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Well just like our friend Bob Frey would say - "in the interest of fair reporting" - I must report the fact that I'm really not live as business problems popped up recently that have kept me from making the trip to New England Dragway this weekend .That said I've got some "peeps" , a few locals , maybe an official or two , not to mention some friends who are willing to help out this weekend in letting the countries Sportsman racers know whats happening there .

If you're at the race feel free to jump in with any news you might have along with taking and posting photos .

Back a little later as my phone is ringing already ..........

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That sucks Jack, but health, family and work are more important priorities.
Get it done and see you next time.

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Hello Everyone!

Here we are live from New England Dragway. I'll do my best to live up to Jack's expectations...

It's now 12:50 pm and Stock has received two hits already and Super Stock one hit. Top Sportsman is running now. Much nicer weather than we have had the past few weeks. Weather conditions during the 2nd Stock qualifier were:

Temp 71 degrees
Humidity 54%
Barometer 29.92
DA 1409
2 - 3 mph crosswind

Most I have talked to are 5 to 6 quicker than Saturday morning at Lebanon Valley.

That's all for now. I'll grab some pictures as the afternoon progresses.

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Stock - Q1 - Charlie ( where the hell have you been ) Sousa on the pole @ -.988 under with his impeckable '69 Chevelle .

The A/SA 's of Jewell , Gray Pagano and Boudreau are all bunched within a few hundreths .

And the same with B/SA's of Carroll , Medieros , Weidhass , and Kreeber .

Alan Peters - former D1 standout and former World Champion ( who won everything in sight back in the day ) is back with us after residing in Florida .And I'm told in his original car - '69 Camaro .

Canadian Super Stocker Bruce Reilly blew up his Kenworth motorhome on the way to Epping and after a fresh sleeve job along with a piston and head is at the track racing today - whew , what an effort ! ! !

Early morning weather - 70 degrees , humidity 46% , barometer 29.92 - final DA 1333 feet .

Back a little later ....................

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Unfortunately work life won out over racing life today...but I'll be there with camcorder all ready and fired up bright and early tomorrow morning. The racing looks great as I read on DRC however...WHERE ARE ALL THE SS's!?! 35 after round one, I've never seen such a small turnout here in the Northeast(for an NHRA race anyway lol). Have fun everyone, see you Saturday!

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Here's a few shots from today's action...

First couple of shots were from the mad thrash in the Larry Pappas / Donnie Carroll pit. Donnie had an oil pump pickup come off, requiring them to pull the engine to repair it. Remaining shots are from in and around the staging lanes during the 2nd Super Stock qualifying shot.

Looks like tomorrow will be our standard single qualifying shot for most classes, then on to round 1...

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Mr.Riley also blew the motor in his car last month at one of our local s/ss races here in the maritimes!! So, ya, what an incredible effort!! And, Mr.Thibeault is on top of the qual. sheet!!

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Good morning and welcome to day 2 of the New England Dragway LODRS event. Looks like it is going to be a good day with clear skies and cool temperatures. Here's the weather info as of 8:00 am this morning:

Temp 62.7 degrees
Humidity 96.4%
Barometer 29.93
DA 968'
No Wind

Looks like it should be a tick faster than yesterday morning.

Stock should be out first at 9:00. More reports as the day progresses...

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Good morning kids - First off congrats go out to chassis builder Mark Markow who yesterday set the SS/TB record - certification is to happen this morning but he says his house is in order if you get my drift .The record numbers ? 9 flat - just missed putting it into the eights by .0008 - bummer .

Jacque Blaise showed up yesterday - he blew up last week at Napierville and the current S/S points leader was not expected to be seen this weekend .Great effort by Jacque and his entire team .

Speaking of Napierville - last weeks winner Dave Casey must be feeling his oats after the ten grand win ........he just pulled into gate a little while ago - one hit this morning is all he needs - then onto elims .

Stock is to lead off in less tan half-an-hour .............There's a rumor floating around that elims for Stock and S/S will be at 7pm tonight - i'll try and get that cofirmed .

As for S/S - whats up with the short field ? Less than forty is not good .

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Awesome!

Awesome!

and

Awesome!

It's killing me to not be there. Thanks for the reports, Jack!

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looks like a few heads up races in the first round of stock gmonde

1 1557 F Thibeault B/SA -1.030 -0.988 I/SA C Sousa 1173 2
0 Bye -0.687 B/SA D Ficacci 1013 51

26 1250 L Pappas B/SA -0.824 -0.818 G/SA K Richard 1047 27
75 1206 M Cote B/SA -0.524 -0.524 F/SA L Abrahamson J1252 76

14 1021 E Monahan J/SA -0.892 Bye 0
63 1231 K MacKay G/SA -0.612 Bye 0

39 1194 J Jewell A/SA -0.747 Bye 0
88 1840 S Couterier B/SA -0.300 Bye 0

8 1130 B Horgan I/SA -0.917 -0.913 F/SA R Gosselin 1148 9
57 1546 E Cabral C/SA -0.648 -0.640 F/SA J Williams 1143 58

33 1911 T Stickles M/SA -0.775 -0.772 G/SA C Walters 1776 34
82 1816 B Lundholm H/SA -0.418 -0.410 E/SA K Robinson 1262 83

20 1616 S Murray J/S -0.863 -0.853 H/SA M Callanan 1027 21
69 1883 E Merryfield T/SA -0.564 -0.563 C/SA A Smyth 1783 70

45 1109 J Gray A/SA -0.725 -0.720 B/SA B Kemp 1999 46
94 1061 B Chocies O/SA -0.198 -0.164 D/SA S Dillon Jr 1971 95

