Funny Car Reunion Quick Results
By Bill Pratt
Zombie and Nitromare looked like show cars before eliminations.
Afterwards, not so much.
Photo by Phil Elliott
Brother Tim, Flyin' Phil, and I are back from the
inaugural Funny Car Reunion at Englishtown. Man, did we have fun! It was
great to meet all the racers and fans. The racers put on an awesome show.
I've returned to computer problems and it's 3:19am, so I'm going to have to
hold off on updates until later today (after work).
Rob Bruce was the quickest, fastest, and did the best burnouts. Photo by Phil Elliott
For now, I'll report
that the overall "winner" was Rob Bruce, who set the Dodger
Glenn Memorial Low ET and Top Speed at 6.474 at 186.20, while fireballing his motor. He's OK; the car's
still being looked at. Rob also won the Herbert Performance
Parts/Draglist.com Burnout Challenge, with two smokers. Just a tick behind
was Rocky Pirrone, with a great one in round one.
Berserko Bob, Bob Rosetty, Jungle Pam, and Bill Pratt basically HIDE the best appearing car.
Photo by Phil Elliott
Bob Rosetty's Rollin'
Stoned Cuda won the Computer Magic Online Best Appearing Car Award, to no
one's surprise. Dave Sano, Lou Sgro, and Rick Stambaugh all had showpieces,
as well, and ALL the cars looked good.
Willie Johnson made thousands of new fans with his wild starting line antics.
Photo by Phil Elliott
Willie Johnson was incredibly entertaining
with his '69 Nova and did absolutely AWESOME dry hops to win the Drag Racing
Online Best Dry Hop award.
The Zombie and Nitromare made thrilling, but expensive runs. Photo by Phil Elliott
Frank Jonkman thrilled us all with a great 6.91
number in round one, only to have the chutes fail. Frank went into the sand
trap hard, then into and through the catch net. He was OK, but the Nitromare
was much worse for wear.
Rob Bruce and the Zombie really gave it up to the nitro gods on his 6.47 pass.
Photo by Phil Elliott
We will have photos and details of all the
weekend's events as the week goes on. It was great to meet everybody up
there. Time for bed! Bill
