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We are on our way! Until Monday our plan was to go to the divisional in Norwalk this weekend. But then Larry's competitiveness showed up again and since they are running Class at Topeka, that was the deciding factor. That and it is 33 miles closer to Topeka. 500 miles as opposed to 533 to Norwalk. We left the house the morning at 7 so hopefully we will get there and get parked this evening.

More later!

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good luck and hope you win

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Good luck guys! Thanks for all your updates.

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Patsy,

Did you arrange for a back up reporter at Norwalk? We will be left in the dark without your updates ha ha. BTW, I have a present for you guys, guess you will have to wait until Bowling Green, lol. Best of luck out west, go Mopar!!

Dennis Breeden

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Good Luck Larry.

I appreciate all the pictures & reporting that you guys do.

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Thanks everyone!

Dennis, I guess you will have to take up the slack on the reporting!! We will see you next weekend at Bowling Green!

Larry says that the price savings in diesel fuel by going to Topeka will probably be washed out by the difference in the price of ice cream at Norwalk vs. Topeka!

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Good choice, heck the wind always blows so hard at Norwalk anyway,,,,,,

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I got hit in the neck last year in Topeka by an Oklahoma mosquito on it's way to Nebraska. Almost knocked me over.

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You sure he wasn't heading to Minnesota, I heard that was the state bird?

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Have a great time Patsy...and good luck to Larry as well! Sorry I never made it by for that wine in Atlanta, I always seem to get sidetracked! Anyway hope to catch up with you guys before the year is over.

I'm saving up my gas money for the 900+ mile trek to Englishtown in a few weeks!

-Karen

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We are here, parked, set up and enjoying the first cocktail of the evening. Looks like we got lucky and didn't see any police as we came in. We got off the turnpike at exit 177--the 2nd Topeka exit and straight onto Topeka Blvd. We didn't get here til after 4, so maybe they had closed up shop by then. We have a great spot here on the pavement. We are in behind the Jegs yellow rig, so come by to see us. It is calling for 80s, but this afternoon is very pleasant.

Hopefully we will see you later in the year, Karen.

Going exploring. More later. Oh BTW, they have great old rock and roll music on the PA!

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Here are a few shots from this evening:

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Taken from
the roadcourse looking over toward the sportsmen parking. As you can see, plenty of spots left.

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Taken from the end at the back. Plenty of hook-ups left across the end.

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Looking down the track from the sandtraps.

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Down the track!

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The blow-up dolls, before they're blown up!

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The ticket booth and enclosed scales. That is where tech is tomorrow.

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The Tech Center with restrooms and showers.

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Here are a couple of pics coming home from Atlanta a couple of weeks ago that I forgot I had taken:

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Nickajack (I think)

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Fireworks

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This is the first Topeka race we have missed in years. We would like to be there. We would always take the golf cart out in the camp grounds in the evenings.....Wow, they know how to party in Kansas. We saw things that would make us laugh like crazy. Like a guy riding around on a quad with a "blow up sex doll" as a passenger......way too funny

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Pedigo cracks me up too.

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Good Luck guys and have fun!:)

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Lots of fun, I thought you were going to sweat to death in that latex suit Kyle.

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LMAO

You owe me a keyboard Kyle.

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Sorry about that keyboard thingy. He and I were being kind to each other. The texts he sends me have made me bust out laughing more than once in a meeting. Not a good career move paying attention to him.

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Well, it is a beautiful day here in Topeka. Sunny with a nice breeze. It is supposed to get to 82 today. There has been a steady flow of rigs moving in this morning, but still plenty of spots. I will try to get some pics later today. Talked with Don Duke and Mrs. Duke last night and they are taking good care of your car Jamie!

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Hope to see some video and/or pictures of Nicholson and Bichlmeier Chevy II.

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Looks like a real nice track. Not much chance of crashing into a TREE! I always enjoy your travelogue so keep the photos and race results coming. Good luck this weekend.

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Here are a few pics from today:

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Larry inside waiting in line to get teched. Sorry these are a little dark. Is there any other racetrack where you wait in line inside a building out of the sun? The scales are also inside!

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The SS/AH car that Kyle Ratcliffe is driving this weekend.

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Tim Nicholson GT/I Sorry Ed, I had already taken this before I saw your message. I will try to get the inside later.

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Bob Blackwell with the hundreds of cookies that his girlfriend Annette makes for the racers. Thanks, Annette. Larry got 2 cookies this morning and I got a half of one of them. Great cookies!

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Bill Dyer SS/N

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Tyler Wudarczyk and his new G/SA

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Chris Kemmerer A/SA

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Joe LeBlanc M/SA

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Don and Mrs. Duke with Jamie's B/S

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Bryan Dixon E/SA

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A station wagon being unloaded from the stacker. Just a funny looking site!

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Cool.

Thanks for all the great reporting.

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The wagon being unloaded is a Chevelle 396 woodie w a roof rack wagon, black. Beautiful rust free from Cali. They use it to tow the alky funny car for meyers racing. good guys, spoke to them at the 4 wides, we were pitted across from them. I was with James Antonette and his son.
ps, great pics guys, thank you. Chris O'Keefe

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A few more pics from this afternoon before my battery died. Got it all charged back up for tomorrow.

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Jerry Bennett and Larry solving the world's problems!

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Mike Town GT/LA

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Nick Siebert I/SA

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Gene Bichlmeier GT/I

These are for you Ed--Inside Gene's car:

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http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...t%202/2006.jpg
They were even kind enough to remove the cover for you!!

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Well it was a gorgeous day here at Heartland Park all day. Head wind was blowing all day 7-15 mph. Should make racing interesting. Stock starts out in the morning at 8. We and super stock both get 2 runs, then we both run Class. Oh, BTW, they were doing the pee test here today for lots of folks. Paula Cotten was tested. She said she had peed at nearly every race track she has raced at!!!

Well more tomorrow!

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Thanks! That looks awesome. Love the sticker too! If you see Gene again tell him I said thanks for removing the trans tunnel.

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Larry, are you telling me you don't think Pete's butt is cute? LOL

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Ed, is that a "Have you stop beating your wife?" question?

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It is another pretty day here in Topeka. It is supposed to be 88 today with wind gusts up to 30 mph. Hopefully we won't see any crashes!

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42 stockers went down the first pass this morning. I think Danny Byrd is # 1 at .92 or so under. There are 5 B/SA cars. We get another run, then class! DRC should have results soon.

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46 stockers went down 2nd run. It looked like Knudsen blew something up. 1st run for super stock, Mike Cotten broke a rear end. I don't believe he is showing on the sheets for super stock. We only have 4 B/SA. Everybody pretty close in qualifying, from 10.51-10.57. Everyone slowed down that run. Really windy!!

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Yea!! We won Class!! We had lots of help with Jerry Emmons red=lighting iin the first round, and Fred Suiter's car getting a little sqirrelly 2nd round and Fred having to get out of it a little.

This is our 1st class trophy since the new cars came out! Let's hear it for the old cars!! Also it just goes to show you that sometimes the slowest car can win!

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Good Job!

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Good job Larry

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Final qualifying and ladder is not up yet for stock because there are some in teardown. Danny Byrd is one. I am going down to the barn and see who the others are.

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Congrats to Larry and Patsy on the win-I was thrilled to see that!