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Does anyone know why Bill Skillman was listed as DQ on the stock qualifying sheet?

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The trailer is for Darrell Gwynn's foundation - they provide powered chairs to people who need them, lots of them kids.

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Blew it up first qualifying session (first pass on a new engine is what I was told), bypassed scales and fuel check.

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Wow! It's not even 6:00 AM out here and E3 of stock eliminator is in the books.

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I'D say that Eric Bardeoff GT/GA was better than GREAT, never saw it before.
Sorry I called it a SS-AH car...

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Eric's car is a GT/GA car with a dragpak motor

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After about 20 pairs of SS rd1 it rained enough to send the cars back to their pit, I believe it has stopped and the track dryers are running. it did get completely wet ,so it may be awhile

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Raining again.......

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How true but after NHRA piles horsepower on it next week he might as well go to a full scale truck LOL. What a great job Larry and Patsy! We will be talking about this #1 for a long time.

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Anybody know the reason for Rick Rogers was DNQ?

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On Rick Rodgers it was a pulley issue.

Thanks Jim, you know we have a great time out here reporting.

It is back to raining here so I imagine the schedule will be adjusted again! Maybe it will give me time to get cleaned up around here a little!

More later!

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Wonder if he will get a $2,000 fine?

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Thank you very kindly to all who have posted pictures and stories, It looks truly amazing there. We are totally blessed to have so many Great people and cars in our sport. Best of luck to everyone who's still in, and everybody get home safely. Time to go to church-Later.

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http://static.dragracecentral.com/st...1435-00471.jpg

whoop whoop... Dad got his pic took

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LOL, I was going to say the same thing!

I will add a congratulations on the win and a thanks for the reporting!

Bill

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I'm on the road headed home, I stopped about hour outside of Indy to get a better connection to do my final reports.

I have a couple of pages of photos from Evan Smith, Evan was kind enough to let me look through his many shots this weekend and these are just a small sample of some very cool photos... enjoy.

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Some more cool shots.... James, please tell us how you turn your head like an owl.... wow, my neck would break.

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The few photos are a thank you to the Cook Brother's. I don't usually post photos of me or my car, but the Cook's work so hard to get their Cobra Jet to Indy. They just finished it on last Saturday and we went to Numidia Raceway in Pennsylvania to test on Sunday and it was a disaster. They took the car home and fixed the issues and off we went to Indy, not knowing if we would even make it down the track. With only one run on the new combo it was a gamble.

Every run was a test run, and even though we did not do well in the Factory Showdown we learned allot and had a blast just being part of it. Thanks guys, you gave me a ride I will never forget.

On another note and some thoughts about Indy. I was feeling pretty low about us even qualifying, but after talking to so many racers telling the issues that they were having, it put things in perspective. Lots folks were in the same boat as us trying to qualify and win there class. A last minute thrash before Indy seemed like it was the norm, everyone had a story.

Getting to Indy is a big deal, weather you have a shot at qualifying seems not to matter, what matters is being here. The crowds were amazing with the stands full. Even before the pros ran, there must have been 10,000 fans in the stands to watch the Hemi Shootout and Factory Stock Showdown in the early rounds.

I had a great time and can't wait for next Indy.

If I get any more info or photos, I will be sure to post. Thanks everyone for supporting Class Racer, it means more than you all know.

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That's a great looking car, Ken. The trials and tribulations racers face make the real champions work harder. Best of luck in the future.

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Ken, Thanks for all of the reporting, picture taking & in car camera video's.
That goes for Patsy & Larry As Well.

Between You & The Hills, Kudo's to you both.

For those who couldn't attend, all of your hard work is Very Well Appreciated !!!

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X2

I always look forward to reading the live reports from you guys.

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I was possessed The devil made me do it!

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I don't know if you guys caught it, but I turned on EPSN and they played the finals of the hemi shootout and the finals of factory stock. Nice to see that on national tv.

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Is anybody else having trouble with Live Timing? It has been displaying John Force vs Robert Hight in the Traxxas shootout and I'm hearing the broadcast so that happened quite a while ago.

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Heres a few from last night.

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Better late than never, a few from Thursday.

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A few more from Thurs.

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Thank you to all our great reporters.Claude Ruel

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Just got back from watching 2nd round of Super Stock. Lots of good races tonight. I know all those guys are tired after sitting around all day until 2 rounds of pros ran to finish up their 1st round. Then here it is 9:30 and they just finished 2nd round and are still running 2 more tonight. I am just going to listen on the radio from bed! Larry went back up to watch with the 50 or so others that are still here watching. There is another round of stock tonight, too. It turned out to be a very nice day here after the showers this morning. Well more later!

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Well it is Monday at Indy and there is one division 6 car still in in stock, Bob Gullet is down to 4 cars. One old school Nova stick car and 3 Copo left in the field. Once the sportsmen started running it was hot lapping till late last night. Troy lost in the last round of SS that ran last night.

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A little late in asking this question (sorta like my last reaction time:)) ... In post 262 video of Chris Holbrook's run, he does his burnout and then flips two switches/two lights go on and he makes his run. What is he doing?
Just curious...trying to learn something that in all likelihood will end up costing me more money. :rolleyes:
Doug Jonak

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It is overcast now here in Indy. They started out at 8 with Top Alcohol. Pre-race stuff going on now. We are packing up and headed up to NRC to get a little work done on the motorhome. Having trouble with one of our slides. They are only about 3 or so hours from here, so better doing it now while we are so close.

It has been a fun but stressful trip. With the goal of being #1 in Stock qualifying, it was really a lot of work to get there! This truck isn't just a go to the junkyard and buy something and go to the top. A lot of work was done to run it as a stick. But it paid off! I say pay, but actually there is no recognition for any of the top sportsmen qualifiers anymore! Oh well!

We hope to be on the road shortly, so bye for now.

We will see you in a week or so at Charlotte!

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Larry, are you going to put a stick in the Cuda now that you have some experience? Bet things would happen quicker than in the truck!

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Larry, you are now officially my #1 hero! Rock On my friend! Safe travels. Jim

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Being supercharged it would have to be either the primary intercooler pump and a fan or a secondary pump and fan. Super Charged cars need Ice water since so much heat is made. Our Super Charged COPO leaves the line at 100 deg IAT and crosses stripe at 175....If I forgot to turn it on before the burnout or at all I would be in big trouble and if the computer did't compensate 20% of fuel it would probably burn a piston. But in my case it would just SLOW down a ton. There was also plenty of talk regarding tank sizes, what is legal, what is not and its pretty much a cluster f''k from the West to East coast of what is allowed and what is not.

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and as i remember he is a super nice guy also.

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Mr Gary Richard going some rounds! Great to see. He is not a customer and we don't talk much but I respect him for all the support he gives to Div 1, the great racecars he has, the excellent drivers he lets run them all the time, and his crews hard work at the track. Maybe we will see a full size wally at Englishtown in a few days! If Gary doesn't have it then Tom could be right there to collect.

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Thanks to everyone for contributing to this thread. We all enjoyed it because of your efforts.

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Likely one is to engage the 2 step.

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Good Karma for a gentleman that goes out of his way to promote sportsman drag racing. Going to the final. Good luck !