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Perfect weather and a nice cross tailwind at Piedmont Dragway, along with a new concession pavilion and completely remodeled and tiled modern bathrooms greeted a big crowd of Stock/Super Stock cars for the first race in the Bobby Murray Chevrolet Carolina Class Racers Association. I count at least 35 cars. We are the feature show running alongside a test n' tune. Looks like some guys stopped by on the way home from Gainesville. Saw Rob Carpenter's Cobalt, and The Tax Group's H/SM Cobalt.

73.5 deg, 30%, 29.30, 1862' DA, cross tailwind, gusty hit n' miss. (It quit blowing during my 2nd qualifying run). --rolls eyes--

Had a good warmup at Farmington yesterday, winning the Race of Champions (shootout for all 2009-2010 event winners at that track). Felt good to shake my 2011 curse. We'll see how today goes!

Thanks to Scott Tilley for picking up the CCRA reigns, and to Piedmont for hosting the event!

Got tons of pics, will try to post tonight.

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33 cars made 1st rnd. Cars were laddered based of best pkg of the 2nd qualifying run (ran w/ dial-ins). Frequent #1 qualifier Mark Young was again #1, even withe different format! Also heard he won a .0001 MOV race 2nd rnd.

I had a barn burner with young Joe Collins (G/S Camaro) 1st rnd. We're both dead-on and I got there .001. Rnd 2, .003 and dead-on vs Lynwood Daugherty, then got by Mark Young and Buddy Ingold to pick up the semifinal bye with the Duck Tape Turismo. Danny Water, Jr. Expertly wheeled the Moser Engineering GT/EA Camaro into the finals, getting past Travis Womble's D/CM Camaro.

I went deer-in-headlights in the finals and came up smokin' late. Danny's .005. Both on the brakes, he got there by .0004.

Great show, great track, great purse, and a REALLY great job by DW. Congrats!

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More photos...

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even more photos...

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BUDDY INGOLD ! Is he still kickin' ?

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Terry -- LOL! That's what Chip said! Yep, still kickin', and the car runs good. We had a really good race, too. I think he was 7.75 on a 7.74 (B/PS)


Last batch (last two photos are from Saturday's ROC win at Farmington)

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Nice pics Michael ,Thanks and congrats to you on a great weekend. Nice turn-out . Hope they all show up next Sat at Fayetteville for 1/4 mile stock/superstock combo.. If my back is better i will be there for sure.

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If i would have known Buddy was gonna be there i would have gone just to watch... Mike next time you see Buddy, ask him about looking for a place to eat in Darlington around 2000. LOL

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Good to see Buddy still kicken. I will think about him when I get up in sore in the morning and hope I can still do it at his age.
Chip

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Buddy's worst light the first 3 rounds i believe was like a .024...lol he said he was mad he got the bye run he was ready to go home and take a nap...glad we got to see him he came by dads the other week and i missed him i passed him about a mile away from the house..