Saturdays winner was Phil Stoneback
Runner -up was Charlie Schmid all the way up from Florida and he brought Steve Adams along to race his green Valiant too!
Sunday winner and candidate for ROY with 72 points already! Frank Funk
Sunday R/U was Will Burns
Here are the elinination results with the points earned. Please note this will be checked for accuracy by the official points counters.
It also does not count the 5 points for records set and I believe Will, Charlie and Lou all may have set some new records. Each would get 5 points for that. Again, send in your record forms to Seymour for verification.
This is the Saturday results
And here is Sundays
Again, we were treated better than ever at the track. The announcers praised us and talked us up all day. They gave us compliments on our cars and our attitudes and told me personally that we as a group were what is needed in drag racing. I think the are right. We are a small little family whether we like it or not. ( there is a possibility that you may want to get rid of some of the family members but that is for another day)
There was a little confusion as to our start time but once I got that worked out all went well until I drew up the random ladder. It really does work better when you put everyones name in the hat!!
So once we worked out that little detail, and with Brian Mimkens help, (thanks Brian) we drew up our revised ladder and got it up to the tower. We had our 17 cars for the first 50 point race here on the East coast in a while. Oh and by the way Brian's car is super sweet! No more "sixy beast" It is a beautiful ride for sure.Several highlights of the weekend were:
1 Rookie and local Frank Funk winning his first race. This was his first time Drag racing too!
2 Phil Stoneback winning his first race also.
3 Seymour delivering his Race car to Ryan and seeing him run an 11.65 on his first run in the car
4 My wife Patti providing food for the day on Sunday, Thanks wifie!
Special thanks to all who made the trip, especially the long haulers! And thanks to each one who bought a shirt to help support our racing here at Mason Dixon. Thanks to all who donate to the purse out of your own pockets and especially to Track owner Elmer Wachter for the $750 he gave us for the payout. Total purse was about $1600 for the weekend.
In addition to Frank Funk we also had another Rookie racer. Kevin Bradford.
Thanks again to everyone who made this happen!
Rick