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Ken,

Drive safe. I think you will be impressed with the facility. It looks like the weather will be great for thursday, friday a little iffy and the rest of the week-end pretty good. Since I am only a fan, I will be there bright and early on thursday and will try and find you. I really appreciate your live reports and I will probably have some photos to post also. Included is one looking back at the tower.

Butch

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pay close attention to the signs when you come off I-85 you'll go past the main entrance to the strip then around behind the round track over the river and through the woods ( i'm being serious) to get you into the back gate @ the sportsman pits. I'f you've never been it's something to see.. We'll be up Sunday on a field trip enjoy

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Ken, It's a real nice place down there. BUT, FYI THERE IS NO WATER OR AIR IN THE PIT AREA FOR YOUR CAR! How did they miss that, I don't know? I believe the sportsman cars will be parked on the right hand side of the track. If you get bored, there is a pit road that runs behind the dirt track. If you follow it down the hill, it runs under the highway and over to the Lowes Motor Speedway track grounds. They'll probably be running the Richard Petty driving experience. It's a nice place for some golf cart/scooter fun and you don't have to cross the highway. I only put this in here for you guys that arrive on Monday with nothing to do for a few days! LOL
The weather is sweet the rest of the week, just cooling off a little later on...enjoy everyone!

Wade Mahaffey

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Good Luck Ken !!!!!!! will be watching for your updates...Thanks, Joe

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Heard on the radio last week Cup cars had a test at Lowes today and admission is free.
Chip

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that place is awesome..wish i was there..thanks for getting pics ken..

good luck to everyone!!

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Cup cars were testing yesterday(tues) and heard they are testing 10 - 3 today, free to sit in the stands. The holding area is next to the oval track. This is a very busy area that all appears to be related to the racing facilities. Had a chance to tour roush yates engine shop yesterday, what an expiriance, then went to MBE cyl heads and what a great shop. Also went to Lenny's shop Ultimate converter concepts. Thanks to lenny and Dawn for loaning us a van for the day. They moved their shop here from connecticut last year and they are busy. good to see good people doing well, they are an extremely nice and hard working couple.

Had a nice cookout last night Al Mark, Kenny Richard made it here around 8. Others were,Harper and crew,Labreque,Markow,Lenny and dawn, Rich Simone and his wife and a freind, Ed Bednaz, my self , daughterr kelly and Tim, sorry for those I forgot.

Sun is out and it is great 945 weds am

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Thanks for keeping us posted ken
because of sponsor issues im missing this race,i badly want to be there but ill be watching via your posts.im going to run the new ihra track in orlando this sunday(close to home/bracket race)wishing i was there
scott fifield

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Detailed schedule not yet posted...when does Stock run class eliminations?

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link for Charlotte stock and superstock competitor entry list, please? Thanks. WJ:)

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Here ya go, :)
http://www.nhra.com/events/entrylist04.aspx

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Thanks Hemiparts.....WJ:)

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Just found this on Drag Race Central:
9 a.m. Super Street T-1
Stock Q-1
Super Stock Q-1
Super Gas T-1
Stock Q-2
Super Stock Q-2
Super Comp T-1
Stock C-1
Super Stock C-1
Super Street T-2
Super Gas T-2
Stock C-2
Super Stock C-2
3:30 p.m. Top Sportsman Q-1
4 p.m. Competition Q-1
4:30 p.m. Top Dragster Q-1
Stock C-3
Super Stock C-3
Super Comp T-2
Secure

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Still lots of cars coming in, here are some shots of the tech line and in the pits. I would have to say judging by the faces, this is one happy group of racers. I know I always look at the positive side, and it probably gets a little old for some, but this is what racing is all about. We have class in stk and ss, we have all the sportsman cars here, the weather is great and the track is awesome.

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Jim i thought you were entered at this race???

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Thanks Ken , Keep em coming.

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Had to withdraw, along with 7others apparently; but I'll be back out soon.

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Ken,

Keep the pics coming. Also, post the weather if you can before or after Stock Q1. Thanks,

Evan

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Please feed those horses and really let them run tomorrow morning, boys and girls......:D WJ

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Sorry all, I got side track and could not get any pictures of the track. The sun went down before I finished my chores.

Evan I will give the weather in the morning and after we run.

Tomorrow will be a busy day as you can see by the schedule. I will try to give some updates, but be patient. I will give you a good rap up for the day but it might be late.

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Ken, at some time could you or someone track down the contact info on the man with the Orange F/SA 69 Camaro that you show above? #100E? I would like to E-mail him some questions about his car.. Thank You

By the way keep up the great job and good luck.

