Sunday, Sunday, Sunday is eliminations day for the third annual Yellow Bullet Nationals under a threat of rain. We will be running things quickly to get things done and hopefully we will get the race finished up.
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I spoke with Ainsley Jacobs this morning about Precision's new prototype Pro mod Gen II turbos. They use a billet one piece center section and back plate to improve reliability and safety. They also feature redesigned wheels for improved aerodynamics. The exhaust housing is stainless steel with provisions for cross bolts to improve wheel retention in case of failure, a carryover from diesel tractor pulling turbo technology.
Jamie Stanton has recently made the move to 275 drag radial racing from NMCA Extreme Street to switch things up and race again some different people and have the opportunity for more events. The car was built in house by Jamie and Jake Holdridge and switched over to stock suspension. They had some issues and burned some pistons yesterday and spent several hours last night making repairs.
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Tim Lynch has struggled a bit this weekend after running well in testing Thursday. They were able to put together a clean 4.19last night to ease into the number four position in Outlaw 10.5.
Sometimes being on the bump pays off. Dave Camp had the honors in 10.0 index and wound up with an Easy Plate system gift certificate, a very good thing since he struggled slowing the car down this weekend. he runs a 68 Nova out of New Jersey with a 421 small block Chevy by Danny Smith and help from All Out Automotive.
Due to breakage the 275 Drag Radial ladder is significantly changed, this is the correct version.
I have most of the round sheets from round one eliminations which catches us up with he exception of Ultra Street which will be up shortly.
One of the Ultra Street racers lost a transmission line dumping synthetic oil on the starting line. It was about a 50 minute delay getting the track back to racing condition.
Kenward's Mustang set low ET for round one in Ultra Street with a 5.200 @ 139.72 MPH.
John Snyder runs this clean Pontiac powered 65 GTO out of Middleton, Delaware. Originally built for the now defunct Ram Racing series he is happy Ultra Street now allows naturally aspirated big blocks to compete. The engine is from BES running Tiger heads with a best ET of 5.32. It's got a TH 400 trans, PTC converter and a ford nine inch rear with ladder bars.
Lee Sebring presented a Holeshot Racing Wheels trophy to Monty Mikho for Moderator of the year.
Richard Sexton wound up with a single after Candido Sanchez had issues staging the car and got loose just after mid track and tagged the wall moving across the track. He was out of the car quickly ,the car caught fire after he exited and is OK, the car however isn't.
We are moving into round three in several classes and the finals in Top Sportsman. There some great runs put up in Outlaw 10.5 with Tim Lynch setting low ET last round with a 4.15 @ 185, just ahead of Billy Gordon’s 4.180 @ 189 for hi mile per hour. In Outlaw Drag Radial Frank Soldridge set low ET with a 4.41 @ 180 with his best pass ever, just behind him Scotty G ripped off a 4.399 @ 170 with his nitrous sniffing Camaro which will be a track record if he can back it up. In 275 Drag Radial Martin Connelley is on a roll with his nitrous big block running another 4.65 just ahead of Bruder’s 4.66 @ 158, Connelley will not make the next round sadly. Eric Kenward and Larry Rhodes lead the field in Ultra Street with a 5.16 and 5.18 respectively. Tom Romeo is going to the final in Outlaw Big Tire against John Cerbone.
4.39 @ 170 for Scotty G in a win over Tim Johnson's twin turbo Mustang, Tim had the wheels up a bit too long and lifted, a wise move give all the action today and he will go home in one piece.
Jamie Stanton has run some consistent 4.80's, he got the win over Craig Wells with a 4.87 @ 141.
Chuck Ulsch and Billy Gordon matched up for the quickest side by side run in Outlaw 10.5 history, Gordon took the tree and had the better ET with a 4.160 to Ulsch's 4.165. Lynch went .044 against Charlie Dolbin taking the win with a 4.23 @ 166 lifting early.
