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Dan..here is Bob's reply to my email....Bobby...his offer should be to everyone.

I will say yes to friday tech, and I have no idea about Thursday at this time


Bob Lang
NHRA Northeast Division Director
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Warrington, PA. 18976
Phone - 215-343-2558
Fax 215-343-0159
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From: Joe Franco [joe176@optonline.net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 10:42 PM
To: Bob Lang
Subject: Tech

Bob...will there be sportsman tech on Friday with the schedule change...also how late is it open on thursday. Thanks, Joe Franco

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Thanks Joe...

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OK - So i'm not there live today but here's the lastest from the track - the Storm that was called for this morning passed thru earlier than expected and at this moment its clear with temps in the low sixties and a very slight breeze .Tomorrow is expected to be about the same - possibly a little more breezy ...........

This stuff is pretty easy to predict - maybe it could be my next new career - beats pedalling cars for a living .

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I know we dropped off everything last night and there was TONS of Asphalt left for everyone to park. With the amount of cars that are left I can't see them having to park cars in the Stock Car Track or on the Return Road. Looks to be a VERY VERY Windy day tomorrow with gusts up to 30mph (40mph at Atco cause of the open area), so if it wasn't rain playing H**l on us 2 weeks ago now the wind. Wonder if we will go 1/8 mile racing?

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Morning everyone, its a beautiful day with bright sunshine. Its a cool morning with moderate wind. The wind is supposed to pick up today, it will be interesting what call is made for the day, 1/8 or 1/4?

More rigs pulled in last night and there are coming in regularly this morning. It still looks as if many racers decided not to come back. The alcohol and comp pits are empty. I only saw 3 alcohol cars.

Frank Maiolo's car has to be one of the nicest 69 Camaro's that I have ever seen as a race car. The detail of the paint job along with everything else is outstanding.

We are supposed to start at 10 beginning with stock.

The numbers for the weather look to be fast.

Temp 56
Humd 46%
Bar 29.72
DA 445 feet

More later....

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Safety first will no doubt be the guideline for the 1/4 or 1/8 call.
New England Dragway has already made the call for a 1/8 race..........
Hope all goes well for the completion of the race without any other incident.

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For those of you wondering they are underway at Atco - and racing quarter mile - hopefully Ken will jump in soon .............

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It's sat at noon time.
We did get a time trial in for stock, super street, and super stock (1/4 mile).
It is sunny and wndy.
After a few pairs of super gas, they stopped running because of the wind (a little more gusty than earlier).
We've been down for about 20 minutes now.

23 out of 39 SS cars returned for competition.
43 out of 58 stockers mde the time trial session.

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well.... the decision was just made.

super gas is running again (1/8th mile).
Comp, alcohol cars will all get 1/8 mile tt.

Then they will let us know the rest of the schedule.

At least we're running again.

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Why wasn't this considered 2 weeks ago???

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Maybe because Bob didn't have his future weather prediction beanie on two weeks ago.
What next to jump on? Jeez.

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Is anything running or happening down there?

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I'm pretty sure Byron meant why didn't they try the eight mile thing at that time - 2 weeks ago.

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They just called Stock to the lanes for round two -- all classes will be contested quarter mile - the winds have died down and they should be good to go ..................

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NHRA Div 1 should seriously consider changing their schedule to race more in the summer and limit the race schedule beyond the month of September. The Dutch Classic has always been in October and is the best race of the year to many racers.....if the weather is good, but It often is not......

I have not run many events this year but if I did I would much rather race in the heat than in the cold, wind and rain........Track conditions are not usually anywhere near as iffy when it's hot and the sun is out.....slow yes and maybe traction is not the best but we all get down the track.....usually.....

I think it is really no way the fault of Bob Lang and his crew....but they need to change the schedule and NOT race in March/earlyApril or mid to late October......

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Angelo,suggesting 1/8 mile to some of the prima dona's in NHRA S/SS is like asking them to run into a snow storm in their speedos.It's too IHRA for them.They'd rather take a chance on running into the wind and tempt disaster than to run the 1/8 mile.

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My boy Lincoln Morehead is in a battle for the world championship, thanks to Bob Lang for giving him a fair shake and waiting for the winds to die down. Were pulling for you Lincoln !!!!!!

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Come on Doc.You know what would happen running in the middle of summer.
Ah it's too damn hot
The track sucks
The NHRA/track crew don't know ***** about prepping a track
Ah crap another summer downpour
Feel free to add anything I've missed.

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Ed, could not have said it better!!!

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just ran rd 2 of stock.... santangelo went red.... lowell won and then was dq'ed for excessive breaking (that's what the announcer stated).

ss and sc has been cancelled until tomorrow morn.

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Super Stock and Super Comp are done for today - all others will run 1/4 mile .Stock is almost done with rd 2 - Dunstan Lowell tossed for excessive braking at finish line - they are not taking any stuff here today . All other classes are trying to run another round yet today ............stay tuned ...............

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It's never to hot for me Ed so you'll never hear me complain....
My car hooks in my backyard.....
NHRA and Bob Lang usually do fine. I watch them working at the crack of dawn ....
Some summer showers are unavoidable but if the sun comes out we're golden....

