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I have traveled to the IHRA Event at National Trails Raceway at Columbus. The Facility is awesome and looks to have significant improvements. There will be a Supper provided both Thursday and Friday Nights. Credentials and tech went smooth and you get 2 free crew with an entered car. I would think there is 30 to 40 cars here so far.

Darcy Clarke
6254
A/SA SS/EA

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I made it out here too! 9 hours from my NC home and I?m really enjoying it! Just finished qualifying for the day, currently repairing a blown header tube because of course I am. Drinking the beer whose carcass will be used to create a temporary fix. Got a firm handshake and a bag of ice when I rolled in the gate which was pretty cool.

Life is good.

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I?ll try to post a ladder as soon as I get my hands on one. Standby

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STK Qualifying after Q3

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I am very impressed. This is a really professional deal. As stated everything went smooth from credentials to tech. I had to remember how to fill out an actual tech card. They also legit teched some stuff.

ep

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Hey guys, wish I was there. Thanks to Denny Stewart for the photos

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Next batch...

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Super Stock qualifying after 3 rounds


1)3411Earl RoeSS/KA11.5510.1510131.35-1.3990
2)177Herbie NullSS/JA11.309.9277133.25-1.3723
3)4688Mike CottenSS/JA11.3010.0483131.00-1.2517
4)3196Rodney WorrellSS/C10.359.0995149.75-1.2505
5)1969Brian OakesSS/CA10.359.1754145.49-1.1746
6)381Andy KroneubitterGT/GA10.709.5420138.67-1.1580
7)246Dennis StewardGT/KA11.2010.0819131.08-1.1181
8)3002AH AdkinsSS/A9.958.8659149.80-1.0841
9)6254Darcy ClarkeSS/EA10.659.5795138.25-1.0705
10)3019David TurnerSS/DA10.509.4365140.10-1.0635
11)3541Mark SandersGT/FA10.559.4905137.83-1.0595
12)351Doug DuellFGT/C10.109.0492147.11-1.0508
13)3548Garrett GhezziSS/LA11.7510.7122122.58-1.0378
14)3617Larry EagleGT/E10.309.3514142.54-0.9486
15)J712Chris HallFSS/C9.959.0104150.15-0.9396
16)3611Jimmy RonzelloFGT/D10.209.2853146.68-0.9147
17)904Rick NicolauSS/PE10.509.6986137.40-0.8014
18)302BGeorge WrightFGT/H10.659.8596136.16-0.7904
19)3281Ronnie TraupmanFGT/C10.109.3105145.82-0.7895
20)2366Jaymes RawlingsGT/DA10.309.5297139.66-0.7703

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Super Stock qualifying after 3 rounds rest of the field.


21)3308John FrechGT/IA10.9510.1918128.87-0.7582
22)394Terry AllisonSS/TB10.209.4454141.55-0.7546
23)2497Frank BeasleyGT/HA10.8010.0564132.63-0.7436
24)3961Mike FullerFSS/I10.7510.0883134.33-0.6617
25)3844Mike PriceSS/FM10.8010.2025130.36-0.5975
26)306MMatt ObertanecFSS/B9.509.0388151.21-0.4612
27)3676Aaron RussellGT/EA10.409.9948134.61-0.4052
28)3650Danny SmithSS/DA10.5010.2713128.76-0.2287
29)9875Kevin ReidySS/BS9.9510.4860138.080.5360

DURANA RacewayHebron OH
Qualifying Size: 29
All Time Trial RunsSuper Stock
Car #NameClassIndexETMPHUnd/Ovr
2025-09-03

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Noticed that IHRA is using the older (3 tenths slower) indexes, so plenty of cars, about 2/3rd of the field, are at least a full second under. Wondering if IHRA has any version of the AHFS system, or if they did before they dropped class racing. Also noticed that other than a single "crate motor" car, all are regular NHRA classes. Having some real competition for NHRA certainly should be a good thing.

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Thanks everyone for chiming in with pictures and Qualifying sheets. So far we have 33 Stockers and 31 Superstockers and there may be more that are coming.

