The Bad Ass Bus is owned by Larry Jeffers and was built in house at Jeffers Pro Cars and driven this weekend by Outlaw 10.5 racer Steve George. He is running exhibition here this weekend. It’s powered by a screw blown BAE Hemi.

James Linton rolled down from Goose Creek, South Carolina with his 1970 Outlaw Pro Mod Duster. The Andy McCoy chassis has a Roger Byers drive train with a Brad 5 engine. This is the teams first time racing here in Bradenton.

Fat Boy Racing and Speed365 Racing crew this morning getting ready. Seidle Race Engines just did some work on the heads for the team car driven by Mike “Shakeand Bake” Wacaser with a 13 hundredths improvement and a 4.90 best ET last night.

There was a driver meeting this morning to discuss running Ultra Street here in Florida. Results of the meeting are Bradenton will run the class under John Sears rules for 2013 in the Heads up Madness series.

Team Lopez Racing is out this weekend with a swap to Big Stuff III fuel injection. The car is maintained and driven by John Fernandez from ACME Performance out of Tampa, Florida with a 434 ci small block Ford with Edelbrock GV2 heads built at Ford Speed Racing with Induction Solutions nitrous system on board.

Scott Husted earned a new personal best last night in Drag Radial with a 4.60. He will looking for .50’s today, shown here pictured with his wife Jill.

Concord, North Carolina racer Ziff "Outcast" Hudson leads the X275 fiels after one round of qualifying with a 4.79 @ 145 MPH with Troy Pirez in second with a 4.82.

Jason Hamstra won Open Outlaw here at the ODRC in September and leads the field with a 3.758 @ 200.22 MPH drving the teams 2001 Spitzer dragster.

Adam Flamholc leads the 30 car pro Modified class with a clean 3.95 @ 190 MPH while top MPH goes to Brad Personett, who sits outside the 16 cars qualified field with a 4.28 @ 193.46.

Outlaw 10.5 number one qualifier goes to Candido Sanchez out of Miami, Florida with his twin turbo Camaro running a 4.31 @ 177. Tony Johnson's blown 69 Camaro is just behind with a 4.32.

The lovely Extreme Race Team girls Tammi and Chrissy are collecting money for a 50/50 raffle and donations for Everyday Heros USA.org, an organization dedicated to helping those who protect us through fundraising, counseling, job placement and a network of business and organizations that offer services and discounts to our Heroes.

The Xtreme Machine Freightliner jet semi makes a run in the first session of exhibition today. These beasts will be a sight to behold under the lights tonight.

The big block nitrous cars are leading qualifying this weekend with Ziff Hudson on top of the X275 field with his Buck Racing Engines powered 1980 Zepher. Barry Mitchell and Troy Pirez follow Hudson with Sean Ashe's F1-R Procharged ATF Mustang in fourth. Eric McMillon and Vader round out the top five with the small block turbo combo.

Another racer having good results so far is Mike Wacaser driving for Corey "Big Country" Swanstrom. before this weekend the best ET was in the 5.0's. How about a 4.84 @ 145? It looks like the updated cylinder heads are paying off big time.

Eric Leeper thrashed to get his truck ready for X275 this weekend and is haveing good luck with hte bew set up. it was just finished recently at AC Carcraft and is running turbocharged Mod motor. he got a nice 4.94 @ 147 best run and sits eleventh on the ladder.

Charles Manchester brought up his 1988 Porsche 928 for some 6.50 index action. He is on the bottom of the ladder with a 6.82 but this sure is a cool car, sure don't see many of these drag racing.

Bill Futch did a great job behind the wheel in the final session with the front end coming up some down track. It's just coming up in this shot and Bill rode it out to near the finish line, and east 300 plus feet.

Chad Opaleski kept getting faster and faster in his 66 Chevelle. He sits in third spot with a new best 4.51 @ 168 MPH.

Tony Ridenour laid down a 4.39 @ 178 to top the Limited Street class, a new personal best for him after recently switching to a twin turbo combo.

Phil "Tookie" Swales has a new car this weekend for OL 632. The 2000 Trans Am was found in a barn and needed a lot of work including wiring and fresh paint. Once he hets the set up dialed in he will be in a much better position to run well in the class.

Rob Wells struggled some today, breaking the trans on his first run and sitting out the second session to make repairs. He was back on point in the final session jumping into number one position with a 4.15 @ 190 MPH.

Robert mathis sure did stepp it up taking top qualifier in Outlaw Pro Mod with a 3.86 flat @ 196 MPH, earling low ET and top MPH in the process.

Pete Farber earned second spot with a 3.91 @ 192 in the Al Billes powered 1969 Dodge Daytona. He is just ahead of Tommy D'April who is driving for Al Billes in his 63 split window Corvette.

Bill Heister is behind the wheel again this weekend driving the Neil and Parks front engine dragster to a 4.48@ 155. They made some headway after just making half track runs testing yesterday.