Ronnie "Uncle Buck" 90 Nationals - Sept 13th & 14th, 2013

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The 1st look at this years Comp Cams .90 Shootout Logo that will be held on Friday Night the 13th of September at Numidia. This event will be open to all Super Comp, Gas & Street racers who would like to participate.
Last year saw...
Jeff Livezey Jr. take down Jason Hoff in S/C
Iggie Boicesco over Bernard Weaver in S/G
Rich Price knock off Keith Mayers in S/ST.

So who will take the victories at this years event?

Entry: $70.00
Winner: $1,000
Runner-Up: $400
Semi-Finalist: $200
3rd Round Loser: $70
*based on 32 entries

If we get more per class we will up the payouts!

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Just remember racers this Thursday, August 1st is the final cut-off for the last pre-entry into the Nitroplate Ronnie "Uncle Buck" 90 Nationals at Numidia! It looks like my schedule has changed a little bit and I WILL be at Atco this weekend running the Lucas Race in S/G. If anyone wants to enter there you may do so but, after Sunday the gates are closed! Just look for the car below and even if you don't want to enter come over and say Hi....I don't bite!

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Just waiting on a few more sponsorship logos but, here is the preview of the 2013 Nitroplate Uncle Buck 90 Nationals T-Shirts that will be available at the track on Sept 13th & 14th. Still have to get prices on them before they can be sold. Thanks to Jeff Serra from In Motion Solutions for doing the design.

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The Nitro Lounge is heading East...that's right Nitro Joe Jackson, will be making the trip out from Ohio with the Nitro Lounge to help out with parking, ladders and helping Ashlee out with pairing up cars plus anything else I can find him to do. Joe is a man who can do it all and comes from a great drag racing family as both his parents were Event Winners in the .90 Classes with their "Scratcher" cars. Look for the yellow golfcart and the smiling face of Joe to guide you into the Ronnie "Uncle Buck" Memorial .90 Nationals presented by Nitroplate

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After the smoke has cleared at Atco this weekend and the final cut-off for the Ronnie "Uncle Buck" Memorial .90 Nationals presented by Nitroplate passed on Thursday, here is the final list for the pre-entries. From this point on all entries will be accepted at the gate. When you enter the gates at Numidia you will pay for any crew or spectators that you may have with you. Once we get you parked you may come down and register for the race. Right next to the Nitro Lounge we will have 2 Pop-Up Tents that will have the registration for the event. Once you get settled up with the my crew, you will get a goody bag from the sponsors that will have a Tech Card, Schedule, Participant Decals and all other info you may need. Registration will be open till Saturday the 14th after the 1st qualifying shot. Once we start the 2nd qualifying shot, gates are closed and will no longer accept any new entries.

Super Comp (12)

Kevin Scholl
Jeff Livezey Jr.
Jeff Kruzinski
Tom Boyle
Chase Fahenstock
Amanda Boicesco
Chris Depascale
Bob Kopack
Kathy Smulligan
Bill Hardifer
Mike Moniz
Frank Lauria

Super Gas: (21)

Don Knoblick
Bob Keister
Derek Clark
Jay Cepelka
Frank Tantarynowicz
Jerry Holcomb
Iggie Boicesco
George Smith
Joe Eckel
Rich Price
Bob Phillips
Ron Orbin
Shawn Harp
Tom Goldman
George Donhauser
Jake Barbato
Mike Johnston
Keith Mayers
Tom Depascale
Mike Lauria
Bob Henry

Super Street: (8)

Kelli Barbato
Keith Mayers
Kevin Tiedemann
Marty Khron
Rich Price
George Forester
Neil Vaccaro
Sean Lanigan

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Here you go Boys & Girls, the 1st look at the 2013 Nitroplate Ronnie "Uncle Buck" 90 Nationals & Comp Cams Shootout trophies! Yes, this year the winners of all 3 Categories will be taking home one of these bad boys on Friday & Saturday Night along with the big Happy Gilmore Checks that are being printed up by Jeff Serra at Inmotion Solutions! The trophies were complted by Doug Arnold over at Crown Trophy and if you are looking for anyone to do trophies for an event you are holding call Doug!

T-Minus 30 days!

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Another cool thing we will be doing this year at the Ronnie "Uncle Buck" 90 Nationals with the help of Jeff Kundratic at JKR Inc. and Jerron Settles at Imagine that Customs is raffling off a brand new Simpson Bandit helmet at this years event. Jeff Kundratic and his company JKR Inc. can be found at most NHRA D1 & D2 tracks. Jeff is a major supplier of Simpson, MSD, Lucas Oil, K&N, Racepack and many others. What will make this cool is the winner of the Simpson Bandit helmet will have it painted by one of the best on the East Coast and Jerron Settles and his company Imagine that Customs. Jerron has painted some of the coolest cars in the USA including the Moser Cars of the Cummings Family and the Pro Stock Motorcycle of Michael Phillips.

