FUNNY CAR CHAOS

From the beginning of May until the end of June, a span of nine weeks, will see - if all goes to plan - a total of five Funny Car Chaos races. Looks like a serious case of wait, then hurry up is in the works for the racers, but it certainly beats sitting at home and waiting for a chance to race. The major casualty in Northern Thunder world is our hard working photographer, Bob Snyder who's been booking and unbooking flights, making hotel reservations and cancelling them. His latest plan - that blew up a week ago - was to drive to Tulsa, then continue on to Texas, but now it looks like he's going to be flying to Dallas to catch next week's season opener. After that, who knows ?

In the meantime, it's all systems go for the second 4-Wide NHRA race of the season, the American Rebel Light 4-Wide NHRA Nationals at Charlotte, NC's ZMax Dragway. Qualifying is underway and the weather forecast for the weekend is good.