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100E F/SA Merle Eschman, Butler PA, '69 Camaro

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Morning,

Here are the current readings from my weather station. Temp 52, Bar 29.32, Humd 64%, DA 710 FT, no wind.

I have to get to work, be back after the run.

Robert, I will see what I can do.

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Great pictures as always Ken.

Lane choice is going to be fun in the 4 wide races!

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Weather: 9.35 am T 64 hum 47 bar 29.36 da 1522ft

I ran Johns, he went a 9.95 at 121 in A, I went a 9.83. I made some changes but I would say its about 5 slower then the gators


be back ................

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Just a quick note, after the first qualifying I thought is was slower then the gators. I can not explain it, but its about the same for some and maybe a little faster. The air does not show it, but its a fast 1500 feet here.

Just ran second qualifying, most slowed up about 4.


Have to get ready for class, be back later.

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Did any 08 or 10 SCJ show up, I did not see them on DRC?

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in the stock there is an 08, qualified no 1

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How did I miss that?!:eek: I need to get my eyes checked.
Thank you

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[QUOTE=Larry Curtis;177349]How did I miss that?!:eek: I need to get my eyes checked.
Thank you[/QUOT

its no. 2 qualifyer now, Grace is also there in her new '10 CJ, She ran a 9.67 i belive.. Go to DRC you will see them..lol

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First round of class for stock is done. I had to run Grace Howell. I ask Grace if we could run each other first, there was 4 AA cars. I wanted to get it out of the way. Grace said okay and off we went. To add insult to injury Grace strap an .012 on me to my .049. Grace went 9.706 to my 9.808. I was hoping to run a mid 70, but that's all I had. Grace went 129, she killed about 9 mph. I'm figuring she was on a 9.65 run.

Well so goes my class race, time to get ready for the eliminator. I wish I could give you more info, but running class keeps you busy. Since I am out I will watch the second round of class. They should be out soon.

There was some sprinkles and we were on hold, but we are back to racing. Stock should be out soon.

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Thanks for the photos and reports, Ken! Much appreciated.

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I believe that makes you a "Grace-ful" runner-up Ken!

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Nice to have met some of the sportsman racers of which I have taken pictures. I got a few email addresses to send them some from this week-end. I will be in and about the sportsman pits tomorrow. I will be wearing a Go to Hell hat with an NHRA logo on the front and carrying a blue back pack if anyone else would like pictures. Have a good nite.

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Butch, Thanks for the pic. Stop by tommorrow and I will buy you lunch. I was in a rush this morning and should have be more hospitable.

Corbitt Marshburn

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No problem. Ya'll have stuff to do and I try and stay out of ya'lls way. Don't forget to give me your email so I can send you pictures from this week-end.

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I have tons of pictures so I will add them in a few posts. Below are some from the morning qualifying and class.

I will try to keep the rap up of today's racing brief. I got to watch second round of class, but first I want to start with the early qualifying runs. It was cool to talk to everybody in the staging lanes and see the cars I don't see in my division. I met lots of members of Class Racer, fans and racers, along with guys that are building cars for stock.

Lots of racers were shutting off in qualifying which is understandable. The thing I noticed more than ever before, cars are shutting off early during class. I try to stay up beat, but it makes it less enjoyable to watch. I understand why they do, but its boring. I choose AA so I don't have to shut off early, its a steep index so its hard to get hp.

The second round of class was most of what I said, shutting off early. Some of these cars are going to get hp because they went to fast early in the day, so why they are shutting off now. I'm not in the position to get hp so I am not judging their decision, I just would like to understand why. I think there was two races that the drivers ran it out.

I note on Bill Hawk's run. The traction bar broke and pushed Bill over the center-line. His car came up high and there was no way to save the run.

I have to say even with some of the not so fun to watch stock class runs, it is still fun to be here. The race track is first class. The track is amazingly fast even when the numbers do not show it. When I ran first round of class. the bar was 29.19 with a temp of 75 and the humidity 32% the da was 2404 ft. I have never been to a track with those kind of numbers and ran this quick.

I know some may wonder why I not bummed being beat by the new CJ's.
I don't have problem with it because and know this can happen, it happened in the past and its going to happen in the future. I had a good combo but now its just okay, and I'm okay with that.

Grace and Bill are good friends and I hope they do well with their new CJ.

Well folks that's its until tomorrow, we are out third for first round of eliminations, the only one for the day. I will try make the posts shorter and maybe have some more pictures.

Dave, very funny.