacked field of Outlaw 10.5 competitors. Enos and company made six runs in testing on Wednesday and Thursday at MIR, where the stunning Shelby Mustang recorded an unofficial worls record pass of 4.11 seconds at 191 MPH. Conditions this weekend aren’t expected to be as favorab le as they were in Maryland, but it should be fast nonetheless.
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- We’re under way with 8.50 Index category racing here at Raceway Park under asolutely perfect weather conditions, which is a real change of pace from previous years. At the beginning of the session, the corrected altitude was roughly 600 feet below sea level, so making pwer shouldn’t be a problem tonight.
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- Rich Bruder sailed to a new X275 world record in the very first round of qualifying with a 4.841 that leads the field by a comfortable margin…but it’s not likely to stay that way.
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- NMRA Super Street Outlaw regular Sam Vincent is competing in X275 this weekend with hard-charging nitrous car. Vincent roasted the hides just off the starting line and saved it for the second session coming up in a little bit.
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- MIR and Ultimate Outlaws champ Andy Manson was certainly hoping for more, but his Mustang was slow from the hit and rolled to just a 6.15.
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- Round results courtesy: 1320go.com
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- Steve Jackson was certainly killin’ time this morning as he blasted to the top of the heap in Outlaw Drag Radial at 4.408 seconds at 175 MPH. John Carter and his gorgeous Corvette recorded a 4.47 to conclude the round in second.
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- After struggling last night, Chris Evans put it together in the warmer session this morning to record a nice 4.91 at 146.77 MPH to move well up the ladder.
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- Alex Vrettos knocked out a 4.518 from his tuwin turbocharged Mustang, good for fourth in the provisional qualifing order in Outlaw Radial.
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- Kenny doak was the final car out in the opening session for Outlaw 10.5, literally saving the the best for a last with a 4.22 that just edged out Larry Wood’s impressive 4.23 for his gorgeous Corvette.
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- Fredy Scriba Jr., who led the opening session of Pro Mod Nitrous, followed up his earlier performance with a stellar 6.016 at 236.34 MPH.
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- Shannon Jenkins put his put on the throats of the Nitrous Pro Mod field in the second session, tuning Mike Castellana to the only five-second run in the class, a 5.87 at 242 MPH.
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- Vinny Budano had the lexan side drivers side window blow out at the finish line on his second qualifying attempt. thing appeared to be business as usual in their pits afterward, however.
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- David DeMarco reeled off his best run of qualifying in the final session with a great 4.40 at 183.54 MPH.
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- Jason Enos slowed some in the second session, running just a 4.79 to go along with his earlier 4.62.
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- With Steve Petty helping call the shots, Jose Gonzalez scooted to a eye-opening 5.967 at 230.10, courtesy of a .994 short time and a 3.98 to half track.
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- Paul Major and team were able to get their Corvette repaired after a hard lick with the guardrail at MIR a couple of weeks ago, but a switch to methanol has Major scratching his head this weekend with only a 5.51 best to his credit thus far.
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- Here’s the resulting carnage of Scott Filins’ fire in the second session of Outlaw 10.5 qualifying.
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- The always entertaining “Big Daddy” Dwayne Gutridge is in the house, with longtime tuner David Wolfe here all the way from Texas to help call the tung shots. Gutridge could only muster a best of 4.83 during qualifying but made the field in the 14th spot. That will earn Drag Radials’ most decorated racer a date with Kevin Fiscus in round one tomorrow.
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- Mike Castellana gave it his all, but the Al-Anabi couldn’t retain the #1 qualifying spit in Nitrous Pro Mod after Fredy Scriba Jr. shocked everyone with a unbelieavably smooth 5.83 to lay claim to one of the quickest nitrous doorslammer passes of all time.
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- Nitrous Pro Mod
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- Needless to say, Steve King and Jeff Miller were ecstatic about their first five-second run, a 5.92, recorded during the second session of Blown Pro Mod, that placed them atop the field going into eliminations. According to Miller, the team put all the parts in the Camaro following the unfortunate crash of their ’57 Chevrolet a couple months ago. The team tested a torque converter setup but couldn’t get a handle on the new combination and swapped out everything behind the firewall with with the tried-and-true clutch combo to make it to Shakedown. “We went out there in the first session yesterday and it left good and I thought, ‘man, it’s really going,’ and then it comes up 6.09. We came back and viewed the graph and really felt like we could go after it,” said Miller.’
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- We’re underway with the final qualifying sessions for 9.50 Index and X275. A brief opening ceremony will follow, with the first round of Pro Mod Blown rolling under the tower for a scheduled 11 AM start.
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- Fredy Scriba Jr. had his 5.83 from last night thrown out after evaluating the incrementals that included a sub-.9 second short time. However, Scruba showed that he’s got the muscle to compete for the crown here today with a great opening round shot of 6.04 at 237 MPH to down Scott Hamel.
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- TJ Kasper sawd the tree down and stole one on a holeshot in the first round of Outlaw 10.5, edging John Cheman’s 4.367 with a 4.393, compliments of a perfect .000 reaction time to Cheman’s .078.
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- Steve Jackson has been the dominant car all weekend in Drag radial, and that trend continued in round one with a 4.447 defeat of Ruben Tetsoshvili – low ET of the round.
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- Isaias Rojas shocked everyone with his best run of the weekend in the hottest temperatures we’ve seen thus far, cruising to a 5.990 at 231.12 MPH to edge John Hall’s ‘right there’ 6.06.
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- David Hance experienced some engine damage in his second round victory that the team attributed to a failed injector. According to Hance, his crew patched it back up in hopes of making it through the final round, but it wasn’t meant to be as the New York Motorsports ’57 Chevy broke right at the starting line against Tim O’Hare. “What a great weekend,” said Hance. “We got down to four carsm made our first five-second run, and had top speed by a good margin.”
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- What a turn of events Drag Radial has become. In their semifinal matchup, Steve Jackson lit the red bulb, and adding insult to injury, Scotty Guadagno’s machine broke the wishbone in the four-link, sending small parts scattering across the racetrack. After as thrash in the pits and several calls over the PA for a replacement wishbone, officials made the call that Guadagno never crossed the scales while being pulled off the track, handing the round win back to Jackson.
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- Sam Gottier had a backfire through the manifold in the lights in the Heavy Street finale that sent the hood high into the sky above Raceway Park, but by then, he was long gone on his way to the class title, scoring a 4.46 to 4.67 victory over Joeph Richardson.
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- X275 should’ve been renamed the Rich Bruder Eliminator this weekend, after dominating virtually every session with low ET, a new world record, the #1 qualifying spot, and polishing it off with a final round defeat of Dean Marinis, 4.89 to 4.92.
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- Alex Vrettos pulled the trigger just a scant .004-seconds too soon in the Drag Radial finale, instantly handing the victory to Steve Jackson and the Killin’ Time racing team.
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- Larry Wood captured a popular victory with his gorgeous Corvette in Outlaw 10.5, defeating surprise finalist Rick Snavely, all the way from California, by a 4.21 to 4.49 count.
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- Bud Yoder’s bright pink motorcycle was a hard one to miss, and Joey Gladstone got a good look at it is as Yoder charged off into the distance in the Pro Street Bike final, recording a 7.318 at a booming 201.52 MPH as Gladstone had troubles and coasted through.
