On the weekend of the 16th & 17th September, Monster Truck racing came to the Nazareth Speedway for the very first time.
As part of the ProMT Points series, the line up consisted of 9 of the 10 Monster Trucks who had invited to come race.  These where Virginia Giant, Tonka, BIGFOOT, Sudden Impact, Nitro Fish, Tropical Thunder, Samson, Executioner & Equalizer.
Eradicator, Blown Thunder, Pure Adrenalin & on the Sunday only Carolina Crusher,  turned up to try & qualify for the 3 remaining positions, as only 9 invitational trucks had turned up.
Some of the trucks, such as Sudden Impact, BIGFOOT & Tonka had been in the area doing displays for local car dealerships & radio interviews. John Seasock in Sudden Impact had also been going to some of the local schools & giving talks to the children.

Talking to the school kids

All of the trucks would make two qualifying runs. This would give them a chance to run on each lane.
First up to qualify was Diehl Wilson in the Virginia Giant & Eric Tack in the Tonka BIGFOOT.

Tonka

Virginia Giant

With a hard landing, Virginia Giant seemed to be having suspension problems. Nothing Diehl couldn't fix, for his second qualifying run.
Click here to see a picture of Tonka & Viginia Giants second qualifying run.

Next up to qualify was Dan Runte in BIGFOOT & Andy (Glow-stick) Slifko in Eradicator. The Eradicator Truck had the fastest reaction time in qualifying, on his second run. But Dan Runte in BIGFOOT had the fastest qualifying ime of the day.

Eradicator

Next up to qualify was Doug Cole in Blown Thunder & John Seasock in Sudden Impact. This would be the only qualifying run of Sudden Impact, as John hurt his knee in between qualifying & was unable to make his second run.

Sudden Impact

Next up was Tim Hall driving the Tropical Thunder truck, on behalf of Guy Wood,. And Dan Patrick in Samson.
As Guy Wood had sold the Tropical Thunder truck overseas, & his new truck which he is currently building, wasn't ready for the Nazareth show. So Tim Hall used one of the older Executioner trucks, with the Ice Man body & a Tropical Thunder sticker on the side. This way Guy Wood, would not lose any points in the series.

Tropical Thunder

Samson

Mark Hall in Executioner & David Morris in Equalizer would then qualify next.
Click here to see a picture of Executioner & Equalizer qualifying.

The last two trucks to qualify where Steve Macklyn in Nitro Fish & Randy Brown in Pure Adrenalin. Suspension problems for Pure Adrenalin led them to run their qualifying heat last.

Pure Adrenalin

All of the trucks made their two runs.  The table below shows the times which the trucks ran. It also shows which lane they ran in. Their reaction times from when the light turned green & their average speed over the course.

Saturdays Qualifying

 

QUALIFYING SHEET			1ST RUN					2ND RUN
	DRIVERS	TRUCK	Lane	Time	React	MPH	#	Lane	Time	React	MPH
I	Diehl Wilson	49 Virginia Giant	L	5.427	.775	34.1		R	5.151	.758	45.2
I	Eric Tack	34 Tonka	R	5.064	.609	43.4		L	4.916	.726	40.6
N	Andy Slifko	11 Eradicator	L	6.135	1.114	35.0		R	6.302	.570	34.8
I	Dan Runte	88 Bigfoot	R	4.909	.717	49.4		L	4.872	.646	46.7
N	Doug Cole	18 Blown Thunder	L	6.056	.678	36.5		R	6.072	.719	34.1
I	John Seasock	14 Sudden Impact	R	5.471	.739	37.7		L
I	Steven Macklyn	66 Nitro Fish	L	5.435	.669	38.1		R	6.831	.600	23.0
N	Randy Brown	17 Pure Adrelin	R	5.636	1.139	38.7		L	5.255	.669	38.5
I	Tim Hall	82 Tropical Thunder	L	6.300	.584	37.1		R	5.911	.765	39.6
I	Dan Patrick	13 Samson	R	5.096	.713	48.0		L	5.042	.621	50.5
I	Mark Hall	23 Executioner	L	5.087	.667	46.7		R	4.951	.726	48.0
I	Dave Morris	33 Equalizer	R	5.949	.751	29.3		L	5.609	.697	32.5

This is the order in which the trucks qualified.

QUALIFYING ORDER
1	88 Bigfoot	L	I	4.8720
2	34 Tonka	L	I	4.9160
3	23 Executioner	R	I	4.9510
4	13 Samson	L	I	5.0420
5	49 Virginia Giant	R	I	5.1510
6	17 Pure Adrenalin	L	N	5.2550
7	66 Nitro Fish	L	I	5.4350
8	14 Sudden Impact	R	I	5.4710
9	33 Equalizer	L	I	5.6090
10	82 Tropical Thunder	R	I	5.9110
11	18 Blown Thunder	L	N	6.0560
12	11 Eradicator	L	N	6.1350

Check out in great detail, my coverage of the weekends action

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• Saturday Qualifying
• Saturday Racing
• Sundays Qualifying
• Sunday Racing
• Tough Truck Action
• Show Trucks


A special thanks to Eric Meagher & the staff of ISC Motorsports

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