I left NC late Wednesday afternoon with high hopes of an amazing weekend. I’d had trouble with YouTube all week. Waking up Monday morning to an email saying I was being de monetized for posting unoriginal content. I filed my appeal and it was rejected. It’s mighty ironic that I’ve had the same style content for five years on YouTube and then when I have a really big month financially there’s a problem. I’ve just written it off and I’m moving on. It will ultimately be a nice chunk of revenue gone!!! Luckily I have a generous amount of coverage partners to keep us going.
After one of the smoothest trips I’ve ever had going up north on Wednesday I was excited about the event. Thanks to Jim and Cathy Halsey for allowing us to attend and getting us in the gate after hours. Thursday morning we awoke to Chilly weather. Testing was to begin at 1 pm. We had about three good hours of testing before the rain stopped us for the day. I had a fabulous Dinner with the Sorcerer Motorsport Team Thursday night. I had my first Maryland Crab cake.
Friday we awoke to damp and cool conditions that lingered all day long. All racing activities were canceled for the day. I went over to Delaware with the Pilot Racing Team for a late lunch. Lots of laughs and stories were told and everyone enjoyed a fantastic meal at the Iron Horse brewery.
Saturday we awoke to clearing sky’s and a chance to hit the race track. The Cecil county crew started very early in the morning and had the track ready to go at 9 am as advertised. Most classes elected to only have one qualifying run then go straight into eliminations. The ProMod Innovational was trying to run the entire event on Saturday.
After qualifying Kurt Steding was sitting on top of the time charts with a first round bye due to an odd number of cars. (25). The first round was one that would go down as very eventful to say the leads. William Brown III had a violent top end accident as the car got out of the groove and made a quick right turn heading straight into the wall and crossing the race track and hitting the other wall and flipping over. I must tell you this is very hard to film especially when your Live Streaming. After the car came to rest we repositioned the camera until we received notification that William was OK. William and his wife walked all the way up the return road while clean up efforts were underway. That was a true testament of how well these cars are built. After the clean up we were back to racing. In the next pair or two fan favorite Craig Sullivan in his beautiful Mercury had a major engine explosion around the 60 ft cone that resulted in a very damaging fire to the iconic ElMeroMero Mercury. Craig was in not Injured and walked dejectedly up the race track after the episode. Another lengthy clean up was under way. Jim Halsey was instrumental in both of these cleanups and when he was done he hopped in his ProMod and went down the track. I have a new found respect for his work ethic after these two events. The remainder of the first round proceeded on with out further incidents.
The second round ran smoothly around 7 pm getting us down to 6 cars for round three. Unfortunately Mother Nature halted the action again around 8:30 pm. All racing was pushed to Sunday.
Sunday being Mothers Day I elected to pull out early Sunday Morning because I was scared of the weather forecast. They ultimately ran round three of ProMod around 3 pm Sunday then the rain came again and halted the action again til Monday. I made it back to NC in time for a celebration my kids had planned for Mrs NC.
Monday morning there were three ProMods left to battle it out for the $50,000 purse. None of the three wanted to split the money. Derek Ward and Kurt Steding squared off in the semis with Steding winning on a fantastic side by side drag race. I believe it was a 3.58 to a 3.59. Steve King in the Pilot Racing Savage Corvette had the bye run due to being the #2 qualifier.
Finals. Kurt Steding in his Todd Tutterow tuned P2 Contracting Camaro vs Steve King in the Jon Salemi tuned Pilot Racing Savage. The stage was finally set for the $50,000 shootout. Late Monday afternoon.
Kurt Steding got a little two aggressive on the starting line going .013 red handing Steve King the win. King however did run 3.59 in the finals banging the blower going through the finish line. This could have been a heck of a race!!
I believe this was Kings first win in the Gene Pilot owed corvette. Two of my coverage parties squaring off in the finals! 5 of the 6 on Sunday are all involved with NC ProModer in some way or another. WOW. Talk about surrounding yourself with the right people. This just speaks for itself.
It was super hard for me to leave but I felt it was the best decision especially since nhra tv had a free Livestream on YouTube for everyone to see. Our Saturday stream was one of the best ever reaching over 100,000 people on multiple forms of social media. I’m very blessed to attend these events and work extremely hard to provide the best track side coverage possible. I couldn’t do it without the support of all of my coverage partners. I know some of you are complaining about the banners on the LiveStream, but that’s what keeps this train rolling.
I’m most likely gonna take this weekend off. I have to go to One of my sponsors Thursday, Racing Performance Motor-coaches and have a few RV repairs and upgrades done.
Thanks for reading and following along #makingdragracingreater. 
