Nancy Matter Racing Rusk Recap Wrap Up

Nancy Matter Racing Rusk Recap Wrap Up​

The Music.Com/The Who 2007 Top Alcohol Funny Car Team of Nancy Matter ran into their fare share of events this past weekend at the fifth of seven Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series South Central Division 4 Series events in Rusk, Texas. Despite the odds, they were still a major contender on race day.

On Matter's first pass, her chin strap broke throwing her head back and slightly catching on the roll cage padding. When she pulled her head forward, Matter began to pedal the car to continue on the run she noticed down track that her opponent was skating all over his lane, knowing that he's a great racer, but new to driving a funny car, she opted to abort the run feeling that it was the safest thing to do.

On the Team's second pass, they experienced a problem with the throttle linkage and it wouldn't go full throttle like linkages are supposed to. The car stayed dead straight in the groove, however, getting it to full throttle didn't happen until about 200 foot when it finally opened to a wide open throttle for her to finish out the run.

For Matter's third and final attempt, with the throttle linkage fixed, thanks to Dickie Callaway, Tom Conway and her team mate Jeremy Mitchell, the team was able to lay down a solid .999 second 60 foot in the heat of the day, but was still unable to collect all the data from the run from extenuating circumstances.

"Since we didn't have any solid data for Tom to work with at that point, we didn't change the tune up. When we got a solid 60 foot and then over powered the track, it was a great thing for all of us. I pedaled the car when it shook on that third qualifier and kept it in the groove but was only full throttle for 5.51 seconds since I lifted when my opponent shattered the last three cones on the run which left us once again without any accurate data up to that point in the run and in the sixth position going into Race Day. Despite the hurdles though, at that point, we knew we were going to be ready for Sunday's eliminations" says Matter.

Matter continues "On Sunday, Tom is so brilliant with what little data he had to work with, he picked the perfect tune up that set us up very competitively. We were a head of Kebin until just about 1100 foot where he snuck around us and got the stripe by about 1/2 car length. It was a Great Drag Race. Kebin came up to me at the end of the track and said that all he saw was a purple car the whole way down and didn't think he was going to win".

The Music.Com/The Who 2007 Top Alcohol Team will next be racing at Englishtown in late June, 2007 during NHRA's SuperNationals. The Team is completely ready and was hoping to make it to Heartland Park in Topeka for the next stop on the NHRA Powerade Tour, however, due to Nancy's obligations with the upcoming concerts of The Who and Peter Gabriel, her team must bypass that particular event to fulfill her prior musical obligations.

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