"Live From" Summernationals - Englishtown, NJ

[Dan Bernay]

Originally Posted by Jack Matyas

Good morning gang - today it starts as first round of Stock is to go off at 10:15 .Yeah , it'll again be hot and ugly as it was yesterday but lets face the facts -it is the Summernationals and we should expect the weather to be what we've had .Here it is not even 6 AM and the temps are in the seventies .This heat and humidity really kicks your butte ........or maybe I'm just getting old -- or both ! ! !

I , like many other racers really wanted to come here this weekend and have some fun and do well and had I brought a different car I would have .Had I left my COPO home and drove my Trans Am at this race the fun meter would be alot higher .This race is not working out well for any Stocker with a high horsepower engine .We've thrown everything including the proverbial kitchen sink at our Camaro and the best we've got for our efforts is smoking the tires past the tree after pedaling ( I used to think pedaling was for John Force - not the case anymore ) . All this from a car that stood 'em up on the bumper last weekend at Maple Grove on every pass.If six or seven hundred horsepower can't get down the track what'll happen later today when 8,000 ponies are unleashed ?

I'm disappointed to say the least and if I can't hook for first round I'll be back at work lickity split .........and probably get anther pink slip from Kenny as he's had to work hard the last few days - something he's not used to doing but getting better at it .

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

Jack I don't have any answers for the track conditions, but I do know if it were me I would protect myself and my race car , eat the entrance fee trailer my car and leave.
It's just not worth the risk.
Everyone else can make their on decision.