NORTH CENTRAL DIVISION BURNDOWN AT SUNDOWN - FINAL RESULTS

by Bill Swanson    Mon, 2018-07-16 09:33

 

SUNDAY PHOTO GALLERY 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY PHOTO GALLERY

NORTH CENTRAL DIVISION BURNDOWN AT SUNDOWN SATURDAY NOTEBOOK

At the crack of dawn an unwelcome visitor descended upon Route 66 Raceway. Mid-summer thunderstorms. Coming in waves, three time track crew would make progress, only to be rebuffed by Mother Nature. Eventually she gave up, and the program got underway at 3 PM, albeit in abbreviated form. Most classes would be limited to two rather than the customary three qualifying sessions. 
Super Gas is the province of ultra-sophisticated race cars with fiberglass bodied roadsters seeming to dominate. Yet one area racer showed up with real vintage iron, and Griffith, Indiana’s Dave Wesolowski and his father “Wes” Wesolowski dropped jaws with their steel bodied 1963 Chevy Biscayne. Powered by a 482” W-Block built by the late Lamar Walden and manually shifted by a G Force 5 speed, the 3500 lb. classic would be entered for the first time in open competition. Dave and Wes chased some bugs and ultimately made a Round 1 exit.


 

Chasing points across the country can be rewarding, and extremely challenging. Chris Demke and the Maddern Racing TAD crew were certainly challenged. The Western Region hitter and past National champ missed Q1 on Friday. With one shot at getting in the field, the car failed to fire at the ready line. After, the crew determined that the ignition management system had failed.


 

Is that an altered in Top Dragster? Yes it is! Norwalk, Ohio’s Michael Scheel qualified this blown beast #21 in the Quick 32, but fell to Rob Moser in Round 1 of eliminations on Saturday night.

 

Marina Anderson and her crew of family and friends made a two clean qualifiying runs, and continues to see improvement. Falling a a little short of getting in the Quick 8, Anderson did what any enthusiastic drag racer would do. Helping a fellow competitor that did make the field. Here Marina dives into the bottom end of Brandon Gecco’s blown HEMI.


 

Benjamin Board held onto the top Qualifier position on Saturday afternoon and earned a Big Check for his efforts. In the first round of eliminations that night, Board would advance past Curt Fredrich. 


 

Matt Sackman had the second best run of Q2 on Saturday afternoon, but held on the the Number 1 position, ahead of his Randy Meyer Racing teammate Julie Nataas. The cylder head man on Antron Brown’s DSR/Matco Tools Top Fuel Dragster is learning clutch set-up both from notable mentors at DSR and RMR. Sackman would earn his first round win in TAD on Saturday with a victory over John Paul Guitierrez.

 

The long night ended with the Burndown at Sundown, Route 66 Raceway’s night of fun and fire. Here is Barry Richter and the Hypersonic jet Funny Car getting set to make a sub 300 MPH run.


 

 

 

FRIDAY - PHOTO GALLERY - 

NORTH CENTRAL DIVISION BURNDOWN AT SUNDOWN FRIDAY RESULTS

First day qualifying and time trials are in the books at Route 66 Raceway’s Burndown at Sundown.

In Top Alcohol Dragster, Matt Sackman immediately took Randy Meyer’s A/FD to the top of the sheet with an impressive 5.269 ET at 275.73 MPH. Right behind in Meyer’s other car was Julie Nataas. She ran 5.338 at 282.60, which was top speed of the day.
Kirk Williams was the best in Top Alcohol Funny Car with 5.638 at 258.47 MPH.

The Completion Eliminator field stacked up well with Chad Voges’ .618 under the index leading the way over 15 other competitors.
Rounding out the low qualifiers was Rachelle Thibert in Stock Eliminator, Jason DeForrest in Super Stock, Ryan Smith in Top Dragster, Benjamin Board in Top Sportsman, and Matt Ernst in Pro Stock Snowmobile.

Qualifying resumes on Saturday at 9 AM Central time.

