Wednesday, April 26, 2006
ANRA Season Opener Results
Season Opener Winners
NE-1 Winner: Jim Scott
NE-2 Winner: Mitch Maciel
NE-3 Winner: Ron Anzalone
A/G Winner: Phil Herrera
B/G Winner: Jess Tyree
C/G Winner: Jim Stewart
D/G Winner: Jody George
Open Wheel Winner: Larry Glor
Hot Rod Winner: Tom Fidger
Sportsman Winner: Greg Dreher
Saturday April 1st was Mother Nature's April fools joke.
As we were driving through the rain, with the windshield wipers on the fastest speed, we called both the Palmdale information line and Butch Hedrick cell phone to make sure that the race was "really" going to happen. Butch assured us that it was only misting a little at the track so we kept on driving.
Got to the track and after the clouds moved on it turned out to be a beautiful day!!! Too bad that a lot of racers and spectators didn't brave the weather.
Managed to get both the dragster and the Fiat on the track, and had apretty good day with both. Skip ran the quickest run yet with the dragster @ Palmdale (9.15) which equates to an 8.87 @ sea level. Not where we need to be for NE2, but getting closer. Jason got the Fiat down track 2 times after an aborted 1st run fuel leak. Jason managed to card a 9.23 high gear only run and a 8.80 160 mph run after a soft launch in 1st gear and short shifting second gear. Not bad! Since this is our first car with a blown motor...Im sure it is going to take us a while to work our way up the learning curve. Mark even managed to get another license pass with the dragster after Skip was eliminated in the 1st round of NE2.
Special thanks to Larry VanOsten, Dick Mosley, Ed Silberman, Ken Gillispie, and others who have been patiently helping us understand what needs to be done with the blown motor.
Next race will be the Goodguys race @ Pomona May 5, 6 & 7 and then the May 20th ANRA race @ Palmdale.
NE-1 Winner: Jim Scott
NE-2 Winner: Mitch Maciel
NE-3 Winner: Ron Anzalone
A/G Winner: Phil Herrera
B/G Winner: Jess Tyree
C/G Winner: Jim Stewart
D/G Winner: Jody George
Open Wheel Winner: Larry Glor
Hot Rod Winner: Tom Fidger
Sportsman Winner: Greg Dreher
Saturday April 1st was Mother Nature's April fools joke.
As we were driving through the rain, with the windshield wipers on the fastest speed, we called both the Palmdale information line and Butch Hedrick cell phone to make sure that the race was "really" going to happen. Butch assured us that it was only misting a little at the track so we kept on driving.
Got to the track and after the clouds moved on it turned out to be a beautiful day!!! Too bad that a lot of racers and spectators didn't brave the weather.
Managed to get both the dragster and the Fiat on the track, and had apretty good day with both. Skip ran the quickest run yet with the dragster @ Palmdale (9.15) which equates to an 8.87 @ sea level. Not where we need to be for NE2, but getting closer. Jason got the Fiat down track 2 times after an aborted 1st run fuel leak. Jason managed to card a 9.23 high gear only run and a 8.80 160 mph run after a soft launch in 1st gear and short shifting second gear. Not bad! Since this is our first car with a blown motor...Im sure it is going to take us a while to work our way up the learning curve. Mark even managed to get another license pass with the dragster after Skip was eliminated in the 1st round of NE2.
Special thanks to Larry VanOsten, Dick Mosley, Ed Silberman, Ken Gillispie, and others who have been patiently helping us understand what needs to be done with the blown motor.
Next race will be the Goodguys race @ Pomona May 5, 6 & 7 and then the May 20th ANRA race @ Palmdale.
Labels: ANRA Season Opener
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Nostalgia Drag Racing
Horsepower, Speed and Adrenaline are the first things that come to mind when I think of the sport of drag racing.
Drag Racing started back in the early 1950s when guys with fast cars challenged others with fast cars to a race to see whose car was faster. This caught on and people started to manufacture parts and alter stock components on their vehicles to make them go faster than the stock car you could buy off the dealer floor.
