LIVE from the Auto Meter Northern Class Nationals!

[Michael Beard]

2014 Auto Meter Northern Class Nationals
Lucas Oil Class Eliminations - SUPER STOCK
Class .... Winner .... E.T. .... MPH
SS/B .... A.H. Adkins .... 8.919 .... 147.21
SS/C .... Andy Stone .... 9.456 .... 144.63
SS/D .... Stephen Johnson .... 9.631 .... 137.64
SS/H .... Sean Gaffney .... 9.855 .... 133.70
SS/I .... PJ Ballog .... 15.470 .... 54.26
SS/K .... Stephen Belanger .... 10.103 .... 130.22
SS/N .... Gary Summers .... 10.792 .... 123.28
SS/BA .... Mike Skinner .... 8.878 .... 149.96
SS/DA .... Larry Jewell .... 9.555 .... 138.77
SS/FA .... Tyler Bohannon .... 9.849 .... 131.13
SS/GA .... Robert Carpenter .... 9.610 .... 135.09
SS/HA .... Doug Engels .... 9.754 .... 134.70
SS/IA .... Ricky Decker .... 9.615 .... 121.07
SS/JA .... Ron Terrell .... 9.736 .... 133.70
SS/KA .... Rich South .... 10.122 .... 130.53
SS/LA .... Ty Kwaiser .... 11.081 .... 117.95
SS/NA .... Eric Stewart .... 11.366 .... 116.51
SS/AS .... Michael Mans .... 8.527 .... 158.54
SS/GS .... Tim Kish .... 12.831 .... 108.04
SS/CM .... Joe McDougall .... 9.757 .... 144.95
SS/EM .... George Taylor .... 9.783 .... 134.07
GT/C .... David Manning .... 9.433 .... 140.56
GT/G .... Dan Jacobs .... 9.367 .... 140.62
GT/H .... Brad Zaskowski .... 10.303 .... 116.70
GT/AA .... Jimmy Ronzello .... 9.464 .... 141.82
GT/BA .... Jason DeForrest .... 9.240 .... 142.32
GT/CA .... Jerry Silveus .... 9.340 .... 140.72
GT/DA .... Matt Alvey .... 9.676 .... 134.39
GT/EA .... Dave Dupps .... 9.623 .... 135.96
GT/FA .... Nick Morris .... 9.810 .... 121.16
GT/GA .... Robert Becker .... 10.113 .... 128.76
GT/HA .... Dave Layer .... 9.809 .... 134.83
GT/IA .... Tom Sheehan .... 10.766 .... 108.04
GT/JA .... Zack Running .... 10.548 .... 123.50
GT/KA .... Stan Perry .... 10.808 .... 120.83
GT/MA .... Bobby Dennis .... 10.532 .... 125.38
SS/PDA-1 .... Bob Lowry .... 9.504 .... 142.07
SS/PEA-1 .... Pete D'Agnolo .... 9.930 .... 117.73

[Larry Hill]

Hey Michael,
It was truly a really fun event. We were proud and excited to be a part of it! Hopefully you will decide you want to do this again! I have a suggestion though! Don't set the date until after NHRA sets all of their division points races (and the East Coast guys, too). Then maybe more people will show up! There was a really great showing by the Division 5 guys, but I was a little disappointed with the lack of support from some of the Division 3 guys! Maybe they just didn't know how much fun it was going to be! Plus there was a really good purse for all the different events!

So here's to the next one!!

Patsy & Larry

[Michael Beard]

Racers represented 24 states plus a boisterous crew from Ontario, Canada. Unsurprisingly, Ohio led with 60 entries, followed by Michigan with 21, and Kentucky with 20. We welcomed racers from Florida, Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, Nevada, South Dakota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesnowta, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire among many other states. The support from Division 5 was particularly impressive. It was great to put some names with faces, and see a lot of unique, quality machines.


White-Welker & Welker Law Firm posted $100 for the Longest Tow Award. Ed Carpenter from Dripping Springs, TX logged over 2550 miles round trip, arriving at the track in one piece, and arriving back home in one piece, and this true Iron Man of the sport survived all of the pieces in the middle. Honorable mention goes to Paul Wong, who slogged through over 2,000 miles one way from Las Vegas, NV, but is flying home. It was great to have both of these "2,000 Mile Club" members in the house, and wish them safe travels!

[bob3240]

Thanks to Michael and everyone for a great race! Way to go Charlie and Bill Sempsrott in the stock final! Also, how about the surprise visit in the winners circle by Pro Stock racer Larry Morgan, talking to and encouraging all the racers. ( I got a selfie ) Bob Michael.