Despite some first day issues due to the massive amounts of rain the St. Louis area had sustained in the week before the third Annual Muscle Car Reunion and Nostalgia drags the MCR crew and the Gateway International crew not only solved the track issues buy delivered a track that Fuel Funny Car drivers Paul Romine and Doc Halladay said was as good a track as any National Event they have ever ran on.
This race was the first of  six-race Drag Racing Online AA/FC seriesn races to be held at Midwest events including two of the Goodguys Midwest events and the World Series of Drag Racing.

These race was set-up for six cars with a 6-4-2 format which has the quickest loser in the first round returning in the second. For the First qualifying round set for Saturday night four of the six cars that were on the premises made qualifying attempts. Doc Halladay with Jerry Newman tuning was the only car to make a full pass or almost a full pass.

He ran a 6.365 at just 183.97. "The track was so good that when I shifted it bogged the engine so I clicked it early." Halladay had a 3.97 660 and a 2.67 clocking to the 330. They hurt a couple of pistons. Paul Romine wasn't quite as llucky as he kissed the guardwall at about 1000ft on his pass and the pass was DQ'd. He did get a 4.04 ET to the 660 but no quarter-mile ET. He was able to replace the header and fix some very minor damage to the left rear quarter-panel.

Randy Baker driving for Danny Miller shook the chutes out on his qualifying pass. Miller's motor is the loudest Nostalgia nitro motor I have ever heard. It sound like a Jack Hammer. Miller swears they are just burning 87 percent in the tank and have moderate compression but it sure sounds like they are burning 98 percent nitro. John Dunn in the Dunn and Gone Plymouth Duster had traction issues and ran just a 9.69. The Funny Cars will make one more qualifying lap this afternoon and then the first round of racing takes place this evening. An early morning rain shower set the schedule back some so it may be late tonight before we get the first round of eliminations in.

There were some other classes that made laps yesterday. Pro Comp 1 is ran on a seven-flat index and Richard Edwards from Terre Haute Ind in a 48 Fiat AA/A ran a 192.22 for Top Speed. Low ET went to the digger of Frank Cervelli in a front motored dragster at 7.053.
The weather looks exceptional for tonight and tommorow and Sundays Eliminations should be fun.  Check DRO on Sunday for more photos and features on the Nostalgia Super Stockers and the Nostalgia Pro Comp racers.