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this was racing brackets at Grove Creek Raceway in Minnesota last Saturday night.
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Congratulations to defending World Champion Phil Combs on sweeping the weekend so far at Mountain Park Dragway in Clay City, KY, driving Jim Woods' Borrowed Money L/SA Chevy II. Philbilly won the No-Box race Friday night, and then won Stock last night (early this morning, as they started late to get past the 100+ degree temps), taking out Pittsburgh Pro-Am winner Rob Bihl in Harlan Updike's Q/SA sled in the finals.
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I won the HDRA drags at Riverhead Raceway last year in July in a 2001 4cyl Camry, slo and consistent thru 6 rounds, lol. Not a lot of happy people who raced me especially high dollar restored Vette in finals, could not catch my camry, lol. dialed by temp outside temp guage on dash.
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1. No GM product has won a NHRA national or divisional event ever! 2. No fwd car has won a NHRA national/divisional event so far this century! 3. No fwd car has finished in the top ten NHRA national/divisional points standings! 4. I'm not sure where the IHRA is with regards to this (Michael Beard I hope you will enlighten me here), but I think the above applies to IHRA too (unless you or that Cavalier stocker racer from back in the '80's who inspired me to build/race my car, did it)? 5. There's never been a multiple event winner with a fwd stocker! There's five REALLY BIG reasons I continue (as best I can), to race my fwd slower roller. Once I get my financial house in better shape, I'm going after all of those that aren't nabbed by someone else out there with the appropriate race cars...I like a challenge, and my $5k slower roller is waiting for it's chance to show (by more race time), it's capable of winning too. Oh, and one more thing, where Jody and Toby's stockers are concerned, only Jody's car qualifies as a slow stocker, since any car that runs quicker than a 12.00 is still in the faster half of stock eliminator, and Toby's G/SA is (even by alphabetical listings), one of the faster stocker cars known the nation over....just sayin'. |
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After reading a thread that started 12-10-08 titled "Lower Class Stockers", I now realize that Kyle Riley finished Div. 3 in the top ten a few times (so the divisional half of my #3 referrence was wrong), and Mike Carr, now Bill O'Conner, & Kyle Riley have won divisionals with fwd cars.
As for my #4, comment, IHRA had a national event winner (per Brett Kepner), as far back as 1977! Dennis, when did Bill win that division race? Belated congrats to Bill for doing it! At least after reading that earlier mentioned thread, my points #'s 1, 2 & 5 (national events only), are still out there to grab, as well as #3 nationally, are still up for grabs. So there's plenty to shoot for, and if I'm not fortunate enough to do it, then I hope Mike, or someone else out there trying to get 'er done, with a fwd stocker will, because that'll be more significant given the higher degree of difficulty in such an accomplishment! |
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