“Live” from Z Max 2018

[butch8908]

Originally Posted by HR9121

Sportsman are scheduled to be back out around 8. Also want to take time out to acknowledge some folks who helped this morning on my car either with tools, parts or labor. The Stotts and Volkmans, The Warrens, Bob Bagley and Bob Cupp, Richie Decola and Greg Rowe. Thanks to everyone.

James, I'm not a racer I just like to take pictures of S and SS and you find any better people than sportsman racers and especially the Stotts and Volkmans.

[butch8908]

Sorry i didn't get to stay for the night qualifying, but had to make a couple hour drive back home. Weepers can't be helped, but why the H*&^ll does NHRA have to always take away from the sportsman so the "show must go on time." Those look so much better to the fan at night when they light them off. Oh well, they certainly aren't going to listen me, since i'm just a 40 year fan. Having problems sizing pictures to upload and it's late, so I'll load them tomorrow.

[MR DERBY CITY]

DRC shows final,qualifying after 1 pass so.......did NHRA keep the sportsman around all evening and then cancel the last qualifying pass AND ruin Patsy ‘s dinner plans ? Sorry patsy I couldn’t resist ...LOL,,,,,

[Ken Miele]

We are all done for the evening. Super Comp just got their second time shot. Stock, Super Stock and Super Gas did not get to make a second run. The ladder is already up for Stock and Super Stock.

Its a hard pill to swallow getting one shot down the track, but like they told us tonight, it is what is. I just have one question, why would you make this race a 3 day event. There is every NHRA category here. Even if we did not have a 2 hour delay with water seeping, it would have been tough to get it all in. Every race has issues, why would you not want a little wiggle room. So this race it was Super Stock, Stock and Super Gas getting short changed. Nationals are just a hit or miss when it comes to the sportsman racer.

[Ed Carpenter]

Originally Posted by Ken Miele

We are all done for the evening. Super Comp just got their second time shot. Stock, Super Stock and Super Gas did not get to make a second run. The ladder is already up for Stock and Super Stock.

Its a hard pill to swallow getting one shot down the track, but like they told us tonight, it is what is. I just have one question, why would you make this race a 3 day event. There is every NHRA category here. Even if we did not have a 2 hour delay with water seeping, it would have been tough to get it all in. Every race has issues, why would you not want a little wiggle room. So this race it was Super Stock, Stock and Super Gas getting short changed. Nationals are just a hit or miss when it comes to the sportsman racer.

The answer is very simple that’s nhra.......

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Ed Carpenter

The answer is very simple that’s nhra.......

X's 10

[butch8908]

Here is the first batch from the ONLY QUALIFYING SESSION YESTERDAY FOR STOCK AND SUPPER STOCK.

[ZenzenRacing]

I feel for you guys down there with only one shot ! I think thats why our combo races are getting bigger and better here! Good luck today all !

[butch8908]

Second Batch.

[Larry Hill]

Stock to the lanes. Stock to the lanes. And get a hose job. Me and and the rest of the first five got cheated and robbed. How did NHRA know that the track was ready to qualify on. What ever the yardstick used was incorrect. If our cars have to be safe so does the track, we have a rule book we as racers have to live by. What is the minnium qualifications of a safe track. Is it the starter wetting his finger and holding it up aka Kentucky windage. Or is it the refined scuffing of a shoe against a sprayed and drug track. NHRA how do you know when the track is ready for competition. Is it when a G/SA goes sideways on the 1 ,2 shift, or when a glide car looses .05 in 60’. Is it when the tree almost gets taken out by one of the second set of cars. NHRA if you don’t want a bunch of Dan Fletcher imitations getting to staging fix the track before the first car goes down, not after the fifth car goes sideways on a gear change. NHRA have standards for track preparation, and live by them