Now thats a great race - the Pro Mod Superbowl - with 11 cars in attendance for the fastest door slammer contest well it was sure fun! Wayne Smiths Nitrous 37 Chevy was flyin with a best of 7.27 189mph! Wayne Roberts topped the field with an off the throttle 7.12 at only 160mph. The Camaros new (old junk rebuilt) hemi motor gettin a breakin / shakedown pass - not bad for the ol right lane eh? A lot of classy cars were at WIR saturday including Larry Farbers slick new 57 Chevy, Mike Bruins new 55 Chevy, Rick Crains new 68 Mcamis body Camaro (fresh out of the Holzman Race Cars shop), Mike Coopers Bickel Built 63 Pontiac, Dave Rivers Camaro, WR Buck with Ed, Wes and Tim Buck, Dan Harry, Rick Parrott, Jim Kruegers 69 Yenko Nova - geez I could go on forever - if you were there you know what I mean - if not wow you missed a good one!!! Well lets see if I can do a decent recap -
Jim Krueger crashed his Yenko on a wild burnout sending everyone scrambling and the fans clapping when he got out of the car! A tough way to become famous but hey - he is famous now! The cars not hurt bad mostly fiberglass and money is all it will take to fix. Well in the end - everyone had a good time racng and working on their cars even if it was a pretty hot and humid day! The fans got to see fast race cars with blowers and nitrous and Mike Cooper got to blow by Wayne Roberts in the final for a big win! The fastest car in qualifying is NOT always the winner as Mike proved AGAIN. Which reminds me of a saying - it ain't over till the fat lady sings - or the win light comes on in your lane! Mike slapped a .035 light on ol Wayne and never looked back. After the run it was determined that the Camaro tuner (Wayne himself) was the victim of tuneritis - messing with the timing of the ol Camaro's Hemi trying to kill some bottom end power - it worked - unfortunately it killed the mid and top end as well! Oh well next time. Which will be the World Street Nationals in June!
Now we had some HOT racing action n the Bracket classes as well - Super Pro in particular - TJ Longpine - the kid - wins it all and get this Ryan Curran runner ups - holy cow the Jr racers are again taking over the strip! Only Bobby Mount could make it into the money with out being an ex Jr Dragster racer as Bobby took the black Maverick to the semis. In Pro Jay " I'm on a roll" Smith cuts a .047 light and is the victor over Cheryl Statts in a close double breakout race. Ron Collier and Mike James drove the distance and finish in the semis spots. In Sportsman/Footbrake Robyn Zordel enters at the last minute and voilla wins the thing taking out John Chaffin in the finals! Ray Ketner has his car dialed in as he made it to the semis. In Jr Dragster - Trevor "the Lumberjack" Ruge cuts down the tree with a .000 perfect light runs 8.01 on a 8.01 dial - yea he won! WOW TJ Longpine broke out trying to make it a race - but hey - he made it up with his Super Pro win - yea you heard me - he's racing Super Pro AND Jr Dragster at the same time - made it to the finals in both and won S/P! Alex Weins from Newton Kansas finished in the semis spot with very good car and driver performance! All in all it was a great race day with lots of cars in attendance and of course lots of race fans, crews and sponsors as well! Which brings us to the next two weekends - May 19ths Points race and first midnight drags event and May 25ths Friday Street Heat and of course parking for the biggest Bracket event of 2007 the Heartland Trailer Sales - Race for a Trailer on May 26th - the biggest 1st place prize in all of the midwests bracket racing - a Pace 24 foot enclosed race trailer. And get this entry is only $75 EXCEPT for Heartland Trailer Sales Points Participants its only $55!!! No overpriced buy backs either - $25 buybacks - race is open to all participants - Pro, S/P, Sportsman - a combo race that will make your hair stand up!
Anyway - enough of my rambling - time to get ready for the next race day!
Wayne R