Hello again, wanted to send out another quick update. It’s been a long month of waiting on parts to trickle in, but we got the last few pieces we were waiting on towards the end of last week. Got everything back together on the car and made it back out to the track Sunday to test out the new suspension, Weld wheels, and new M/T tires.
The track we ran the car at was mediocre at best, its a small local track, Mason Dixon dragway. It’s known to be a few tenths slower than some other tracks, and sits around 650ft above sea level. Temps outside were in the mid 90’s with high humidity. All of that aside, after a few initial passes just feeling out the suspension, we made 2 full passes, both of which were new bests for the car.
First full pass:
60ft – 1.44
1/8mi – 6.015 @ 121.18mph
1/4mi – 9.246 @ 151.36mph
Second full pass:
60ft – 1.42
1/8mi – 5.911 @ 119.70
1/4mi – 9.177 @ 150.23
Tires only spun slightly on the last pass, got the tires a little too hot. Rear view video of the pass from the gopro can be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiSiBg8ZQao – we didnt take any pictures as this was just a quick test day. More videos posted from other people can be seen at
Indycar Nascar- Kentucky Speedway NHRA This past weekend we were suppose to travel to Moler Raceway down by Cincinnati Ohio for out first visit, but mother nature dumped over an inch of rain on Thursday night and with continued rain on Friday morning canceling another one of our races, mother nature has been a bear this year. We were in the first heat and drove away from everyone and won by a straightaway. That got us qualified for the feature, and with the inversion draw we would start 9th in the feature. The feature went non stop and we finished 13th, not what we were expecting as fast as we were, we mounted 2 new tires for the feature and our left rear grew 2″ from where we started and that did not help handling of the race car at all! DIESEL ONLY – 3RD ANNUAL A&A DIESEL EAST COAST NATIONALS JULY 15 Quaker Steak & Lube, Bloomsburg, PA July 16 – A&A/NADM Diesel East Coast Nationals Hot on the heels of their season-best top six finish on the longest track of the series, Subaru Road Racing Team co-drivers Andrew Aquilante and Bret Spaude now face one of their season’s most-compact circuits in their race this Saturday at Laguna Seca Raceway near Monterey, Calif. Andrew Aquilante returned to the cockpit after a two-race absence. He relieved Spaude behind the wheel one-hour and six minutes into the race, in sixth place, temporarily picked up one position for laps 27- 35, settled into a safe run to the checkered flags while those around crashed with abandon. World of Outlaws- Boot Hill Showdown- Dodge City Raceway Park- Jason SIdes Nascar- Thunder in Muncie 2001-2011 Back to the beginning – Lion’s Club Park, Gaston IN 2001-2011! What a Saturday night in Gaston Indiana for Diesel Motorsports, sponsored by PureDieselPower.com! This sled pulling event was held in honor of where it all began 10 years ago. Gene Mohney and Eric McBride who orchestrated and held the first event was there to tell the story. Originally held as a TDR club event along with letting outside diesel trucks in to sled pull on the local fairground. A fairground that has been in the small farming community since 1935, you could tell by the giant trees shading the fairgrounds. Yes many of the locals still remember the original event and a few stated they still had the original Thunder in Muncie t-shirt. They told me the trucks were quite different then and the newer trucks put on much more of a show of power going down the track. Many of the local shops came with trucks representing their abilities and those who were here in the beginning; Dave’s Diesel, Haisley Diesel, Wade Wright’s Garage, and many more. A very nice beginning to bringing back a legendary event, yes we will be back next year! Marstons Mills, MA – June 28, 2011- At the NHRA Summit Racing Equipment Nationals in Norwalk, Ohio, Jay Blake’s Permatex/Follow A Dream team reached its first national event final of the season. Driver Todd Veney ran three consecutive 5.67s in the preliminary rounds of eliminations and a 5.69 in the final against second-generation driver Fred Hagen Jr., who got the win with a 5.57. “It was another solid weekend for our team,” Blake