Tickets will be $10.00 and can be purchased throughout the day on Friday and Saturday. The winner will be drawn on Saturday Night at the BBQ so save your tickets!

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Once the dust has settled on Friday & Saturday and the Champions are crowned all the winners in each class will receive the "Happy Gilmore" Check as they like to call it. This Check is great to hang in your trailer to show the fellow racers and spectators of your accomplishments. 2 weeks from today....we start to park cars!!!

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A big THANKS to Super Street Racer Kelli Barbato & Super Comp Racer Bill Hardifer for helping put together over 300 goodie bags last night at Bills House. I know everyone is saying "Ugh...Goodie Bags" but, these bags are filled with cool things including a Edelbrock 75th anniversary hat, a Nitroplate Hat, T-Shirt or Koozie, Weiseco Piston Key Chain plus your 90 Nationals Participant decals and important information that is always asked around the track..."Whats the radio Station?", "Anyone have a schedule?", "When's the BBQ?" plus that important Tech Card to go racing!

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What to expect and where to go when you enter the Nitroplate 90 Nationals & Nitroplate Stock/SS Shootout!

First off, anyone attending the Lucas Oil event being held at Englishtown this upcoming weekend and would like to bring their stuff to Numidia following the event the gates will be open till 6pm on Sunday. If you are going to be any later please call the track line (570-799-5090 / 570-799-5091). I can’t tell you if anyone will be there or not but, call first before you drive there. Once you enter the gates for the event on Thursday, you will only pay for any spectators that are with you. A 1 day pass is only $7.00, 2 day pass is $14.00 and a 3 day pass is $21.00. On Thursday all we are doing is parking cars and getting set-up for the event but, someone will be at the gate to collect the spectator cash. Gates will be open starting at 10am till 10pm on Thursday (If you are going to be late please call my Cell phone 856-332-2851 and let me know). The latest I will let cars in that night is 11pm so no 2am calls asking to get in. Nitro Joe Jackson of the famed “Scratcher” Super Gas & Comp Teams in Ohio is coming out to help with parking and pairings along with Ashlee Donhauser. So once you enter the gate, Joe will guide you to the spot for parking. If you have a special preference please let him know, we all know Numidia is un-even in some spots and can be hard to level out your rigs.

On Friday Morning gates will open at 8am. When you arrive you will NOT get your tech card at the gate. There will be 2 large tents set up near the winner’s circle. Once you are set-up at your pit area you will proceed to those tents to get your race packet. Stock Racer Gina Mocci & her friend Becca Stepanoff will be there to greet you and collect your entry fee at 8am and beyond. If you already pre-entered just let them know as we have binders with all the pre-entered names in it (We will make this as easy as possible). Also at the time if anyone would like to enter the Comp Cams Shootout, Micro-Strategies CIC Race or the Quickfuel Stock/SS Combo race you may do so. Tech will be opening at 9am up by the gas pumps with the Free Test & Tune starting at 10am. The Micro-Strategies CIC Race is scheduled to kick off at 12:30 for the 1st qualifier with 1st round at 1:30pm and 2nd round at 2:30. Lanes will be closing at 2:30 for the Test & Tune. Qualifying for the Comp Cams Shootout & Quickfuel Combo Race will be at 3pm with 1st round hopefully beginning at 4:30pm. I’m still working on getting Friday to be just us but, Friday Night is a big money maker for Numidia and their street night, so I’m still awaiting word on that. If we cannot finish the special events we will move them to Sunday as we have the track all too ourselves that weekend.

Once again on Saturday gates will open at 8am with time shots beginning at 9:30am SHARP. We will be calling Super Street to the lanes at 9:15am. Once the 1st pair of Super Street is in the Water Box the call will be made for the next class which is Super Comp, then Stock, SG, Super Stock so be ready to go. Once Super Stock is finished we let Mike and his crew do a little track prep then go start over with Super Street. 1st round will be scheduled for 1:30pm so be ready to go. It will be random pairings for 1st round and if we have an un-even amount of cars the driver closest to the index in the 2nd qualifier in Super Comp, Gas or Street will get a bye-run and in Stock & Super Stock the driver with the best reaction time in 2nd qualifier will get the bye in the 1st. Once we are finished with the event, the racers BBQ will begin at 7pm down by the end of the grandstands. If anyone would like to bring a side dish feel free and bring it down to the Donhausers trailer before 7pm. The menu will consist of BBQ Chicken, Corn & Hot Dogs. It will be a BYOB as everyone drinks a lot of different beverages so trying to guess will be a mystery.

On Sunday, the Mid Atlantic Super Comp & Street Series will run Race #7 of their series. Non-Members are welcomed to race with us. If there is enough interest we will run a Super Gas & Stock/SS extra race for those who want to do some more racing or you can head on over to Knoebels to have some fun. If weather becomes a factor on Saturday we will use Sunday as the date and will have to cancel the MASSA & MASCA events (Lets just hope we don’t have to worry about that).

Sorry once again for the novel but, nobody can say they were not surprised
Rob Keister
856-332-2851