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After a short 2 1/2 hour drive I 've been pitted and its a far drive to the starting line ... must be a lot of folks here already .Today is to be test n tune day but at this moment (1:15) not one car has been down the track .Many were waiting to see how the track is after they ground it down this week .............I'll be back with some pics .

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OK - my bad -- Test n Tune isn't to start until 3pm lasting to 9pm -- guess I can't read . Anyway with tech out of the way not much to do until things get rolling .

While in tech I ran into Sherwood Allen with his grandson, Michael in tow -- the next generation of S/S drivers ? Cute kid ...........

Opps -- Almost forgot -- the big guy next to Michael Jr. is our own Dave Ley working the tech lines .

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Jack:
you owe me a phone call :(

Dean

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Yes I do ........and you owe some seafood ..............

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Test n tune stuff .........Minuteman C/SA DP --10.31 ----JC Beatti A/SA 10.07 more later.

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Hey Jack, is there anyone there you know that knows Onan diesel generators??? Joe Franco is having problems getting his to run in his motorhome.

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Stefan - Matt Shurman is here -- he's the resident Onan expert .I'm not sure but I think he went for Crabs tonight (somehow that doesn't sound right ) .

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Matt Schurman can take a look I'm sure. He should be there probably by now or soon. We fix them all the time......Diesels, gas, whatever you have we work on them all............Matt has a S/G Beretta.....Jack knows him and should be able to help Joe find Matt......

You are right Jack.....I heard there was a crabfest planned out last week at the Masga race for this weeks race.....Life is good down there.....It's pretty good here to......beer, chips and the Yankees are on...(replay of todays gameand I already know they won)

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you probobly already know this. but is there enough fuel in the rv? most gens. won't run with less than a 1/4 tank.

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Rich -You gotta get out more -- beer / chips / and a rerun ??? Doesn't all you can eat Crabs and race cars sound more inviting ?

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Thanks guys, please send him to Joes trailer.....Mark, he is full.

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You are right Jack for sure......but for less than the cost of towing fuel, tolls and entry fee I can race two different tracks on two different days and plan to do exactly that ...Island saturday and E-town Sunday........and driving for 3 hours just to get some crabs and a few beers and park on the side of a rocky cliff is not my idea of fun......Cecil is a cool track with a lot of history but maybe they could spring for some decent bathrooms with running water! It's 2010 and last time I was there all I saw was PortaPotties......good thing my camper is fully equipped!!!

Hey I would love to be there........I prefer NHRA racing anyday and being there would be fun....but I chose to do some other things these days.....

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When i come over for the dutch can you ask Matt to look at mine please.

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Here's a few photos taken by Classracer.com.'s newest helper - Ed ( I can't believe I'm typing this ) Fernandez ...........thanks Ed ! ! ! Later I'll post more.............

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Friday 6:45 AM -- Talk about a pretty morning - this is it ! The Sun is just coming up and we are close enough to the Atlantic Ocean to get a whiff of the salt breeze .Last evening it was humid bigtime as there were many generators running all night keeping the air conditioners electrified but today its much milder for sure.It is already 72 degrees and is supposed to hit ninty today -- barometer is 29.52 but we're past 2000 feet DA even at this early hour .

In the first of the photos below is "Camp Glick" - where even the NHRA officials are camping with us now .I just knew this camping out thing would catch on .........

While out taking photos this morning I ran into some campers - one asked if I saw how pretty the Moon was last night -- my answer - "My gazing at the Moon days are over thank you " -- let me tell you that's the cleaned-up version .Must have been some serious partying last night - some of those folks looked pretty rough this morning . My big night ? I have zero TV reception - nada -zip- zero ........not even PBS so I just turned in early .Later............

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Stock got out a little after 10am but it was already 85 degrees /47% and a DA of almost 3000 feet -- most went well in spite of the weather -- I'll post something after the sheets are out .Most drivers I spoke with are satisfied with the track and its new surface after the grinding .Later .........

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84 Stockers made the call for their first q-pass of the day --

Merryfield C/SA 10.27 -1.128
Cokinos P/S 12.27
Adkins B/S 10.162
Beattie A/SA 9.982
Bollman AA/S 9.502
Sepanek I/SA 11.313
Dilcher J/SA 11.519
Bishop B/S 10.27
MacNiesh D/S 10.577
Kreeber b/SA 10.343 -.907

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Another great stocker turnout at a Div. 1 Lucas event. WJ

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DRC has Kreeber in F with a 67 Barracuda at -1.50. Yikes!!

