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thanks for the coverage. very nice. who's brown maverick is that? very sexy!!

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Our own Lee Zane took his first step in Pro Stock today by taking his car thru the NHRA's "Chamber of Horrors " .............pictured with him are Kevin McHugh and Brian VanPoppel .Good luck fellas ......

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Good luck fellas.....

They're going to need alot of that and a whole lot more of this $$$$ and most likely will still be looking through the fence on raceday. Better keep a sportsman car nearby.

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Stock and S/S just had rd 5 - great heads-up D/SA between Joe Lisa and 'Lil Joe Santangelo with 'Lil Joe winning with 10.621 over 10.624. Semis coming .....

Left in S/S are James Antonette - Steve Smith and Chiles .

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Just got word from Jack, heavy thundershowers just rolled through. Not sure how long they will be down, but the rain was heavy with lots of wind.

Jack hooked up and hit the road. He said he would give us a wrap up later tonight.

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The rains did show up again at E-Town this afternoon but only for a half an hour or so but were accompanied by some strong winds .Almost as quickly as the storm blew in it was gone - dark clouds and all .The Sun came back out and helped with the drying process .

First of all congrats to 'Lil Joe Santangelo the Stock champion who was a driving machine all weekend .Would you believe thru seven rounds of racing he averaged .017 .And the clutch race had to be in the quarters with Joe Lisa heads-up with both having almost the same ET's but Joeys' light a terrific .009 .Congrats Joey ...

Congrats also go out to Eric Cabral who made it to the Stock final in his very first try only to go -.014 red .

The SuperStock final was contested between Brian Martel who went .018 followed by James Antonnette who went -.004 red .Congrats to both ...........

I'm still downloading some afternoon photos and after a dinner I'll post 'em .

This was some race - it had it all-- heat - cool - fast -- slow - good barometer -- in the toilet barometer -- one thing great for the Sportsman all weekend was the traction - thanks NHRA ! ! !

My advise - get some grade points and sign up for this one next year .

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With #1 on the window it must have a great pedigree.

http://classracer.com/classforum/att...2&d=1338743469

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Geez - I must be getting old or something .......dinner turned into a nap and soon it was 5:30 - and thats AM as in this morning -- must have had way too much fun this past weekend . Anyway here's a few more random photos as promised .

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Maybe just a couple more ..............

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Thanks for the great reporting and the pictures too, Jack! A lot of history at E-town that needs to be experienced at least once in a life-time. Sure hope to be able to be there next year. :)

Lew

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Great job to both the Martel's on a great job

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Jack, was the spectator turn-out as bad as it looks in the photos here and on the TV over the week-end? There were lots of empty seat metal showing during the ESPN qualifying and elimination shows. You know that they were broadcasting "PRO" NHRA and from the camera position there were many empty seats as they showed the starting line and down track.

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Chris - In some earlier posts -Saturday & Sunday I put some pictures of the stands - they were pretty full during the Pro's .Thurday and Friday were a little light ..........

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Hey Jack,
You caught the back of my friend and I at E Town in a couple of your photos. I am wearing the ClassRacer shirt and my friend Larry is sporting the ASRA 'colors'. Had a great time, able to watch most of Stk, SS. I did notice the attendance was down all weekend.. Friday qualifying 2nd round there was an announcement to come down to the reserve seats and watch the qualifying! Everyone welcome and its FREE! I think they wanted to show a full bleacher for TV coverage. Just my .02cents worth.

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Yes , I heard that same announcement -- not sure if you're right about the TV thing or they ( the NHRA ) were just giving folks a free taste - either way it was a good thing to be able to sit in reserved seats for free .Whats the saying about a gift horse ? ?

Good to see everyone wearing their ' colors ' ...........

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The stands did look a little light on TV from what I could see but, also remember the Dover NASCAR Race was this weekend also and not sure if anyone watched the coverage from their on Sunday but, LOTS of empty seats to the point that started putting sponsor tarps over the seats they didn't sell. I remember going to Dover in the early 2000's when they had just added the new seating and it was packed 120,000 plus! So it's just not NHRA not selling seats...

Maybe with the addition of Epping to the schedule they will move E-Town off of that weekend