Live From Baton Rouge IHRA Sportsman National
 

Spending the day out at State Capitol Raceway, taking photos and socializing. Here's the qualifying sheet after first round of Stock. Will post more pictures and maybe video once I get back home.

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Thanks for reporting from B.R.

Can you please send photos of Stock and Super Stock Qualifying Sheets?



Here is the link to ESPN 3 live streaming:

http://www.espn.com/watchespn/#sport...type/upcoming/

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wheres the whole sheet of stock n super stockers

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Big WHOOPS on my part. I tried resizing the photo and it posted a partial pic. Ran back to take another picture and am working on it at the moment.

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I finally got it right (took the pictures with my expensive I-Phone, transferred to my old ***** Blackberry to resize it, then transferred to my computer to post.....damn technology).

Final Qualifying and First Round Ladders from Saturday of Baton Rouge IHRA Sportsman Nationals

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Hi Mike thanks for the sheets. Might be a little easier for you if you have a photobucket account or something similar but that's how I do it. Upload my picture to photobucket then transfer here, takes about 15 seconds! Thanks again.

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Update for the Super Stock Semis:

Jerry Hatch all the way in from Maine with his SS/EA Challenger benefited from a red light by Ryan Baudoin in his FGT/E 68 Camaro.

Slate Cummings, his Cavalier in GT/E trim, runs down Benny Smith Sr's high winding SS/HA Camaro.

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Stock Semis brought you:

Wes Neely In his E/FIA third gen Firebird advanced to the finals when Floyd Russo in his A/FIA fourth gen Firebird red lighted

#1 qualIfier Sam Porceau drove around #3 qualifier Matt Pellichino in a heads-up B/FIA battle going 10.03 to Matt's 10.08.

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Wes Neely takes the Saturday Stock trophy when he was able to force Sam Porceau to run under his dial.

Slate Cummings ran a 9.172 on his 9.17 dial to Jerry Hatch's 9.488 on a 9.47. Reaction times not announced.

Photos to come to tomorrow after I get back to Houston.

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Great Reporting Mike.....

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Thanks Pete. If I do this again from San Antonio and / or Baytown I'll try to be better prepared. I figured out my camera a little better during down time so hopefully the pictures will be better when I have to post tomorrow.

Writing content wise...... I'm limited only by wifi, having a place to charge the lap top, and getting info quickly. For two years I was a sports writer in my spare time. Is there any demand for reporting out of D-4?

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Great job, Mike!!! Thanks for taking the time to post pics / results.

Absolutely yes!

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How can I contact John Long Jr. ?
He ran a C/PS car and qualified in middle of the field.

D

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I'm back home in Texas, otherwise I'd pass along your info.

Perhaps you can try through the IHRA? When I bought my AMC I got a phone call from the NHRA a few month later to pass along the phone number of the guy who built the car since he wasn't on Class Racer or any other sort of racing message board. So that idea worked for him.

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First batch of photos.

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Second Batch

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Trying to watch but all i get is a blue screen after the ad plays.

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Another thread indicated it got rained out today.

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Thanks Mike
D

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Great Job Mike...you are giving Jack a run for his money on reporting and photos. Maybe Ken can get you a Carribean cruise too!! LOL Thanks and excellent work

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I don't even need a Caribbean cruise.....I hate boats anyway. Hell, I'll do it for a press credential, and some room & board at the track.

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Did Brenda cut up there stocker? If so WOW.... It does look good but to me it would be a shame.

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Rest easy Robert, Bill has been working on another car for several years so now they have twins!

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Hey Dan, IHRA gave me some of the Pure Stock Challenge sticker, so i slapped them on there on Friday. Yeah i ended up mid pack, i was hoping 0.94 under would get me a little higher on the ladder but it was a pretty quick field.

I just shot you an email

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94 under is the middle of the pack at Baton Rouge? ........Gee whiz.

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all the results from Saturday can be found on dragstory .com link
http://dragstory.com/forum/index.php...42&board=288.0

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It is impressive but remember the track elevation is 26ft and the IHRA indexes are .500 higher.

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Remembering Indy Qualifying this year.
Think the cut off was 0.94 to qualify.
Some hot names did not make it.

If not mistaken three of the top 5 qualifiers were a V/SA and two U/SA cars.
Think the U/SA cars ran 12.9x ET...freaking unheard of !
One ran a 1.42 under, using NHRA Indexes.

I think Pure Stock Indexes are too high for the HP IHRA lists for our cars.
Or
Vice versa our Pure Stock HP ratings are a little high for the Class.

BUT we are doing fine attracting new Builders this year.

Dan

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yeah the air was really good on saturday morning. i think we were -440ft, 20% humidity, and 61 degrees.

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Myron,

Well I was wrong, how unusual.

Are there differences based on class or eliminator?

I hope to be running SS/BS soon. I looked this morning and the NHRA index is 9.65 and the IHRA index is 10.05. That is a .400 difference.

Maybe I was thinking of Stock Production, that index is 10:15.

Bill

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You may not be completely wrong because the .3 applies to "conventional" crossover Stock & SS classes. I didn't research the other classes.