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Just pulled in from Detroit area at 3:00 local time to a long line of haulers that weaves along the side of the circle track. The line is moving but it's gonna be a while till I get in. Stay tuned for reports from inside. Looks like a good WiFI signal - so far.

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Good luck y'all! I'm heading south to Tennessee where Edmond Richardson and the Boyz are putting on a big money bottom-bulb race.

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The line of rigs parked at the circle track cleared after 5:00. The asphalt pits filled quickly with lots of space reserved for yet to arrive Comp and Alcohol cars. The grass pits are filling steadily. The latest forecasts look better for Friday with no rain. Sunday looks like it could be a problem with 100% chance. The signal is strong at the track so updates should be easy.

Bill Dyer was thrashing on something under the car. http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...pskzeocpdb.jpg

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Bill Dyer- We were just Making his Moostang shift easier!

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Good morning. We have a beautiful day here in Chicago Land with great weather today. Cool temps this morning and what looks like good air. But there is a strong cross/head wind that may wipe that out. Super Street started off and about 10 pair went down and we stopped. Some issues with the timing system. A couple of photos in the meantime.

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My close friend and former Stocker racer Sam Hamod with MJ Quinn.

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Looks like a good field of stockers

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Nathan Botten is one of the faithful Ford racers.

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It wouldn't be a race if James didn't have a Jerico apart somewhere lol.......

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The track is changing out the timing system in hopes of of solving the gremlins.

With the threat of severe weather on Sunday we have been notified that the race may be finished tomorrow.

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Porta-Tree has its text service here. I signed up.

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11:23 and we are still down.

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This gives you an idea how long we have been waiting. Patrick Downing has dropped the tailgate.
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And more waiting.

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Noon. Still quiet.

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12:45. It's fixed and we are racing.

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Well that's great, really hate it when the tracks broken, that and looks like Sundays weather could be an issue. Good luck to all in attendance.

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Stock got Q1 done. It's 3:20 and S/S is getting its first run. One more run for both after 5:00.
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Schedule update for Saturday; all classes get 1 time/qualiting run and then all classes go to round 1. And start time is moved up to 9:00 am.

It's about 7:30 and we are just about ready to go to the second Qualifying run.

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I left the track about 9:15 and S/S was just being called to the lanes. The second round of Stock should be quicker for most since the temp dropped from the mid 70s to 60 degrees. Here are the top of the QSheets after the first run.

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Ben Kallies. Super clean 454/365 B/Stick Corvette.

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Jim and Rodney Kaekel.

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Jeff Blanchard in the former Dave Workman Mustang from Division 7

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100% chance of severe weather Sunday...
Let's give everyone a third time run Saturday morning that no one needs and draw it out even more...does anyone understand this decision because it makes no sense to me

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Good morning. Another beautiful day here in Chicagoland. The barometer is up from yesterday and the blustery winds from yesterday have moderated. Should be a little quicker for Q3 this morning

An ambitious schedule for today with the possibility of finishing it all before the rain hits tomorrow. The forecast this morning shows the heaviest rain south of the track - but it still looks like a Washout day here.

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Perhaps as a nicety for those in the NHRA world who still have day jobs and cant take off every other Wednesday-Sunday.. Give the working people a chance to drive all night Friday and show up for one hit Saturday morning and at least stay involved at the divisional level?

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Stock Q3 is done. At this pace we should be going to eliminations sometime after noon.

A couple of photos.

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Lynn Smiths 73 Buick Regal 455. I think this has to be the only 73 Regal running in Stock today. My parents had the exact same color but with the 350

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Al Wicks Cuda - some of you older readers will remember his Father Jim Wick who ran Chrysler S/S cars and Pro Stockers in the 60s and 70s. Jim was always in an ignition ad in Car Craft and Super Stock.

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Former Comp Eliminator racer Gary Merricks 70 Camaro with Baldwin Motion treatment. Very Cool.

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Thanks for the photos,, Mike. That B/S Corvette is gorgeous,,hope it runs as good as it looks!
Danny Durham

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Those same people who couldn't show up on Friday are probably going to have a hard time making it on Friday to the make-up race at the next event, one they may or may not have been planning on attending in the first place. NHRA should think about the majority in these situations, not the few people who rolled in on Saturday morning.

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Round 1 of stock is complete. A number of breakouts- maybe due to the headwind that died. The temp was 61 at 8:00 this morning and now at 1:30 it's up into the 80s. A good crowd is here already here and more coming in for the "Showdown" this evening

Round 2 is scheduled for 5:00 after the Alcohol cars, jets and wheel standers make their first run. And round 3 sometime after that.

