Rado Wins in a Supra!

[Bo]

This has got to be one of the craziest twists I've heard about in a while:

From NHRAImport.com's coverage of the weekend's events.

Second-round wackiness: The second round of eliminations produced more twists and turns than the best rollercoaster ride. In Modified, Christian Rado (pictured) will end up in the winner's circle after with a free ride into the winner's circle after not even planning to attend the event. Rado, whose new Celica was not ready for the event, took up the offer from Toyota teammate Craig Paisley to drive Paisley's old Supra. After defending Modified champ Carlos Gonzales had staging problems and couldn't get up on the turbo in time against Rado in round two, Rado was set to face Len Monserrat in the semifinals for the right to face the winner of the Nelson Hoyos versus Alex Driggers semi. In a wild turn, Driggers left before the Tree turned green for his Corolla and was disqualified; Hoyos also couldn't wait for the Tree and turned loose the Bothwell Motorsport Cavalier and also was disqualified -- thus no winner was declared -- thus making the Rado-Monserrat race the default championship bash, with the winner taking a bye in the final. Rado took the win easily when BigLen stumbled out of the gate.

[t2000gts]

hahaha, so when is the celica supposed to be ready if he's already missing races cuz of it?

[larryd]

haha.. its like a win by default :)

[Bo]

Originally posted by t2000gts
hahaha, so when is the celica supposed to be ready if he's already missing races cuz of it?

Fawk if I know. It was supposed to see action at maple grove on the 27th, but now that's cancelled. Hopefully before the summer starts :D

[Keyshawn]

Originally posted by t2000gts
hahaha, so when is the celica supposed to be ready if he's already missing races cuz of it?

That sucks that delays with his Celica are starting to affect how well he does this race season. Luckily, Paisley helped him out so he wouldn't fall behind in points right at the get-go. I wonder what exactly the hold up is? Hopefully, this gets straightened out soon.

[iDRIVE]

I heard the delay was caused by TRD changing the engine "BACK" to 2ZZ-GE.





Then I woke up...:rolleyes:

[oldster]

Originally posted by GTSnut


Fawk if I know. It was supposed to see action at maple grove on the 27th, but now that's cancelled. Hopefully before the summer starts :D

I was "supposed" to see action after SEMA last year......but heh, who's counting? :chuckles:

[Team_WORLD_Racing]

Delays are caused by all types of different reasons, from TRD having engine problems, to waiting on axles, to our body guy going on vacation, to other teams getting their own cars ready. There are many factors that we have to deal with everyday, most of them are out of our control and all we can do is find another option or wait. Building a car from scratch was very new to us and to our chassis builder, building a FWD was very new. Everything is one off, so imagine all of the man hours to even fabricate even a gas tank mount. We are extremely close, there is a fully built 3RZ in the car, and TRD should have 2 more to us by the E-Town event on May 4th and 5th. We cannot rush anymore than we have been, trust us, we want the car out there more than anybody else. It is coming.........
The win is a great start, Chris gets the points not the car, so we are leading the NHRA points!! Whoo Hooo!
Of course without Craig being the great guy he is we would have totally missed out on the opportunity to receive points at the opener. There was some crazy stuff going on with people, leaving the lights, but I think it was our turn to have some good luck!
Later Guys,
Jay

[Keyshawn]

We're definitely pullin for ya, Jay! We know you guys at World Racing are working hard to be on top of the game. Good Luck, man!:)

[oldster]

Thanks Jay, good luck with your schedule. :)

[Bo]

I think it was our turn to have some good luck!
Later Guys,
Jay

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