said. “Everybody worked well together to overcome a few obstacles, and it was great to be back in the final round at a national event.” With the runner-up finish, Veney moved back into seventh place in the national Top Alcohol Funny Car standings. Veney got around old rival John Anderika in the first round of eliminations, Canadian Paul Noakes in the quarterfinals, and, in the semifinals, John Bojec, settling a score from a close loss to Bojec in the Charlotte semifinals earlier this season. “It was disappointing to get to a final and not win it, but we did well to make it that far,” he said. “This was the first of three races in a row, and I’m really looking forward to heading back to Lebanon Valley this weekend.” Last year, the Permatex/Follow A Dream team won the Lebanon Valley, N.Y., Lucas Oil Series race with low e.t. of all three rounds of eliminations. Following that event, Blake and the team will turn right back around to head west to Chicago for the JEGS Allstars race and the Route 66 Nationals. Aquilante, Spaude 6th in Road America GRAND-AM race Andrew Aquilante returned to the cockpit after a two-race absence. He relieved Spaude behind the wheel one-hour and six minutes into the race, in sixth place, temporarily picked up one position for laps 27- 35, settled into a safe run to the checkered flags while those around crashed with abandon. NHRA Indy Car APBA Hi-Points June 24 01520 – GRAND PRIX Press Release for Immediate use: The original “Thunder in Muncie” is back after a 2 year leave of absence. Diesel Motorsports started here in 2002 when this was the first organized diesel pickup truck event in the US. Sled pulling was held at the Lion’s Club Park in Gaston Indiana, where this year’s sled pull will be held. Gates open at 3pm with pulling starting at 7pm. Bring your grills, coolers, spend time in Vendor Alley and watch some great sled pulling by local trucks from the 3 state area. Over $7,000 in cash purses with over $3000 in prizes for NADM classes of ; WorkStock, 2.6, 3.0, Super Street and Semis. A $1300 programmer will be given away to the winner of the WorkStock class. Presented by Pure Diesel Power.com. This past weekend we raced at Limaland Motorsports Park on Friday night and again another 30 plus sprint cars on hand again. It was nice all day and then we thought Mother Nature was going to win again as the skies got dark and we had a few sprinkles, but in the end we got the race in. We lined up in the 6 position in the 4th and final heat race and finished in the 3rd position and as it was hard to pass and was pretty much follow the leader. With the inversion of a 12 and that put us starting in the 12 position on very dry and super slick race track, so we had our work cut out for us for the feature. Next race is july 1st at Limaland Motorsports Park on Friday night and July 3rd at Millstream Speedway on Sunday night. The team just returned from our NHRA National in Bristol late yesterday afternoon. Shortly before we were to leave, the person who had committed to be a part of our team as crew for the 2011 season……quit. Just didn’t show up at shop and we don’t feel he was going to tell us either. L! Over in Super Comp….well…I made it two rounds on Saturday (J!) before the plug was pulled on 3rd round Saturday night. The extensive rain delay on Sunday caused us to have to wait to run 3rd round until after 6:30p! L Crew Chief Pro was telling me two different extremes depending on what run I used as a base to get stop numbers. L! Ahhhhhhhhhh! I just wanted to make sure I could get there, so I guess I went off the wrong pass. I had a small 8 thou advantage off the line and while I knocked off about 17 mph (and nearly 5 hundredths after studying the pass)…I broke out — 8.889 and took way too much stripe. Flat messed up…and I just don’t dial my car to run that fast and was a little TOO worried about his MPH being so much higher than mine. All I can say is shame on me….and move on! lol The World of Outlaws Series competed on Friday and Saturday night at Grand Forks, ND. Joey, Paul and Cody posted top-10 finishes on Saturday night. -Paul McMahan, driver of the #83 HR Cattle/Roth Motorsports Maxim On Friday night, McMahan qualified sixth, finished fourth in his heat and 10th in the A main. McMahan qualified 13th on Saturday night, finished