The Other Winners
& Random Photos
Fourteen
Nostalgia Funny Cars were invited to put on an 8 car Chicago
style match race on Sunday. Each car got one qualifying pass
Sunday morning and the quick 8 came back to race in round one.
The two quickest cars from that round met in the final and those
were Chris Krabill in Gary Turner's "Pedaler" and Lee
Jennings Jr. in "Code Red".
Both
drivers left together and stayed that way for 1320 feet. This
was a dandy with Krabill getting the win light with a stout 5.982
at 234.98. Jennings was right there with a 6.042 at 234.98.
Krabell
could be heard yelling for joy from the time he pulled off the
track until he got out of the car.
Crew
Chief, Donny Couch, Chris Krabell and owner, Gary Turner.
The
whole team.
The
A/Fuel Final was a family affair. Kin Bates and Claude Lavoie
are brothers-in-law and both run injected nitro dragsters. Bates
has a Gene/Dean Adams hemi in the frame rails and Lavoie's car
is all John Russell horsepower.
Lavoie
left first by a bunch, but Bates had the better times from 60
feet on through to the finish getting the win light with a 6.299
at 218.97. Lavoie was right there with a 6.393 at 219.61 Lavoies
gate job made it much closer than the times would suggest. Bates'
MOV: 0.0320 seconds (approximately 10 feet).
The
Winners Circle was a family affair as well.
The
AA/Gas Supercharged final pitted Ed Moss and Mike Leonard. This
was pretty well over at the hit when Moss put a full tenth hole
shot on Leonard and drove away to a 6.710 at 209.35 to a losing
6.929 at 200.04.
The
Jr. Fuel 'A' final matched the number 1 and number 2 qualifiers
Scott Parks and Jon Haire. Great race with Parks getting a slight
lead off the line and Haire chasing him. Parks never looked back
and took yet another win with a fine 6.918 at 191.93. Haire was
in the hunt with a 6.935 at 191.61.
The
Parks family is getting real used to posing in Winner Circles.
John
Rasmussen took another win in Jr. Fuel 'B' topping Fred Notkza
in the final. This was a dandy with both drivers catching great
reaction times and stayed welded together all the way to the
lights. Rasmussen's 7.206 at 185.37 just beat Notkza's 7.216
at 186.52.
In A/Gas Rob Patten met
Brad Chafee for the money. Patten got the jump and held it to
a 7.750 at 159.80 over Chafee's quicker 7.746 at 172.84.
Dan
Schrokosch and Rich Raymond waded through the super tough 32
car Nostalgia Eliminator field to meet in the final. Raymond,
who won the 2005 CHRR, got the lead at the green but Schrokosch
stopped the repeat by running closer to the index. Dan MOV: 0.0270
seconds (approximately 7 feet).
Dan
Schrokosch and his huge crew.
Out 'N About
Dave
Rosenberg in Bruce Dyda's NE 1 car had a rare DNQ.
Randy
Bradford and Ron Hope made exhibition runs in their AA/FA over
the weekend and the crowed loved them.
Chuck
Bayuk made the NE show but lost in round one.
Not
sure who this is (looks like Tony Waters car) but he sure likes
collecting cones.
Brian
Darcy made his third coast to coast trip this year to go two
rounds in Jr. Fuel . Darcy ran a career best 6.995 at 190.71.
Bill
Genco went a couple of rounds in A/Fuel.
Lee
Jennings Jr. does his burnout for the final (above) and looks
good going into the lights (below).
A/Fuel
runner-up Claude Lavoie.
Marc
McCormick prepares for his semi-final run in Jr. Fuel B against
John Rasmussen, the eventual class winner. Marc posted a 7.54
with a speed of 175 in this matchup.
Dale
Pulde had a busy weekend making sure the racers had his Pro Nitro
fuel and helping on the Hawaiian funny car.
Troy
Green, Gary Beck and Henry Walther check out the track prior
to the second qualifying session.
All
around nice guy Randy Walls gave the FC show a shot but fell
short of making the field.
As many
remember, Brendan Murry nearly owned Nostalgia Eliminator in
the 90's so this car should look familiar. Parked in his shop
for over six years, Murry dusted off the old girl and did a test
run on Sunday with the newest version of the Arias hemi-Chevy
between the frame rails.
Results
were inconclusive.
For
everything that was going on in front of the grandstands there
was just as much going on in the pits.
"Digger
Row"
Normally
Dennis La Charite and the "Back In Black" Funny Car
are in the hunt and setting top speed. Evidently they need more
than one pass to dial it in - DNQ here.
Although
it didn't actually race, this was the debut of the beautiful
Pisano & Matsubara Vega Nostalgia Funny Car. This is not
a restoration - this is a race car. Very cool.
The "Predator"
(Satellite with Dale Smith Body) flopper owned by Mark Roy and
driven by Jim Holtz was the # 3 qualifier but failed to run the
numbers to make the final.
The
hard running Speed Sport flopper owned by Mark Roy and driven
by Mike Savage qualified # 4 but also didn't make the final.
The
Howard Cams Rattler got another test push start on Sunday.
Ron
Hope in the "Rat Trap" and Randy Bradford went at it
for the last time Sunday. Bradford won two out of the three meetings.
The
ageless Art Chrisman helping out his nephew, Mike Chrisman in
Jr. Fuel 'A'.
There
was no shortage of iron for door car lovers.
Paul
Sadler accepts one of several photo awards given out Sunday morning
from Dave Wallace.
Talk
about a wolf in sheeps clothing - Hungerford's NE1 Little Old
Lady.
Adam
Sorokin hard at work. All he does is pack his chutes... must
be prepping himself for a Big Show ride. <grin>
Its
a bird - its a plane - its a 1967 Top Fuel car!
I did
mention there were some killer door cars?
"The
King" & "Tarzan" - if you don't know, oh well.
Red
Greth and the Speed Sport camp is impossible to miss.
The
Dragmaster "Two Thing" spent the weekend residing in
the main lobby of the Double Tree Hotel. No Famoso dust 'n dirt
on this baby.
Sonny
& Jamie Jackson have been capturing drag racing on film and
video for 50 years. Now you can put a face to their work. On
second thought, just by their videos.
A pair
of Jacks. Jack Harris in Flathead Jack's twin, 180 MPH, flathead
digger.
Bitchin' hot rod!
Sean
Bellemeur prior to finally racing Adam Sorokin and winning the
rained out NHRR from June in Kentucky.
There
was something for everybody.
Bad
Manners Fiat altered.
Bruce
McDowell NE-1
Jess
Sturgeon NE-1
The
Blairs Speed Shop Fiat has been a nostalgia staple for many years.
Local
racer Randy Winkle runs his car his own way in the NE class.
Forget the wins, forget the ET's... he loves to put on a show
the way it was in the old days. He'll find an agreeable competitor,
they'll roll through the water box and at the hit, they both
smoke the tires the entire 1320. A little slippin' and slidin'
to be sure, but it's true nostalgia! Don't tell the law, but
its rumored that Randy was seen driving this car out of the Famoso
parking lot and onto the highway last year to be home in time
for dinner!
And on
that note - that's it for now.
1st
Qualifying Session - Saturday Night
2nd
Qualifying Session - Saturday
Final
Eliminations - Saturday & Sunday
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