North East Street Car Association - Q8 Apr 14 Elimination Pictures

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Art Decesare vs. Mike Grosseto - Art qualified #5 with a 7.921 running a JA Performance naturally aspirated 648" alcohol injected BBC.Grosseto, racing Mitch George's old car qualified #11 @ 8.358 replacing Liberty Auto Body's John Schroeder. Close matchup with win for Art by small margin. 8.32 to 8.40.

Round 1

Rich George vs. Pete Pace - Rich George in his RG Paving sponsored firebird takes on Pete Pace of Pace Auto Body of Franklin Square. Rich is qualified #6 @ 7.939 Pete is qualified #10 @ 8.166 replacing Anthony DiSomma. Pace's nitrous backfire seems to have hit before the green, indicating he either was spraying on the transbrake or leaving early. Rich has a good run at 8.20 with his motor from last year (588? cubic inches) unfortunately he hurt his trans on this pass, and would not continue.

Round 1

Round 1

Jack Boer v. Charlie Boy Micaliff - Two Long Island racers square off in the fastest side by side race of the day. Charlie boy in his 70 Chevelle is sporting a new Rick Jones hoodscoop over his Precision Cylinder Head Service BBC. Boer's Monte Carlo is one of the beadlock wheel equipped cars out of the Neverlift Motorsports camp, with show quality paint and bodywork by Anthony Barbaro of Station Auto Body of Port Jefferson. Boer launches hard and gets a holeshot on Charlie off the start. At midtrack, Charlie is gaining, but is not able to catch Boer in time. 7.80 Boer (W)  to 7.94 Charlie. It would later be learned that Boer is running a NSCA Nostalgia Pro Street tune up  (.038 fogger pills) on this run. Charlie's performance is expected to improve as his new sheetmetal manifold and carbs are fine tuned as the season progresses.

Round 1

Brian Ferrari v. Michael DeMartino - Brian Ferrari, the 2001 Q8 champion out of the Neverlift / Musi shop, having shattered the Q8 record in qualifying, now faces Q8 newcomer Michael Demartino. DeMartino, competing out of the Lizzard racing  camp with special help from Matt Grillo, owner of Lizzard racing In West Babylon, NY. Both cars stage, with Ferrari running the race end to end, 7.69 to 8.96. An excellent first showing by DeMartino and Lizzard may have the team in a stronger racing position later this season.

Art DeCesare v. Brian Ferrari - In what apperared to be a one-sided matchup favoring Ferrari, DeCesare drew a bye run after motor problems sidelined the Ferrari team coming through the wall. Rather than make an easy pass, Art made a full power run coming close to the wall when the car got out of shape. 8.36 ET

Round 2

Round 2

Jack Boer v. Rich George - After an hour long pit thrash, the George team was unable to fix their transmission problem, and did not make the call. Boer drove around the water box and made a part throttle pass to save parts and time for the next round, but gave up lane choice.  ( I have pictures but have not posted them to save space and reduce page download time)

Art DeCesare v. Jack Boer - After Art's Camaro started drifting to the wall in round 2, the decision was made to adjust the preload on the four link which explains quite a bit in the last photo sequence. Boer's car is running consistently which should make for a close race, with a slight advantage to Boer. Pay particular attention to the driver's front tire on Art's car as the run progresses. The sequence reads left to right then down.

Final

Good launch for both cars

At 400' it looks like the race is over

Art's car begins to lift the left front

Daylight visible beneath the left front

Art is still twisting, but Boer is catching

Getting worse, need to back off

Backing off,  Boer is closing

Boer 8.80 @117 (W) DeCesare 12.92 @ 71