Dunn Tire Raceway Park, Clarence, NY
Friday, August 26th, 2011
This is the third year for this event. The previous years the event had been ran the Friday of Fourth Of July weekend, but this year they moved the event to the end of August.
We were to bring 8 cars to this show but due to an error on the GLNFCC director's part we only had seven cars for the show. But they all vowed to put on a great show to make up for the missing car.
It was a nice late August night with clear skies and temps in the mid seventies First pair out was the Rat Poison Corvette driven by Greg Mauchmer taking on the Total Insanity Monza driven by Chris Massarella. Both cars came out with great burnouts. Krista Massarella was backing up her husband looking a lot like Jungle Pam. Krista was recently crowned Best Back Up Girl at the Funny Car Reunion held at Englishtown N.J. and the Funny Car Nationals held at Marion County International Raceway in LaRue, Oh. The Monza was out first and held on for the win.
Next up the Dazed & Confused 69 Camaro driven by Jerry Streb was taking on the Visionary Cuda driven by Scott Hohensee, this is Scott's home track. It seemed like both drivers were trying to break in a new set of slicks because they had so much smoke in the air you couldn't see the other side of the track. During the burnout the Cuda got a little sideways and came real close to the concrete wall. The Camaro was out first but the Cuda tried real hard to run the Camaro down but ran out of track.
Next up was Robb Bundy's Shellshock 72 Vega taking on Lance Good's Omni. Lance's throttle stuck on the burnout and he just drove the car down the track giving the Vega an easy win.
Last up was the Old & Fuelish Corvette driven by John DeCort. John made the spectators forget he was making a single as he did a full track smoky burnout and clicked the timers with a 4.95.
Second round was under the lights and the dew had moved in real heavy. Several of the teams had a challenge keeping their windshield clear.
First up was Sharky's Machine Omni. Lance did a long burnout and then for some reason changed lanes and backed up in the opposite lane that he started in. I'm sure this was to wow the crowd. The car did not stick in the fresh lane so Lance was on and off of the throttle the whole way down the track.
Next pair up was the Visionary Cuda and the Rat Poison Corvette. The Cuda had problems staging and never lit the bulbs. The Corvette staged and took the win.
Next Pair was the Old & Fuelish Corvette taking on the Shellshock Vega. Both cars did strong burnouts with the Corvette again doing an almost full track burnout. The Corvette took off first and turned on the win light with a 4.68/147.
Last pair was the two fastest from the first round. The Dazed & Confused Camaro with a 4.73 taking on the Total Insanity Monza with a 4.77. After the fire up the Monza had some issues with the dew on the windshield but that seem to go away once the body got a little heat on it. Both cars did half-track smoky burnouts. Both cars also did a few dry hops as they staged. The Monza was out first winning the Good Vibrations Motorsports Reaction Time Award with a .494 light. The Monza gave up a fight but the Camaro took the win for the night with a 4.62/148 to a losing 4.73/143.
Bill Leverentz Of Oddy's Performance put up an impromptu burnout contest. He awarded the $100.00 cash prize to Jerry Streb with the Dazed & Confused Camaro. We want to thank Bill for this spur of the moment incentive.
This was a Fan Choice Award event and there was a tie, giving the award to the Old & Fuelish Corvette and the Total Insanity Monza. This award is presented by Good Vibrations Motorsports.
As always we want to thank Good Vibrations Motorsports, Mickey Thompson Performance Tires & Wheels, Herculiner, Peak Automotive Products and Pace Performance for supporting The GLNFCC.
Thank you to the track personnel at Dunn Tire Raceway Park for allowing us to bring our traveling funny car show to their track and giving us a safe place to race.
Next event is The Olympics of Drag Racing at Great Lakes Dragaway in Union Grove, WI. on Sept. 3rd. & 4th. Hope to see ya there. |
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