"Live From" Virginia Motorsports Park DIV 1-1

[Ken Miele]

Hello all, I'm here at D1's first division race of the year. Today there is a test and tune starting around 12:30. The weather is a little bit on the cool side, about 60 with a stiff head wind, 12-16 mph.

There were a few cars out getting ready to test today, but overall the turnout is light so far. Rigs are coming though and there should be a good turn out. We are supposed to get some rain Saturday night and a chance of rain Sunday morning, hopefully we can get it all in.

Mike Ficcaci brought his 68 small block Corvette this weekend, the car looks great, I think he will be running E/SA this weekend. I will be in Anthony Bogiovanni's 14 Cobra Jet, FS/E. This guy is amazing, anytime I need a ride, he is there for me.

I will be back later with more photos and info.

[jmcarter]

Kind of a dismal forecast but since it was scheduled to be complete on Saturday perhaps you have Sunday as a "flex" day....hope it goes well, look forward to seeing pics and results of the D1 hordes...your car counts always amaze me. Hopefully you'll even have a good Comp turnout. Love Comp and the counts thus far this year have been disappointing, a whopping 9 Comp cars at Houston this weekend.

[HR9121]

Uh oh, second weekend on the job and I'm late! I had some work to do today but will head up later this afternoon.
I'm glad Ken is going to be there so he can pick up my slack because I will be pulling double duty this weekend. Not racing, but for the first time in a while my wife has decided she wants to go and bring our 2 girls of course. So I will be a busy man!
It's a short trip for us at only about 3 hours and she has been known to drop some dollars in the Petersburg area shopping malls before, that might actually be the real reason she's going.
Everything is loaded so we'll be on the road doo.

[HR9121]

Originally Posted by jmcarter

Kind of a dismal forecast but since it was scheduled to be complete on Saturday perhaps you have Sunday as a "flex" day....hope it goes well, look forward to seeing pics and results of the D1 hordes...your car counts always amaze me. Hopefully you'll even have a good Comp turnout. Love Comp and the counts thus far this year have been disappointing, a whopping 9 Comp cars at Houston this weekend.

Jim down to 8 now, 3 round race.

[Ken Miele]

Hey James, no worries, if you have time that's great. More important, have fun this weekend.

Test and tune is just about done. Nothing special to report, except for the wind. most of the day it was 12-16mph with 20mph gusts. Still a light turnout, but tomorrow should be better. The weather will be a little warmer tomorrow, but the winds will be the same.

I will be back tomorrow with more photos, videos and info.

[Tim Quintin/Cole s/g]

Man now I'm Jealous... Couldn't make it this year (garage sale duty) We'll Hopefully be there next year... If I can get my dad up.. it was aa struggle just to get him to ATCO haha.

[HR9121]

Well I rolled in at 10:05 and was parked at the gate for the night. They are very prompt on their cut off time at VMP nowadays. Should've been here a lot sooner but I didn't allow enough time travelling with my circus.
See you guys bright and early in the morning!

[Ken Miele]

Good morning all, its a chilly sunny morning with a brisk head wind. Stock is out first this morning at 8:30. The pits are starting to fill up, and it looks as if there will be a lot more cars here today.

The weather for this morning looks to be quick in spite of the head wind.

Temp 50
Bar 29.80
Humid 45%
DA -350
Wind head 8-10mph.

Be back later....

[Paul Merolla]

Originally Posted by HR9121

Well I rolled in at 10:05 and was parked at the gate for the night. They are very prompt on their cut off time at VMP nowadays. Should've been here a lot sooner but I didn't allow enough time travelling with my circus.
See you guys bright and early in the morning!

Hey James, nice picture of you on page 73 of the new Dragster!! Congrats!

[HR9121]

Originally Posted by Paul Merolla

Hey James, nice picture of you on page 73 of the new Dragster!! Congrats!

Thanks Paul, haven't seen it yet but apparently it was in the mail box yesterday and I didn't check it as luck would have it. I heard this morning I was a star! Lol Actually I'm parked very close to the star of Charlotte, Joel Warren. Spoke with him this morning and was able to congratulate him in person.
As for this race we are done with 2CD round of qualifying and it was announced that will be it. Right into eliminations in the morning, trying to beat the weather coming in tomorrow. When final sheets are up I'll try to post if Ken doesn't beat me to it.
Good air this morning but a very strong headwind which is not that unusual for here this time of the year. Tomorrow morning should be interesting.