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Thanks, Michael!

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Down to 3 cars in the Clay Jones Memorial NitroPlate Combo race: Michael Beard, Jeff Colvert and somebody else.

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Michael Beard won the 5k combo race tonight. Congratulations pal.

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That's Ricky Baehr in the black Camaro. Multi-time track champ, former IHRA Summit No-Box World Champ. Already won a combo a week or two ago. Kid is BRUTAL. He turned it -.006 red vs Colvert in the semis. Colvert was dead-on 0. In the finals, he was red.

I had a TON of help from a BUNCH of good friends. I love my racing family! I very literally couldn't have done it without them. Almost missed second round when the starter buggered up and was freewheeling. Got it to catch at the last possible moment. Big thanks to Kevin Cradduck, Alan Roehrich, a gentleman whose name I didn't catch, and Ricky Baehr. Got by, and then barely got the starter changed in time for third round. THEN was just about out of gas, and there was no one at the fuel pumps. Greg and Andrew Hill jumped in to get me through. What a night!

Thanks again to NitroPlate for another big money S/SS race!

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That's Ricky Baehr in the black Camaro. Multi-time track champ, former IHRA Summit No-Box World Champ. Already won a combo a week or two ago. Kid is BRUTAL. He turned it -.006 red vs Colvert in the semis. Colvert was dead-on 0. In the finals, he was red.

I had a TON of help from a BUNCH of good friends. I love my racing family! I very literally couldn't have done it without them. Almost missed second round when the starter buggered up and was freewheeling. Got it to catch at the last possible moment. Big thanks to Kevin Cradduck, Alan Roehrich, a gentleman whose name I didn't catch, and Ricky Baehr. Got by, and then barely got the starter changed in time for third round. THEN was just about out of gas, and there was no one at the fuel pumps. Greg and Andrew Hill jumped in to get me through. What a night!

Thanks again to NitroPlate for another big money S/SS


Congrats Michael Good Going

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Congrats Michael,
Now I don't feel so bad about that hour long phone session while I was driving and you were driving on Friday. I thought I was the one that got pumped up. Looks like you did an outstanding job. Also a big CONGRATS to my old friend Jeff for his outstanding RU. I sure wish I could be back out there running again.
Glad to see Nitroplate make this race , in a race, happen!

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Congratulations Michael, on winning the NitroPlate Clay Jones Classic $5K Combo.

The guy who lent a hand getting Michael's car started is Jim Blenkarn, a new Super Comp racer. He's a great friend, Kevin's neighbor, and one of the guys I work for.

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Another nice day here at the track. A little overcast now. We start out with Stock in about an hour.

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Alan, Wow !,
So Jim has made a transition from Sprint Cars to Super Comp.
I sure hope he overcomes the urge to turn left:eek:
when he gets up to speed.:D
Hope you guys have some good luck and a safe race.

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Jim still has the asphalt sprint car. He also probably has the only all aluminum 410 cubic inch, methanol injected, dry sump Super Comp hard tail dragster.