As people got more involved in making their cars go faster, the sport evolved. People began to experiment with different air inductions, carburetors and camshaft. Eventually someone took the body off the chassis to make it lighter and a new breed of car was born. C.J. Pappy Hart saw a car at the first legal drag strip in Santa Ana, Ca and called the car a Rail. After that people started showing up with Rails every weekend. This was ultimately the start of what we call a dragster today.
Throughout the 1960s Rails turned into Dragsters. A dragster is a long tubular narrow frame where the driver compartment sits at the back of the car behind the rear end. The driver sits in a hard seat with a roll bar going over your head for protection. Your legs lay over the rear end and your feet rest on the gas and brake pedal. The motor is located in front of the driver and bolted in between the frame rails.
Two opponents would line up side by side and race down a track that was 1320 feet, a quarter of a mile. Both cars take off together and which ever car gets to the finish line first wins.
Drag racing has evolved over the years and has become as big as NASCAR and Indy. Dragsters today are exceeding speeds of 330mph at 4.440 seconds.
Nostalgia drag racing is a recreation of the way it was done in the past. Nostalgia drag racing is based on the way it was back in the day. The engine has to be located in front of the driver like the old days. You are limited to a 410 cubic inch motor. You are limited to one magneto on your motor. You are limited to a 6-71 GMC root style supercharger and you are limited to a 12 inch wide M&H drag slick for traction. I am sure there are a lot of rules that I left out but I think you get the idea. These rules are there to try and make these cars look and perform like they did back in the old days but they are faster, way faster.
The best way to see old nostalgia dragsters, funny cars and fuel altereds is to check out races held by the Goodguys (www.good-guys.com) or the American Nostalgia Racing Association (www.ANRA.com). These two associations put on some of the best nostalgia drag racing events ever seen.
Drag Racing started back in the early 1950s when guys with fast cars challenged others with fast cars to a race to see whose car was faster. This caught on and people started to manufacture parts and alter stock components on their vehicles to make them go faster than the stock car you could buy off the dealer floor.
As people got more involved in making their cars go faster, the sport evolved. People began to experiment with different air inductions, carburetors and camshaft. Eventually someone took the body off the chassis to make it lighter and a new breed of car was born. C.J. Pappy Hart saw a car at the first legal drag strip in Santa Ana, Ca and called the car a Rail. After that people started showing up with Rails every weekend. This was ultimately the start of what we call a dragster today.
Throughout the 1960s Rails turned into Dragsters. A dragster is a long tubular narrow frame where the driver compartment sits at the back of the car behind the rear end. The driver sits in a hard seat with a roll bar going over your head for protection. Your legs lay over the rear end and your feet rest on the gas and brake pedal. The motor is located in front of the driver and bolted in between the frame rails.
Two opponents would line up side by side and race down a track that was 1320 feet, a quarter of a mile. Both cars take off together and which ever car gets to the finish line first wins.
Drag racing has evolved over the years and has become as big as NASCAR and Indy. Dragsters today are exceeding speeds of 330mph at 4.440 seconds.
Nostalgia drag racing is a recreation of the way it was done in the past. Nostalgia drag racing is based on the way it was back in the day. The engine has to be located in front of the driver like the old days. You are limited to a 410 cubic inch motor. You are limited to one magneto on your motor. You are limited to a 6-71 GMC root style supercharger and you are limited to a 12 inch wide M&H drag slick for traction. I am sure there are a lot of rules that I left out but I think you get the idea. These rules are there to try and make these cars look and perform like they did back in the old days but they are faster, way faster.
The best way to see old nostalgia dragsters, funny cars and fuel altereds is to check out races held by the Goodguys (www.good-guys.com) or the American Nostalgia Racing Association (www.ANRA.com). These two associations put on some of the best nostalgia drag racing events ever seen.
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