Live from Englishtown - NHRA Supernationals

[Jack Matyas]

Originally Posted by W J

Jack, your boss must be a great person, and very understanding, as well...... WJ

Yeah --- a real sweetheart of a guy ! ! !

[Jack Matyas]

This morning - just so-so ....overcast and very warm (65) even at this early hour (6:30) but showing some promise as the TV weather folks are saying it will burn off later this AM .Everyone here i'm sure has their fingers crossed

Pictured below are the "Leftover Six" Stocker teams who got to spend more than 5 hours underneath the Raceway Park tower yesterday afternoon and evening and do nothing - well almost nothing -- think about their dials with ever changing weather - start and warm-up their engines four times - think more about how good their opponents light will be - check the air in their tires about a zillion times - well you get it -- and after all that were still denied a shot at moving on to round five -- here's my take on how they looked during the downtime ----
1) Peter Biondo and his lady looked confident the whole time - period.
2) Bubba - Showed very little emotion the entire time - maybe he had lawns to mow today .

3) Tex Miller -- He had a concerned look on him most of the time - not sure what was going on in his head .Monday morning sales meeting at work ???
4) Steve Calabro - smoked a million cigs but was "loose" for sure
5) Dave Ficcaci - Good thing we had cell service - spent most of his time texting
6) Dusty Lowell -- Don't know him well enough to get a good read ..........

[Jack Matyas]

We're half an hour from the start and still overcast but no wet stuff .Even for a Monday I'm surprised there are fans -- they have been filing in for some time now - don't get me wrong -hundreds not thousands but they stayed .Guess a lot of managers got the call this morning - you know - the one that says I'm not 'gonna make it in ! !

Just went out on the track a few minutes ago -NHRA Safety Safari along with Director Langs' team did an excellent job prepping / drying and are ready to go with time to spare .

Stay tuned ..........

[Jack Matyas]

Stock rd4 -con't -------Lowell over Miller heads-up after Miller almost ran over an official during his burnout ------- Bubba was dead-on in putting out Ficcaci -- Terminator get a freebie when Calabro goes red ............S/S coming up

[Jack Matyas]

S/S 4 -- Santangelo over Markow - Sal takes out Byron Worner - Lincoln over Nick Scardelli -- Ray Scardelli goes dead on taking out Hall - Timmy Worner wins when Gary Richard ( Grand Marshall of this race ) goes red .

Stock five coming up ..........

[NewHemi]

Now that is some fine reporting...

Thanks for keeping us all updated... Good stuff...

Thanks

David
The New Hemi Guy

[Jack Matyas]

Stock 5 - Peter B goes red to Bubba -- Van Poppel wins with a 1 over when Lowell runs out - Meile dead on while Barton redlights ........

S/S 5 --Ray Scardelli is late and slows handing the win to Santangelo - Sal Biondo takes the stripe by .007 winning over Timmy Worner -- Lincoln gets a bye --

Santangelo gets the bye into the final .....................