"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

[Jim Bailey]

Larry, I could save you some weight, (you don't need a Dana),..... give you 8-10 more hp at the rear tires, .....and make you a believer ! Ask,...Jeff Teuton, Mike Beard, Scott Macy, Steve Wann, John Shaul, Chuck Beach, Jim Nichols, John Dinkle, John Lovins, Randy Martin, Gene Mosbeck (Dana), Phil Baldacchio, Jeff Day, ...the list goes on, Call me ! ....JB.

[Larry Hill]

Well, our Mopars here have done pretty well. Jerry Newsome and Jeff Teuton are still in. Stock runs 2 rounds in the morning before the opening ceremonies. We will stay as long as Jerry is still in. He has our transmission in his car since he broke his at Belle Rose, so I guess we will see it get home.LOL

We have had a great time around here today. My cousins from Baton Rouge and Port Lavaca have been out here all day for their 1st drag race. I think they have really had a good time. They had no idea what a circus this is.

Larry got the old broken rear end put back in the car so it would at least roll so we could get it back in the trailer. Thanks to Jerry Newsome for helping out and Jeff Teuton for running after some parts for us. So we have everything all loaded back up.

There are a lot of great and knowledgeable fans here in Houston. Had lots of people looking and taking pictures of our car today. I think it was the only pink car here at the track.

Thanks to the Abear Bros. from Houma for all the great food they cooked today. I am sorry about the spelling of their name. I'm sure that I butchered it badly. They cooked jambalaya and fried chicken legs and white beans. Really, really good. Thanks guys. I heard one of the guys in this bunch drank 48 beers yesterday. Now that's a lot of beer!!!

Pat, I talked with both your boys (Scott & Kevin). They are doing fine!

Dean, it was nice meeting you yesterday, too. Hope you had a good trip home.

Well it is bedtime again.

More tomorrow.

Patsy

[Kenny Wigington]

48, hell that puts Painter out to pasture then !