John MacDonald comes into the third points race of the NMRA year as the leader in Super Street Outlaw while Conrad Scarry continues to lead Pro Outlaw 10.5. The race in Milan will prove to be a good one as the Detroit area track is known for its good prepping and fast times. Keep it tuned to StangTV Friday and Saturday for this two day race!

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Good morning and welcome to Milan dragway. We are here on the 4th stop of the NMRA race roster. We are currently looking at cloudy skies with a chance of rain throughout the day. Fingers crossed Mother Nature will be good to us and we will be looking at a full day of racing action! The men of Milan are out there prepping the track and making sure things are all set for our racers.

Robbie Blankenship of Hot Street is sporting a new virgin motor and looking forward to sending it down the track. He said, “We went from a 400 to a 420 and are excited to see what it does.” He spent last night switching it out for its premiere.

John Leslie Jr. has been real busy working out his kinks and comes to Milan Dragway with something to be excited about. Along with reworking the exhaust, installing a new 02 sensor, adjusting the clutch and pinion angle They recently switched engine builders to Roush Competition Engines. John says, “We are looking for a win this weekend and to run in the 11.0 area.”

We have Dave Ginter of Real Street bleeding his brakes down – after having some issues with his line lock and line lock relay he replaced both.

Mike Murillo is ready to go. Waiting out the weather he says -“We’re all set!”

“Hey! Can you hang out with the baby I have stuff to do”

Jim Monson is switching out his tires to get ready for qualifying, and expects to put his Supernatural Turbo-equipped Pro Outlaw ride into the winner’s circle this weekend.

We had a brief shower and they are hard at work prepping the track

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Test and Tune

Is in the bag were starting Q-1 now I will return with update on T-n-T and Q-1 stay tuned

Qualifying Round 1

The weather stuck it out to give us half way decent racing, the track was hooking and the Milan staff really does a great job of prepping the track to give us great conditions.
Here are the results after Q1

Drew Lyons is hanging the wheels in his Pure Street machine like always and is qualified 8th in his class. This is his first race out this season and he is looking to improve on that first round qualifier and make it through eliminations.

Mike Murillo ran into some bad luck when he kissed the wall on the big end,he tapped the left-side quarter panel, but he came back to run a 6.78 in the second qualifying session, moving right to the top of the qualifying ladder entering Saturday’s final session.

Brandon Alsept is currently qualified #3 with a 10.33 in Pure Street. He skipped the Atco race, but is expecting his Modular-powered machine to run well during eliminations.

Ryan Hecox is qualified # 5 with a 10.43 in Eibach Springs Pure Street in his brand-new car, purchased originally for another purpose. Currently the car has the drivetrain from his silver championship-winning machine in it, and he is working with a backup engine, as he broke a rod in his first-line engine in Atco.

Bruce Hemminger landed on top of the Steeda Real Street class with a 9.56 in the first round of qualifying. Hemminger hasn’t been out yet this year, but he’s picking up where he left off last season.

Diablosport EFI Renegade champion Alton Clements is struggling a little bit with his car so far this weekend, as he’s off-pace from his normal 8.3x ET’s. Clements is currently qualified fourth with a 9.02.

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Friday News from the Pits

John Leslie is trying to work out a no-start/fuel issue. He and his crew are out there burning the midnight oil. John says, “I’m not worried – we’ll be ready for tomorrow.”

Dan Baumann had a bit of trouble keeping his Steeda Real Street machine straight on his 2nd qualifier. He is adjusting the anti roll bar.

Drew Lyons is working with a fresh combo and is trying to work out the timing. He was just working on some minor engine changes since the car keeps wanting to wheelstand.

Clair Stewart is out for his first race in 5 years. He said, “It feels good to be back. I’m trying to get the car to quit bogging on the line so we can get down the track cleanly.”

Dyno Joe has his hands full out there with some chewed up brake caliper retaining bolts. He told us, “Thank god it happened before I was going down the track. I got a lot of help from Roush, Conrad Scarry, and the Booze Brothers, which is much appreciated.”

Below are the results from Q2

Saturday Coverage

The weather forecast isn’t looking desirable, We’re looking at the same conditions as reported yesterday. Fortunately we we’re able to get a full day of racing in without to much interference from weather or track issues.

Look forward to the same today.
Race ceremonies will begin at 3:45 followed up by some great heads up action.

Mike Murillo of Turbonetics Pro Outlaw 10.5 came out with a not so characteristic first qualifier placing him 3rd on the ladder he came out to better that with a impressive bump up to first after Q2.

Procharger Super Street Outlaw Samuel Vincent put a 7.48 up on the board after Q2 to place him in first, bypassing Phil Hines. His nitrous combination has been on the mark all year long.

Diablo Sport EFI Renegade racer Joel Howard came out in Q1 with a third- place qualifying effort with an 8.74. He then picked up the pace and put up a 8.66 – improving on his first pass by a tenth, placing him number one in the line up after Q2.

Edelbrock Hot Street Charlie Booze Jr. of the Booze Brothers Racing Team always comes out competitive. He currently sits at the top of the ladder with a consistent 8.61 in Q1 and Q2.

Jason Lee with drag radial comes out as always to impress, as he is the only competitor on the ladder in the 7’s. With the 7.94 he ran last night, he sits in the number one qualifier position.

Steeda Real Street competitor Bruce Hemminger slapped down two back to back 9.56’s – he currently has 2 tenths and some change on the rest of the field.