first in his heat, ninth in the dash and fought his way to a sixth-place finish in the A Main. He is currently seventh in the point standings. -Joey Saldana, driver of the #9 Red Bull/Sage Fruit/ASE Maxim Saldana qualified 11th on Friday night, won his heat and finished second in the dash. In the A main, Saldana posted a fifth-place finish. On Saturday, Saldana qualified 11th, won his heat and finished eighth in the dash. He finished fourth in the A main, posting his 13th top-five of the 2011 season. He is currently second in points, 10 markers behind Donny Schatz. -Cody Darrah, driver of the #91 Great Clips/Sage Fruit/ASE Maxim Trouble found Darrah on Friday night. After qualifying fourth and finishing fourth in his heat, engine trouble in the A main would relegate Darrah to a 20th-place finish. On Saturday night, Darrah qualified second in the #91 Great Clips Maxim, finished fourth in his heat and sixth in the dash. He finished 10th in the A main and posted his 11th top-10 of the 2011 season. He is currently eighth in the point standings. -Brad Sweet, driver of the #49 Ollie’s Bargain Outlet/Sage Fruit Maxim Brad Sweet has been racing at Ohio Speedweeks. On Friday night at Attica Raceway Park, Sweet finished 15th. On Saturday night at KC Raceway Sweet finished 17th. Rain has plagued most of Speedweeks. Sweet hopes to race at Sharon Speedway tonight. Jay Blake’s Permatex/Follow A Dream team heads to Summit Raceway Park in Norwalk, Ohio this weekend for the Summit Racing Equipment Nationals, the first event in a back-to-back-to-back stretch of races that kicks off the second half of the season. “It’s a home track for me and one of my favorite races of the season,” said driver Todd Veney, who reached the semifinals of this race last year before being knocked out by an ignition glitch. “We ran pretty good at Norwalk last year, and it really got us started on a great second half of our season.” “We’ll be on the road for three straight weeks,” said Blake, the team owner and crew chief, who, with Eddie Parker driving the rig, will head straight from Ohio to a Lucas Oil Series Divisional event Lebanon Valley, N.Y., where last year the team won, and from there back to Route 66 Raceway just outside Chicago for the Route 66 Nationals and the JEGS Allstars race. “These back-to-back-to-back races take a lot of dedication from the crew, but racing so much in such a short period of time is a great way for all of us to stay in the groove.” After a solid 4th place finish at Red Bud, Ross Hoek and the Allstar Performance, Venom Energy sponsored PRO-Light Ford Ranger were prepared to battle to the podium in Crandon. The veteran off-road racer has logged hundreds of laps in his career at the track known as the “Big House” so experience was definitely on his side. As the GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Series starts its run to the season’s end with race seven of 10 Friday on the sprawling Road America circuit near Elkhart Lake, Wis., the Subaru Road Racing Team is banking on the improvements it has recently shown, and is looking forward to its first visit to the track. “We have worked with Grand Am and as a team to extract all the performance we can from what is a top-shelf performance car to begin with,” said Joe Aquilante, owner of Phoenix Performance Inc., in Phoenixville, Pa., where the SRRT cars are race-prepared.Race Results Week Ending July 10, 2011
Honda Indy Toronto- Dario Franchitti
F1
Grand Prix Britain- Fernando Alonso
Camping World Truck Series- UNOH 225- Kyle Busch
Nationwide Series- Feed the Children 300- Brad Keselowski
Sprint Cup- Quaker State 400- Kyle Busch
Top Fuel — Del Worsham
Funny Car — Mike Neff
Pro Stock — Greg Anderson
Pro Stock Motorcycle — LE Tonglet
Top Alcohol Dragster — Bill Reichert
Top Alcohol Funny Car — Tony Bartone
Competition Eliminator — David Rampy
Super Stock — Michael Mans
Stock Eliminator — Slate Cummings
Super Comp — Kevin Kleineweber
Super Gas — Jimmy Lewis
Super Street — Scotty RienschieldTim Allison Update
Saturday night we were off to K-C Raceway for our first visit and we did get the race in as the weather was great. We had another great field of cars and we were able to qualify at this track and were fast in hot laps and changed a gear to qualify. That hurt us and we qualified 11th overall.