In 275 Drag Radial Sean Ashe struck the tires on a single running 5.04 @ 147. Dean Marinis and Rich Bruder were paired up with Bruder just edging out the win. .045 to .046 lights, advantage Bruder, 4.65 @ 158 to Marinis' personal best 4.666 @ 153 in the quickest 275 race ever. Ashe and Marinis are shown, the final will pit F1-x against F1-x
In Outlaw Drag Radial it was Scotty G and Scott Bitzer paired up with Scotty striking the tires early in the run allowing Bitzer to go on for the win. Eric Kenward matched with Larry Rhodes in Ultra Street but popped through the exhaust about 100 feet out and pulled the car into the middle as Rhodes took the win. The other pair was Marc McCloud put sent Jason Shiflett home with a 5.20 to Shiflett’s 5.40.
Top Sportsman final will be Vonnie Mills vs. Bob Phillips after Mills got the win over Tony Arcuni.
Outlaw Big Tire has Tom Romeo defeating Adam Cohen meeting up with John Cerbone who got the win over John Schroeder, 4.46 to 4.53.
PA Healthquotes.com and Marketing sponsored the 2012 bBest Appearing and Best Engineered awards. Jason Enos was picked as Best Engineered for his 1967 Outlaw 10.5 Shelby Mustang built in house at Victory Racecraft. Best Appearing went to Frank Pompilio out of King City Ontario, Canada. Frank also runs Outlaw 10.5 with a 67 Mustang twin turbo Proline bullet. This one is maintained by K & K Racecars. His crew is his father Ernie and cousin Danny Colavecchia. Sponsors are T Melfer Mechanical Torbear Contracting.
Sean Walsh aka 'Skinny' and long time friends and 5.50 Index racer Billy Pedus took home the win in the golf cart race running a 4.65 330'. They threw the cart together in about 3 weeks with Billy handeling the welding and fab using a spare GSXR 1300 engin from 'Skinny'.
Erika Colman won Pro Street with her 1968 Camaro over Carlton Thompson, seen pictured with David Coleman
Dan Walleigh out of Reading PA got the win over fellow PA resident Dustin Morgan with his Trail and Error old school wagon in Pro Dial. Shown here with Monty Mikho.
11.50 Index winner Carlton Thornton hails from Richmond Virginia running a 79 Chevy Malibu over wayne Roatche.
Harry Welch won 10.0 Index after a foul start by Keith Ries Jr. At the stripe is was 10.050 to Reis' 10.003.
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Angelo Valla took the tree and the stripe with a 8.535 to Zach Obert's 8.57.
Marc McCloud swept Ultimate Street with number one qualifier and the win with his Naturally Aspirated 88 Monte, he runs a Steve Schmidt Racing Engines 632 backed by Ultimate Converter Concepts into a Rossler Trans. Rhodes Automotive also supports his program. Larry Rhodes was off pace and late on the tree, still a win of sorts for the Rhodes Auto crew.
Rich Bruder does it again taking the win with low ET, a 4.62 @ 158.89 MPH blast despite the switch this week to a cast intake to comply with the new rules. Runner up Sean Ashe also has the dreaded F1-X Procharger bolted up to his ATF sponsored ride. The big block nitrous cars of Dean Marinis and Martin Connelley we also running mid 4.60's.
Vonnie Mills took the Top Sportsman win over Bob Phillips with her 2006 Jerry Hass Cobalt. with a 632 from Mark Benston. Vonnie said to thank everyone here this weekend including Top Sportsman organizer Ed Foley.
John Cerbone took the win over Tom Romeo in Outlaw Big Tire with a 4.52 to Romeo's 6.98 after he clicked it early.
Frank Soldridge and the PSI Motorsports crew are doing work recently with several recent wins stacking up., tonight against Scott Bitze's Procharged Malibu. He earned the track record in the semis against Kevin Fiscus with a 4.41.2 to best Paul Major's effort set at this race last year.
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Team Lynch struggled this weekend, worked hard and took home the win, besting 37 other cars trying to qualify for the 32 car field with a 4.158 after qualifying fourth. Runner up Billy Gordon set low ET of the event with a 4.155 and was on point with a .001 light but lost traction and shut it down early.