The hottest event I can recall was at Numidia around 2003 or 2004.....I was running S/C ......air temps were 96-98 with DA well over 4000' .......I went .002 red around rd 4 cause my brain was overheated and I staged like a dork.......I sat in the lanes too long and the sun definately was tough to fight off at that race.........

I would prefer the heat anyday.......some of my best days were when it was blisteringly hot......


P.S. Yankees are down 3-0 but it's early.......and I have more beer! LOL

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Rich,

Now it's 5-0 Rangers-the Yankees have the Rangers right where they want them (or at least that score early worked out well for the Yankees last night). Still you gotta worry about the Yankees starting pitching. Can the bullpen always keep the Rangers of the scoreboard? And boy do I wish the Sox ever had David Murphy back-I wonder which semi-pro team Eric Gagne is pitching for this month.

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5-1 Dave.....Yankee pitchers have been terrible the last month ++.....and they are still winning!.....Texas is a good team and this will be a very tough series......

I have to admit I bailed out last night after the Yankees were down 5-0. Sleep sounded better than watching them lose....I woke up today and said to myself they won before I turned on the news....and thats NO B.S. Expecting them to keep doing that is not realistic......spotting Texas 5 runs is not usually going to work........Rich

We hijacked this thread but I love Yankee baseball more than racing...LOL

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WELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DONE for the day . Will start out tomorrow at 10am with stock ,super stock , super gas , super comp . Then at11am Comp and so on.As they said here it is not NHRA's fault ONLY GOD can control the weather.

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I agree with you Ed - and I would prob be one who wouldn't prefer eighth mile to a resched. I ran eighth only once and its just over too damn quick....
I wouldn't risk life or limb though... I'll bet they considered it at the original race but if they were concerned about the track, it peob was a moot point,

BTW great job at the keystones.. I was listening in at home.... & pullin for you. Its cool listening in when they go round robin.

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Thanks Angelo.The round robin thing is good in that you don't get any time to over think what you're doing.It's a pain though when i'm trying to take my weather #s and they're rushing you.

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ED, you do not need any time to think......................:eek:

Broom Hilda said "HI"............

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Wrench.... Anyone.....
Are you sure they're starting at 10 tomorrow? Stock out 1st?
Sounds right but........
Nothing on DRC or D1 sites

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Yes Louis said it about 3 or 4 times .Ten am start time with stock first .11 am comp

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Thx Wrench..........

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Hey Wrench...tell him to keep it green this race. Good Luck.

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Morning everyone, its a cool clear 52 degrees going up to 70. The wind has died down and should not be an issue for today.

Stock is out first with Super Stock to follow. I think the day will go fast baring any unforeseen incidences.

For those of you following the stock points, Dustan Lowell's dq and Joe Santangelo going out in the second round could leave the door open for a few racers to take the D1 title.

For your weather nuts here are the numbers for this morning.


Temp 52
Humid 63%
Bar 29.84
Da 114 feet
Wind cross 2-4mph

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For those of you wondering its a cool crisp morning here at Atco - perfect Fall weather for a race - the jet is running and final preps are being made by both Joe Sways' staff and the NHRA team led by Director Lang .Start is to be in a little more than half an hour and plenty of racers are out parading to the scales etc .

Couple of final things - I was a little late getting going this morning thanks to Gloria Ley - why ? She was serving hot sticky buns with walnuts - just can't pass them up .Second there was plenty to talk about this morning - but i'm here partly because Kenny promised year end bonus checks to the reporters ( listening Sal ) who are in attendance today and partly because I just couldn't stay home .

Back soon ........As usual ClassRacer will be here for you .

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28 Stockers made the 3rd round call - Fetch wins with two blips over Silver - Bialis goes on -Keviet wins over Nees -Rover goes on -Chapman red to Reiter - Serge wins a double breakout deal -Lisa wins - Fletcher gets a bye when his guy couldn't start - Vignona wins over Leach - Meile went red to Donnie Caroll who blew his up bigtime in the lights - John Shaul over Stan Giermanski who is going to take a penalty hit for excessive braking in the lights -- Infantino with a bye.

S/Stock 2 -Nick Scardelli over a red Sal P-- Simmons goes red to Carolyn - Lasko red to Sheenan - Anthony B goes red to Lincoln - Fazio wins with a deadon over D.Linke - VanPopel over Gary Richard - Lisa goes red to Tripp ............

Englishtown S/S Final -- Lee Zane wins over Sal Biondo when Sal brokeout by .005 - Lee was .012 on the tree ......

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For the record, Giermanski was not hard on the brakes. He has driven that car for a long time and was never one to get on the brakes hard.

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Stock 4 -- Curcio wins when Kreit breaks - Guilemino over Shaul -Infantino puts out Fetch - Vignona outs Fletcher - Reiter over Serge - Bialis out - Lisa over Caroll .

S/S 3 --VanPoppel gets a bye -South wins when Savino goes red - Carolyn wins - Zane over Sheehan who went red -Hanley over Scardelli -Fazio over Jewell -Tripp outs Lincoln who was late ..............