Live from Atco , NJ - NHRA Lucas Oil Series

[Jack Matyas]

Good morning - I'm back - maybe a little lighter in the wallet as Debbie and I made a side trip to Atlantic City last night - great food and very pretty ......and I got bukoo bonus points for making the trip .Took a few pics for those of you on the other coast and from the middle of our country .I'l probably be a first round duck - plenty tired this morning - way too much fun ! ! !

We'll start off elims in a little more than an hour -- its getting warm already - should be a super race day ...........later .

[Bob Pagano]

You dont know how good that looks Jack sitting here in TX with temps in the 108 deg range for the last month. Thanks for the COOL

[Jack Matyas]

Stock just finished first round - a little slower than yesterday .Some surprises - we got to see the first old school car in Stock - Shelby Hurley in her dads extra clean ''55 Chevy P/SA ran but went red - the good news is they received "Best Engneered" for their efforts .

[Jack Matyas]

Round one of S/S completed - many redlights - hard to tell some rounds as the win light on the top end not working well . Jack Sepanek had a tough heads-up against Bo Kenneys CJ - he tried hard - tuned 'er up - got a great light - but the awesome power was too much to handle . Maybe next time with Jack Sr. at the controls ........we all miss him .

Here's a few pics from that round .......

[Jared Jordan]

Jack,

Any idea what the ET's were on the Sepanek/Kenney match-up?

[Mike Carr]

8.92 152 (?) beat a 9.22 142, from what I remember on 1320go.com. Bo just went red in 2nd round, ran 8.88 154.

[Ken Miele]

Jared,

Here are the numbers,
Jack Sepanek 1198 9.90 .024 9.227 145.67
Bo Kenney 1273 9.90 .026 8.928 155.49.

Super Stock is running third round as I type.

Jack is still in and going into the fourth rd.

We had two G/SA heads up races in the third round of stock, It looks like the will finish everything up today.

[MikeFicacci]

I am new to this but it definitely seemed like there was a huge difference with the roll-outs of the lanes. Anyone else think so?

[Mickey Whaley]

yea. mike i can see it right on the screen

[Jack Matyas]

OK - I'm over it - after losing to Kenny Kopecky I went back into reporter mode and i did my regular deal .Kenny beat me fair and square by the way as I just lost total concentration and he did his job well . After finishing my wife took me to Tullia's for a fine birthday dinner ( mine is Monday BTW ) and after a hard day racing it was welcomed .

Talk about some great racing - would you believe a double G/SA heads-up in round three - it was Pires v Quatarone and Infantino v Richard with Pires and Richard winning but having to face each other in the next round and the winner of that match would get a bye into the next round - whew - following ? ? Now it really gets wierd - Kenny Kopecky racing Pires in the semis dialed an 11.73 on his 11.70 index and no one noticed - and almost got away with it ( he just made a mistake and wasn't trying to pull something ) but in the end he ran out by a few hun .

In the final it was all Pires - David Barton tried hard with his mighty Hemi Coronet but Billys' .009 and .01 over hard on the brakes was too much to handle - congrats to both drivers - it wasn't an easy day to drive or dial .

Wish I had as much info on SuperStock but being busy going a few rounds today just didn't leave much time for it .And as usual Kenny told me he'd help out but we all know Kenny - and you can't fire the boss .

Anyway - I did get to do the S/S final between Jeff Tripp in his Monte Carlo and James Antonette in his familiar Grand Am - James left first and went red handing the win to Jeff who followed with another red - congrats to them also .