Eibach Pure Street hitter and 9-second pioneer Jim St. Charles is making the bracket racers envious this weekend with his consistency. With back to back 10.10’s, he’s sitting pretty at the top of the ladder heading into Saturday.

ACT Factory Stock racer Matt Amrine improved on his first qualifier, taking his car from an 11.20 @120.25 MPH to a sweet 11.05 @ 120.65 MPH.

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Results from Qualifying Round 3

Qualifying Round 3 Notes

Adan Jude hasn’t been out yet this season, but he and crew chief Brent Daniel are here working the kinks out of their Vortech-boosted ride. They are currently qualified #4 with an 8.32 and looking to step it up for eliminations.

Bruce Hemminger goes into eliminations at the top of the ladder in the Steeda Real Street class and is looking for a visit to the winners circle in his first event of the year. His nitrous machine has been deadly-consistent so far this weekend.

In the Procharger SS Outlaw Class, John MacDonald showed up to the line with a plan in Q3 this morning, and he bettered his 4th place standing on the ladder to take on the #1 spot going into eliminations – just a few ticks off from a record pace.

Turbonetics PRO 10.5 Conrad Scarry took Mike Murillo out of the #1 spot in the final qualifying session. The Scarry Crew tuned the ride to reset the Pro 10.5 record with his Q3 pass running a 6.69 @ 208 mph.

Joel Howard held onto the #1 spot in EFI Renegade. He came out to Milan with a plan – as this is his first race out this year he came prepared to shoot for the win.

Edelbrock’s Hot Street Don Bowles takes over the top qualifier spot over Charlie Booze Jr., running out a 8.6081 to Charlie’s 8.6144 in Edelbrock Hot Street.

Jason Lee continues to impress, sitting at the top of the Drag Radial ladder, but Steven Biggs is hot on his heels. Who will prevail in eliminations?

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Eliminations Round 1 Notes

Turbonetics PRO 10.5 Conrad Scarry walked through first round with a bye run. Mike Murillo took out Jim Monson with a 6.77 to Monson’s 7.26. The battle of the two quickest cars of the weekend in the finals will be interesting.

In Procharger SSO, both the number 1 and 2 qualifiers are out of the game. Samuel Vincent spun the tires and got out of it saving it to race another day Then, number 1 qualifier John MacDonald redlit, giving Phil Hines a free run to the second round. Also left to battle it out is John Urist and Chris Tuten.

Diablo Sport EFI Renegade first round winners are Chris VanGilder, Joel Howard and low et of the round went to Bob Cook 8.61

In Edelbrock Hot Street round one, Charlie Booze Jr. took the win over Robbie Blankenship. Rick Riccardi was tardy on the tree, sending Ben Mens on to the second round. Don Bowles moves on to round 2 with a first round bye.

Steven Biggs had the low ET of the first round of Drag Radial action. Enzo Pecchini suffered some mechanical issues, allowing Adam Jude to walk away with the round one victory. Then, Jason Lee treated the crowd with a 300 foot wheel stand, and settled the front end down and ran it out the back door. As always we look forward to see what he comes out with next.

Steeda Real Street Atco winner Tim Matherly lost to Jim Breeze in the first round, with a 9.86 to Breese’s 9.74. Craig Baldwin moved on to the next round as Dave Ginter had problems and got out of it early. Number one qualifier Bruce Hemminger had a competition bye, and also took low ET of the round with a 9.59 @ 140 MPH. Clair Stewart goes home after his first outing in 5 years with a loss to Dan Baumann

Eibach Pure Street, Ryan Hecox lost it to Steve Gifford. With both racers cutting a great light, Ryan ran into some mechanical issues that shut the car off midtrack. 2008 Champion Brandon Alsept took the win in round one sending home Drew Lyons, and Jim St Charles put Shawn Johnson on the trailer with a 10.18 to Shawn’s 10.54. Amy Sherwin treed Mark Anderson for a holeshot win, and in the last pairing, Eric Burkhart takes it over David Hill with a 10. 47 to his 10.57.

ACT Factory stock winners in the first round were Jay Dold, Matt Amrine, Tommy Godfrey, and Louis Sylvester.

News from the Pits

It is uncharacteristically quiet in the pit area. The report from Steven Biggs pit of BFGoodrich drag radial.

Steve says “we had some luck a few years ago here at Milan taking home the win , were hoping to repeat our last success here.
We’re ready to go now but we had some serious hustling to do between Q3 and first round of eliminations after a pretty violent wheel stand that brought us down hard and cracked the oil pan , with the help of Miller welding we were able to repair the problem. After qualifying second we have high hopes to see the winners circle at the end of the event.

The report from Conrad Scarry pit
“the boost control quit on us last pass as a result we came down on the wastegate spring. We lost all boost. fortunately Jim Monson came to the rescue with a boost control for us.”

Mike Murillo is taking the down time to relax and is ready and waiting to take on Conrad Scarry.

Final Round Results

The NMRA ford nationals are in the history books. Here are the final result for the event.

In Turbonetics Pro 10.5 Conrad Scarry takes home the win over Mike Murillo

Jason Lee wins with a 8.09 over Steven Biggs’ 9.71 racking up his 3rd win of the season in the BFGoodrich Tires Drag Radial class

John Urist and Chris Tuten lined up to take on the final pass in the ProCharger Super Street Outlaw class. John getting a little overzealous turned on the red light, Tuten Leaves Milan with his first SSO victory!