Live from Maple Grove - NHRA Auto Plus Nationals

[Ken Miele]

Stock and Super Stock have been pushed back. The plan is to run 2 more rounds before the day ends. Jack should be back later with his perspective on todays racing so stay tuned.

Here a few shots of third round of Stock in the lanes. I also found what is supposed to be the 2015 Cobra Jet package.............. only kidding folks, but its a very cool 69 Mustang with a Supercharged mod motor own by Comp racer Erich Bollman.

[Robert McCoy]

Some shots from Thursday`s action at Maple Grove

[Robert McCoy]

A Few more to enjoy

[Jack Matyas]

Another beautiful day here at Maple Grove - it rained a bit during the night but cleared up and by 9:15 the Sun came out and dried everything .

Round two of Stock and S/S were humidity laden .But rounds three ,four and five were a whole different story .Seems it was like racing in the Bermuda Triangle - first it was slow, then for most it picked up .06 to .08 and then for some strange reason it slowed back up almost as fast as it picked up - many were very confused by this .

BTW, the crowds today were better than I've seen at a National event in some time and tomorrow is expected to be a near sellout - get here early if you're plannng on coming .

More in the morning .............

[Jack Matyas]

A few more from the early rounds today ............

[Bernie Cunningham]

Jack, thx.
HUH, go figure, there are pretty girls on the northeast coast too !!

[chris ok]

Getting ready to leave now from Long Island to go. Tough having only Sunday for this to go, but I will enjoy every minute of it.

Chris

[Jack Matyas]

Good morning boys and girls -- talk about a game changer - this morning the fog is thick as pea soup with not a bit of Sun in sight but hopefully will show up very soon .

Todays action will be mostly Pro's until later in the day so I can wander around and get some still shots of the still many nice cars on the property .

BTW, all of the available Safety Safari equipment is on the track and running - everything from sweepers to the Jet .

Did you know ----

Yesterday's race between the Biondo brothers in Stock was the first time they raced each other in 8 years .And just for the record Sal won .

Sal - who is driving for the Cook Brothers this weekend - has averaged .017 lights thru 5 rounds of racing this weekend .

Roger Cook - who we all know isn't quite right - let me drive his prized / awarded winning / race winning Cobra Jet yesterday .What was he thinking ?

Did you notice there was a shortage yesterday in both Stock and S/S of heads up runs ?

Even with the hurry-up of extra rounds in Stock and S/S it went very smooth .

Did anyone notice Mike Letellier BB/SA - until he lost a close one in rd 5 - was driving like a champ ?

More later ..........

[Ken Miele]

I left Jack to finish up, but I did get some interesting photos. The first two are Jack driving a CJ and having dinner with the owners and crew. Could it be Jack is going over to the dark side. I had to block out the faces of the CJ crew, they did not want to be seen with Mr. COPO for obvious reasons.

The last photo is Fletcher and Worner at the stripe, 4th round of Super Stock, with Dan getting the win.

[MEXJOE]

Thanks for all the photos & videos!
That all takes time and can be to get taken care of while at the event!!
Thanks again!