Yes they are using the Indexes that are 3/10s softer than the current NHRA Indexes. The Track had good prep and everything is very Professional, with all new equipment and timing system. All Sportsman classes completed 3 rounds of Qualifying with Scales and Fuel Check and they had time to have a fun Golf Cart Race.

This Morning it rained and has a cool and cloudy forcast, we are scheduled to have one more Qualifying pass and then into Eliminations for the first race.

Darcy Clarke
6254
A/SA SS/EA

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Everyone there, good luck, have fun and be safe.
We wanted to be there but just wasn't meant to be.
we REALLY enjoyed the first race at Columbus,I hope everyone enjoys IHRA as much as we did..

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Get some pictures of Larry Nelson's restored 1955 Chevrolet P/S Stocker. Beautifully restored car(raced in SS/T then) he raced back int early 70s.Winner of the Summernationals, runner up at the World finals. Beat Bob Glidden numerous times forcing Bob to go to Pro Stock.LOL

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Good to see that both Stock and Super Stock fields have doubled since the last time they ran at National Trials, back in July. Nice progress!!

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The last IHRA Class Race (the Eliminator) had myself and Andy Kronenbitter in the final at Dragway 42. The following Monday they announced IHRA was a "Bracket Only" organization. Not one mention about it from IHRA, including the pictures with the then current President.... (Mike Dunn). Not a peep....... In that entire span from the beginning till this last race IHRA did not incorporate any type of HP AHFS system. I faintly remember them adjusting their Crate motor engines the old fashion way, (they just hit them). Tuton or someone that ran Top Stock will chime in and fill us in hopefully. They were adjusting them also.

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As for car counts. Josh Peak told me that at the first race here they had 104 cars. Milan was in the 150 range. Here they are in the 250 range and cars are still trickling in. They gaining traction and you feel appreciated for a change. The racers supper tonight was really good and well attended. Not just a boiled weinnie on a stale bun with a pack of mustard. A real sit down meal.

When they made the decision to not run today it kind of shot them in the foot. 20 minutes later the sun popped out humidity left cool breeze and everything dried up quickly. Perfect racing weather. They have pushed this race to Sunday. A lot to get done now.

ep

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Previous Hp adjustments in the most recent years in IHRA were -1.40 instant.

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Verses, NHRA skipping ALL Class Run Offs at the Sportnationals last year with the same kind of issue. That track gets damp at night after an all-day rain. After dark they always end up shutting everything down before someone stuffs their ride. NHRA just chose to skip class instead of using the "rain out day" as its intended purpose. Everybody left Saturday instead of using the rain out day... Remember that? We were furious.

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I was unable to run the first race that was to finish on Sunday, IHRA gave me my entry fee back!!! That is awesome, Wouldn't get that elsewhere.

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Stock qualifying order Race 2


1) 3318 Chris Ruzicka FS/C 10.60 9.0295 151.16 -1.5705
2) 306 Scott Klingler FS/F 11.50 9.9907 133.37 -1.5093
3) 5715 Randy Eakins FS/G 11.65 10.1488 129.12 -1.5012
4) 1638 Ron Morehead Jr H/SA 12.45 11.1139 118.83 -1.3361
5) 7801 Pete Lanciers F/SA 12.15 10.8411 120.32 -1.3089
6) 4688 Mike Cotten G/SA 12.30 10.9988 119.43 -1.3012
7) 29 Nick Reiter F/SA 12.15 10.9128 120.39 -1.2372
8) 2030 Corkey Welfel H/SA 12.45 11.2424 118.48 -1.2076
9) 3219 Jeff McKinney C/SA 11.70 10.5167 124.45 -1.1833
10) 353 Caleb McFarland A/S 11.25 10.0831 132.16 -1.1669
11) B354 Bruce Boyle I/SA 12.60 11.4425 114.36 -1.1575
12) 3327 Steve Tucholsky D/S 11.80 10.6459 123.29 -1.1541
13) 1925 Tim Barrett F/SA 12.15 11.0199 118.23 -1.1301
14) 1036 Kevin Anderson G/SA 12.30 11.1747 115.83 -1.1253
15) 6254 Darcy Clarke B/SA 11.55 10.4276 125.80 -1.1224
16) 3184 Dave Batta J/SA 12.75 11.6316 113.49 -1.1184
17) 3516 Bobby Lundholm H/SA 12.45 11.3577 115.50 -1.0923
18) 340 Michael Ours I/CM 12.40 11.3152 116.25 -1.0848
19) 1274 Brent Darroch B/S 11.50 10.4168 127.91 -1.0832
20) J712 Chris Hall A/SA 11.30 10.2201 127.99 -1.0799

