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[QUOTE=As cool as it is supposed to be, slowing the car down enough to stay out of trouble would be tough too.

You guys have fun.[/QUOTE]

Hey Ed. We will have to get together so Byron and I can teach you the 1000 ft dump! LOL.

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Working on an adjustable throttle stop today. I was told 83% to 85% was good for 2 tenths. Hope that is right. I can dump it at 1000', but am not good enough to race it that way. I have to dial honest and drive it out the back door, unless I can see I am ahead. Div 4 is full of fast cars. I pretty much always leave first. Lots of CJs & hood scoop cars here. I pretty much never have control of the stripe.

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I think I need to attend that session myself. (-;

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My car had already quit running by the time I got it to 1000 ft., so it didn't matter much if I dumped or not!

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Sure but there is something to be said about a flame belching unicycle at 200+ mph. And at least they don't have throttle stops and delay boxes.

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Doesn't do anything for me. I don't see anybody hanging on the fence to watch them.

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Ed I think you need to talk to the Guy in Georgia about the 1000 ft dump. Tom

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No doubt Tom. No doubt. LOL

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Tom, I just saw what you were talking about. Hope he is proud thinking he is the only one that can do that.

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Speedy is going to 4th or 5th round in a Mustang....is that his?

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Yep!

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Deborah Ridenhour , G/SA, is going to the finals against one of two super fast cars.......any advise?

Dial hard, run it out, wear ear protectors, and ignore the the other lane..

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Oh, I'd say she doesn't need our help. Her nephew is sporting the "41" on his window! I'm sure she's in good hands.

But if it were me? Dial honest and keep the foot down unless it's REAL clear you're not getting caught!

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OK Jared....got it....if her nephew has a Steve Wann car, then she knows what to do....PS...Stevie always....correction...usually dials hard on the final...(that tells you absolutely nothing....LOL) Steve is my engine builder.....

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8:24 p.m. Just as they got ready to stage, the call came, "We got rain."

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Crap

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I was sure hoping those guys would get it all in OK.

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We just got back to hotel...no rain at all for the last hour. Bad call in my opinion to shut it down for the night. It did not rain hard or long. All hard surfaces are dry. Could have gotten no less than another round in for sure.:confused:

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Hey Jeff, If I was as fast as you, I would protect my HP with my life....if that means dumping at 1,000 or brakes at 1100', then so be it.....IMO, never think that you are so quick that you can give something up......others will get faster (hopefully me)...

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Then your Roadrunner ought to be pretty dang fast!

I bumbled my way to the final of a combo and now Ms. Ridenhour is in the final as well. Volare's are having a good year so far!! LOL

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Hey nothing wrong with making them run faster, it's just a matter of getting what you got to work together, some of the parts in my ride are 20 years old but there was a certain chevy II that made me go to work.Even when I didn't race for eight years I may not have been working on the car but my head had the gears turning so you can't get complacent or you will get behind. But I hate to lift!

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Great coverage, Larry. Thanks! :)

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Jeff is my hero.

And, I don't feel so bad about not going to this one. Listened to my wife.

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In the interest of fair reporting, I was sitting underneath the tower, for round 4 of super comp, when it started to lightly spit. It did this for about 5 minutes. They had already been announcing that a cell of storms was on its way. The ground was barely wet but the radar showed a huge cell coming this way. The director sent everyone to the pits to load up for the night so everyone wouldn't be stuck loading up in the rain. This was all around 8:30 pm. It didn't rain another drop when I went to bed at 12:30 am. Yes, it proabably could have been run to completion last night but he made the call he thought was best. I personally would have liked to finish it up last night but I can live with the decision he made.

And this is where I applaude him, he then called each class up to the tower to decide when we would finish each class. I'm not too sure if other directors would have done this. Each class agreed on where the completion would be ran. I know super comp and super gas are at the Dallas div, and super street is at belle rose in a couple weeks. Those were the only classes in the room at the time. The only kink in completion is going to be allstar points. Every class will need to be run before then.

Austin Williams
464Q F/SA
9 S/C

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It's been bright & sunny in the Baytown area all afternoon!

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Brett that is why i did not go. Baytown weather was to unstable.hard to make call's with weather like that.i wish i would have gone now.

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I was wishing I had gone, until they called it last night.

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Want rain? Schedule an event. Want the rain to stop? Postpone the event.

The weather forecasters really blew this one...the forecasts went from a high probability of rain all day Sunday (it was still being forecast as 40-50 percent around midnight Saturday) to 10 percent or less chance of a late afternoon shower by 8 a.m. today. It rained sometime between midnight and 8 a.m., but by 8 the radar showed all the green stuff moving away from Houston, out over the Gulf.

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Oklahoma weather is the same way.

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I agree with Austin and Larry. Everyone was looking at the radar on their phones and wondered how wet we were going to get before R4 of Sc was finished. It's very easy to decide what should've been done. The spectators were already leaving because of the impending weather. No it did not rain until after midnight but at 8:30 on Sunday morning, it was raining and very wet, and cold, with not much sun in sight.
I think the decision was correct at the time, and the decision to find out how the racers wanted to complete the event the BEST way to handle a difficult situation.
Good Job D4.
Dan Foley
SC4698

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I think the best decision was made to reschedule based on the forecast. I don't think anyone would have thought it would have quit raining after they sent us back to the pits. However, as late as it was it would have become a problem for throttle stop and faster cars to get down the track. So, realistically, you probably could have only completed half of the classes that were left. We saw rain without anything on the radar, and we saw no rain with rain all over the radar. It just goes to show you how unpredictable mother nature is. Even meteorologists with years of experience, cannot accurately predict what the weather is going to do much of the time. Hats off to division director Trey Capps for working with everyone to reschedule. I wouldn't want to call any division other than D4 my home.

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I agree. Friends there thought it was going to rain more, and he was allowing people to load up before it got bad.
I agree about Div 4, some of the best officials, best starting line crew, best track prep, I have never raced anywhere better. I didn't know I needed big tires until I started traveling to other divisions. Trey seems like a really good guy that cares.