Event Number 2 of the VP Fuels Quick 32 at Lyon's Raceway Park 

The punk kid Carrico won the second VP Fuels Quick 32 event making the us veteran racers look bad.  Seriously, this kid and his father are both on their game.   Congrats to the home team and I hope, for the rest of our sake, this is your last.  He is making us veterans like Craig Sullivan, James Monroe, Lester Atkins, and I look bad.  

The track was in the best shape I have scene for any track in the mid west.  Yes this includes Route 66 and Norwalk Raceway Park.  The new management can make this 660 foot concrete raceway hook up any amount of power.  Consider this: It rained all day on Saturday a slow steady rain that lasted a full 30 hours piling up 1.50 inches of liquid sunshine.  On Sunday, the sun never did show itself and the ambient temperature did not reach 71 degrees all day.  At Norwalk, the water would have been leaking out of the pavement 30 minutes after the jet drier went past.  At Chicago, rubber would have been balling up on the starting line and everyone would have been tip-toeing off of the starting line.  

At Lyon's Raceway Park, the lanes were dry due to the sanding grounds and the concrete racing surface in eastern Greene County.  (Home of the best darned watermelons and cantaloupe in the world)  No one had any trouble in the pits getting in or out and the track was dry and fast all day.  The new management works hard to make a good surface.  The facility is in good shape with a new Compulink (I think) timing system.  There were no technical difficulties all day.  The rain alone would have knocked out the best timing system.  At Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, KY, every time there is bad weather, the timing system is down waiting on some repair.  I know that Dallas does an excellent job at his track but things happen.  This just goes to show you that the team at Lyon's and the VPQuick32 series is all about putting on a good show for the fans and the fastest racers in the area.  

I can't decide what my favorite thing is about this series: The fact that you can race as fast as you can (no 4.50 limit) or that they race 16 dragsters together and 16 door cars race together to have a door car vs dragster finale.  Well, personally I like them both.  For more info, go to www.Vpquick32.com or

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