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Is no one live from the IHRA Race yet? I don't think a pure stock Mustang will go 10.86.
I believe that is an H/CM Mustang if I am not mistaken.

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I'm glad you said something first...

I was considering all the horsepower that would receive in NHRA just for fun.

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Beard's there . Maybe he will chime in a little while.
He' gonna be busy running stock , superstock and the MOSER shootout....

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Live Timing during Stock Q-2 shows it (car # 3548) as Charley Downing in D/FI. 12.10 Index, ran 10.86 and 10.92.

http://www.1320go.com/us131/timeslipsonline.php

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What a joke ! And so it goes. By the way the D/FI is an 11.0 lb break. Thats G/S in NHRA. So does this car make the 11 pound class? It is not showning at all on DRC.

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I think Greg Kline used to run an 84 Mustang in H/CM. You may remember it from Quaker City Mike. It was all black.

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Remember if IHRA starts getting a lot of these cars they will join the double A , B , and soon to come CCFI and DD and so on...

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I run at 11.0 lbs too. He has me by about a second!

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Yeah Chris, I remember Greg. He used to run brackets at Quaker, then ran H/CM for a while. I won a close race against him at the Pro-Am there in '04.

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We're here in Martin. On the schedule, they posted only 2 runs for today, but they said they are going to give everyone a third run, which should start in an hour or so. The weather is pretty good, but not great. It was around 2000' for the first run and 2500' for the second.

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Thank you...

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Terry D/FI min weight for my CJ is 2788. I rolled across the scales at 3290, which puts me heavy for K/S or F/FI(you do the math). And you are still a ***** CLOWN bulid a car or travel back in time to the 1950's. You are a still joke.

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Hope you run 1.50+ under at Indy. Your the joke for thinking your such a hot shot running one of the new cars thats about 4 or 5 classes to low. And Im not the only one who thinks this way. D##k Head.

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Looks like Greg and Gregory are doing quite well. Old cars.

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I know my dad's one of those Gregs, but who is the other? Lol

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I guess I screwed that up. Sorry. No harm ment.

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T bag you are a D bag.
Terri you should spend your time buliding a time machine to take your sorry ***** back to the 1950's so the racers that actually race don't have to listen to your crap 24/7 you ***** CLOWN.

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lol..................................

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Not a big deal lol.

I couldn't believe when I saw that Teuton rig pull in up here! Did they make a wrong turn?

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Sorry for the shortage of reports. As DW said, I kept busy yesterday running two cars in three classes. It was make a run in Terry Knott's Stocker (Drove his Dart Sport years ago. He's got my old crate motor now), make a run in the Volare in Super Stock, download the run, make a time trial for the Moser Shootout in the Dart, come back and work on the EFI program, rinse n' repeat, with little time for anything else.

Moser Engineering once again treated us like kings (and queens). They put together a 32-car Shootout from amongst the top 4 in each class from 2010 points, plus 4 wild cards, all Div. Champs, with over $50,000 on the line: $500 to 1st Rnd losers, $22,500 to win! As always, they fed us a hearty catered meal (ironically from the restaurant Terry wanted to go to... Some place 'as seen on the Travel Channel') with incredible bbq ribs, chicken, baked beans, tater casserole, cookies, fudge cakes, and more. We also got reserved seats in front of the tower for speckle-tating. (Highlight I thought was the Fuel Altereds, 228mph.... "On purpose!". Actually, they ran surprisingly straight, but still cool, wicked looking cars).

After being .005 and .006 off the trailer in Terry's car, I boned it horribly 1st rnd of the Moser Shootout, and was mathematically ineligible at the start vs Nick Folk's .007 bulb.

I did get a chance to see the Denysenkos, Phil Veldheer, John Brown, and a few other northern brethren, and finally got to meet Greg and Andrew Hill in person. Great folks.

Everyone did get an extra qualifying run yesterday, although I wish we would've run 1st Rnd instead. Some very heavy rain and thunderstorms came through this morning. They're to stay on top of things to expedite drying when we get a break, but it's already been announced that we're looking at just 1st rnd of Sportsman classes today, with the remainder to be run on Sunday.

Maybe I'll take some "Jack Matyas" pics for ya! ;)

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[QUOTE=X-TECH MAN;274811]Hope you run 1.50+ under at Indy. Your the joke for thinking your such a hot shot running one of the new cars thats about 4 or 5 classes to low. And Im not the only one who thinks this way. D##k Head.[/QU
Terry,
If Chalie can run 1.20 under 500 lbs, heavy He may run 1.6 or 1.7 under.
That's a fast car, But you can't blame him for looking soft combo,
I think you hit a nerve, You guys need to fight nice ! lol

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X tech man, got give CharlieBoob a break he's a from Southern Michigan boy close to being a Buckeye just a 180 off being a yuper, if he won as much at track as he thinks he has done here he would be bad. Dont forget he has read way to many of he's own press releases! A legend in his own lunch time. Come on CB show us how to win

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[QUOTE=KEN BUGAJ;274912]Ken.....Im not fighting with anyone. I blame NHRA. Fighting is a waste of time anyway. I wish Charlie luck. I really do but some on here should face the facts.......Ford and NHRA is screwing the little guys big time with these bogus HP ratings. Charlie didnt do it. He just took advantage of NHRA's stupidity. IHRA is just following NHRA's lead in the HP factor dept. for now. Besides I didnt start with the name calling but I have been called worse over the years.....LOL.

