NMRA Bradenton 2013 Same Day Coverage

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It’s the first race of the year for the NMRA at the familiar Bradenton Motorsports Park in Florida. With a lot off season rules changed and classes combined, it will be interesting to see how racers will adapt. Stay tuned all weekend as we bring you in depth racing coverage from the NMRA Spring Break Shootout.

Special thanks to our event coverage sponsor SCT Performance. Check out their new Livewire TS at www.sctflash.com.

Bright and early Sunday morning, the track crew is hard at work prepping the track and eliminations will be starting soon. Stay tuned all day, we will try to bring you the coverage as quickly as possible.

Yesterday Valerie Clements was struggling to figure out why her engine wouldn't make enough boost. We spoke with Alton Clements Sr. this morning - the team found a clamp that had worked its way loose, and made a pulley change to get ready for today's eliminations. Alton Jr. told us the difference between an EFI Renegade car without and with an intercooler is approximately 200 degrees of intake temperature.

Factory Stock champ Carlos Sobrino is out for the weekend. He struggled yesterday to get the car to rev over 6000RPM and changed the ignition box but his problems persisted. The engine developed a slight knock as well, so he figured it was better to put it in the trailer and take it home for an inspection rather than run the risk of damaging anything else.

Steve Matusek continues testing his Pro Mod - the team continued to struggle getting down the track yesterday, and they were hard at work this morning prepping the machine for another run.

Stopped by to chat with Sean Ashe and Jason Gatlin this morning while the team was inspecting their gear-drive and supercharger assembly. They haven't put it all together yet this weekend but they found a couple of issues last night that should help their performance today. Gatlin's ATFSpeed builds the geardrive along with dozens of other hardcore race parts.

 

Charlie Cooper made it to the second round in Renegade in his gorgeous Cobra Jet, but was forced to back out when his blower pulley end up in the burnout box.

Matt Amrine lucked out with a bye to the final round after eliminating Chalie Rankin in the first round. Amrine is also the only FS competitor to break into the 10-second zone in eliminations today. He will face Louie Sylvester in the final.

Joe Marini's on a roll today in Coyote Stock. The first-time heads-up driver took out Paul Dishroon in the first round and 2012 class champion Joe Charles in the second round of competition. He will face Shane Stymiest in the final round.

AJ Wyce has a machine that's rockin' today. He took out Jim Breese in the first round and Scott Grove in the second. He will run Brian Mitchell in the final round; Mitchell arrived there via two single runs when Tim Matherly and Charlie Cooper didn't make the call.

Filthy Phil got out of shape in the semifinal; it looked like his dominating run this weekend would be over. But opponent Eric Leeper had some troubles of his own, and Phil was able to get back into the game by beating Leeper to the stripe. He will face DJ Loiacano in the semifinal; John Urist has a bye to the final on the other side of the ladder. Urist has been improving all day - he picked up .06 from the first round to the second.

Second Round Elimination Ladders

 Final Round Sheets

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Jason Reiss

Jason draws on over 15 years of experience in the automotive publishing industry, and collaborates with many of the industry's movers and shakers to create compelling technical articles and high-quality race coverage.
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