In the NSSRacing forums (https://nssracing.com/forums) there is a discussion with updates on the NMCA race going on in Martin, Michigan. The entire forum is set up to the one best place to go for all things NSS Racing. This “Live At” discussion is a place to post news, information, updates and photos. It serves three purposes: The first is for racers at the track to view schedule changes, weather updates, qualifying, ladders, who broke, and track & pit photos. The second for fans to stay up to date. Finally, for NSS Racers who never attended the event to see what they’ve been missing out on, and maybe grow the class at the next event.

It only takes a couple minutes to register to post. The site is 100% secure with a legit SSL certificate and I laced no ads or annoying popups. I pay all of the expenses and generate no revenue because I love the Class and would like to see more new blood come in than the age attrition is taking out.

I will never give, sell, rent, lease or otherwise give up any of your information to anyone short of a court order. I bought the very best and most secure board software, put in on a fast server with a powerful firewall to ensure your limited logon information is locked up tighter than Fort Knox. The application is also smart phone friendly. Take a photo on your phone and upload it to a post. Its no more difficult to use than Facebook, but better organized, no spam and more secure.

Please, take a few minutes to view the forum to see how you quickly put you can put your finger on the info your looking for and avoid what you don’t need. There is a NSS Racing related Classified ads section, a vendor Rollodex, a section for each of the larger organizations, technical white papers, questions and answers for general drag cars or Make Specific.

Please, if you’re a NSS Racer of fan – please check out the forums and have it as one of your browser’s open tabs. The only thing missing is a couple of Leaders to jump in and participate so the Followers will soon jump in too. None of this is Rocket Science, but if you ever have an issue – email me at davetheoldhippie@gmail .com with details of your problem and we’ll get it fixed.

The below is a couple of frames from a video of my wreck last Friday at Orlando Speed World.

I’m typically, a high 3-second 330′, but still fast enough to be in front of Corky

Maybe 150-200′ out I the Oil Filter Seal pushed out, but I never saw the smoke.

Suddenly, I heard a loud noise from the rear and the car made a hard right just as Corky Bumpus was passing me in the Left lane. I lifted, but that’s all I could do as the Passenger side of the AR was in the air and I was looking out the window at the pavement. I thought I’d lost the Driver’s slick.

I thought I was going to roll and was expecting to eat glass.

As you can see from the above frames, I’d beat Corky to the 330′ and was going as fast as him sideways. The right side came back down and the front of the car was just about to hit the wall. I yanked the wheel left and the car hit the wall in the right corner at about the 450′ down track.

The car bounced off the wall and the right side came up again.

I came to a stop just as Corky crossed the 660′.

On my third Time Trial pass, the thick rubber gasket on a Baldwin B2 oil filter push out after my launch. Oil got under the left slick and turned the car right. I tried to steer out of it, but I was there just for the ride. I thought I was going to roll the car twice.

Before all of the armchair racers and mechanics say that I must have put on the oil filter too tight, it had the seal oiled and was put on hand tight. Baldwin has very thick rubber seals and maybe shouldn’t go on 1,000 hp motors. Back to Wix 51515R.

The car has a bent frame now, so it won’t be a quick repair for that or easy finding 60-year-old Body parts. I have a sore left thumb, neck, lower back, right hip and right shoulder – but that’s racing.