November FAST Drags & Factory Stock Drag Race!!

[supergonzo]

November 13th

Raceway Park....Englishtown, NJ

Details at www.etownraceway.com

and more details at www.musclecarrace.com
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Now open to ALL muscle Cars 1960-1974
Regardless of weather you qualify for FAST or Factory Stock or not, there is going to be a class for you.
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The day will consists of these separate events:
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US Muscle Drags, which will feature all types of Muscle Cars

US Muscle Drags boast two classes, one for the radial tire crowd and one for slicks "sticky tire" racers, giving the ALL the fans of Detroit's finest muscle cars a place to flex their muscles. The US Muscle Drags classes allow headers and internal engine modifications, just like any other bracket race day. So no matter what type of car you have you will be able to race this day in a class that you will easily fit into
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The FAST DRAGS Class..
Basically look stock and have the allowed internal modifications.
Lots of 11 second factory stock looking cars here.
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The Factory Stock Class..
You are stock, you have small or minor internal and no external modifications. This class is for the way they ran out of the Factory.
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See www.musclecarrace.com for detail on the above 2 classes. For the above 2 classes FAST Drags & Factory Stock:

No Nitrous
ALL 4 Tires should be the around the same size
No Slicks or Drag Radials
No Superchargers
No Turbochargers
No Headers

EVERY Entry gets a TROPHY!!
Rules are now very liberal, and allow most minor infractions, if you have a question about this race email me

[email protected]

[Chevy454]

Hey Marlin...you thinkin' about this? Wonder if the Lombardis know about it?

I've heard rumors of how good the air is at E-town. Hmmm...tempting...

[supergonzo]

Its tough to beat the "AIR" at Raceway Park in November. This is when & where the fastest ET's are usually set anywhere on the east coast during the year.

Typical conditions for this time of year are:

50 degrees and low humidity

[supergonzo]

Went to the Hemmings pure stock race and it rained

[supergonzo]

BTW The NHRA has changed the rules for rollbars, to 11.49 or faster. This is good news for Factory Stock and FAST Racing

[supergonzo]

If you can possibly believe this!!! The weather forecast for tommorrow in NJ could be iffy. I want everyone who is considering coming to this event to call Raceway Park at 1-732-446-7800, as early as possible tommorrow. They have to make a decision on the weather tommorrow morning (same situation as last time).

If the rain stops in the morning or by the morning, raceway park WILL be open, if tommorrow morning it is still raining in the area, RACEWAY PARK and ONLY RACEWAY PARK will make the decision as to cancel the day or not. PLEASE call early tommorrow morning before coming.

As of NOW we are going, if Raceway Park once again, cancels the event,I will not be able to get the word out to everyone, so PLEASE call first. This also applies to all the emails I am now getting asking about a rain date. There is NO rain date this year. we will be called/part of the US Muscle Drags next year, and there are 4 firm dates as of next year.

[supergonzo]

BTW never mind what I previously said about 50 degrees and low humidity....it was a typo!!

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

If it rains again, we'll see ya next year!

[supergonzo]

This years event despite the weather, turned out to be a success!! Most parts of the Northeast were under some form of snow or ice precipation early in the morning, but the skies cleared later in the day, although it was still cold and very windy. 36 degrees, and 20-30 mph side wind gusts!
Raceway Park did their best to try to accomidate all of the racers wishes, and did a good job prepping the track for the event. Inspite of the fact that it was covered in ice early in the morning.

Again inspite of all this......... NEW F.A.S.T class ET amd MPH records were set here this day. This proves again Raceway Park even under less then optimal weather conditions can come through.

The Buick versus Hemi Mopar rivalry is alive and well! Greg Gessler and Dave Dudek once again duked it out with some amazing displays of driving ability and control. These guys are absolute PRO's. The staff at Raceway Park, who in the control rooms were watching the F.A.S.T & F/S classes closely, were commenting that THIS display of driving abilties were among the most impressive they have seen. And this track regularily sees the very top drivers in all of drag racing.

All competitors recieved trophies, and will get a FREE video of the event as soon as we edit it, in the next month. I would like to thank the F.A.S.T competitors who drove countless hours to compete. Among the long distance drivers were.. Tom Cannon with his awesome Challenger, Pat Wendling's incredible 69' Firebird RAIV, and Dave Dudek Jr & Sr. that drove from Michigan get a special Thank You for coming out to support the event.

I also want to thank the 17 Factory Stock attendees that braved the weather, some driving with NO Trailers from CT, where there was 4" of snow.

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Again Thanks guys for coming out. We will have videos ready as soon as we can. Dave Dudek and Greg Gessler will be featured in Raceway Park news, and we are talking about having at least 2 events next year here, and possibly more. The event schedule for next year is being worked out now. I will try to get a US Muscle Drags 2-day event scheduled. This may have a decent chance, since Raceway Park considers this event to be a success. A bigger success than they had thought possible, under the threatning weather predictions.

I will have Race Results, updated pictures and videos uploaded on the site as I get them. Also thanks to Mike Kamm for also coming out and helping with the video taping of the event. With his and others also taping the event, we have several video camera angles and should have some good material to post soon.

[supergonzo]

Updated pictures of this event Here:

www.USMUSCLEDRAGS.COM