Of the 115 Street Machine Eliminator entries that registered on Sunday, only 106 made runs on Tuesday. After waiting two hours for their turn to hit the Summit Motorsports Park tarmac, the SME guys printed eighty time slips in roughly thirty-five minutes, not only a credit to them, but the track personnel as well.
One interloper, Matt Grant, managed to successfully sneak his Modified/PA 2007 Mustang through the SME staging lanes and blasted an 8.468-165.97 in the middle of the 10.00 and up class, thoroughly confusing announcer Brian Lohnes, and everyone watching.

The parade of eleven second Mopars in the SME class started with Rodney Munchiando's black small block 68 Dart GTS with an 11.77, and was followed up by Randy Juliani's 66 Coronet at 11.79, Scott Abbott's 70 Road Runner at 11.60, and the red Challenger Hellcat with an 11.20-125. Clark Lamb's 68 Barracuda has turned in 20 official Drag Week time slips in the previous four years, but the 11.12-121 at Norwalk was the best ever, so the stroker small block build was beginning to show dividends. It took Charlie Ogle two hits to get an 11.15-123, as his gold Challenger belched smoke and struggled to an 11.83 on his first run.

I cropped and zoomed in on Clark to try and figure out what he' s looking down at as he hits the 60' mark of the track. Is he texting his wife back in Tulsa? Going on Facebook live? Perhaps he's got the laptop in his lap and he's adjusting the timing and fuel curves on the fly? Whatever it was sure had his full attention!

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"Livin' in a powder keg and givin' off sparks" 4 Street cars, 5 Race engines