“Live” from Z Max 2018

[Ken Miele]

We are all done for the evening. Super Comp just got their second time shot. Stock, Super Stock and Super Gas did not get to make a second run. The ladder is already up for Stock and Super Stock.

Its a hard pill to swallow getting one shot down the track, but like they told us tonight, it is what is. I just have one question, why would you make this race a 3 day event. There is every NHRA category here. Even if we did not have a 2 hour delay with water seeping, it would have been tough to get it all in. Every race has issues, why would you not want a little wiggle room. So this race it was Super Stock, Stock and Super Gas getting short changed. Nationals are just a hit or miss when it comes to the sportsman racer.

[HR9121]

Originally Posted by butch8908

James, I'm not a racer I just like to take pictures of S and SS and you find any better people than sportsman racers and especially the Stotts and Volkmans.

Butch I couldn't agree more, lots of great people out here but I would put them at the top of the list. Unfortunately you didn't get much of an opportunity to take pictures today and you miss anything by leaving since they scratched our final run.
Stock will be out first tomorrow with 1st round, only getting one run did create an interesting ladder as I think there will be 3 heads up runs in 1st round of Stock and atleast 1 in SS. Should be fun!

[Larry Hill]

Stock to the lanes. Stock to the lanes. And get a hose job. Me and and the rest of the first five got cheated and robbed. How did NHRA know that the track was ready to qualify on. What ever the yardstick used was incorrect. If our cars have to be safe so does the track, we have a rule book we as racers have to live by. What is the minnium qualifications of a safe track. Is it the starter wetting his finger and holding it up aka Kentucky windage. Or is it the refined scuffing of a shoe against a sprayed and drug track. NHRA how do you know when the track is ready for competition. Is it when a G/SA goes sideways on the 1 ,2 shift, or when a glide car looses .05 in 60’. Is it when the tree almost gets taken out by one of the second set of cars. NHRA if you don’t want a bunch of Dan Fletcher imitations getting to staging fix the track before the first car goes down, not after the fifth car goes sideways on a gear change. NHRA have standards for track preparation, and live by them

[Ed Carpenter]

Originally Posted by Ken Miele

We are all done for the evening. Super Comp just got their second time shot. Stock, Super Stock and Super Gas did not get to make a second run. The ladder is already up for Stock and Super Stock.

Its a hard pill to swallow getting one shot down the track, but like they told us tonight, it is what is. I just have one question, why would you make this race a 3 day event. There is every NHRA category here. Even if we did not have a 2 hour delay with water seeping, it would have been tough to get it all in. Every race has issues, why would you not want a little wiggle room. So this race it was Super Stock, Stock and Super Gas getting short changed. Nationals are just a hit or miss when it comes to the sportsman racer.

The answer is very simple that’s nhra.......

[tpoh815]

Originally Posted by Larry Hill

Stock to the lanes. NHRA if you don’t want a bunch of Dan Fletcher imitations getting to staging fix the track before the first car goes.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery! Now dial up a tenth and put a fender on the guy.

[Lee Valentine]

This is why I don't run National events anymore.

[Larry Hill]

Dan does not break any rules, he and others like to go up last. What is going to happen if all the racers dont want to be first, due to poor track prep, and want to be last?

[jimmyparker]

Saturday schedule?

[Larry Hill]

The original schedule pretty much. Stock round 1 at 8:30

[HR9121]