Top Alcohol Dragster
 
1 320X   TA/D Matt Sackman, Channahon IL, Dragster-BAE 5.269  275.73  275.73
  2 8002   A/FD Julie Nataas, Santa Barbara CA, Copelan  5.338  282.60  282.60
  3   35   TA/D Jared Dreher, Clinton IN, McKinney-BAE   5.387  261.57  261.57
  4   11   A/FD Josh Hart, Ocala FL, Page-BAE            5.401  269.62  269.62
  5 1490   B/AD Brandon Greco, Roscoe PA, Monden-BAE     5.416  259.31  259.31
  6   10   B/AD Marty Thacker, Robinson IL, Spitzer-TFX  5.434  265.53  265.53
  7   54   TA/D Christine Chambless, Scott City KS, Spi  5.503  220.69  220.69
  8  303   A/FD John Paul Gutierrez, Berkley MI, Baumga  5.549  257.28  257.28
       ------------ Not Qualified ------------
  9 3928   TA/D Marina Anderson, St. Charles IL, Comp F  5.727  224.77  224.77
 10 330V   A/FD Jerry Powell, Atlanta IN, Canode-BAE     5.774  234.29  234.29
 11    8   A/FD Robin Samsel, Marion IN, MLR-BAE         7.492  131.25  131.25
 12  328   TA/D Dave Kovar, Coal City IL, Uyehara-TFX     DQ   

Top Alcohol Funny Car

 1   52 Kirk Williams, Glenwood IA, '04 Firebird        5.638  258.47  258.47
  2  440 Steve Burck, Corpus Christi TX, '17 Camaro      5.669  260.11  260.11
  3   32 Chris Foster, Davenport IA, '16 Monte Carlo     5.691  256.65  256.65
  4  556 Lance Van Hauen, Reinbeck IA, '18 Camaro        5.766  255.19  255.19
  5   33 Ray Drew, Hales Corners WI, '14 Mustang         5.990  250.00  250.00
  6   16 Tyler Scott, Exeter ON, '17 Camaro              8.887  102.32  102.32
  7   34 Todd Robertson, Harrison Twp. MI, '12 Mustang   9.205   80.19   80.19

Competition Eliminator

1 3996   K/AA Chad Voges, St. Peters MO, '32 Bantam      7.562  8.18  -0.618
  2   10   B/DA Greg Kamplain, Brownsburg IN, '14 Spitzer  6.839  7.41  -0.571
  3 3304   C/AA Jim Primozic Jr., Wickliffe OH, '07 Cobalt 7.372  7.94  -0.568
  4  358   I/AA David Billingsley, Decatur IL, '14 Camaro  8.154  8.72  -0.566
  5 3553   B/DA Tony Pontillo, Kenosha WI, '12 Spitzer     6.855  7.41  -0.555
  6  330    D/D Brian Browell, Lafayette IN, Mr2 Perf-Che  7.286  7.84  -0.554
  7  346   B/SR Mike Farrell, Louisville KY, '34 Chevrolet 7.852  8.40  -0.548
  8 3363   J/DA Ron Bohn, Benton Harbor MI, '14 Spitzer    7.816  8.36  -0.544
  9   34   B/DA Todd Frantz, Louisville KY, '09 Spitzer    6.875  7.41  -0.535
 10 3796   B/AP James Smith, Camargo IL, '09 GXP           7.361  7.87  -0.509
 11 3864    B/D Scott Chamness, Kankakee IL, Spitzer-GM    6.806  7.27  -0.464
 12   37   A/ED Robert Bailey, Wabash IN, Agan-GM          6.800  7.24  -0.440
 13 3354   C/AA Pete Pawlak, Menasha WI, '02 Firebird      7.716  7.94  -0.224
 14    3   B/DA Troy Galbraith, Indianapolis IN, '14 Spit  7.433  7.31   0.123
 15    4    I/D Bruno Massel, Elmhurst IL, Spitzer-Chevy  11.548  7.28   4.268
 16 3068   J/AA Steve Ambrose, Woodhaven MI, '23 Ford     19.472  8.28  11.192

Super Comp, Super Gas, and Super Street saw action in the DRAW/RFC Shootouts Presented by Moser Engineering. 

Super Comp 
502M Marty Brown                          330X Devin Isenhower              
E3   ****WINNER****  0.022  8.899 150.80                     0.034  8.896 173.07
         S/C Index: 8.90 (+/-): -0.001             S/C Index: 8.90 (+/-): -0.004

Super Gas
300K Doug Kroft                           3336 Tom Hack                     
E3   ****WINNER****  0.059  9.919 152.83                    -0.010  9.900 157.39
         S/G Index: 9.90 (+/-):  0.019             S/G Index: 9.90 (+/-):  0.000

Super Street
31 Philip Smida                                              3095 Jerry Spoor                  
E3   ****WINNER****  0.014 10.865 150.18   -0.006 10.850 146.11
        S/ST Index: 10.90 (+/-): -0.035                S/ST Index: 10.90 (+/-): -0.050

 

 

 
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