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Is anybody there yet?? We are not leaving til in the morning. Pipe in and tell us how things are going there!!

Patsy

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Be there at 2 tomorrow.

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Will there be a shuttle so all of us stock racers can see the Factory Showdown cars, they run following stock? All of sportsman will be pitted in the infield of the round track and it a real long way to the stands from there. And only one way to get to the stands.

I hope the field is expanded to 16, it looks like we have plenty of entry's.

Got to go Its "Showtime"

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Does McCormick still do golf cart rentals?

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Looks like you are going to have a beautiful weekend.


http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick...6#.Wc0AyrpFzIV

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Do we still stack behind the spectator bleachers?

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Jack McCormack does not, a company ironically called J Mac handles them the last time I checked.

See you at the races,
Wayne Kerr

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Thank you Wayne

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We are here and parked and ready to roll down the track at 8 in the morning! Of course we are all at the round track. I went for a ride with Michael Volkman this afternoon to show him how to get to staging! I don't think he was impressed!! We are parked on the grass way down at the end! I will try to get some pictures tomorrow !

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How many people can they fit in the infield ?

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Im kind new at this, but the weather: 52.2 degrees, 90%, baro 29.75, AA 308'. It could be fast.

All the Showdown cars I spoke with are planing a pit stop at the edge of the round track stands to cool and re-ice inter coolers. On the plus side of being this far from the starting line, the oil will be hot for the XX cars. I did notice some showdown teams are in the pits with the "Pros", I wonder if a teams pit placement will affect performance and the outcome of the race.

More later, got to get ready for Q1.

The Hay in the pits is cut, raked, and ready to bailed.

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Quite a few, the track is 1.25 miles around. Did they take out the far wall again for entry? The Hill's mention some of the Stock FX Shootout cars are parking with the Pros. We'll it will open a few more spots then.

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Showdown
Gasko 8.09
Bell 8.10
Barton 8.11

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The Chevrolet's are killing it!

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NHRA, in my opinion, is two for two on the racetrack not being prepared properly for first qualifying attempt,Charlotte was bad and so was St. Louis. Sixty foot was 1.387 for Charlotte and 1.380 at Gateway, Q2 at Charlotte was 1.331 in sixty, I hoping to see the same improvement (.05) on Q2 later today. I wonder if they forgot what they did at Indy, Indy was great.

Cross your fingers. Is value for the dollar spent with NHRA reduced to hoping that the track is good?

The good thing about a data recorder is they show you what happened.

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I heard there was no scales or fuel check for the first round.

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Yes, but....all the tech were in the lanes prior to TT 1 looking at our cars especially the safety items...not sure there were enough bodies to go around...LOL.....

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So, with no scales, do those rounds count against the AHFS?

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No sense mentioning the Dodge Challenger with top mile per hour (168) - driven by Leah.

Besides it was 2 hundredths behind Barton's chevy


Ron

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Q2 adjusted alt. 1007', Q2 was 428' worse and track temp was 106* and 60' went down to 1.33, go figure.

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Well today has been just beautiful here in St. Louis! High was about 79 and sunny all day. We finished up our 2 runs about 1:30 this afternoon. Then it was just a relaxing day. Here are a couple of pictures from today.

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7791.jpg
Bryan Dixon E/SA

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7792.jpg
Solving the world's problems: Larry, Rick and Roz Gresens, Sedona and Thomas Arnett, and MJ Quinn
This was right after Clay Arnett had gotten up way high and scared his Momma (Sedona) half to death!!

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7794.jpg
Rick and Roz Gresens and their new FS/XX Mustang!

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7795.jpg
Leah Pritchett and Mopar's FS/XX. She ended up #4!!

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7796.jpg
Challenger with a radar detector!

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7797.jpg
Rob Turkal I/S

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7798.jpg
Randy Eakins new FS/XX

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Second oil down in TF will put us behind.

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Rd 3 of stock scheduled for 0 dark 30.....

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Great race in second round of Superstock. How many times do you lose with a .008 light?


Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
3883 Rylee Stufflebeam 1227 Michael Volkman
E2 ****WINNER**** 0.000 10.068 128.84 0.008 10.284 130.29
SS/JA Dial: 10.06 (+/-): 0.008 GT/KA Dial: 10.28 (+/-): 0.004
Prior rounds:
E1 (J Lovallo ) 0.003 10.092 0.032 (K Lynch ) 0.047 10.260 0.020
Qualified: #23 10.115 -0.885 #37 10.178 -0.722
Stufflebeam gets a perfect light and runs the number to take the win with a .008 package. Volkman had a .012 package in the loss.
Rylee Stufflebeam's MOV: 0.0045 seconds (approximately 10 inches).

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First round of FS/Xx Stephen Bell hits wall! He is ok, car not so good!

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That coupled with FC oil down, we're way behind!
They brought up all sportsman classes at one time so that the fans can get out! Really NHRA?!?!?!

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After getting beaten 1st round this morning, we have just hung around and enjoyed the beautiful day here at the track. Here are a few pictures from today:

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7824.jpg
Chris Stephenson

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7822.jpg
Donna and TC Morris

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7821.jpg
Drew Skillman

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7820.jpg
Stacey and Bill Skillman

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http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7818.jpg
MJ Quinn

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7817.jpg
Leonard Liebesher FS/XX

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7816.jpg
Jeff Taylor FS/C

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7815.jpg
Lyn Smith I/SA

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http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7814.jpg
Rob Turkal I/S

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...DSCN7813_1.jpg
Wade Owens

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7811.jpg
Larry Deforrest FS/E

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7810.jpg
Drew Whalen B/SA

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7807.jpg
Nanette and Jerry Stein

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http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7806.jpg
Aaron Allison B/S

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7805.jpg
Allen Hollingsworth

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7803.jpg
Alan Wade

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7800.jpg
Brent Voges

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7802.jpg

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http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7799.jpg
Jerry Bennett D/SA

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/DSCN7825.jpg
A fan!!

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Thanks to Patsy for the wonderful photos, it's truly a blessing to receive all these wonderful race reports from the Hill family. The weather here has been outstanding......

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Well we are on our way home! Just 3 hours so will be home by lunch time! The weather looks to be great again today! Good luck to all remaining competitors!

And congratulations to David Barton for winning the overall Factory Stock championship! He wrapped it up after winning first round yesterday!

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Good luck today, MJ!

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As far as the new "no tech" at national events go...all winners in ss & stock were gone over with a fine toothed comb last night. Very thorough inspection. Kudos to the tech guys.

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On the FS1 replay you can see some fluid spraying out the right side onto the tire.

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Brett C is spot on as usual. After rd 4 of stock all winners were carefully scrutinized by 4-5 tech officials. Under the hood, seats, rear trunk /cargo area were all checked rather thoroughly......

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What wouldn't be fair is: What happens if they find something illegal in Rd. 4 ??
The guys they beat along the way kinda of gets screwed then.
It's good that their checking cars, but you wouldn't want to lose to that car in any of
the other 3 rounds & than they find him illegal, cause the losers won't get re-instated.

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I don't think that anyone here thinks that this is "right". However, it dispels the thought process of no one being checked thoroughly at all at any national event.

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What's to prevent a guy from teching in, then changing things before eliminations and not getting caught? People will cheat no matter what method is out there. Seems to me random tech inspections may keep the racers on their toes a little bit!