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Racing is progressing with no issues ( my fingers are crossed ). S/S has just been called to the lanes for round 1.
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Clarance Harding built this COPO from a wreck- doing all the work himself. Still waiting for a Trans from Coan he brought it here to get a grading point. It's the 427 2014 combo. Very nice craftsmanship

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The "Porta Party" is open for business with a live band

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Jim Lovallo built this cool RO23 clone with a 426 street wedge

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A quick update at 7:30 Chicago time. Round 2 of Stock is done. S/S will be heading up in about 30-45 minutes for round 2. We are scheduled for at least 1 more round. I have not heard how late they will run tonite - this place has lights.

As the sun is starting to set it has cooled off.

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A quick update at 7:30 Chicago time. Round 2 of Stock is done. S/S will be heading up in about 30-45 minutes for round 2. We are scheduled for at least 1 more round. I have not heard how late they will run tonite - this place has lights.

As the sun is starting to set it has cooled off.

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They still running?

Too bad they don't allow that Baldwin/Motion Camaro to run a dual quad tunnel rammed 454 in Stock.

The late model cars get away with some pretty bogus stuff and since the floodgates are open a Mr Norm 440 SixPack Dart, 454 Motion Vega or the 65 Mustang 427 SOHC AFX cars should be fair game. They did sell them that way.

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ANY reports from Joliet??? they been running at all nothing since Friday nite- nothing as usual on DRC--had to work all weekend so I am not there--- National Dragster will have all of the Div 3 results next week (LOL)FED 387

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Yep still running at 10:25 pm. A Top Sportsman car just lost it so we will be down for a while. Top alcohol classes have been called and the fans have been promised that the Jets will run at or about 11:00.

How much longer???? It's getting late.

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Racing resumes 8am Sunday

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on the way home I was watching D3TV from Rt 66, they got another round in for SST, Stock & SG and sent everyone packing back to the pits before the rain came in, looks like it will be a long day, kind of glad we lost early now.

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The weather radar shows dangerous storms passing over right now.

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I signed up for text to the lanes and am not getting messages. Our radio is not working and can't hear calls. Anyone else getting texts?

Btw, wind picked up and sky is brighter. Hopefully we get this done. Got work to do tomorrow.

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I am getting the text alerts.

X2 on getting it done today!

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Ok, here's what I texted to nhradivision3@gmail.com:

'Add Pete Beauregard 13'

Any tech help would be greatly appreciated and I will handsomely compensate you.

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That should work. That's what I did.

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Sorry for the information blackout. And here is the story. A major weather front- dark clouds were quickly moving in. I made my run at 8:15 - returned quickly to my trailer and loaded - and it was raining by 8:30. Within 5 minutes it was a monsoon and I was outta there. I drove through heavy rail from the track and well into Michigan before it slowed to a slow drizzle.

The weather and conditions were tricky this morning - barometer had dropped from 29.30 yesterday to 29.13 at 8:00. And the wind had moved from a head wind to a cross wind. It was quicker than expected.

With the exception of the 4 hours lost on Friday with the timing system snafu, the racing was issue-free until that TS car went on its roof last night about 10:30.

Rt. 66 is a great facility. The hook was there all weekend with very little work necessary to keep it there.

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JOLIET, Ill. - 11:35 a.m. - The remainder of the Burndown at Sundown event has been postponed.
A major factor in the decision to postpone is forecasts calling for severe weather later this afternoon, around the time track drying would be completed and the track would be ready to resume racing.

Details of the rescheduling will be published on the Division 3 website. So far, here's what it looks like: The Top Alcohol finals will be run at the national event at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park July 2-5; most of the Sportsman competition will be completed at the Division 3 event at National Trail Raceway in Columbus, July 24-26; the Pro Fuel Harley finals and the Snowmobile finals will be run at their next event.

All of the completed rounds of competition have already been posted on Drag Race Central.

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A few quick images from Joliet. (Sorry Patsy hasn't schooled me on how to post yet names near images yet!)

The starting line scrape detail crew early Saturday
Bruce Gibson's cool Demon
Bobby Bishop and Bobby Gere Q3
Your reporter event Mike Delahanty and MJ Quinn Q3
Gary Merrick and Joe Martens E1
And Mike Delahanty again, in the tunnel E1
I took a picture of Mike and his car with his camera to post, guess it was too bad to!
Had a real nice chat with the staging lane crew during the late night Top Sportsman crash clean up. Pretty sure it was one of these cars.
Would have been nice to finish it all on Saturday, safe travels to those heading to Ohio.

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orange car near lane Bob, looks to me either it got away from him or tapped the breaks on big end but still went 199 mph, so who knows. Could been a mechanical failure of some kind, made a hard right into wall right at finish line, then across the track.

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Brian Brown is the driver of the TS car. The instant he got off the throttle the car went hard right into wall . He's driven that car along time ,was owned by Greg Hill of Indicom electric but was purchased by another guy that kept Brian at the wheel. He walked away unhurt ,testimony to a well built car. There tearing the car down to determine what happen for sure.