Event number 13 is in the books. Wow. What a huge weekend of racing with the #redlineoil #pdra series. We arrived early Thursday morning after I decided to work all night Wednesday. Little did I realize this would be a big mistake. After @8 hours of live streaming I just ran out of gas. 😩😩. With Flo racing having started their coverage I shut down before the last pro session that was added. Lesson learned. I’m not as young as I used to be. 🤷🏻♂️
The weather played havoc with the weekend. A three hour delay Friday evening cut a qualifying passes from most classes
Saturday morning we awoke to drizzly skies creating another 3 hour delay getting the show started. The PDRA and VMP staff worked tirelessly to bring the racetrack back several times. Hats off to them for a phenomenal job restoring the racing surface. The Virgina Motorsports Park surface does not like any moisture on it. Thus forcing the team to do lots of scraping and rebuilding of the surface.
The ProBoost class produced a ridiculous bump spot of 3.638. Yes that is 3.63. 3.64 didn’t make the 16 car field 😳. Several high profile teams didn’t make the show after loosing a round of qualifying after troubles in the other two qualifying sessions. Spencer Hyde and Melanie Salemi pair up in the finals. Ohh by the way this was an all Canadian Finals 🇨🇦🇨🇦. Spence Hyde pick up the win after a quick turnaround by both teams to get the finals in before curfew
Pro Nitrous had 13 cars on the Property with Jim Halsey going number one. Jim had a by run first round and ultimately would match up against Tommy Franklin your number 3 qualifier. Daddy Shark Jim Halsey took the win in the finals over a hard charging Franklin.
This was a very well run event by everyone at PDRA and VMP. Everyone was relieved to finish the event Saturday nigh with out going into Sunday which turned out to be a wash out. Congratulations to everyone on a job well done. I’ll see you in Norwalk. I had originally planned to miss this one but one of my sponsors “Smokies Garage” is the title sponsor for the event. So I need to be there!!
We have a big weekend of racing coming up as we make our first trip in 2024 to Maryland International Raceway with the Northeast Outlaw ProMod Association and the J&R Promotions Top Sportsmen team. We are the official Livestream for both series.
We may have a few Videos Thursday. Friday we will begin our event coverage with testing and first round of Pro Mod qualifying
Friday night at 8 pm.
Thanks again to all of the sponsors that allow us to provide everyone free drag racing.