Dan Myers wins the Nitro Nite of Fire

Courtesy of Dan Meyers Racing

Sacramento, Ca – When the Dan Myers Racing team rolled into Sacramento Raceway Park they were looking for a 6.2x pass to pop up on the score board. Although that never happened throughout the weekend, a couple time slips showed 6.2 passes but unfortunate parts breakage or aborted runs on the top end prevented that from happening.

Myers qualified in the fifth position and in the first round would face Mike Leonard in his 1969 Chevelle. Dan would take the win on a holeshot with a peddling 6.79 to Leonard’s peddling 6.76. The top end MOV on the time slip showed a victory of .000, it was somewhere in the ten-thousandths of a second range, so close the track’s timing system didn’t record that far down.

In the second round Dan faced Sean Renteria. Renteria left way early flashing the red light giving the easy win to the final round to Myers who was on his way to a low 6.20 or high 6-teen pass where at 5.25-seconds into the run the throttle cable broke, still he stopped the clocks with a 6.47.

In the final round Myers would face Bret Williamson who drives the Don Carter Motorsports 1953 Studebaker. Williamson was running strong during eliminations posting a 6.15 and 6.02 in the first and second rounds but also had his fair share of troubles over the weekend as he banged the blower three times during the event; the third time came in the final round. Myers left on Williamson by 3-tenths on the tree but by half track Williamson was already ahead. Myers was having trouble keeping his car in the groove and he was dancing around in his lane. Around 800 feet Williamson banged the blower and a huge flash of fire engulfed the car. Myers knew he was behind Williamson but also close to the wall, he kept his foot in it until he knew he was around Williamson and imminently dumped the chutes which was around 1100-1200 feet and got the win on a holeshot, Myers 6.51 to Williamson’s 6.49.

Dan Myers credits his race car’s recent performance improvement to a couple things. With some help from Darren Mayer from DMPE and tuning help from Lonnie Houde and Bob Bunker Jr. at the race track he now has his 1957 Chevy pickup truck dipping into sub 1-second 60’ times and low 2.7x 330’ times. He has yet to get a 6.20 pass but knows his truck is now capable of it and will have to wait for the next event.

Dan Myers Racing would like to thank their following sponsors:
Pacific Repair
Red Line Oil – www.RedLineOil.com
Toms Differentials – www.TomsDifferentials.com
Bunker Race Cars
LHP Racing – www.LHPRacing.com
Darren Mayer Performance Engineering – www.DMPEInc.com
For more information about the Dan Myers Racing 1957 Chevy pickup truck visit www.DanMyersRacing.com.