Atco - Q16 Pocara WINS ROUND ONE

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ATCO, N.J. - Results of round 1 eliminations in Quick 16 at the NHRA Xplod Sport Compact Drag Racing Series, Fifth Annual Northeast NHRA Sport Compact Nationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 1023 Jose Toro                            4331 Steven Pocara               
E1                  -0.040  9.105 148.89     ****WINNER****  0.274 10.999 119.49
        Q16  Dial: 9.74 (+/-): -0.635             Q16  Dial: 11.17 (+/-): -0.171
 Qualified:             #5  9.744 138.48                       #12 11.173 117.73

The Beetle marches on...

[burnt63]

steve had a good showing. car look like it launched good. the track was prep good today.
lost in the second round though. scott did tell me that the 10.99 is a personal best.
-hey scott if you are reading this, how did you end up in the bracket class?

[my62ragtop]

Steven,  If you read this shoot me an email at jlculley@gmail.com. 

[Krylon Monster]

It was a good weekend for us. The first qualifier was a 11.43...absolutely PERFECT time to qualify with and use your .5 break out. next run it feels good and he keeps his foot in it and runs a 11.17....o boy.....to fast. So we wind up with the 11.17 as our dial in for Sunday and we sleep on it for the night.

All the while Saturday night we kept fighting the suspension unloading problem and the car making hard lefts. Video showed tleft wheel spin and the right hooked and threw it to the left. So Tom Borgia helped us Sunday morning adjust the  adjustable spring plates and we get it  done in time for first round.  We wind up hooking to a personal best 1.46  60' foot and 6.91  1/8 and then a 10.99   1/4 time. All which were personal  bests. We get the win for round 1 and Round 2 we wind up racing our buddy in his rotary powered MG Midget dialed in at 8.83. We dont have enough E.T left in the car and can not break out enough and wind up going 11.13 and taking the loss. But  a good weekend and hopefully the car goes straight now.


Charles- Round 1 I went .037 red  and I tried to lay  OFF the tree some from time trials.O well


--Scott Pocaro

[burnt63]

yeah some reason i missed the first round of brackets. i guess i'll run into you guys again at the maple grove show or punch buggy. i got a month to get the motor ready for punch buggy. haha.