“Live” from Norwalk 2021

[BG56]

Originally Posted by Larry Hill

Well the older and “Gooder” got us 3rd round! So we are on our way home !!

I want to know what happened to Bob Unkefer announcing division 3 races? I don’t know the name of the announcer this week but he announced at St Louis also. We need Bob back. By the end of the day, this guy mumbles so you can’t understand him.

Well there’s always next week again !

See y’all in Columbus for the JEGS Sports Nationals !

Other than Warren they were annoying!

[doglover44]

Why no final round results on DRC ?

[Dan Bennett]

There's no need for the comments about Drag Race Central.

Since Summit left, the expenses of covering a race is directly out of the pocket of the DRC staff. If they don't have a sponsor to at least cover their cost, they are no longer on site.

As for the reports when DRC is not at the track - that so many people seem to think they have a right to - those are generated when the track or division sends the run log data to Rick Green. He then manually keys in each pair in every round to generate the reports. I have never seen the reports be sent until the day's racing is over, certainly not session by session or round by round. And from experience, typing in a few hundred pairs and double checking it for accuracy takes hours.

Rick can do a lot of things, but he's not psychic. If no one sends the data there will be no reports.

[MR DERBY CITY]

Originally Posted by Dan Bennett

There's no need for the comments about Drag Race Central.

Since Summit left, the expenses of covering a race is directly out of the pocket of the DRC staff. If they don't have a sponsor to at least cover their cost, they are no longer on site.

As for the reports when DRC is not at the track - that so many people seem to think they have a right to - those are generated when the track or division sends the run log data to Rick Green. He then manually keys in each pair in every round to generate the reports. I have never seen the reports be sent until the day's racing is over, certainly not session by session or round by round. And from experience, typing in a few hundred pairs and double checking it for accuracy takes hours.

Rick can do a lot of things, but he's not psychic. If no one sends the data there will be no reports.

Dan, UNFORTUNATELY many of us are spoiled by the excellent results of DRC. A BIG THANK YOU for everything that you guys do to get us the results. It’s a new day and age and I realize that you can’t report the results IF the track doesn’t send you the info.

[Dan Bennett]

I appreciate your post.

To be clear, I am no longer on the staff at DRC. I was there at the very beginning with Larry Sullivan and Ed Dykes back in the Compuserve days. There was a period when my time at the track was taken up by the teams I was on so I had to step away.

Later, I came back and did a few races. I can honestly say that any of the reporters have a deep love for racing, because even if your expenses are paid the long hours and pressure involved don't make sense otherwise.

I'm not kidding about the hours. 16 hours at the track was not all that unusual especially if there was a lot of cars.

[Roy Kinslow]

Originally Posted by doglover44

Why no final round results on DRC ?

As an alternative to DRC there are the detailed results on the Lucas oil page of the NHRA site. Just like what's on the time slip. Maybe someone could post a link, it's in the neighborhood of the live timing. Hope this is helpful.

[Andy Friar]

Originally Posted by Roy Kinslow

As an alternative to DRC there are the detailed results on the Lucas oil page of the NHRA site. Just like what's on the time slip. Maybe someone could post a link, it's in the neighborhood of the live timing. Hope this is helpful.

https://www.nhra.com/results/2021/lu...ock-eliminator

[doglover44]

Originally Posted by Roy Kinslow

As an alternative to DRC there are the detailed results on the Lucas oil page of the NHRA site. Just like what's on the time slip. Maybe someone could post a link, it's in the neighborhood of the live timing. Hope this is helpful.

Thank you guess im so used to being Spoiled by DRC