"Live" from Houston

[Larry Hill]

Finally made our 1st run. We were off by .13 from Belle Rose, but most everybody else was, too. Sam Pouciau is #1 at 1.06 under. It is really slow. 69 cars. Lots of red lights in qualifying. A couple of Emmons had trouble as well as Unkefer. They should be putting up times shortly. They still have us on the schedule to run class today--1st round after pros, then finish up after the 2nd session of pros. Bad news is though, that it is looking like a little rain later on this afternoon.

More later.

Patsy

[Larry Hill]

Well we are on hold again for a few sprinkles. In the 1st run, something happened to Williams and Bratsen on the starting line. Newsome's was a scale issue.

More later.

Patsy

[chlngr73]

Hey Patsy enjoying your posts, I know we were supposed to be there. Charlie Ford had us a spot right there with you and the Teuton's. We had to take Mom in for emergency gallbladder surgery this morning, so unfortunately were gonna miss out! Mom will be OK she is going in to surgery here in a few minutes. Some times, rarely, there are more important things, LOL. I hope we can get our entry back, Glendora told me to talk to Craig Hutchison, so hopefully we can work it out. Wish we were there, but gotta take care of momma! Good luck! Tomorrow is gonna be fast!

[Larry Hill]

Hey, Dave, Tell Gwen "Get Well, Quick" from us. Charlie and Austin had you a real good spot here by us. You would have made it 4 Mopars in a row.

Too bad Class wasn't able to be completed. It was actually sprinkling pretty good on the last 2 cars that went down. We got to run but got beat. We have slowed down since last weekend, but the air wasn't nearly as good. It rained pretty hard again, and they were not able to get the track dry enough to run.

Congratulations to Jerry Newsome and all the rest of the Class Winners.

We run 1st round in the morning probably around 8:30. It is supposed to be about 40 degrees . What do you think we ought to dial????

Later.

Patsy

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[dean ribeiro]

Patsy:
It was nice meeting you yesterday. I enjoy your posts; as we don't get to race much before April in NH!
The new paint job looks great. Pls. keep an eye on those biys from D1 for me.

best of luck this weekend...

Dean

[Larry Hill]

Well, I guess as soon as we get back home the Dana will go back in the Cuda. We broke a rear end last week at Belle Rose, then again this morning in the first round. It broke right on the starting line. And Larry wasted a .007 light! I knew as soon as I saw it what had happened. This time it had to come back to the pits on a rollback. It is totally locked up. He is out there putting another one in so we can at least get it loaded in the trailer.

Talk about a change in the weather. Our guages were showing -374' this morning as opposed to 2200' on our last run yesterday. It is cold and windy but bright blue skies. It was 49 degrees when we went down the track with about 15 mph crosswinds. It was really cold sitting in the stands watching because the wind was blowing right in your face. We were showing that it was about .15 faster this morning. As you could tell on DRC there were lots of breakouts. Cars were hooking and get way up. Jeff Teuton's car got up higher than I have ever seen it get. I asked him if he had to change pants when he got back to the trailer. LOL Jerry Newsome is running a great race. His car really looked good this morning.

We will be here the rest of the day, so I will try to give you some updates later in the day. Looks like we don't run again til after 2 rounds of pros today. Oh, it looks like Unkefer did blow his up yesterday. He was a no show this morning.

More later.

Patsy