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Stock qualifying Race 2 rest of the field

21) 1292 David Pazak D/SA 11.85 10.7902 120.42 -1.0598
22) 3020 Mike Finton A/SA 11.30 10.2435 127.80 -1.0565
23) 3836 Jim Kackel Jr E/SA 12.00 10.9541 120.77 -1.0459
24) 3066 Nathan Riley J/SA 12.75 11.7363 112.78 -1.0137
25) 3088 Scott Bartlett M/SA 13.15 12.1418 107.81 -1.0082
26) 3281 Ronnie Traupman G/SA 12.30 11.3121 113.35 -0.9879
27) 350 Doug Duell C/SA 11.70 10.7157 121.98 -0.9843
28) 3767 Thomas Patete C/SA 11.70 10.7330 121.13 -0.9670
29) 309 Mike Sheehan L/SA 13.00 12.0455 109.22 -0.9545
30) 3252 Jesse Fritts FS/E 11.25 10.3696 128.39 -0.8804
31) 3426 Derrick Wyche F/SA 12.15 11.3110 115.24 -0.8390
32) 2035 Mike Welfel F/S 12.10 11.3071 116.55 -0.7929
33) 3343 Don Turk F/SA 12.15 11.4358 115.53 -0.7142
34) 1723 Randy Butter F/SA 12.15 11.4499 113.95 -0.7001
35) 2221 Richard Mace G/SA 12.30 11.7693 114.04 -0.5307
36) 2827 Dawsen Pauley N/SA 13.30 12.7802 103.26 -0.5198
37) 3083 Larry Nelson P/S 13.65 13.1496 98.94 -0.5004
38) 333 Brett McFarland AA/S 11.00 10.5868 111.44 -0.4132
39) 3972 Bob Shieff GT/E 12.50 12.1943 107.53 -0.3057

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Super Stock qualifying race 2


1) 3411 Earl Roe SS/KA 11.55 10.1285 131.16 -1.4215
2) 177 Herbie Null SS/JA 11.30 9.9071 133.25 -1.3929
3) 4688 Mike Cotten SS/JA 11.30 10.0523 130.85 -1.2477
4) 1969 Brian Oakes SS/CA 10.35 9.1724 145.16 -1.1776
5) 381 Andy Kroneubitter GT/GA 10.70 9.5539 138.46 -1.1461
6) 246 Dennis Steward GT/KA 11.20 10.0739 130.78 -1.1261
7) 3002 AH Adkins SS/A 9.95 8.8468 149.50 -1.1032
8) 3019 David Turner SS/DA 10.50 9.4147 139.15 -1.0853
9) 3541 Mark Sanders GT/FA 10.55 9.4660 140.98 -1.0840
10) 351 Doug Duell FGT/C 10.10 9.0309 146.63 -1.0691
11) 3548 Garrett Ghezzi SS/LA 11.75 10.6818 121.95 -1.0682
12) 6254 Darcy Clarke SS/EA 10.65 9.5918 137.83 -1.0582
13) 3617 Larry Eagle GT/E 10.30 9.3403 142.50 -0.9597
14) J712 Chris Hall FSS/C 9.95 8.9922 150.10 -0.9578
15) 3611 Jimmy Ronzello FGT/D 10.20 9.2682 148.66 -0.9318
16) 3691 Blaine Zaskowski FGT/L 11.15 10.2252 127.95 -0.9248
17) 3196 Rodney Worrell FSS/C 9.95 9.0596 150.30 -0.8904
18) 2497 Frank Beasley GT/HA 10.80 9.9221 133.02 -0.8779
19) 1645 Eugene Chipps GT/HA 10.80 9.9558 130.62 -0.8442
20) 3818 Darrell Ciaravino SS/HA 10.90 10.0719 130.06 -0.8281

