Live from Epping,New Hampshire-NHRA Lucas Oil Series

[Jack Matyas]

Good morning members and guests - welcome to day one of our 2020 season here in D1 and you can bet on one thing - nothing has changed as Mother Nature has followed me around forever and won't disappoint us once again .I'm somewhere in Connecticut and as they say in some areas of PA 'its makin' down' .

And that's not the worst of it - last night while in some tiny burg I was motoring down a two lane highway and all of a sudden going around a bend there is a bridge in front of me but its a half-moon brick style and I've got nowhere to go because of traffic.Well anything that was on my roof is now gone along with my electric awning and God knows what else .

Great way to start my season - hopefully things will get better ……..

[jmcarter]

Good to have a live reporter there. Between you, DRC and D1TV we’re grateful to have such great coverage.

[Jack Matyas]

So Mother Nature changed her mind just past Hartford - Sun is out - sky is brite and not many clouds ……...

[Jack Matyas]

Test n tune going on for a few hours now - didn't see anyone going real fast as its very,very hot here today .I was planning on it myself but there is just too much work to be done on my stuff so I can get home without problems .Tomorrow is another day ......BTW, attendance is better than I expected for a Thursday ........all that and no Canadians .They could have added a bunch to the total .Later .............

[mat H/SA]

Originally Posted by Jack Matyas

Test n tune going on for a few hours now - didn't see anyone going real fast as its very,very hot here today .I was planning on it myself but there is just too much work to be done on my stuff so I can get home without problems .Tomorrow is another day ......BTW, attendance is better than I expected for a Thursday ........all that and no Canadians .They could have added a bunch to the total .Later .............

Jack if the border was open a lot of us would have been there
i think for us it will be a youtube season...

[Jack Matyas]

What a stinker today - hot , sticky and the only good thing is the 29.99 barometer . So far we've had two shots in Stock and one in S/S .So Bobby Vogel is showing 'em how its done with his new ride and as for S/S I'm not sure if Jeff Roell is in the right class .If not then Scotty Gove is on top.Believe me if you can go a second under here Indy will be a breeze. More later ……..



Just for the record I didn't take any of these photos .

[Mark Yacavone]

BTW, the live qualifying block that you haven't seen here , is up to the discretion of the announcers as to when to put it up..I just confirmed this.
So, I see nothing much has changed , as far as announcers go, in 40 years at Epping.

Bye for now, Mik Yavone

[Jack Matyas]

Round 3 of Stock qualifying went off without a hitch with plenty of time in between so I took a dip in my neighbor Tom Buchers pool .SuperStock up next for their third shot.Not sure if everybody got three but it was nice even though I spun everytime .

[Mark Yacavone]

Third hit..One more in the morning







Might have to right click /view image... Best I can do ,with a 5000 mile relay ;-)

[B Parker]

It's great to see the number 1 in Stock back in Div. one. Congrats to Allison again the number looks great on her car. BP