Day 3 Presented by Holley
The day dawned clear and cool; perfect for carving some corners on a good mountain road. The weather stayed beautiful until just before they pulled into Bowling Green, when the skies opened up and dumped torrential rain. Despite the wet weather, the event runs rain or shine (provided there’s no lightning), so everyone donned their helmets and ponchos and took to the task at hand! The rain cleared out fairly quickly and the rest of the day gave us a sunny show with just enough of a breeze to keep the temps cool and the autocross course fast.
After a super-impressive 476 laps, the top three competitors putting their anti-competition money into the Winner’s Cup were: 3rd place, Erik Vandermey; 2nd place, Ryan Mathews; and 1st place, Sam Strano.
Thursday brings us the full-day Bourbon Trail Tour and afterparty sponsored by USCA; we’ll bring you a gallery of photos from the festivities as soon as we are able!
Don’t Forget…we will also be bringing you LIVE coverage of the StreetGRIP installation on competitor Todd Earlsey’s 1969 Camaro, starting at 8AM Eastern! Live footage during the build can be found here:
http://livestream.com/BangShiftLIVE/events/5295341
Tune in Friday to see him run some autocross laps after the install & give us his opinion on the improvements!
All week, we’ve watched competitor Joel Nystrom thrashing his 1967 Oldsmobile 442 around the autocross course (and watching him having an absolute blast while doing so), so we chose Joel for the winner of Wednesday's Free StreetGRIP System at the Holley awards ceremony! Congratulations, Joel; we hope you enjoy future autocross courses even more with your new system!