Live from Beech Bend Sportsnational Open

[Marty Buth]

Bowling Green is a great place to race! Congrats to Michael for his Nitro Plate race win! It hasn't been mentioned yet, but Alan Mackin also set a National Record. Alan set the N/SA record at 11.82 and 110MPH. Congrats, Alan!!!!! Alan and I got to run side by side, in the first 4 cylinder stock 11 second run. Alan went 11.82 and I went 11.92. That was fun!

[Larry Hill]

Hey guys, sorry I didn't do any more posting on here from Beech Bend. It was such a beautiful weekend, I just sat around enjoying it all! Chris, Keisha, Aubrey, and Reagan came up and stayed with us too, so it was a really nice family getaway. They enjoyed going up to the amusement park and riding all the rides and playing at the waterpark, too. Congratulations to Matt Antrobius for his stock win and Ryan Richardson for his Super Stock win! And of course, congrats to Michael Beard for his big Combo win! And Jeff Colvert for his runner-up in Combo!

Here are a couple of pics that I did get on Sat.:


Rick Winchester I/SA


Jimmy Gower M/S


Tommy Mattingly L/SA

[Larry Hill]

Danny Byrd D/S


Kevin Wells G/SA

[bob3240]

Originally Posted by Marty Buth

Bowling Green is a great place to race! Congrats to Michael for his Nitro Plate race win! It hasn't been mentioned yet, but Alan Mackin also set a National Record. Alan set the N/SA record at 11.82 and 110MPH. Congrats, Alan!!!!! Alan and I got to run side by side, in the first 4 cylinder stock 11 second run. Alan went 11.82 and I went 11.92. That was fun!

Congrats Marty and Alan. That's way fast!!!! Bob Michael

[ALMACK]

Originally Posted by Marty Buth

Bowling Green is a great place to race! Congrats to Michael for his Nitro Plate race win! It hasn't been mentioned yet, but Alan Mackin also set a National Record. Alan set the N/SA record at 11.82 and 110MPH. Congrats, Alan!!!!! Alan and I got to run side by side, in the first 4 cylinder stock 11 second run. Alan went 11.82 and I went 11.92. That was fun!

Thanks Marty !
Congrats to you as well for setting the O/SA record. Well done my friend !

Also...congrats on being the first driver to break the 11 second barrier with a 4 cylinder Stocker.
If only I had left 5.8 seconds earlier.....LOL

After looking at Michael's pics he posted, I guess I was a little late to the teardown party...lol

Got a little video of the 4 cylinder runs at Bowling Green:

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[FINESPLINE]

Mighty impressive results with both cars. 11 second 2.3L turbo's. Your hard work is being rewarded. Best of luck the rest of the season and safe racing. CONGRATULATIONS.....John

[Michael Beard]

Alan - sorry I missed giving you credit for a National Record as well! I should've known. Great video, great to capture a little bit of history. The little guys ("high class" drivers?) really stepped up this weekend!

Sorry for the late pics... late nights at BG, a long day of travel home, and then come home to a desktop PC that's heading to the repair shop in the morning...

Some pics...


Good shady spot, at least til early afternoon!


Ready to roll for Q1


Suspicious looking individuals...

[Michael Beard]

More pics...






Jeff Taylor wheeled the Hellenberg SuperStock Cavalier this weekend


Mike Taylor was giving K/S a go with his Pure Stocker.

[Marty Buth]

Good video, Alan! That must have taken a little time to put that together. Congrats, again, on the N/SA record!

[GallopinGhost]

Congrats to both of you on the records. Mighty impressive for 4 cylinders !

Originally Posted by Marty Buth

Good video, Alan! That must have taken a little time to put that together. Congrats, again, on the N/SA record!