Racing underway at Mopar Rocky Mountain Nationals
Nemeth, Tebb top Funny Car classes Friday at Castrol Raceway
EDMONTON, Alberta (July 5, 2013)
– For the nearly dozen different classes and for the hundreds of pro
and sportsman drivers on hand for the International Hot Rod
Association's premier Mopar Rocky Mountain Nitro Jam Nationals presented
by Good Vibrations Motorsports at Castrol Raceway, Friday was a good
tune-up for the big show on Saturday and Sunday.
Tim Nemeth
All
of the classes with the exception of Top Fuel got a hit at the track on
Friday with the AMSOIL Prostalgia Nitro Funny Car class and local racer
Tim Nemeth headlining opening night. Chilliwack, British Columbia's
Nemeth set a track record in the nostalgia Funny Car class even while
pedaling his '77 Firebird, rocketing to the top of the charts with a
5.752 second run at 231.91 miles per hour.
Hometown
boy Nathan Sitko was second on the charts, some five tenths off of
Nemeth. Mike Halstead was third, followed by three-time Rocky Mountain
Nationals winner Tim Boychuk and Paul Romine.
In
the weekend's other Funny Car class Edmonton native Cal Tebb topped the
Rocky Mountain Nostalgia Funny Car class in his beautiful '69 GTO,
running a two-pass best of 6.995, 184.88 in the unique 6.99 index
class. Jim Fersch was second with a 7.009, followed by Troy Sitko, David
Brant and Cory Kincaid.
Cal Tebb
Two
additional nitro classes kicked off the Rocky Mountain Nationals on
Friday with Ben Ground topping the Nitro Harley class with a 6.702,
200.50, while Ron Hope in the "Rat Trap" topped the Nostalgia Fuel
Altered's with a 6.965, 174.17.
Friday's show also included exhibition passes in Alcohol Funny Car and Top Alcohol Dragster plus wheelstanders, jets and more.