This coming weekend is the Super bowl of sprint car racing and one to see as we are at Tony Stewarts famous Eldora Speedway for the annual Kings Royal weekend!NADM July Happenings
A&A/NADM Diesel Truck Night – 7pm
Best Show Truck, Best Show Truck Girl!
Prizes, Free Tickets Give-Aways
Numidia Dragway, minutes outside of Bloomsburg PA
Gates Open 8am, Drag racing starts 9am, Pulling starts 1pm
Dyno open all day, Vendor Alley open all day
A&A Automotive Store’s Wholesale tent where over 50 vendors will sell Diesel Truck Performance parts and Truck accessories at wholesale event pricing!Subaru Road Racing Team Looking for Gold in California
Their challenge this Friday in the Phoenix Performance-prepared Subaru Impreza WRX STI is a 2.238-mile layout with a long, fast uphill climb to the Laguna’s world-famous Corkscrew turn, then a mega-horsepower, winding “bobsled run” downhill to the start-finish line, and do it all over again for 2.5 hours.
Aquilante, Chester Springs, Pa., and Spaude, Bushnell, Fla., are coming off their season’s-best sixth place in the GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Series on the long, wide-open circuit comprising 4.048 miles which is the Road America layout in Wisconsin.
The Subaru Road Racing Team (SRRT) prepares and races a 2011 Subaru Impreza WRX STI 4-door model in the series for Subaru of America, Inc.
“Laguna Seca is very much like Lime Rock Park in Connecticut, in terms of its geographical features, except its length is a mile longer,” noted Joe Aquilante, owner of Phoenix Performance Inc., in Phoenixville, Pa., where the SRRT cars are race-prepared.
“Our Subaru Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive System should help AJ and Bret get the tires just that much quicker than some of our competitors, and fractions add up over two and a half hours of racing,” he added.
James Han, motorsports marketing manager for Subaru of America, Inc., noted, “After a solid result at a race course which emphasizes horsepower and top end speed, I’m looking forward to seeing how well we perform at a distinctly different track like Laguna Seca.”Race Results Week Ending July 03, 2011
Nationwide Series- Subway Jalapeno 250- Joey Logano
Sprint Cup- Coke Zero 400- David RaganThunder In Muncie
Permatex/Follow A Dream Team Reaches Finals
Season’s Best Finish for Subaru Road Racing Team
While an extraordinary number of their competitors made high-risk moves and paid a price for impatience, Subaru Road Racing Team co-drivers Andrew Aquilante and Bret Spaude raced their Subaru Impreza WRX STi with the checkered flag as their goal, and reaped their reward.
Aquilante, Chester Springs, Pa., and Spaude, Bushnell, Fla., finished the team’s season’s best sixth place in the two-hour, 30-minute GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Series on the venerable 4.048 mile Road America circuit near Elkhart Lake, Wis.
The Subaru Road Racing Team (SRRT) prepares and races a 2011 Subaru Impreza WRX STI 4-door model in the series for Subaru of America, Inc.
“We worked all the full-course caution situations correctly, timed our one pit stop correctly, and got consistent race laps from Brett and AJ,” said Joe Aquilante, owner of Phoenix Performance Inc., in Phoenixville, Pa., where the SRRT cars are race-prepared.
“This was a very good result for the STI on a long horsepower track. Both Bret and Andrew kept the car in the Top ten the entire race and the car ran flawlessly. We are starting to see the results of the development effort and are looking forward to the last three races of the year!”
