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Good morning everyone, as you can see from the pictures its raining. There were reports of severe weather in the area, but nothing at the track. The rain came down heavy at times last night, but all is well.

The rain is light and and is supposed to be gone by the afternoon, but I don't see the sportsman running today. If they get anything in, I think it will just be the pros.

I appreciate all the kinds words, its lots of fun to do, although it can get crazy at times. I am hoping to get another in car camera, but it depends on the schedule and when we run. I guess I need to buy some more camera's. I was thinking how cool it would be to have a camera in two cars that are running each other.

I will be back with an update as soon as they let us know what the schedule is for today.

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Attention in the pits, I need STOCK, Stock, Stock to the oars, please, STOCK to the oars! Help me, help me, help me!

Whups, wrong race! ;)

Made the 1:45 drive out here this morning juuuust in case. I've been to Bristol when the radar "clearly" showed that it was raining, and we're like.... Mm, nope, sun's shining! 'Course I've been to Norwalk with a Sunny and 80 forecast that rained for 3 straight days.

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We used to get the same story from PBIR. After about the third time making the 1 1/2 hour tow only to find the place under water, we'd call and ask the guy in the tower to stick the phone out the window - if we couldn't hear the rain we headed North! :)

Good luck to all this weekend!

Lew

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Atco was that way for us, since it's only 40 minutes from the house we would take the risk and drive to the track. We would get to the old WAWA (Now it's like Old Nelson's Farm) and it would be pouring in sheets there so we would call the track which is about a mile down the road and the girl on the phone would be like it's Sunny and Beautiful here and were just about ready to start racing. When we told her where we were at and it was pouring she hung up on us...haha!

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ever notice that unless it's a blatant washout, NO track owner (except maybe Pat), will ever admit that its raining at the track?? Its always "it rained a little earlier but we'll be good to go", or "it just missed us", and my personal favorite "its raining everywhere but here, I guess we're just lucky"

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Ken thanks for the reporting and in car video's that is really great! :D

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Just announced Pro Stock at 12:30 (if all goes well)

Dark clouds over the dirt track, peeks of sun every once in awhile 10ft from there. ;). Did some hiking all over. Gotta say, this place was designed really well. There are significant drainage ditches along the track and a retention pond by the end of the track off to the right. You can see the trickle of water next to the guardrail running downtrack. The shutdown surface looks really nice, almost polished. Coming back up the track, you can see the dirt track and the circle track from the scales. Looking across from the scoreboards and the end of the grandstands looking over to the pro pits and grandstands, you can clearly see the elevation change. Pretty sure they didn't build the grandstands uphill. ;) Took a trip to the top to get the lay of the land, and again could see over to the dirt track nearby. Track crew is working hard!

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Hey Michael, as a side note to this tread, I was at MIR last night. The "new" water box boy in the right lane last had Plenty of water in his box for you. LOL. He was getting the track ready for today's rain out. I could have used your oar!

Tom Sr.

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Weather permitting, may see a little S/SS action today yet...
http://www.dragracecentral.com/DRCSt...24827#indextop

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I enjoy the place last year and the way it was layed out, the only surprising thing was the lack of water in the pits, I don't need it much, but we had to go over to the pro side to find water and it was rare there. And they didn't want you taking jugs thru the tunnel. Has that changed ?