Re: "Live" from St. Louis AAA Ins. Midwest Nat'l 2017
 

Im kind new at this, but the weather: 52.2 degrees, 90%, baro 29.75, AA 308'. It could be fast.

All the Showdown cars I spoke with are planing a pit stop at the edge of the round track stands to cool and re-ice inter coolers. On the plus side of being this far from the starting line, the oil will be hot for the XX cars. I did notice some showdown teams are in the pits with the "Pros", I wonder if a teams pit placement will affect performance and the outcome of the race.

More later, got to get ready for Q1.

The Hay in the pits is cut, raked, and ready to bailed.

Re: "Live" from St. Louis AAA Ins. Midwest Nat'l 2017
 

Quite a few, the track is 1.25 miles around. Did they take out the far wall again for entry? The Hill's mention some of the Stock FX Shootout cars are parking with the Pros. We'll it will open a few more spots then.

Re: "Live" from St. Louis AAA Ins. Midwest Nat'l 2017
 

Showdown
Gasko 8.09
Bell 8.10
Barton 8.11

Re: "Live" from St. Louis AAA Ins. Midwest Nat'l 2017
 

The Chevrolet's are killing it!

Re: "Live" from St. Louis AAA Ins. Midwest Nat'l 2017
 

NHRA, in my opinion, is two for two on the racetrack not being prepared properly for first qualifying attempt,Charlotte was bad and so was St. Louis. Sixty foot was 1.387 for Charlotte and 1.380 at Gateway, Q2 at Charlotte was 1.331 in sixty, I hoping to see the same improvement (.05) on Q2 later today. I wonder if they forgot what they did at Indy, Indy was great.

Cross your fingers. Is value for the dollar spent with NHRA reduced to hoping that the track is good?

The good thing about a data recorder is they show you what happened.

Re: "Live" from St. Louis AAA Ins. Midwest Nat'l 2017
 

I heard there was no scales or fuel check for the first round.

Re: "Live" from St. Louis AAA Ins. Midwest Nat'l 2017
 

Yes, but....all the tech were in the lanes prior to TT 1 looking at our cars especially the safety items...not sure there were enough bodies to go around...LOL.....

Re: "Live" from St. Louis AAA Ins. Midwest Nat'l 2017
 

So, with no scales, do those rounds count against the AHFS?

Re: "Live" from St. Louis AAA Ins. Midwest Nat'l 2017
 

No sense mentioning the Dodge Challenger with top mile per hour (168) - driven by Leah.

Besides it was 2 hundredths behind Barton's chevy


Ron

Re: "Live" from St. Louis AAA Ins. Midwest Nat'l 2017
 

Q2 adjusted alt. 1007', Q2 was 428' worse and track temp was 106* and 60' went down to 1.33, go figure.