Added James Han, motorsports marketing manager for Subaru of America, Inc., “I’m very pleased with our team’s result at Road America.” “After a top 5 qualifying spot, both our WRX STI race car and the team performed well to secure such an encouraging result on a track which emphasizes power and torque. SRRT is looking forward to taking this momentum forward into the Laguna Seca round of the series.”Race Winners Week Ending 6/26/11
Top Fuel Del Worsham (Al-Anabi Dragster)
Funny Car Mike Neff (Ford Drive One Mustang)
Pro Stock Vincent Nobile (Mountainview Tire Avenger)
Pro Stock Motorcycle Eddie Krawiec (Screamin’ Eagle/Vance & Hines)
Pro Mod Mike Castellana (Al-Anabi ’69 Camaro)
Top Alcohol Dragster Marty Thacker (Rapid Transit B/AD)
Top Alcohol Funny Car Fred Hagen (Dark Horse Mustang)
Comp Eliminator David Rampy
Super Stock Bob Marshall
Stock Edmond Richardson
Super Comp Nick Folk
Super Gas Mark Horton
Top Sportsman Ryan Ondrejko
Top Dragster Troy Stone
NASCAR
Sprint Cup Infineon Raceway Toyota/Savemart 350 Kurt Busch
Nationwide Series Road America Bucyrus 200 Reed Sorenson
Iowa Corn Indy 250- Marco AndrettiNice Work From Jerry Hopp
Rank Boat # Name City,State Races Total Points
1 15 JERRY HOPP [SNOHOMISH, WA] 3 370
2 12 BOB SCHELLHASE [RENTON, WA] 2 365
3 329 DAVID WARREN [LAKE STEVENS, WA] 2 345
4 17 RICK BRIDGEMAN [OLYMPIA, WA] 2 300
5 99 LARRY GARCIA [SNOHOMISH, WA] 2 170
6 19 TOM ECKENBERG [EVERETT, WA] 3 120PRO DIesel World Record Set!
June 15, 2011
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DIESEL MOTORSPORTS
WWW.DIESELMOTORSPORTS.US
NEW RECORD SET:
Pro Diesel World Record set in the 1/8th Mile at National Trails Raceway!
A new record was set on June 4 at the National Trails Raceway in Hebron Ohio by Wade Moody’s S-10 Pro Diesel truck running 5.20 in the 1/8th mile, 125 mph, backed up by a 5.13, 126 mph.
Running clean with a no smoke Duramax, and Wade has set quite the accomplishment for such a young driver. We congratulate Wade Moody with his new record!
Moody’s truck is sponsored in part by Industrial Injection, AirWerks, PPE, Flo-Pro Performance Exhaust, Hughes Performance, Mickey Thompson, K&N, Lucas Oil and DIESEL Motorsports.US!
National Association of Diesel Motorsports is the only sanctioning body for Diesel Motorsports in the US holding over 12 National events along with 50 plus affiliate events Nationwide.
Congratulations on the runs!
Check out the run on the video below!
http://www.youtube.com/user/str8tq#p/a/u/2/Yfxa7rH1xWI Thunder In Muncie
Tim Allison Update
The feature went non-stop all the way till lap 18 for a spin and the whole race nobody really did much passing as it was pretty much get in line and follow the leader. We ended up finishing 14th in the end. Not what we expected, but we had a right rear tire going down and came in with only 3lbs of air and that hurt us some. Kathy Fisher Reports In
Thanks to a whole lot of folks pitching in when they could, from friends who were there racing (some just there to watch) to neighbors at the track we just met…we were able to get done what we needed to…when we needed to. (gotta love drag racers…..a bunch of awesome folks!) They ran Super Comp and Top Dragster back to back….it was crazy.
We had terrible tire shake again first pass in the TD. Made some changes and got rid of most of it for the 2nd Q…but Kevin had to get out of it down track. After the 2nd session, we were just 8 thou shy of making the field. And thanks to rain…TD lost its 3rd Q session. We were #33 and lucky for us, were able to get in as the only alternate.
