2009

NHRA HOT ROD REUNION

Oct 16^th 17^th and 18^th 2009

To all members and those who should be,

As always we had another exciting race and a great way to end the 2009 racing season. The event is always well organized and everything ran pretty much on schedule. The AA/GAS class represented themselves in fine fashion with 8 cars in attendance with an additional 5 non-members. Considering the economy not a bad turnout plus the number of spectators was more than I had anticipated.

During the event a number of exciting things occurred.

The first and most important was that the Renteria Bros (and dad) were crowned Heritage Champions and Association Champions. Congratulations to the family and their entire crew.

We had Cecil Mathews re-introduce his 55 T-Bird with Jirka’s power plant and he ran his best ever ET going 6.62, Unfortunately on his next run some overflow fuel got on his right tire and snapped him into the wall. Current plans call for Cecil to repair the car for a return in 2010.

Max Abbey made his driving debut, replacing his dad in the Goshgarian/Abbey Corvette. We look forward to Max doing as good a job as pop.

Chuck Moore, running a new blower set up from Les Davenport had low ET and top speed for the event going 6.52 at 214.98. He was unable to back it up as he broke the blower belt during the 1^st round.

Eliminations:

Rich Roberts and Howard Anderson, the number 6 and 8 qualifiers respectfully, squared off in the final that didn’t take place until 7:00 p.m. due to breakage and oil downs.

In Round 1 Howard prevailed over Chuck Moore with a 6.76 sec e.t. at 205.62 mph when Chuck broke his blower belt,

Rich put away Mike Leonard with a hole shot and a 6.82 sec e.t. and a 202.79 trap speed.

Round 2 saw Howard get a single when Sean Renteria had a crank trigger go bad and the car wouldn’t start.

Rich got around Rob Moore and the “Batmobile” with a 6.77 e.t. which was his quickest time of the event.

After the second round Howard found out that he had broken his headers and he was scrambling to get them fixed or replaced.

To his credit Rich waited until Howard got them repaired rather than take a single for the win. While all this was going on the track had cooled significantly and the race turned out to be a peddle-fest. Rich left first and was on his way to a win when the car got loose in second gear and way out of shape. In the other lane Howard was having traction problems but he was able to recover and go around Rich for the win with a sub par 7.17 e.t

The Pay-out for the race will include an extra $200 for Rich from Jim Burns’ company plus we had some non-members in eliminations so those dollars will be shared among the Assoc members. Works out to be $60 each.

Rich Roberts- $460 Rob Moore-$160 Sean Renteria- $160

Chuck Moore- $110 Cecil Matthews-$110 Mike Leonard- $110

Frank Martin. 925-516-4062

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