5 16 J Boudreau B/SA -0.930 -0.926 I/SA K Sepanek 15 6
54 1168 D Cook II K/S -0.656 -0.654 CC/SA S Smyth 178 55

30 1368 A Weidhaas B/SA -0.808 -0.790 F/SA L Williams 1121 31
79 1518 B Broadbent A/S -0.494 -0.480 I/SA J Hillier 1074 80

17 1017 K Sansone E/SA -0.881 -0.866 B/SA B Bardekoff 1269 18
66 1196 C Hough K/SA -0.576 -0.570 F/SA S Cappetta 1864 67

42 1172 J Giermanski F/SA -0.740 -0.736 A/SA W Pagano 1209 43
91 1561 B Vogel L/SA -0.260 -0.259 J/SA Y Cote 1502 92

11 1051 B Salemi R/SA -0.908 -0.895 H/SA D Lynch 1525 12
60 1152 E Bednaz A/S -0.637 -0.629 H/SA B Pomponi 1177 61

36 1468 R Valenta I/SA -0.764 -0.761 G/SA C Massafra 1233 37
85 1228 R Don N/SA -0.375 -0.362 L/SA K DePascale 1132 86

23 1066 D Carroll B/SA -0.837 -0.828 G/SA B Parker 1614 24
72 1165 D Cook D/S -0.541 -0.533 C/SA E Dame 1690 73

48 1056 T Bednaz C/S -0.703 -0.702 B/SA B Moran Jr 187 49
97 1528 J Picillo I/SA -0.061 0.012 M/SA B Albert 1459 98

3 1134 T Kreeber B/SA -0.979 -0.958 F/SA M Ticcony 1658 4
52 1584 D Pires Jr H/SA -0.679 -0.673 G/SA J Perrone 1290 53

28 1773 D Lowell F/SA -0.816 -0.809 B/SA B Medeiros 1212 29
77 A114 M Jones P/SA -0.506 -0.496 L/SA J Kinash 1315 78

15 1091 B Fink L/SA -0.890 -0.885 A/SA J Shaul 1044 16
64 1330 D Casey A/S -0.603 -0.602 G/S J Roberts 1578 65

40 1721 J Lisa D/SA -0.741 -0.740 F/SA B Harper 1232 41
89 1812 R Orsino D/SA -0.275 -0.264 G/SA G Guertin 1304 90

0 Bye -0.912 H/SA J DeMarzo 1317 10
0 Bye -0.639 L/SA M London 1953 59

0 Bye -0.771 A/SA G Richard 1608 35
0 Bye -0.389 I/S T Knapper 1979 84

0 Bye -0.849 D/S A Strang 1018 22
0 Bye -0.563 F/SA T O'Loughlin 1559 71

0 Bye -0.716 C/SA A Fetch 154 47
0 Bye -0.094 G/SA M Quartarone 1190 96

7 1050 J Reid Jr. K/SA -0.918 Bye 0
56 1110 A Mark A/SA -0.649 Bye 0

32 1326 P Kelliher K/SA -0.785 Bye 0
81 1072 H Hogg I/SA -0.431 Bye 0

19 18 S Szupka I/SA -0.865 Bye 0
68 1661 L Valentine C/SA -0.569 Bye 0

44 1498 T Boudreau A/SA -0.734 Bye 0
93 1490 A Peters L/S -0.248 Bye 0

13 1617 G Parker G/SA -0.895 Bye 0
62 1028 M Beriault G/SA -0.625 Bye 0

38 1 J Santangelo H/SA -0.752 Bye 0
87 1208 E Tarr M/SA -0.304 Bye 0

25 1581 S Broadbent O/SA -0.827 Bye 0
74 1987 G LaBelle J/SA -0.531 Bye 0

50 1981 B Pires G/SA -0.694 Bye 0
99 1039 K Hawkins G/SA 0.094 Bye 0

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Well, I have to admit. Jack's reporting job is a lot harder than it looks...

Here's the end of day report from day 2.

Nice showing by the Stock Eliminator crowd with 99 entries this weekend. Super Stock was really light with 39 at the end of qualifying. I really hope the Super Stock numbers pick up eventually, but I am sure that races in Columbus and Grand Bend didn't help.

Lot's of heads up runs in today in first round of Stock. From the runs I was able to see, it looked the the expected car won the head's up races. I am also glad to report that the Joe Fasano/Steve Calabro Camaro is going to round 2 tomorrow...

Super Stock ran late today and was able to run in front of a good New England spectator crowd. It's always good to get the S/SS cars in front of the spectators when we can.

That's all for tonight. Stock is out first at 9:00 am tomorrow morning for round 2..

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Great job reporting & picture taking Jeff.

I think Jack & Ken will hire you at some point in time for the Excellent job your doing.

Go some rounds tomorrow.....

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Good morning from day 3 of the LODRS event at New England Dragway!

Looks to be another great day of racing. Sunny skies and cool temps again. Here's the weather info as of 8:30 am...

Temperature 71.6 degrees
Humidity 69.8 %
Barometer 29.93
DA 1572'
5 - 6 MPH crosswind

Should be a pretty quick day as the Top Alcohol and Comp classes are finished and at least round 1 completed for everyone else. I'll try to keep everyone up to date the best I can...

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[QUOTE=Jeff Jewell;336548]Well, I have to admit. Jack's reporting job is a lot harder than it looks...

Jeff - You're doing just fine ........welcome to my world .Go some rounds today .........