Not really knowing what we would run…we put a dial on it and went for it! Kevin did have the guy by a hundredth on the tree but just couldn’t quite run what we thought. Car, however (after a few more changes)….no tire shake….really nice launch! It was great that we were at least able to make another hit and got some pretty good results to take with us to Norwalk!
I was still pretty pleased with going farther at an NHRA National than I ever have before! Looking very much forward to building on that this week!
Cory Kruseman Update
Kasey Kahne Racing Grand Forks Recap
Permatex/Follow A Dream Team Heads to Norwalk For the First of Three in a Row
Ross Hoek Earns a 4th
Friday afternoon saw blue skies and warm temperatures for the practice and qualifying session. Unfortunately, the team saw the #21 Ford Ranger experience a minor mechanical problem before practice. With no time to spare the team skipped practice to repair the truck for qualifying. With no practice on the famed track Ross ran some conservative laps qualifying 11th “Starting eleventh in Crandon’s land rush start doesn’t penalize you as much as starting six rows back in a typical two wide rolling start,” explained Ross Hoek.
The third round of Pro light racing in the 2011 Traxxas TORC Series saw perfect weather conditions as the 1.25 mile “Big House” track was in the best shape that anyone could remember. Ross has “won” the hole shot at Crandon many times in his career but today he was not a contender as the Green flag flew. With many new trucks and rookie drivers Ross quickly darted behind the pack to the safest spot along the inside wall where Ross watched the carnage unfold in front of him. Nearing the exit to the first turn the entire track was blocked by a mass of trucks, Ross jammed the brakes before entering the pile up then a gap opened and Ross breezed through with only minor body damage. The multi truck wreck stopped the race and created a complete restart. This incident took several minutes to untangle, but amazingly 14 of the 15 trucks made it back for the green flag.
On the restart, the BFGoodrich Tires brought the #21 Ford right through much of the field and into fifth place; within a lap or 2 Ross was running third and making rapid advances on the 2nd place truck of Lovell. The top three trucks, Caddell, Lovell, and Hoek, held their positions all the way to the half way mandatory yellow at lap five.
When green flag racing resumed, Ross saw Shawn Morris attempting a pass on the inside. Not wanting to risk contact with the less experienced driver making a risky pass attempt Ross ran wide giving up the spot. Immediately, the Allstar Performance Ford was right on Morris’ bumper looking for a way back around. The remaining three laps were very entertaining as the two trucks ran side by side several times. When the checkered flag was waved, Ross Hoek finished fourth.
“The truck ran great today, I left the door open one time and Morris got by me,” noted Ross Hoek. “I was faster than he was the final couple of laps, but I couldn’t make a clean pass. Thanks goes out to Allstar Performance, Venom Energy, and especially BFGoodrich Tires. My BFGs hooked right up and got me up front, both times today. We will go back tonight, make a few changes, and we will be back on the podium tomorrow.”
Unfortunately Mother Nature had other plans for Sunday’s festivities at the Potawatomi Brush Run. Heavy rains throughout the night caused Parson’s Pond to overflow onto the front straightaway. After several discussions, TORC and Crandon officials cancelled the day of racing. The racing will be made up at a later date and the announcement of when and where will be released in the near future.
After three rounds of racing Ross Hoek currently stands in fifth place in the chase for the 2011 TORC PRO-Light Championship.
Subaru Road Racing Team Travels to Road America
The Subaru Road Racing Team (SRRT) prepares and races a 2011 Subaru Impreza WRX STI 4-door model in the series for Subaru of America, Inc.
At Road America, Andrew Aquilante, Chester Springs, Pa., returns to the cockpit after a two-race absence, joined by regular SRRT driver Bret Spaude, Bushnell, Fla.
“Our results are showing those performance gains, too. We led seven laps of the Alabama race in April, we were in the top 10 at Virginia International, we qualified second quickest and set the fastest race lap at Lime Rock Park, and we used our backup car to battle back after having to forego our primary car at Watkins Glen.”