PRP wins this weekend

[mustang50lx]

Team PRP won the bracket finals this weekend. Chuck (CobraII) and Mike (Balaska347) played a big part with Mike winning Mod. If anyone else on the site was on Team PRP I'm sorry I missed you.

[AdamantiumSilvr]

Congrats ta Team PRP!!

[Mater]

Congrats

[Balaska347]

Thanks guys Team PRP crushed its competition from all over the country. We had a total of 78 rounds wins with the second place track only having 44 or so. Its has been a dream to win this race since I started racing and I finally did it. All the cash is great but the iron man trophy will last forever plus the silver card is awesome which allows me to race at any IHRA track till the end of 2011 for free. :laughing1:. Thanks to CobraII for all his help.

[no1fordgirl]

Congratulations!!

[Sonic03snake]

:pepper:WTG fellas!!!!!

[Ares]

Congrats Mike, that Iron Man trophy would be the icing on the cake. Plus you can brag at how your the 2010 IHRA Div3 Modified Champ :awsome: :woot1:

[somethingclever]

wow...very impressive guys...

[pRojekt02GT]

Congrats guys! Thats awesome! :awsome:

[Martin0660]

Big congrats Mike!

[biminiLX]

Nice job fellas.
-J

[shockstang]

Congrats. Good job guys.

[CobraII]

Mikey didn't tell you about the drama. He and I have always talked about how if we're going down, in anything, we're going down swinging, never giving up. 7th round, he won on a red light. I turned around to hoot and holler, never seeing that he bailed out of the pass. I get back to the pits, and there is a crowd around the car. He bailed out because he had a dead cylinder. I pull the plug, it's dirty, so we think maybe it's fouled. Put a new one in, no difference. Pull the wire off, and it's getting spark. Figured it was the injector or harness. Oil pressure was good, water temp was good, nothing on the oil dipstick. 8th round is the semi finals, and all 3 cars are PRP: Mike, our buddies Scotty and AJ. Scotty has the bye, so Mike has to run AJ. Mike says throw an 8.00 dial on it (after running 6.98-7.00) and hopefully the car can cover that. He goes down and lays a .0001 reaction time and drives the stripe to an 8.01 for the win! He thought the car was getting was worse, so he dialed it 8.20 for the final with Scotty. Mikey was .009 on the tree, and got the Ironman when Scotty went red. Poking at the car yesterday, it looks like 2 cylinders are dead, either valves, head gasket, or both. Pics from the weekend to follow.

Glenn, sorry I didn't get to talk to you much over the weekend. I was real glad you were able to make the race. I hope you had a good time.

[mustang50lx]

Mikey didn't tell you about the drama. He and I have always talked about how if we're going down, in anything, we're going down swinging, never giving up. 7th round, he won on a red light. I turned around to hoot and holler, never seeing that he bailed out of the pass. I get back to the pits, and there is a crowd around the car. He bailed out because he had a dead cylinder. I pull the plug, it's dirty, so we think maybe it's fouled. Put a new one in, no difference. Pull the wire off, and it's getting spark. Figured it was the injector or harness. Oil pressure was good, water temp was good, nothing on the oil dipstick. 8th round is the semi finals, and all 3 cars are PRP: Mike, our buddies Scotty and AJ. Scotty has the bye, so Mike has to run AJ. Mike says throw an 8.00 dial on it (after running 6.98-7.00) and hopefully the car can cover that. He goes down and lays a .0001 reaction time and drives the stripe to an 8.01 for the win! He thought the car was getting was worse, so he dialed it 8.20 for the final with Scotty. Mikey was .009 on the tree, and got the Ironman when Scotty went red. Poking at the car yesterday, it looks like 2 cylinders are dead, either valves, head gasket, or both. Pics from the weekend to follow.

Glenn, sorry I didn't get to talk to you much over the weekend. I was real glad you were able to make the race. I hope you had a good time.


Don't worry about that Chuck. I had a great time. I was glad to be there. I will try to be back next year.

[Steve-0]

Wow that's awesome! Congrats!:highfive:

[CobraII]

Glad to hear you had a good time, Glenn. I think it's an awesome event, so cool to see everyone pulling for each other, after competing against each other all season long.

Here are some pics from IHRA, from their Flickr site. I hope the link works:
Pittsburgh Summit Team Finals 2010 - a set on Flickr

Here are a few of my shots of Mike:

Burnout and launch in Round 6, the last pass using all 8 cylinders:

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q248/chucktcutlass/2010%20racing/PRP2010151.jpg

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q248/chucktcutlass/2010%20racing/PRP2010152.jpg

Getting his Ironman trophy, smiling like the butcher's dog, from IHRA's Sherri Barbour:

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q248/chucktcutlass/2010%20racing/PRP2010156.jpg

Much of Team PRP piled in the pic:

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q248/chucktcutlass/2010%20racing/PRP2010161.jpg

[real_jeff]

Congrats to you! I don't remember getting a call to join the celebration dinner. I guess I'll give you another chance.:thmbsup:

[CobraII]

It's ok Jeff, he didn't eat with us either. I think he was afraid we'd eat through his winnings. :D

[Balaska347]

LOL it crossed my mind but I had the dog and I couldn't leave him in the truck. ;)

[AdamantiumSilvr]

I was lookin thru that flicker of pics and some of those paint jobs and names on the rides straight up crack me up, LOL!

[CobraII]

If you get IHRA's Drag Review Magazine, the new issue has the coverage from the Bracket Finals. It's available for reading online as well, hopefully the link works:

http://bluetoad.com/publication/?m=298&l=1

Go to page 10 for the start of the coverage. Page 12 has Balaska's interview. Page to the end as well... there is a shot of Mike and Scotty pulling up for the final round, and it was just a hair early. What the pic starts to show is just about everyone from Team PRP coming behind both cars and applauding both Mike and Scotty. It was one of the coolest things I've ever seen, period.

[CobraII]

Ok, looks like the link will get you to the cover. You can hide the past issues by hitting the down arrow right above the word "Archive"

Then go to the white box above the magazine, click it, and you'll get a dropdown to choose which page you want to go to. Go to page 10-11 for the start of the article. Page 20 has the final round pic I mentioned above