Twelve-time NHRA National Champion Frank Manzo and Mike Kosky grabbed
the top spots for this weekend’s NHRA Northeast Division Lucas Oil Drag
Racing Series event at Maple Grove Raceway.
Manzo put his Lucas Oil sponsored ’08 Monte Carlo in the No. 1
qualifying position of the Top Alcohol Funny Car field running 5.568
seconds at 258.81 mph. The Morganville, N.J., racer, who picked up his
100th NHRA divisional win last weekend in Norwalk, Ohio, is followed by
Olympic gold medalist Marty Nothstein. Nothstein, who was born in
Allentown, Pa., and now calls Orefield, Pa., home, clocked in at 5.649,
255.82 mph, good enough for the No. 2 position in funny car.
Kosky of Cuddy, Pa., covered the quarter mile in 5.441 seconds, 263.77
mph in his Top Alcohol Dragster for the top spot. Bill Evan, Miramar,
Fla., is right on Kosky’s heels running 5.449 seconds at 262.39 mph and
John Finke, Selkirk, N.Y., sits in the No. 3 spot at 5.453, 262.39.