Does anyone know of a live stream from Vegas? Thanks

Good luck with that!

People have called and asked on webpages about it. no dice

I was out there yesterday. The announcer had little to no knowledge about Mopars. He couldn't recognize one body from another. It was disgusting he was so bad. Most of the time he didn't have a clue. I would hope Painter could do better.

That surprises me. The few times that I have attended if was good. How was the turn out?

Turn out seemed light from when I was here before.

Turn out is alot better then the past couple of years..

Show field looked light, swap guys I talked to said dismal... Race classes appeared ok. It's the west.... We have to travel far for everything..... but it's not cold, and certainly not raining.

i was there friday only. arrived at 7am, left around 5pm. first time ive been to MATS, drove from the Bay Area, Ca, about 7 hours and some change. i probably should have attended saturday as well, but for some reason, i didnt.
i thought it was going to be a lot bigger, more cars and a much larger swap area, but i was kind of surprised, smaller than I thought it would be. (maybe because it was friday??)

none the less, I did have fun, i saw some awesome cars, talked to and met some new people, and bought about 200 bucks worth of small parts. the racing was fun to watch.

dodge was giving nonstop rides in the viper and hellcat, i didnt go for a ride, but watched for a while. pretty neat.

id go again, but id catch a flight for 95 bucks round trip, cheaper to fly! i spent $150 in fuel in my Hyundai rental car to get there and back. I would have taken my 2014 ecodiesel jeep, woulda saved some in fuel, but its at the dealer for a new catalytic converter, replaced under warranty. rental was free.

No live feed again today.

Nice of them to take care of people that wanted to go but couldn't make it.

Yes sad no live feed like previous years. I had planned on going but my wife had minor surgery on Friday so I cancelled my plans and stayed home.

The swap meet has always been small, but the car show and drag racing has always been worth the time.

any results?

Ultimate Mopar winner was Dave Saruk's AAR Cuda. Very nice car, well deserved win.

Just got the call, Orange Monster II (son) came in 2nd in A/FX.

My son and I took a respite from the sun on Saturday and spent quite a few hours in the covered top bleachers. As we were watching everyone run, a beautiful Viper entered the water box, but the car jumped a little sideways on the first attempt. His second attempt at a burnout was even worse, so he drove to the start line instead and went straight through the beams! "This guy has no clue what he's doing!" I chuckled, and pointed for my son to watch as the starter backed him up, and helped him find the spot. The Viper finally settled in with a deep stage, and waited until the light was fully green before even bringing up the revs.
As he launched the car into full song, the note from the free flowing corsa exhaust led me to believe it was no ordinary Viper. He whacked the rev limiter a couple of times in first before pushing in the clutch for an eternity, then finally finding second. After a rush of acceleration, he once again whacked the rev limiter hard in second, before clumsily fiddling around to hit third. The car ripped across the finish line in third at 12.53-118. I heard him push the clutch in about a hundred feet past the finish line, and figured the pass was mercifully over... Then the people around me sucked in their breath as he found fourth and headed up the hill of the LVMS shut down area at full throttle!! He grabbed fifth at about the first turn off as a guy just above me yelled, "Good Lord! He's going to drive it right to the sand trap!!" Right on cue, the billowing cloud from the sand obscured our vision, as he plowed through the sand and into the barriers that prevented him from running onto I-15!

The driver was ok, the car, not so much.
A friend who talked to the driver described him as a small elderly man, who explained that he knew what he was doing, but got disoriented and didn't understand where he was on the track!

I thought I had seen it all, I was wrong...only in Vegas, baby!!

I knew the Viper was doomed when the burnout went wrong. He's lucky he didn't get hurt. He had to hit the sand at 160 easy.

Made it to round 4..... barely. we pitted at the top end (southern Utah). I installed a decent radio on the golf cart so we were in tune with the tower doing our between round duties. We thought they called pro once.... but it was often lost with all the extracurricular conversation they were constantly having on the PA.... so we waited. Couple more times they paused enough from their yacking to give the lane call info, and they didn't say pro. My friend jumped in the golf cart to run the 1/4 mile up to the line to check it out so I turned the truck radio on and was listening when they announced a name I knew that was in class and their pass.... crap! We were pretty low on fuel so the first three passes we towed to the lanes. No time for that.. jumped in the car and headed up there. Got the lanes and they had to literally back two cars out from under the tower so I could get up to the line to race.... jacket wasn't on, etc...etc... The kid I had to race was a dream round. Foot brake, old car they hadn't run in years with a fresh methanol injected motor between the rails..... and... he... gives... it... away... All I had to do was see green.... that was it. Car was in the ball park on the number... I had decent lights earlier, but my head wasn't in it. Left way too early. I know the kid advanced on to the next round too and I was glad to see that. Pretty low buck deal, whole family from northern Utah. They were having a ball and were really nice people.

9.54 is what we ended up dialing around most of the afternoon. To be perfectly honest I was expecting to be running 9.8's at that track, especially when it's 92 degrees, track hotter than L, DA over 5K. Lil engine makes the car a blast to drive.

This was the first MaTS I had been to that I got to fairly late. I've ALWAYS gone super early, got parked, and got in the gate early enough to get a spot in the same zip code as the staging lanes. I like to see the lanes, miss something on the PA and a quick glance you can see who's up there. As long as everything stays together, and I'm able, I'll be there again next year. Good time.

Jay,

I think the lack of a live feed was BS. I get emails from the Vegas track all the time that they just went live. I wonder if the Painters think that were not spending money on that. A lot of Mopar people can't always make it but this is about a following. Just because I can't be there doesn't mean that I wouldn't like to see what was going on. Rant Over