AND THE ADVENTURES OF MATT PETTY: Earthquakes, Monsoon rains, and a banged up shin cant stop an event.

Day One:
Thursday night
So after a terrible showing in Moroso, I wasnt going into NOPI St Louis with a lot of confidence.... The first thing to go wrong happened shortly after stepping off the plane in St louis. I was tired from traveling all day and excited to be hanging out with Rob Fleming (another NOPI Judge) again and wasnt paying attention to where i was going and BAM! i slam my shin into one of the rows of chairs in the Airport. Great 10 minutes in the state of MO and im ready to go home. Strike one.

Upon arrival i met the "new guy".. Jason Jiovani, Apparently Jason did the whole nopi season last year and drives pretty awesome. Jason is a ripping dude, knows his shit and works hard man.

You might know him from ripping this machine..

Anyway, so we are heading through St Louis and then bam we end up in Illinois. So im all "What the fuck i thought this is Nopi St louis... turns out the track isnt even in Missouri its in Illinois!
You can see the gateway to the west aka The St Louis Arch from the track we ran "Gateway Int Raceway".
Here is a picture i took of it when we went out for karaoke. More on that later.

Day Two:
So Friday we go to the track and its raining crazy off and on all day.. During the night we had an EARTHQUAKE! Yeah it was my first one i ever lived through.. and i woke up for like a second.. then went back to bed..

I dont get "Phased" by earthquakes man.. I mean like i cant believe how fast they are . California is a bunch of sissy's always crying about the earth trying to swallow them up..

The gang at Adrenaline Motorsports were running a qualifier and the track conditions looked terrible. All of a sudden the sky opens up and its pouring.. Like buckets and buckets, Cats and dogs, whatever you want to call it, its raining hard. Doppler says the end is not in sight and we cancel the rest of the day ... Sorry St Louis .

Here is a picture of the ground that Wrecked took... it was wet man.. and the wind broke a patio umbrella in half... thats a fact. I didn't take pics cause i like to keep my camera working.

Saturday:
Saturday starts practice it was cloudy and cold.. I was shivering the whole time.. All i had was this crappy childs rain coat with a fake fleece liner that we bought from walmarts. I was mega cold. I watched some practice then tandem practice... then i went to karoke in down town st louis.. Killed some of my favorites and hung out with this guy.. he lent me his chain for the picture so i could set my street cred meter through the roof! Then he karaoke RAPPED!
Thats how they do in the STL dogggg!

Sunday:
So practice is over. We went straight into qualifying.. after the smoke flew away the sun came out and the qualifying ladder looked like this.

1. Aaron Losey- TX
2. Nate Brasz- VA
3. Sammy Tiger Racing-GA
4. Forest Wang-HI
5. Jeremy Lowe-FL
6. Matt Waldin-PA
7. Kenji Yaminaka-Japan DUDE!
8. Chanin P.-GA
9. Ali Aljibouri-TX
10. Esteban Falero-FL
11. Sean Love-FL
12. John Wagner-PA
13. Bill Sherman-FL
14. Jason Beatty-AZ
15. Juan Henao-FL
16. Nick Thomas-Who Knows?

Then we went into tandem.

On The podium was were these men
1.Aaron Losey