Fred Scriba Wins NEOPMA Pro Mods Door Wars At MDIR

(Budds Creek MD) Opening Day Chaos clearly summarizes our first race of the year.

As always, MDIR was great … warm welcoming, great facility, comfortable parking and super track prep was made even better with our traditional club bar b cue. Thank you, Royce and team.

WELCOME to Jay and Lori Warren from NC Pro Moder. Great Professional Live feed super people (well over 80,000 views).
Thank you to our Product Sponsors: American Racing Headers, ATI Performance Products, Jerry Bickel Race Cars, VP Racing Fuels, Star Transporters and Canvas Plus Inc.

ANNOUNCEMENT…number 1 qualifier will receive VP Fuel Credits ($200) and $250 in cash.
Special Thanks to…Brian Hard, Fred Scriba, Gene Pilot and Dave Hance for their continued financial and moral support.
Additional Thanks to our Racing Staff / Friends: Mark Tinari, Dennis Quitoni, Mel Jones, Donna / Jimmy Curci.

Now for the chaos… The good …decent attendance. The bad… lots of breakage followed by the good … a great race. We started of the event with testing on Thursday and Friday. By the end of testing/ qualifying, we went from 19 cars to 10 cars due to breakage. The carnage was a record setting disaster with transmissions, converters, rear ends and yes even several broken engines. Guys were swapping parts more than most people change socks. But the race was great …here’s what happened.

QUALFYING SUMMARY
Mike Decker Jr. qualified number one in his maiden voyage in a pro mod car with a 3.65 @ 209.10 (Great Job). The top five included …Mike Achenbach (super-fast nitrous) was a close second with an easy 3.70 @ 204 .94, Dave Norris ran a 3.71 @ 206.73, Fred Scriba Jr. 3.73 @ 203.8 and Chuck Ulsch 3.80 @ 201.34. The King / Pilot / Miller team ran a 3.62 in testing but had some serious breakage during qualifying and managed to fix it for eliminations.
Although 12 cars qualified only 10 were able make it to first round of eliminations.
ROUND ONE:
Mike Decker and King/ Pilot /Miller team came out ready for a gun fight. King had been struggling with rear end issues throughout the weekend. Decker ran a 3.677@ 208.78 beating King’s 3.68 @ 207.75. GREAT Door to door race!!!
Courtier tire shake lost to Andy Jensen’s easy 3.87 @199. 17
Mike Achenbach had bye against Atkins and ran a soft 3.82 @ 162.82. The car has gone mid 3.60 consistently.
Chuck Ulsch ran a 3.78 @ 199.49 beating Don Tolley’s tire shaking run. Welcome Don
Dave Norris ran an easy 3.85 @ 168.14 defeating Gates lifted pass.
Fred Scriba bye passed against Derrek Ford (broke trans) with a 3.74 @204.23

ROUND TWO:
Mike Decker’s on a string 3.67 @ 208.52 beat Jensen’s tire shaking 4.56 @ 118.
Dave Norris shook and ran a 5.61 @ 85 and lost to Fred Scriba Jr. with a 3.72 @ 205.
Chuck Ulsch 3.78 @ 200 beat Achenbach 4.27 @ 141 due to a screw up by the track and NEOPMA. On behalf of the track and the NEOPMA we apologize to the Achenbach team.

ROUND THREE:
Decker got a bye and eased the car down the track.
Ulsch 3.74 @ 199 (reaction time .238), lost to Scriba 3.79@ 197.05 (reaction time .014).

FINALS
Fred Scriba Jr. amazing hole shot (.000) 3.70 @ 205.76, beat Decker with his (.062-hole shot) 3.67 @ 208.62.
WHAT A FINAL!!! Thank you all for your attendance and great performance.

REMINDER: Our next race is at Maple Grove on May 7-8. Please let me know if you are planning to attend.