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Boy I sure wish I lived closer to some your division races. That's quite a field. Did you go to Indy last year? I was looking through my pictures and wasn't sure what I was looking for if you went. Could you post a picture of your car. Would like to meet you if you get to Atlanta or Charlotte. Really appreciate your live post from the races. Keep up the good work in your spare time. LOL

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Jimmy - Mine is the official version ............BTW , Eric Bollman in AA/S as in now its a stick car has top MPH for this meet .

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Never doubt our Ace Reporter, he's smarter than the NHRA!

Thanks, Jack.

JimR

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Dragracecentral has taken another nap here! I ran the clean up run at 3:43 pm and still no update! The first run never made it on there either!!

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Yeah, and where is our roving photographer; Tom Sheehan??
Or his back up; Ken Miele??

Did someone break out a keg down there?

If this keeps up I may have to jump into the Burban and motor down rte. 476!!

C'mon guys.

Jimmie C.

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SS Q-2 Byron Worner SS/IA 9.716 -.984
Armstrong SS/AA 8.755
Linke SS/JA 10.071
Linke GT/MA 10.839
Modugno SS/DS 10.005
Chervanik GT/LA 10.672
Barsky SS/NA 11.294
Thomas SS/BA 9.056
Oakes SS/CA 9.220
AllenSS/F 9.524 -.826

Track was not very sticky as many spun big .....71 cars made the call .

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At least 2 more SS cars ran the clean up run that did not run in either of the 1st two sessions. Where is the revised sheet drc??? It's now 7pm!!! Over 3 hours since we ran that session!!

Sheehan and Miele are both on the property!!

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Why, why, WHY do I read that repeatedly from reports at NHRA events?! :confused: There's no reason for it!

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I'll be glad to keep you informed ......and what's your excuse for not being among us this weekend ?

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Brew crew group photo ..........by seven this evening their trash was full .Hmmmmmmm..........notice all the silver cans .........diet Coke ? Nah .........

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Here's a few extra photo's taken during the day ............Some notable things -- first note on Ralph Porpora's 69 Camaro -- his new wheelie bars .Then take a long look at Tom Kreeber's Mr.413 1962 Fury B/SA ...........JUST PLAIN NEAT ! !

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FYI...NHRA ran an additional cleanup run at 7:47 pm and did not issue a revised sheet until 7:48 pm.

Jim

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Good morning -- Today doesn't seem to be nearly the day yesterday was - here it is 7am and not much sunshine and the temp much lower - hopefully the overcast will burn off .

In conversations I had last evening at Uncle Bucks' ( yes ,Uncle Buck had a little get together last evening with not one but two giant smokers - but thats a story for another time ) most racers were satisfied the NHRA and Cecil County were doing everything they could to give us a good track - yes a bunch of cars spun yesterday but you have to remember it is August and the Sun was beating down hard on the track yesterday afternoon so at times it became a little slippery - but they did try hard to keep up with it .Ask anyone who made one of the clean-up runs after the Sun went down - the place had teeth . This reporter was one of those who went out around 7:45pm and had his best 60' of the weekend .

I'll be back after our final time trial of the weekend later this morning - opps , one last thing-- because of possible bad weather coming tomorrow we are to race at least two rounds of everything today and possibly more -- stay tuned ...............

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Nice work Jack, keep up the good work. Who is announcing?

Tom and Jack, keep the photos coming.

Thanks,

Evan

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Jack, Ed Fernandez droped off some more photos. I know some of the people but not all. Mabye you could fill the names for us.

Evan, Lewis Bloom.

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More photos from John DiBartolomeo Editor-DRAG RACING ACTION Magazine www.dragracingaction.com

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Here's the skinny - Stock will be called around 12:30 for rd 1 - SS just after .We will run at least 3 rounds today as bad weather is headed for us Sunday .Looks like only one heads-up C/SA -- Bubba v Allison . Interesting match-up -- Meile AA/SA v Cokinos P/S -big head start.


Total of 103 cars made the call in Stock this morning -- S/S out on the track now - count in the mid seventies ..........total of cars on the grounds -- almost 500 - not bad for these times - oh and there are 9 Pro Stock Sleds here .