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Looks like they will run 1st round today and finish sunday..
supposed to start around 4 pm.

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Well, we're done for the day with no rounds run after lots of rain and track drying. They said we're going to get a time run in the morning before eliminations.

Btw, Charlie may not have been number one, but I figure if he was in F/FI which is apparently what his weight was he should have been about 1.889 under, I don't think I could have competed with that lol

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It's raining again and looking very very nasty to the west.

IHRA has been working to dry the track from this morning's round of storms and was just finishing up. So hurdle number 1 complete.

Hurdle #2, the tower was hit mutiple times by lightening during this mornings nasty weather. The timing systems number one and two were both taken out by the lightening, they were setting up the third system but it was the track's system and so there was zero data in it. Even though the track was now dry, it would be at least another hour before the timing system would be ready.

So, we are just being told that sportsman will run tomorrow. 9 am time run only so we can all get a hit on the new timing system, then eliminations and we will run to completion tomorrow. They are still going to try and get the pro show in tonight if possible, but if not they will also run tomorrow since this is the last event and "championships are on the line" whatever that means.

We are done for the night.

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Beth, Your picture and Tony's on DRC

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Also heard that scales got hit too.
And there will not be any heads-up for the rest of the race.........

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Yep, maybe they will be able to fix them by tomorrow but I doubt it...

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Yeah, we saw that, Bob - they were very nice!


That is correct. Scooter said the scales need to be fixed by a specialized technician and wouldn't be able to be completed by tomorrow, so no heads up for the weekend.

The lightening really was horrific and scary this morning. My poor dog Lucy was jumping out of her skin every time! We are lucky the very severe stuff this round appears to have split and gone both north and south. Hearing news of very severe weather and flooding in Grand Rapids area, just a half our north of here.

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Good morning everyone.
Cloudy, overcast, and a head wind today.
Just as we finished warming up the cars more precipitation so we are on hold again.

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Here we go again.....
Hope it clears out so you all can get this deal in.......

Jr may have to come home if this keeps up cause i am ready to see my grandson .They have been gone for 8 days now....enough is enough .....lol

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Back to drying, projected hour and a half dry time. They did say they got parts for the timing system from Summit Motorsports Park though, and have the original computer and tree going, worked on it til 3am , so no time trial: straight into eliminations, which is more than fine!

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Any word ???????

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Started sprinkling about time they played the national anthem and we were warming up cars. Got the jet dryer out, then it rained for a minute. Sooo.... There you have it. For now.

Carry on.

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First round of stock in the books....head wind was fun to dial for.

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I was beginning to think this was going to turn into a Rockingham marathon....lol

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[QUOTE=boster58;274934]Charlie Downings car is bad a**, we should be congratulating him in stead of criticizing him for building a great car . He saw it in the books just like Bob Dennis saw his combo in the books . He went out and spent his hard earned money and built the car he wanted . End of story

Non Racer's should not be talking stuff about racers who build cars and race them according to the rules. Show me a racer who does not take advantage of the rules and I will show you a racer who does not want to race or win

X techman , get real this is the way NHRA and IHRA have always been run . The companys that brings them the money get's the advantage. GM , Ford , Mopar it does not matter . Guys who want to go fast go to fast combo's


Bo Kenney

1273 super stock
2730 stock
1273 comp

Who was

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[QUOTE=KEN BUGAJ;275101][QUOTE=boster58;274934]Charlie Downings car is bad a**, we should be congratulating him in stead of criticizing him for building a great car . He saw it in the books just like Bob Dennis saw his combo in the books . He went out and spent his hard earned money and built the car he wanted . End of story

Non Racer's should not be talking stuff about racers who build cars and race them according to the rules. Show me a racer who does not take advantage of the rules and I will show you a racer who does not want to race or win

X techman , get real this is the way NHRA and IHRA have always been run . The companys that brings them the money get's the advantage. GM , Ford , Mopar it does not matter . Guys who want to go fast go to fast combo's


Bo Kenney

1273 super stock
2730 stock
1273 comp
Bo,
Who was criticizing Charley, It's the HP rating, I'm sure He works hard .
NHRA and IHRA will catch up to the soft HP ratings, It takes time.
Don't think money can buy NHRA and IHRA
Ralph Truppi told me a long time ago, when you think your the bad ***
another guy will take the same combo and run a tenth quicker !
Let's see what happens at Indy, lol

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Superstock running now. Danny just lost by .006!