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Great action shots from John DiBartolomeo. www.dragracingscene.com

James, your doing a great job. I think I may be able to replace Jack now, just don't tell him.

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The detailed (ambitious) run schedule for Sunday:

http://www.dragracecentral.com/DRCSt...UMMIT#indextop

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Well I had a front row seat for Adkinson and Warren heads up, I was in the water box as both left wheels in the air side by side. They didn't disappoint as both ran 10 flat ssomethings. I was fortunate enough to get by Mr Bongiovanni and round 3 we go!
Rd2

46 deg
27 humidity
.08 vp
29.77 barometer
-325 DA
.9884 cf

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Do both of these combinations receive automatic horsepower?

Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed 286 Jeff Adkinson 2115 Joel Warren E2 0.054 10.002 126.71 ****WINNER**** 0.034 10.006 130.69 B/SA Dial: 11.25 (+/-): -1.248 B/SA Dial: 11.25 (+/-): -1.244 Prior rounds: E1 (D Kincaid ) 0.023 10.278 0.008 (M Beard ) 0.029 10.220 -0.050 Qualified: #9 10.264 -0.986 #22 10.387 -0.863 Heads-up! Close race. Joel Warren's MOV: 0.0164 seconds (approximately 3 feet), on a holeshot.

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Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
27 Mickey Whaley
E2 ****WINNER**** 0.005 10.498 120.49
C/SA Dial: 10.47 (+/-): 0.028

ole mickey mouse all over the tree................ 005 rt

go getem Mickey

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Running the motorcycles now getting ready for sportsman. Lots of talk about the heads up this morning around here and I see a thread is started. I don't think either one thought they were going that fast and I know Jeff was out of it haven't talked to Joel.
My opinion you can't get much more mineshaft than what we had this morning.

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To James point about fast, Arana jr was north of 199 mph & Larry Morgan got his car to leave hard and was low for round 2, 6.477 north of 214 mph and on espn3 live tv trumps seeing the sportsman racing. :( Arana jr just went 199.88 in the final. Larry Morgan 6 on the lite,6.46 at the stripe, last won at Vegas in 2009.

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James, you did very well at the 4 wide, both racing and reporting

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My thoughts exactly! Thanks for the live reports, James!

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Sorry to hijack the thread, thanks James and good job on track. Joel Warren won for the first time over Russ Linke and Dan went 6 red to Dave Rampy, congrats to all.

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Thanks to all for the kind words and it was my pleasure to do it. As I said before this was my first National event and I had a blast despite the weather. I'm no Ms Patsy and I need to work on my picture skills but I did my best.
We headed out before the finals so congratulations to all the finalists. Great job Joel getting his first Wally and how about that Super Stock final, was that legendary or what? Would of loved to seen what would've happened if Fletcher hadn't gone red, and how many times does that happen?
Another side note involving the heads up with Adkinson and Warren, we all know now how fast it was but after talking to some people there were quite a few that were going 5 to 6 faster than they thought that round. Myself included about 4 fast, tailwind and some of the craziest air any of us will ever run in. This was a huge factor in two really good cars getting horsepower and hundreds others across the country. I think NHRA needs to revisit the mineshaft rule because this run should've never affected all of these cars.
Well that wraps up this race and I'm already counting the days to the Division 1 opener at VMP, see you there.

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James,

Great job, Both with the reporting & with your race car .... Really appreciate
you & everyone's efforts to bring us to the Races ...The weather reports were also very interesting, what was the best & worse DA' for the weekend ?
I can see you have the Stock Bug, enjoy it & see you @ VMP....
Thanks, again !!

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Cooter, you did great at racing and reporting! I am sure you will love that end of the year bonus from Ken!!


Looking forward to more of your reports!


Patsy & Larry

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Thanks Dave, I've had the bug for many years just took a while to get here. Only 3rd race in the car so we are still feeling each other out, worst problem I'm having is still feeling for my button while staging lol. Best air I seen was Saturday morning early before 2cd round about-800 worst was almost 500 ft.
Thank you Mr Larry and Ms Patsy, means alot coming from y'all. I've enjoyed your reports for years so I was just trying to give some back.

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Thank you James. :)

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Good job Cooter!

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Oh yeah I should give Steven Rowe credit, he was the one who talked me into doing the "Live" from since know one else was there.

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I was there, but my phone wouldn't get any network signal at all. Thanks for all of the great reporting!