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They just announced that today TD and TS will be run as 1/8th mile.
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Sorry to hear about accidents on track. I hope all drivers are O.K.
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Final round results from Tucson Dragway. Opening race of the 2019 D7 LODRS championship season.
S M/C Reggie MacKay def Marlene Patterson Comp Ralph Van Paepeghem def Joe Mozeris SST John Dexter def Bryan Morris Stk John Dourlet def Mike Cotten SS Cody Lane def Tom Nolan SG Ray Cordeiro def Marko Perivolaris TD Chuck Phelps def Tanner Theobald SC Michael Miller def Aaron Kinard TS Dan Laffert def Ed Olpin credit to Bob Unkefer Ron
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Thanks Ed for the pics. It's nice to see race cars, sunshine & people in T-shirts
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Thanks for the pictures. You got a great one of my '76 Aspen.
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Thanks for the pictures Ed
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Any names on who crashed? I have a lot of friends attending this race.
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The first one I personally seen was a Super Gas gentlemen named Eddie. Looked like a Roaster corvette. He slapped the wall really hard just before the 1/8 and either he knocked himself out or the throttle stuck and it got ugly after that.
I asked the "Racers for Christ" and he was just banged up pretty good but okay. I never seen just heard about the others. Mike Rice was continually checking the track personally himself. Sunday morning they were doing some work at the 1000' mark on the left lane. It wasn't windy or anything. The weather was very mild. Not sure why so many problems. Paul 7019 |
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The only other crash I know of was Chris Newman first round of top sportsman. His car is absolutely trashed as he rolled it multiple times through the lights. Both Chris and Ed were reported to be ok. It is always a ****ty day anyone hits a wall at the track.
There are definitely some bumps down between 900’ and 1000’ in the left lane that have been there to some extent for 15-20 years. There were plenty of fast cars going right down the track without any issues at all this weekend just like there is on any given week at our normal bracket races. The weather was beautiful all weekend. The coldest it probably was while cars were on the track was 55 and I don’t think it ever got much over 80. (I wouldn’t know for sure because I’m too stupid to use a weather station.) For a track that can get windy like Vegas it never had much more than a nice breeze. I didn’t see either crash happen so I wouldn’t want to speculate on what happened but for everyone that was complaining about the track sucking, they probably need to go work on their cars. There are plenty of tracks worse than Tucson on the NHRA schedule and not many track owners have put as much work into the track and try to create a welcoming environment as Jim has over the last couple of years and last 6 months getting it so racers weren’t parked in the dirt. Thanks for all the pictures and reports while you were out there Ed. I was hoping to swing by and check out Ashton’s car before you guys hit the road. Matt Hawk |
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