Live from Maple Grove - NHRA Toyo Tires Nats

[Jack Matyas]

Another 10 minutes turned into 4 and 1/2 hours till I got parked ! ! Good news is that everybody including Pros waited -usually its just us that wait -- tech was a breeze and now its time for lunch ...........

BTW - its chicken on the grill in case anyones hungry .

Capt.Jack---10/4 on the 1000'.

[Joe DeMarzo]

Jack, what is for dessert? Good luck and hope you have a great race, keep us posted.

[Joe Martens]

Thanks for the reports, Jack. I'll be looking forward to reading them throughout the weekend!!!
Good luck.

[Jack Matyas]

Finally its Thursday and in an hour or so we'll hit the track .Very sunny this morning with the fog lifting off the tree lines rapidly ..........temps in the low sixties and a nice barometer (29.77 at the local airport) but here's the bad news - humidity is near 97% and they are calling for thunderstorms this afternoon with the possibility of hail along with them . Sure hope those Pro's like playing ball in the rain tonight .We'll just have to make the best of our runs this morning -- not as much "fooling around" as usual -- guess its 1100' instead of 1000 .Like the big guy in California says --" I'll be back"................

PS--Plenty of rigs just pulling in this morning - this economy has everything screwed up - racers seem to be working that "extra" day to help pay for things . Can anyone remember when Stock/Superstock didn't have full fields at the Keystones ?

[Jack Matyas]

9:15 First time trial ---Stock 75 degrees -- 61% humidity -- 81 grains of water -- .53 vapor pressure -- 29.19 barometer -- 2632 DA -- in other words its slow out there -- on top of that everyones 60 was 2 to 3 off . 1)Bogan -1.067 low ET --10.233
2)Belden -1.037
3)Horensky -1.035
4)Parker -1.001 (Gary)
5)Monohan -.982
6)Matyas -.972
7)Giermanski -.953
8)Lowell -.938
9)J.Linke -.934
10)Totaro -.932 Top Speed 127.33
They just told us we're going to get three hits today -- next one in half an hour.........

[Tim H]

I believe it is raining !!

[Jack Matyas]

Yes , it rained but not before Stock got the third and final shot at the tricky Maple Grove track .Not much 1000' stuff going on today with the exception of the few who always want to be at the bottom .Congrats to Gene Monahan on his #1 position -- I believe his first -- well done ! During the last session the weather was anything but nice--88 degrees -- 40% humidity -- 79.4 grains of water -- 29.23 barometer --.53 vapor pressure -- 3431 DA --just plain ugly and for some reason most teams couldn't get hooked-up well. Sorry I didn't get much on here this afternoon as I was busy with the softball thing-- so little time and so much to do . Anyway Mother Nature won out tonight as the Pro Softball game was a washout totally .The "players" came into the stands about 8:15 for a Q&A session along with pictures and autographs - they tried hard but not as much fun as the game would have been .Good thing our own Bob Frey was there to MC and help pass the time .By the way , more than 7 G's was raised for DRAW tonight -- they should be pleased .

Tommorow morning eliminations begin with Stock being third out -- could also be a washout as rain is predicted...........we'll see .Even now its raining so in the morning if its not they probably won't start on time .

[danielct301]

Good Morning Jack.
Has the fog burned off?
Will eliminations be starting on time today?

[Jack Matyas]

Racers have just started engines and its a beautiful morning here at Maple Grove Raceway with temps in the high 60's at the moment but climbing rapidly as the Sun is shining brite and no clouds showing .Those teams that are still in can't wait to hit the track .

Had plenty of time yesterday to Bar-b-q and just sit around BS-ing -- the biggest topic among stocker guys and gals were the interesting stats regarding first round redlights - out of 42 match-ups there were 21 redlights and 11 lights that were .009 or better including two perfect .000 deals .Needless to say there are alot of first round losers walking around PO'd about this matter .Most thought something didn't smell "right" .I didn't witness it but was told there was an adjustment of the rollout after first round - did it really happen ? Anyone actually see this ?

Since I got put out in RD 2 (.008 red) I'll have plenty of time today for reports ..........Later


PS--Hey Pudgie - you missed some great S/S class action yesterday along with a ton of super eats at night -- ya gotta get out more buddy ! ! !