"Live" from Belle Rose

[Larry Hill]

Hey John, I will give you a little clue--Pat already has more miles on his scooter than that and it is only Wed.

More racers spotted today: Greg Hill, the County Dog, Jerry & Mike Bennett, George Widuch, Billy & Paula Lynn, Bobby & Brittney Brannon.

For Top Stock tomorrow: It costs $75 to run test n tune, then for an extra $25 you can run top stock. Testing starts at 1, We will get 1 top stock time trial at 3, then run 1st round at 3;30. Payout will be 50% to winner, 30% to runner-up, 10% each to the semifinalists.

The weather is supposed to be wonderful all week. It sure was today. Someone said the air this morning was minus 150'.

There doesn't seem to be nearly as many people here today--but it is only Wed. We will see how things fill up tomorrow.

Well we got up early this morning so it is about bedtime for us. Just watching a little basketball and off to never-never land.

More tomorrow.
Patsy

[Larry Hill]

Well, we are finally up and at em. Nothing starts happening til noon, so there wasn't a big rush. Maybe Larry will get caught up on his sleep while we are here.

It is another beautiful day here in southern LA. I will get all the air results and post them in a while. There have been trailers rolling in all morning. I will go out and see who else is here and see what is going on and report back in a while.

Ya'll come on down!

Patsy

[Whalen3186]

My son Drew Whalen is on his way down. He and three of his friends left right after classes at the University of Illinois. This is his 2nd event, we went to the open race at Indy last fall. We did some work on the car this winter and had the motor freshened up. He will be running I/SA with white 85 Camaro. They are also going on to Houston next week, spring break. As they are all in the AGR Fraternity, they are looking forward to the crawfish boil.

[Larry Hill]

Sorry I haven't reported today, but I have been dealing with Top Stock. We ended up with 10 cars.
1.Craig Couris, 10.202
2. Floyd Russo, 10.301
3. David Latino, 10.302
4. Larry Hill, 10.357
5. Jimmy Hidalgo, Jr., 10.37
6. Sammy Pizzalato, 10.41
7. Bobby Brannon, 10.455
8. John Duzac, 10.828
9. Jerry Newsome, 10.84
10. Frank Teuton, 11.11

1st round:
Couris beat Teuton
Russo beat Newsome on a broke bye (Newsome broke a transmission)
Latino beat Duzac
Brannon beat Larry
Pizzalato beat Hidalgo

2nd round:
Couris had the bye
Pizzalato beat Latino
Russo beat Brannon

So there were 3 left. We ran out of time and were going have to finish up tomorrow after class. They decided to split the money, since everyone had to mess with weight in and out. So we had 3 winners.

And I didn't get to have my 1st glass of wine til 8:00 tonight.

Other news, there have been lots of people pulling in all day. Mr. Ortiz is here having a good time. They are just a few trailers down, so I will get a better update from them later.

They were showing around 80 cars in stock. We start out with a time trial at 9:00 in the morning. Then on to class.

After we eat a little supper I will try to get more news. The weather was just wonderful today. Still suppose to be good all week.

Patsy

[junior barns]

Patsy

What did the gauges check weather?????????

[442OLDS]

Originally Posted by Larry Hill

Sorry I haven't reported today, but I have been dealing with Top Stock. We ended up with 10 cars.
1.Craig Couris, 10.202
2. Floyd Russo, 10.301
3. David Latino, 10.302
4. Larry Hill, 10.357
5. Jimmy Hidalgo, Jr., 10.37
6. Sammy Pizzalato, 10.41
7. Bobby Brannon, 10.455
8. John Duzac, 10.828
9. Jerry Newsome, 10.84
10. Frank Teuton, 11.11

1st round:
Couris beat Teuton
Russo beat Newsome on a broke bye (Newsome broke a transmission)
Latino beat Duzac
Brannon beat Larry
Pizzalato beat Hidalgo

2nd round:
Couris had the bye
Pizzalato beat Latino
Russo beat Brannon

So there were 3 left. We ran out of time and were going have to finish up tomorrow after class. They decided to split the money, since everyone had to mess with weight in and out. So we had 3 winners.

And I didn't get to have my 1st glass of wine til 8:00 tonight.

Other news, there have been lots of people pulling in all day. Mr. Ortiz is here having a good time. They are just a few trailers down, so I will get a better update from them later.

They were showing around 80 cars in stock. We start out with a time trial at 9:00 in the morning. Then on to class.

After we eat a little supper I will try to get more news. The weather was just wonderful today. Still suppose to be good all week.

Patsy

Why the PRO ladder?

[Larry Hill]

Daryl, we have always used a pro ladder for Top Stock.

Junior, our guages read Dry-80, wet-65, altimeter -150 feet for a DA of around 1300'.

Larry just cooked some great steaks, so I feel better now. Also went down to Dr. Tommy Fudge's for some chicken with pineapple, and jalepeno sausage somethings. I'm going back tomorrow to get his recipe.

Much thanks to Jeff Teuton for letting Jerry Newsome use his lift in his trailer to change out his transmission. We had a spare that he put in so now he will be ready to run class tomorrow. The original schedule I saw had us getting 2 runs tomorrow, then class. But if I heard correctly, they had changed that to 1 run, then class. I know they did announce that stock runs at 9:00, followed by super stock.

More seen today: Jack McCarthy, Ray and David Buckner, Verne Buchanan, Charlie Downing, Austin and Charlie Ford, Allen Hollingsworth, Paul Hollingsworth (who owns David Latino's car--Al Corda's old Pontiac).

Well, we're pretty pooped out today, so a little basketball on the telly and on to bed.

DRC should be posting times tomorrow, but I will try to keep you up on the gossip.

Patsy

[FLOYD RUSSO JR]

well mr larry it would have been nice to finish our race ... still in all the old man doin (dad) was doin some good driven.. i will get with in da mornin so u can PAY DA MAN ....HAHAHAHEHEH!!! ALL IN GOOD FUN .. C- YA MR.BOO-BOO...

[Pat Joffrion]

Pre-registered low... but good weather (75/55) equals high gate entries ... car count 520+ Thursday night...still coming in. Parking a problem with 6" of rain last Friday-Monday. 100+ miles on the pit bike and have not left the track. Should be able to fill in the openings with dry weather throughTuesday.

Looks like our best SporsNationals ever!!! Class tomorrow, CIC race on Saturday in front of 5,000+ spectators.

Thanks for the support.

Pat

[Larry Hill]

Mr. BooBoo, we came down to pay ya'll last night, but you had already left. Come on by today. We are behind the scales.

They just announced the schedule. Starts with stock at 9, then ss, then stock again. Then class probably 1 or so.

Check with Drag Race Central for qualifying times. I should be able to post more today.

Later.

Patsy