2017 Nostalgia Drag Racing League / Quick Fuel Battle at the Arch

[GlennLever]

1)   Quick Fuel Battle at the Arch,   Gateway Motorsports Park,   Madison, Illinois,   May 12-13, 2017



Some NDRL action from past gateway races.

[GlennLever]

SCHEDULE UPDATE:

Thursday, May 11
1-9 p.m. — Gates open, pit parking for racing associations.
4-9 p.m. — Vendor set-up.

Friday, May 12
9 a.m.-9 p.m. — Racer gates open, pit parking.
Noon-9 p.m. — Tech inspection.
4 p.m. — Spectator gates open.
4-10 p.m. — Time trials, fun runs, exhibition runs.
6 p.m. — NDRL, VSS qualifying.
9 p.m. — NDRL, VSS qualifying.

Saturday, May 13
7 a.m. — Racer, swap meet and car show gates open.
8 a.m. — Spectator gates open.
8 a.m. — Tech inspection.
8 a.m.-7 p.m. — Time trials, fun runs, exhibition runs.
10 a.m. — Final bracket time trial.
11 a.m.-5 p.m. — Music and entertainment on the midway (Suicide Shifters, Danny Dean & The Homewreckers, DJ Col. Paco Chaos).
11 a.m. — Final Nostalgia Drag Racing League (NDRL), Victory Super Stocks (VSS) qualifying.
1 p.m. — Pin-up girl contest (on stage on the midway).
2 p.m. — NDRL, VSS eliminations.
3 p.m. — Car show awards.
7 p.m. — All final rounds of eliminations.

Schedule subject to change.

[GlennLever]

Leaving a week from this coming Tuesday. Who will be there?

[GlennLever]

Leaving in the morning for Gateway. Will stop in Indianapolis to check on the new engine and try and make a couple of easy passes to break the refreshed engine in.

[GlennLever]

First part of the trip is complete, we are in Indianapolis. It went pretty smooth.

[GlennLever]

After the second round of qualifying, by the skin of my teeth, we are still the number on e qualifier.

[hemidakota]

Good Job! Have a Great weekend and win it all!!!! Good luck Glen.

[GlennLever]

Well the first race of the season is in the books. After two rounds of qualifying we were number one. In the third round we we were bumped down to third in the standings.

Troy Wilson ran a perfect 8.500 on his 8.500 index. You just cannot beat that (I had a 8.018 on my 8.000 index and was third). This series is competitive to say the least.

On to eliminations, they were very competitive. I did have one give me in that I was late at the tree, but Troy Wilson thought he was going to break out and lifted before the finish line, which allowed me to caught him at the top end.

Made it to the finials. Ted Mannor ran a 8.501 against his index of 8.500 and he took me out in the finial round.

Spent two hours decommissioning the dragster and packing everything up. We are ready to start our trip home.

Next race is Memphis, which is followed up a week later by the Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green.

It will just be Anne Giumento Lever and myself for those two races, George R. Lever has to return to work.

[crider]

Nice job Glenn!

[GlennLever]

Steven E Fuhrman has taken many pictures of the Gateway Event and they can be seen at this link

https://quickpics.smugmug.com/DragRacing/2017-Quick-Fuel-Battle-at-the-Arch