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Yes , it is true. Comp racer and businessman Jim Greenheck purchased the track. They have been busy over the last few weeks repaving the racing surface, widening the shutdown area, and preparing to replace the 330' of concrete starting line.

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Looks like a big headsup second round of SS Tom Cain Jimmy Defrank in SS/BS. Tom

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Think of the unlimited test and tune program you could have there. Does"t look like any neighbor problems,impending development or anything like that.

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They already have $69 test days, this can only get better.

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A few more from today:


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Mike and Janie Braswell SS/KA
Janie will be running her car here next week.


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Tom Cain SS/BS


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The Sherman compound


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Larry Peterson B/SA


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Angelo DeCarlo SS/HA

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Gary Wolkwitz SS/AH


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Chuck Watson FS/XX


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Kevin Skinner FS/XX


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Mike Skinner FSS/C


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David Barton FS/X

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Lloyd Wofford SS/AH


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James Caro FSS/K

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Sportsman racing for this evening was cancelled after pro oil downs and crashes. We will resume with stock at 8 am in the morning.


More later.

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We have gotten our text this morning to be in the lanes by 7:30 to start at 8. We thought we would have at least 3 rounds this morning, but they just said stock, sc, ss, sg, then Alcohol and comp. That was as far as they announced and I don't see a revised schedule on DRC yet.


Wish us luck!

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Good luck today!!

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We won 2nd round, but Kevin got beat!


More later!

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I heard. Congrats Larry!! Awesome job! Keep up the good work! I see Cooter has Defrank next round...

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Looks like a headsup for Larry next round. So Bruno Manssel goes 1.292 under on his bye run in FS/xxx does he get power??? Tom

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Yes, we have Keith Lynch next round heads up. Well NHRA has messed up our plans for today! We had planned to go down to Fremont St. this evening and now we are done until around 6 tonight. Then we have 2 more rounds late tonight~ At least we are still in!!!

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Pretty soon it's going to take a search warrant to find Sportsman racers at a national event. Terrible schedules this year. Where are our SRAC members?

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FS/X, FS/XX different set of rules, AHFS does not apply AND they get all the byes. NHRA needs to do a little adjusting of the rules so that all of the bye runs are not awarded to FS/X cars only.

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DRC says it is only 1.09 ET under -- but the 158 mph in stock is fast

Something wrong with the math - he was more under in qualifying but ran slower

Ron

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8.60 stockers,,,,this is unbelievable .how long before 7 sec plateau

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Here's the gang at Viva Zapatas the other night for dinner!


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Think we need to rent one of these to cruise around the track?


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Here are a few to choose from!!

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Index for the factory car is 9.90 regardless if your at indy or vegas, regular stock correction is .9830 times the index so they should get another 10th on there index. So if they don't have Factory car runoffs can you run in FS/xxx at a reg race and not worry about hp, get the byes and life is good for them, not to fair for the rest. Tom

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Only at races where they run factory showdown

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Missing Fremont St on Halloween sucks but the fun does go on till midnight or so if you can get finished early enough.

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Halloween in Vegas ... Gets better the later you stay out ,!

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There are some real interesting "sights" on Fremont street. I can't imagine what it would be like on Halloween. Good luck tonight. Good luck tonight also to new daddy Jon Irving win it for the new baby.

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Halloween on Fremont Street is wild. Tens of thousand of people in costumes (rather than just the beggars)

All the way down the strip too (not drag strip, LV Blvd) but that is more spread out.

I guess Stock and SS should be up very soon? Hope they don't make you wait to run after the really, really long Super Comp session. One year i watched Stock then before SS which ran two classes later I had time to go over to Shelby's and take an hour long tour, then another shop that was having a dyno day. Then drove over to the old Speedrome track to inspect it and still had more than an hour before SS.

By the way Rod, did you find any more about the history of that old dragstrip in Dunlap

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They just had a fire in a funny car, so looks like it will be a while yet!

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Keep it going Larry! Woohoo! Also kudos to Cooter!

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Just going by these numbers it appears both heads up racers wanted to get going to Fremont Street but Larry was impatient?

Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
5035 Keith Lynch 383 Larry Hill
E3 0.214 12.803 93.53 ****WINNER**** 0.201 11.008 99.14
B/SA Dial: 11.45 (+/-): 1.353 B/SA Dial: 11.45 (+/-): -0.442
Prior rounds:
E2 (T Kadar ) 0.021 11.350 0.000 (D Smith ) 0.104 10.622 0.002
E1 (J Gray ) 0.019 11.549 0.099 (G Robillard ) -0.005 10.821 0.061
Qualified: #96 11.384 -0.056 #83 10.950 -0.500

Both are really late off the line but Hill is able to pull away for the win.

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We won 3rd round. And we won 4th round. Going into round 5 at 8:30 in the morning with a heads-up with Scot Burton!!


Wish us luck!


More tomorrow!!

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Larry, we are so pulling for you tomorrow. We are all so happy to forgo Fremont Street, 'cause tomorrow night we are all going to be totally celebrating in town with you and Patsy. You had such a rocky start getting out here and now we are all your cheerleaders.. See ya in the morning for Round 5. Joe and Alice

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How many years of racing experience between Larry Hill, John Shaul, and Don Little ? .......... OLD GUYS RULE !!!

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Larry keep it up go all the way.

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Since you gave up Freemont St., just stop by Bourbon St on the way home on a Tuesday or Wednesday night. They got more freaks and freeks in the first 4 blocks and if you really want the treatment wander down to the 800 and 900 blocks. Allright Hill, now you gotta push the throttle off the idle stop. Nice going. Cooter, you did well. You are officially in the Teuton, Morris, and Helms Bonus Plan. Speaking of Morris, our quiet team member, he had serious surgery last Thursday. Recovering well, but will be long. Keep John in your thoughts. John has been with me for 40 years.

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Jeff, tell John we are thinking about him and wishing him a speedy recovery!


They have just called stock, sc, ss, and sg to the lanes!


Wish us luck! We will need it against Scot!

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Well my driver was a little slow off the start and could not make up the difference! So I guess we will head out to Fremont St. earlier than planned this evening!


But there is always next weekend!!

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Nice going this weekend Mr Larry! Now you got some seat time in that thing you should be ready to roll for the next 2.

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Congrats to Scott Burton for his big Stock win at Vegas, IN A REAL PONTIAC POWERED CAR ! I believe Scott has the quickest Pontiac powered Stocker. Anyhow, thanks Scott, for makin all us Pontiac fans proud !!! :D

http://www.dragracecentral.com/DRCSt...er=30#indextop

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Uncle Jeff, been with the Bourbon Street costume freaks for three days and at the Dome all day. Bust out the calculators. WHO DAT!!!!


Love that pink car as well.....

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You must be freaked out, Stephen. That is above and beyond. Only thing worse is a Gen II Hemi; you got both.

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After being taken to the woodshed yesterday morning, round 5, I spent the rest of the day bonding with the new car. Kevin showed me a few things to try that might show us a few things on test day. Scott and Kevin came out and helped me finish up with this new computer car. They, Kevin and Scott, let me struggle with the car long enough to let me know that 14 strokes on the keypad won;t fix everything. It takes real work, knowledge and dedication to get the job done. Bottom line is we got beat in a heads-up run and went to work!


Having the good fortune of being a "sub" on a well oiled team was a real pleasure. The first thing I needed to do was to stay out of the way and find some way to contribute. My assigned responsibility was to have the air pressures set for all cars before we went up for our runs. In the evening time I took on myself to watch the tilt of the cans and refill promptly, as Jeff would say "Beer Boy". Maybe its a rite of passage of all potential want to be team members. The next day I got the battery chargers out and hooked up after I took all the car covers off and neatly folded and stored in the trailer. A word about the trailer, real nice!


Driving the car.


What could be simpler going from one pink car to another. I can tell first hand that Mother MoPar changed a few things over time. After being instructed in Houma and a refresher here in Vegas about the only thing I did ok was the water box burn out on the first run. Fuel check was a chore. I forgot about the rear fuel pump switch and after a time Scott came to the rescue. I felt like a real rube. Then I started to do better.


A big thank you to Jeff , Kevin, and Scott in helping us have a almost successful race at Vegas.


One more thing, a lot of the new car ( read '08 and up) folks were real quick to make sure I had ample servings of "Crow" to keep my frail body nourished! As they served their favorite dish each had a big old smile and a twinkle in their eye. I find it almost amazing that something that tastes as badly as crow can change drastically as the win lights appear in my lane!!!! Now it appears to have a sweet taste!!


Larry