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Congrats Joe on the new grandchild, Patty and I welcomed a new grandchild (#3)just 3 weeks ago

Thanks to all for your reporting.

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Congratulations Joe and Dave,enjoy it now. My granddaughter Kayla turned 22 yesterday, where does the time go.

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Tech seems to be going smooth, lines are short and wait time is not to bad. I took allot of photos in tech, here is the first batch, more later.

I did see Patsy in tech taken pictures of cars with the drivers, its always nice to place a face with the car. I see there are allot of B/SA cars, it looks like the class to watch with all the heavy hitters battling it out.

I will have more later...

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More photos from tech....

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Well it has been a lovely day so far! A lot cooler than last year. Only 83 now and overcast with a bit of a breeze. Here are a few pics from the tech line today:

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...2015/042_3.jpg

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Bill and Mrs. Sempscrott K/S

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Caleb McFarland A/S

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...2015/046_2.jpg
Joe Martens A/S

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...2015/047_2.jpg
Tom Russell C/S

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...2015/048_1.jpg
Ray Paquet SS/A

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A few more photos from tech. I'm sure most know the schedule by now, stock is out first at 8:30 tomorrow.

Quote:

Originally Posted by cicero819 (Post 480813)

ken, do you think that if I entered by the back gate on the side of the tanks, that maybe the guys would let me bring my pedal bike through? I'm getting a little older every year and find it hard to walk my usual twenty miles back and forth, maybe a racer could bring them in for me. Thanks. Claude Ruel.

Cluade, I don't think you will have any issues getting your bicycle in.

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A few more:

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...2015/114_1.jpg
Mike Booker's SS/AH

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...2015/112_1.jpg
Pete Peery and Kyle Ratcliffe working on his C/SA

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The Emmons compound

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Darrel Steiger being teched in by Vince Tosto

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Dad looks good in yellow :) Great pics as always!! Wish I was there ,but hopefully next year I'll be in the A/S battle! Have a good fun week guys!!

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And Happy Birthday today to Mrs. Bev Provoast! We love you and miss you!!

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Last batch of photos for tonight, I will have the weather numbers before the first qualifying shot tomorrow.

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A HUGE thank you to Patsy, Ken and everyone else who contributes to this thread and helps those of us who couldn't be there see the sights of INDY!!

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X10............. and safe racing everyone.
Walt

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Well we are about 45 minutes away from the first run of Indy 2015! You can feel the excitement in the air! (Along with the heavy humidity)LOL

It is 67 now, probably 70 or so by the time the first cars go down and 75 by the time the last of the pack roll down. It is supposed to be sunny all day, going up to about 90.

Wish you were all here to enjoy it with us!

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Good morning everyone, cloudy and humid this morning. There are already a dozen or so cars in the staging lanes getting ready for the first round of stock qualifying starting at 8:30. Here are the weather numbers for this morning.

Temp 71
Humid 77%
Bar 29.17
DA 2489

I will be back later....

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A few more pics from yesterday:

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...015/005_26.jpg
Jason Line C/SA (former Stock champion)

And one of the best things about racing! The after racing get togethers!

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...015/008_21.jpg
John, Jim, Kevin, Jeff and Larry

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Katie finishing off a White Russian!

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Mrs. Paula

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Eric, Mike, Scott, Larry

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...015/011_19.jpg
And Erik Jones on the phone!

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Gotta love it when an event starts on time. Scheduled start 8:30 a.m. and the first pair of Stock Eliminator cars took the Tree at 8:27. I don't have specifics on the weather but it's 73 degrees and not a cloud in the sky. Going to be warm and humid for most of the day it appears.

The big question is how many Factory Showdown cars and right now, I don't know but obviously we'll have a clearer picture after Q1.

As for bump spot predictions, most people seem to think it will be around -.92 so I'll go with that but I'd expect a fair number of alternates to get in due to breakage, tech issues, and the likelihood that some of the Factory Showdown cars sit out Eliminations.

More later....

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For those looking for some light reading this morning. Here is a link to my Sports Report column on the National Dragster.net site. This week we're handicapping Friday's Mopar Hemi Challenge.

https://www.nationaldragster.net/dai...challenge.html

Below is a link to last week's column which chronicles my recent trip to Sweden where class racing is alive and well.

https://www.nationaldragster.net/dai...in-europe.html

Enjoy

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Now THAT was wild.

