Div II race rescheduled
 

Friends up in Cecil GA told me just awhile ago that high winds have forced the race to be rescheduled in May.
All they had to do was watch ANY weather TV station and know what was approaching. Why did'nt they run the race Saturday?

Ron Ortiz
U/SA whether to race or race the weather.

I can confirm the postponement. Don't have the details yet, they will be posted on DRC as soon as we get the final wrapup from NHRA. Our on-site reporter had a ten-hour drive ahead of him, so he's already on his way home and we're waiting for the official announcement.

- Larry

Ron, I know they did run 1st round of stock Sat afternoon. I'm just wondering why they didn't continue racing until the weather moved in

Chad Rhodes
STK 2113
www.rhodesmotorsports.net

Chad, there are probably alot of racers that were there that have that same question. But, you never know the full circumstances of any decision making.

Ron Ortiz
U/SA do I stay or let them go.

I'm not a weather expert by any means, but the wind was picking up steadily the closer to dark it got on Saturday at SGMP. The last qualifying round for T/S was stopped for a brief rain shower, but they did dry the track and finished T/S and the last run for the alcohol cars. I think this was a good call by the Div 2 guys. I wasn't surprised by this call after the crash at Bradenton earlier this year. Ofcourse it didn't matter to me since I lost 1st Rd. of S/ST Saturday afternoon to Ron's friend Kevin MacNichol. Maybe there is a driving secret found by eating that beef jerky. I'll have to try it and see. LOL.

By the way Ron, I was also pitted beside another one of your friends, Truman Fields. It was a pleasure to meet him and being pitted next to him.

Joe Pinkston
2155 S/ST

And a tip o the cap to Craig Couris, for the .002 light he bestowed upon me, in rd 1 of stock.....

Gee, man, nice to meet you too !! J/K I get my own self in trouble enough. Good Luck at the completion date!

I hope they will replace that win light , on my side ! It looks like yours still works ?!

STK 2894

We were told the new dates were May 11-12. All fields are set. Our station said we were having 22 avg wind with gusts to 28 but we were a little shielded by the stands-suites. Past the 1/8 might have been more wind and forcast was for it to pick up as the day went. Good call.
Only had 25 SS cars. Around 55 Stockers. Over 80 SG and the same for SC. Around 450 total.

Kenny,

Nice meeting you too and thanks for the kind words. On another note, I have never seen so much valuable racing time wasted in my life. Who decides on these morning start times of 12:00 noon on Friday and 10:00AM on Saturday anyway? What's wrong with 8:00AM when the air is cool?

Craig

The wind was blowing strong from the left to the right of the track.
There are solid stands approximatly 50 ft. high, ala Rockingham, on the left side of the track till about the eighth mile, blocking virtually all the strong wind.
My question, why not make it an eighth mile race ? We all had our tickets with eighth mile times. The .90 cars definatly would have needed a couple time runs. But we sat rain free on Sunday till 1pm till they called off the race. Would have been plenty of time for the .90 guys to have a couple shots. I have several friends that run the super gas association races, and they are mostly all run eight mile anyway. Wouldn't have been too hard to do.
Now, the reason there needs to be way more of an effort to get these races in is simply the price of fuel.
Lets assume that with only 3 classes having run first round there will be about 300 cars returning. Lets use a very low number of 200.00$ per car for towing fuel. Thats 60,000 $ in fuel money alone !!! Plus all of the other expenses.
I talked to several guys that thought an eighth mile race would have been fine.
Is it because IHRA did this earlier this year and it worked out well that the NHRA wouldn't consider it ? Ego ?
I don't know, but it's too expensive to tow to these things without thinking it over.



Mike ( madness & ) Mayhem

Hey MIke, its because most of the NHRA guys cant run 1/8.

Lil Duane

Mike, what about the lite weight 12-1600hp Top Sportsman Cars and the Top Dragsters, lil on the Alcohol cars, wouldn't strap my *** in one, in thos conditions It was a very Bad cross wind i agree but it was creating a funnel effect in between the stands. I for one applaud their decision, Sorry Mike.

woodro josey
I miss Buster Couch and Lex Dudas.

Well Woodro, the guys on my row thought about the fast, liteweight cars. We came to the conclusion that they need to be more prepared to come to the races. If ya ain't got at least 4000 lbs of hot, molten, man machine......then just stay in the pits. [:-laughing-:] [:-laughing-:] [:-laughing-:]

Ok, whatever. But earlier when the wind wasn't as bad I noticed that the crosswind became just a small tailwind between the stands thru about the eighth mile. So when the wind got stronger was it that bad in the eighth mile ? I didn't think so but maybe it was.



Mike ( madness & ) Mayhem

Mike we had gust up to 34MPH,,,,,,,,,,boy it was a trip coming home!

woodro josey
I miss Buster Couch and Lex Dudas.

Hi Joe,
Kevin MacNicol, his wife Alisa, and Truman Fields are these super nice Pontiac people. Kevin is having a good year, as he wants his D2 title back, Alisa is now running Stock, and Truman, well we are not allowed to talk about him on this forum. Or is he not allowed on this forum, yea thats it.
Looking foward to meeting you, we'll enjoy some beef jerky, and viola, you'll start cutting great lights.

Ron Ortiz
U/SA hi truman where ever you are