Outlaw Radial Championships-Saturday

[Chevelle Rob]

It's Saturday morning here at Bradenton for the Outlaw Radial Tire Championships and we are still haveing some very light rain on and off but the crew is drying things up and prepping the track for racing.















The racers are getting ready, warming the cars up and making preparation for todays racing.



There is a front moving through, though it's taking it's time doing so the one thing I can say is that when the weather clears we are going to have some great racing.

Word is the Scranton entry is likely to get the big DQ this morning. I'll have some info about all this from Matt and Jay coming soon.

The cars are getting the call to the lanes right now, Be back later...

[Chevelle Rob]

Round One Drag Radial



Will Stevenson was one of the first pair down in radial with a 4.83.



Team North member Ritchie Stine ran 5.03 @ 143.



Kevin Fiscus runs a 4.99 for his first hit of the day.



David Wolfe takes number one spot with a 4.79 @ 159.



David Hance got loose and did a nice job on the save.



Dave Hinzman shook the tires and had to pedal to a 5.19



Tony Ridenour was lined up againt Stretch from South Florida and got loose just touching the
wall at the top end after doing an awesomejob of avoiding the car in the other lane.



Mel Nelson showed a 4.50 on the boards but he left before the tree was activated and there was some
sort of malfunction and the run was disallowed.

There are 77 cars that made it for first round.

Top ten after round one are..


1.David Wolfe - 4.79
2.Will Stevenson - 4.83
3.Shane Stack - 4.92
4.Scott Bitzer - 4.94
5.Kevin Fiscus - 4.99
6.Steve Jackson - 5.07
7.Ritchie Stine - 5.07
8.Jason Richards - 5.07
9.Al Marlow - 5.11
10.Brian Criste - 5.16

Round one Outlaw 10.5

10.5 has 33 cars for first round.



Mike Stavrinos holds the number one spot in the Speed and Truck World Corvette.



Bryan Markiewicz site at number two.



Jake Carlton hold the third spot for a 1,2,3 for Nelson Competition Inc. horsepower.



Tim Lynch had to lift on his first round pass.

First round top ten in 10.5...

1.Mike Stavrinos - 4.45
2.Bryan Markiewicz - 4.530
3.Jake Carlton - 4.537
4.Conrad Scarry - 4.54
5.Richard Sexton - 4.55
6.Tony Johnson - 4.60
7.Jim Blair - 4.63
8.Dale Collins Jr. - 4.76
9."Wild Man" Jimmy Hall - 4.80
10.Scott Gaudagno - 4.81

[Chevelle Rob]

In the boost vs no boost race it is David Wolfe and Will Stevenson for the boosted side, and Scott Bitzer and Haward Spires for the nitrous boys.



Will Stevenson



David Wolfe

First round saw David Wolfe take the holeshot win over Stevenson, 7.34 to Will's 7.33. Will's time at the 1/8 was 4.77



Scott Bitzer



Howard Spires

Both the nitrous cars had problems with Spires loosing traction and Bitzer popping and banging down the track.

The final is set for Wolfe vs Bitzer, waiting for them to come to the lanes now.

[Chevelle Rob]

Some inclement (rain) weather moved in the final of the boost vs no boost race was canceled.

[Chevelle Rob]

As I reported earlier there were some great saves and crashes today. One involved Dave Hance from New York Motorsports.















Tony Ridenour got loose and did an outstanding job of avoiding the car in the other lane. He did eventually graze the wall at the top end, though not enough to be concered about for racing.
Murphys law strikes again as the car was just repainted. He came back to run a 4.76 @ 162 to take the number one qualifying spot.





In Outlaw 10.5 Mike Stavrinos is looking strong with a 4.407 in round three qualifying, however he was nudged aside by .001 by Richard Sexton from the Mobley camp in the Fulton Powered GTO.

[Chevelle Rob]

Troy Pirez Jr. and the Ali Belford crew pulled an all nighter repairing a bad cylinder. They tore it down to replace a piston and got a replacement valve from Matt at H.P.S. Cylinder Heads in Tarpon Springs.





Ed Feaster had some bad luck breaking several rocker arms pulling out of the trailer Friday. He was hoping to make a hit but since all three rounds of qualifying was finished Saturday that wasn’t to be. He is installing the replacement set that was shipped to the track, to bad you can’t fax this stuff.



See that smoke under the chair ?? Believe it or not those are firecrackers going off and this guy is STILL sleeping. I though for sure I’d get a funny picture with him jumping out of his skin but after three tries we gave up.



Terrance Whalen shredded a ring gear during Qualifying Saturday and they made the repairs to get ready for Sunday eliminations.



Got Sumo ??



Amanda Long takes down BillyBob.



Guess the Coors Light got the best of him.