Roy Hill's Cobra Jet did a 300-foot wheelstand before crossing the centerline. Fortunately, he was running Marty Buth's V/S Ford so Buth had plenty of time to lift. Both cars crossed the finish line in the same lane.

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Thank so much for all the pictures and reporting. Much appreciated.

Jeff

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Is there any live timing for qualifying today

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Reporting in from my Work desk listening to the Audiocast. Would rather be there......
One item of minor importance.....can anyone remind the announcing crew (who are awesome) to correctly define the new designations for stockers...."Factory Showdown cars" are The X And XX designations and ofcourse other new Iron are "Factory STOCK" A-B-C Etc.......
I think its a Big deal to help gain the interest of new people in these categories that they refer correctly. Please understand, NOT being critical. Accuracy is good for all.

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What an awesome 1st session of Stock qualifying! Lots of big wheel stands and it seemed like every car down the track was about 95 under.

Also we'll see what the Q sheet looks like (there were a few wrong classes), but it feels like there are AT LEAST 20 B/SA cars here.

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Stock Q1 is in the books.

There is still some housekeeping to be done as far as cars in the wrong class and driver info not entered so these numbers are likely to change.

So far, I've got 24 cars in the Factory Stock Showdown but that number is almost certainly higher. It might even be as many as 30 since a handful of new cars ran without their data entered.

Chris Holbrook killed it in FS/XX with an 8.560 (9.90 index) but there is a good Ford-Chevy rivalry there since Clay Arnett is only a couple hundredths back with an 8.589.

In FS/X, David Barton's Mopar lowered the boom with an 8.804 (10.15 index) I believe Barton is currently the low qualifier.

I'll clean up some of these numbers once the cars clear the scales and the we get an official qualifying sheet.

More later...

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Kevin, thanks for updating everyone! Yes, Roy Hill got the wheelie award for the session! I am just glad he was running a much slower car or it could of been ugly!!

We are tickled to death with our run! 1.07 under in B/SA! I think he got it fixed!

178 cars went down, with Steven Dzoriny getting shut off on the line. He later went down in front of the stands so maybe leaking something??

A few wrong indexes, so it will take a little while to get things up.

More later

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Yes Kevin, thanks so much for pitching in. Here are some photos from the staging lanes while stock was running the first round qualifier. The weather for the first round was, well lets just say it was typical Indy.

Temp 77
Humid 70%
Bar 29.19
DA 2982
wind cross 2 to 4 mph

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Q1 Sheet in hand here's what we've learned so far.

177 cars made runs

David Barton leads with a (-1.346) 8.804 in his FS/X Dodge
Chris Holbrook No. 2 (-1.340) 8.560 in FS/XX Cobra Jet
Clay Arnett No. 3 (-1.311) 8.589 in FS/XX COPO

Top three cars are Dodge, Ford, Chevy

28 cars officially in Factory Showdown

Quickest "traditional" stocker is Jim Hale's H/SA Fury (-1.164) good for No. 9

128 car bump is Matt Kennedy at (-.804)
38 cars a second under or quicker

15 cars in B/SA
8 cars in A/SA

19 of top 21 are new cars

Top speed is Bruno Massel at 159.82.

Super Stock up soon

More later...

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Thanks for all the updates and great pics !

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It is mineshaft conditions!!!

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Super Stock Q1 early report

Ray Skillman No. 1

21 Hemi Cars took the tree (might be one or two not on the sheet)

Wolkwitz 8.554
Bucky 8.581
Hebert 8.589

P.B. Candies 7.957, 168.72. I know it's not the quickest Super Stock run but there is still something impressive about seeing a 7-second E.T. during a Super Stock session.

Best pair/photo opportunity: Fred Henson's '68 Dart vs. Dallas Kelly's '64 Thunderbolt. Two incredible cars.

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It is a solid .12 to .16 slower than Bowling Green 92 grains water. Barometer is so low, a hurricane has more pressure than in Indy today. Track is a little tricky, but most made it down.

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I bought a E/SA Camaro over the winter and understood the factory stock COPO s etc wouldn't screw up the eliminator any longer but looks like I'm wrong. What a crock if you want to spend 150,000.00 and up,or in many cases get it free, for a store bought killer factory stocker ,which by the way has 4 link rear,coil overs and need I go on. Now there are a lot of great stockers at Indy that will sit out eliminations because these cars eat up 30 and more of the 128 spots. Only good news you don't have to run them in class but that's as far as most will go this year. 1.3 under will they get HP or not?

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