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I love racing at MIR as a lot of you already know! This year the weather was great, and fast as usual.....but the track wasn't! I did notice the burnout boxes were not kept clean, and barely had any water in them! There were rocks and sand tracked from there to the starting line! I approached one of the starting line crew during an oil down and asked him if he could clean up that area on both lanes. He just shook his head and they never did anything during the lengthy oil down clean up! I proceeded to blow the tires off on that run! I've never had that problem there before!! What really sucks is this is during their big event of the year!! No excuse for that!

One thing I really don't understand is why there weren't more Super Stockers than 41!! Especially between Atco pts race and the Virginia Nat'l. Not many NHRA regulars were there in SS!

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That was very surprising to me, as the starting line was well-staffed. They probably could have spent less time trying to direct you perfectly through the water, and more time with a broom.

I was at another big event recently where it was so bad that after I blew the tires off, I marched straight to the starting line, grabbed a broom to push off the rocks and debris. I think the starter's job was to flip that switch, and the burnout box kid's was to spray water. Neither barely glanced at me or seemed to care that I was on their starting line (let alone doing their jobs). More staff was brought in later, and things were fine then.

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"They probably could have spent less time trying to direct you perfectly through the water, and more time with a broom."

How about that cat in the water box? He has non stop energy being very comical when he was directing cars in the burnout box, but like you guys said, he never found the energy to do any sweeping. And he got offended if someone else stepped up their to direct their own car in the water box.

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we think he used to be in the Navy. He worked the flight deck.

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Congratulation Brandon on your first National event final ! 'Ol Craig's tough though. But you did good !
Myron asked me if I was having trouble in the water box up there too. My car will barely spin in any water box, but that one was bad. I told him whenever the guy tried to stop me I just kept going about 3 ft. more and it was much better. Had to get out of that rough stuff.

But Budd's Creek has always been a great place to race I think.
The last 2 years before this year I didn't bring my R/V and had to use the bathrooms. I was taken aback a bit by 'ol Grady sittin in there with candy and a contribution bucket. But everytime I went those old bathrooms smelled like Gramma's house. The old guy never stopped cleanin and sprayin Lysol. I didn't mind throwin in a buck every now and then to have a clean bathroom. Plus Candy ! :)
Last year at Jackson the mens room was the most horrid, sloppy, pig sty of a mess I have ever been in. And all weekend long too. Ankle deep in overflow several times I went in. They could take a lesson.

See ya'll at the Rock








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hey mayhew,

nice class win @mir...you know you should try a button maybe youll improve on that LATE light????good luck at the rock.

joe mocci
1424 m/sa

Wow !!! Mr. Microphone Is Now At Ihra Events ???
 

Great news about "Unk" announcing S/ss again when did he start doing IHRA National events??

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Hey Joe, that was a hellava run between us wasn't it. .003 to a .004 at the tree and less than .04 at the stripe.
Fun run for a class final.
I saw Announcer Unk later that night and he remembered our run. I think he can remember every run. lol

There were no speakers where we were pitted so I didn't hear much last weekend, but Unk loves S/SS and does a great job for us.








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2nd request SOMEONE MUST KNOW THE ANSWER???
 

2nd Request: Great news about "Unk" announcing S/ss again when did he start doing IHRA National events??

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He did also announce at Budds Creek last year too. Maybe it's a Budds Creek thing ?




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Hey Mike,

That sure is a great looking 6-pack you have !!!!!!! Much better than the Mopar 6 packs of the 70's..........
The Stock, Super/Stock show was excellant and Unk did a great job, wish he would do more..
Its so Nice when the person really know what he is talking about, it makes it better for both the Fans and the Racers... Thanks, Unk for a job well done, we really do appreciate your talent and I hope you do more of this for IHRA .... Dave...1033/stock(350ci)

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>> Is it really true the famous NHRA Stock/SS Sportsman announcer Bob "Mr.Microphone" Unker announced at MIR & is now officially going to be announcing at all IHRA National events the rest of the 2007 season? Anyone know the rest of the story behind this good news ? Welcome back UNK!!!!!

Dave Young,

If you'd go to more races, you'd know that IHRA nabbed Unk last year. :p Finally got to meet him in person last year at Rockingham's World Finals. Awesome guy, awesome announcer.

Bet Dave Feels Like Doing This Now Mikey ??? Lol
 

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thats "OFFICER UNKIFER" to you!

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Thanks for the kind words guys, but actually just doing my job.

ALWAYS enjoy a good round of Stk/SS (and all sportsman action for that matter) and will be @ the Rock to catch those rounds as well.

Dave, I was really looking forward to meeting you and getting some RV cleaner, but when we ended up a man short for the weekend it took away my "get out and meet people" free time.

Tom, been doing the majority of the IHRA stuf now for the last 2 years, where ya been? :-)

William, thats officer U N K E F E R, get the spelling right or I'm gonna steal your woman away from ya,,,,,,
:-)

Mayhem, I'll take the 3rd from the right, to go, PLEASE

See ya all @ the Rock,

Unk

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Hey, Bob

Sorry, I missed meeting you at MIR and I will have a gallon for yah at The ROCK... Not sure if I am going to Dutch or the ROCK, either way I will have some product for you there..Keep up the nice work, Racing needs more people like you to promote our Sport... Thanks, Dave