"Live" from Topeka D5 National Open #1

[Mike Voth]

[Mike Voth]

[Mike Voth]

[Mike Voth]

Originally Posted by Tom Meyer

Looks like they forgot to update the new GT index's. Tom

You noticed that, huh? I had the tower change ours, but not many others were updated. No pairings first round.

[Mike Voth]

Saturday results:

SST Randy Davin def Garrett Chitty
SG Keith Kuehn def Rob Rowan
SC Heremy Demers def Austin Sharp
Stk/SS Tyler Wudariczyk def Tim Nicholson

[Mike Voth]

[Mike Voth]

[Sean Marconette]

It was good to see everyone this weekend. The weather was great. Unfortunately in our first round today we had Jim Voth and Larry Henderson as one pair and myself and Trista Fenner as another pair, all stick cars. Larry and Trista moved on and congratulations to both. There were several issues with car classification so the qualifying sheet and ladder had an error at the last minute as we paired up.

For those that have not been to HPT since the end of last season, they are really working on getting things fixed up. Its a nice place and very racer friendly. We were also fortunate to have Mr Bob Unkefer announcing!

Thanks for all the pictures and updates Mike. See you guys at Great Bend.

Sean

[Randall Klein]

Just got home from watching at Heartland Park, impressed with facility, lots of pavement patching done & equipment to do more on site, grass mowed, restroom super clean, tech barn looks new, everything spruced up
Souvenir shop & main concession receiving faux stone facade, road course newly paved, staff in matching tops and looked like new people, very friendly
Motorcross course adv practice this coming Wednesday, so HPT seems ready to carry on despite rumors of demise

[Mike Voth]

Originally Posted by Sean Marconette

It was good to see everyone this weekend. The weather was great. Unfortunately in our first round today we had Jim Voth and Larry Henderson as one pair and myself and Trista Fenner as another pair, all stick cars. Larry and Trista moved on and congratulations to both. There were several issues with car classification so the qualifying sheet and ladder had an error at the last minute as we paired up.

For those that have not been to HPT since the end of last season, they are really working on getting things fixed up. Its a nice place and very racer friendly. We were also fortunate to have Mr Bob Unkefer announcing!

Thanks for all the pictures and updates Mike. See you guys at Great Bend.

Sean

Holy crap! What an awesome weekend for some spectacular drag racing! Couldn't think of a better way to kick off the Division 5 season! We were fortunate to get by Derrick Fenner first round Saturday, but suffered a different fate against Duane Dickens on Sunday. Talking to Duane in the staging lanes, he referred to D5 as the hotbed for stick shift car, and he is right! We love how many show up each race in Stock and Suoer Stock! It makes for some very exciting racing! Whether it be Tim Nicholson with his screaming 283 or Mark Jenkins's 327 singing at 9600...you just can't beat that!!

Had a great time catching up with you, Sean! We'll see you at Great Bend, where I'll bet we'll see some more stick shift battles!

Thanks to everyone who came up to dad to shake is hand and do some catching up. I think it was very apparent how blessed he feels to be able to enjoy the hobby he's enjoyed for now his 50th season of NHRA drag racing, once again.

We'll see you all at the track!