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Super Stock qualifying race 2 rest of the field

21) 3697 Brad Zaskowski GT/E 10.30 9.4779 110.70 -0.8221
22) 2366 Jaymes Rawlings GT/DA 10.30 9.4948 140.19 -0.8052
23) 3308 John Frech GT/IA 10.95 10.1478 129.38 -0.8022
24) 3281 Ronnie Traupman FGT/C 10.10 9.3069 145.96 -0.7931
25) 302B George Wright FGT/H 10.65 9.8647 136.12 -0.7853
26) 904 Rick Nicolau SS/PE 10.50 9.7239 137.11 -0.7761
27) 394 Terry Allison SS/TB 10.20 9.4442 141.33 -0.7558
28) 358 Randy Martin SS/JA 11.30 10.5735 124.38 -0.7265
29) 3540 Charley Downing FSS/I 10.75 10.0512 132.31 -0.6988
30) 333B Brett McFarland SS/BA 9.90 9.2848 142.18 -0.6152
31) 3480 Casey Fauss Johnson SS/KA 11.55 10.9442 120.32 -0.6058
32) 3961 Mike Fuller FSS/I 10.75 10.1667 132.90 -0.5833
33) 306M Matt Obertanec FSS/B 9.50 8.9406 152.49 -0.5594
34) 3353 Caleb MCFarland FGT/G 10.20 9.6570 120.19 -0.5430
35) 3676 Aaron Russell GT/EA 10.40 9.9635 134.81 -0.4365
36) 3650 Danny Smith SS/DA 10.50 10.1775 128.94 -0.3225
37) 3844 Mike Price SS/FM 10.80 10.9428 94.30 0.1428
38) 3474 Bob Marshall SS/AA 10.00 10.1466 135.14 0.1466

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I see Pete Lanciers from D7 is there and also entered at Maple Grove.

Welcome back Pete!

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Great camera work by IHRA of the sportsman cars.

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Pete never rest. He is always traveling. Hardest working guy out there. I believe he has awards that reflect this!!

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"Great camera work by IHRA of the sportsman cars."

I have never seen the neat interior camera shots of the Drivers setting up inside the cars as they stage, on ANY broadcast. Really cool.....

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The Finals for both races will be finished up today, Should be dry, Hi temp about 70 and Sun this afternoon.

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Winners Race 2, Congratulations

Stock

Dawson Pauley Winner
Mike Finton R/U

Super Stock

Aaron Russell Winner
Rodney Worrell R/U

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Winners Race 1, Congratulations

Stock

Steve Dziorny Winner
Steve Tucholsky R/U

Super Stock

Matt Obertanec Winner
Andy Kronenbitter R/U

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Looking at the results, I am baffled at the Accutime reaction times. I remember way back when chrondek (?) gave a figure that you had to subtract a constant from to get the actual number - like a .443 was actually a .043.

Some of those numbers make sense if you drop the last digit, but most of them don't, unless it makes sense to think that people going rounds are cutting 600 and 700 lights.

Anybody know how that system works?

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I was there and I have no idea. Every time I went down the track, the live feed speed numbers in my lane would be wrong. Said I went like 113mph every time but I don't think I ever eclipsed 100.

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.443 on a four tenths tree would be actual .043. On a five tenths tree .543 would be actual .043. Would depend on class.

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That blinking blue light between the stage lights drove me nuts. I prematurely stopped every time, or at least most of the time it popped on. They need to shut that off. What's it for anyway?

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I believe that the flashing blue light means the system is ready for you to stage

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I just googled IHRA Stock indexes and the ones that came up are the same as the current NHRA indexes?