Epping, New Hampshire - August 30, 2015:

With hopes of still being able to overcome the points lead Tony Bartone had for the Hot Rod Heritage Racing Series Top Fuel title, Tom Shelar and the the High Speed Motorsports team made the coast-to-coast trip from Santa Ana, CA to New England Dragway in Epping, NH.

Those hopes were dashed when, after a change in the way the car leaves the line, Bill Dunlap went red in round one. It was barely red (.025) but red nonetheless.

So after, after the long trip home, on September 19th they won the final 2015 Saturday Night Nitro event at Bakersfield running a career best ET of 5.63 in the process. This leaves them primed to take another crack at title at the California Hot Rod Reunion in October.

That said there were a lot of photos taken at Epping and the team will now share them with their fans.

*Thanks to Gary Hargreaves, (VP of business development at CNC Software, Mastercam corporate) who drove 3 hrs with his wife Eileen to visit the Mastercam car at their local race.

The only actual pair to run this session was Bill Dunlap and his current adversary, Tony Bartone.

Bartone stopped the clocks with a 5.602 at 235.64 while Dunlap, on a tune-up pass, carded a 5.821 at just 218.97.

Dunlap let the car settle then rolled into the throttle so they would at least have some data for the tune-up.

With only four cars, Dunlap who was the #2 qualifier drew the #3 driver, Dusty Green in the Colorado based Nitro Hemi car.

Dunlap, not known for red lighting, caught one here. Tom (Shelar) was trying some new combination factors, so by not getting any data from the failed Q3 attempt, they were unaware how much quicker the car would launch. Hence the uncharacteristic red light.....unfortunately in Eliminations....

The crew and Shelar were left to move forward and get home for the final two races of the year. Winning the CHRR would take the sting out of this one.