Live From Saltlake LODRS
Been a while but its nice to get back on the road. Sitting at the Walmart in Idaho Falls watching some football with our good friend Terry Hembree. Took the summer off racing. Seems like forever since we've been racing. Time to update the equipment. Freshened Charlene's motor and bought another motorhome. Just racing one car this next weekend's doubleheader. Weather is looking great. Looks like Charlene and I are going to split the driving duties. Me drive an automatic? Damn! Driving a car with only 2 pedals! LOL. Should be a lot of fun. Heading to the track tomorrow. Test and tune on Wednesday. Good to get back on the track.
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Woohoo! Made it to the track. Third in line. Temp set up camp in parking lot. From what I'm told we start pitting tomorrow at 9.
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Ya'll have fun! We hope to see you in Vegas in a month or so!
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We'll be there. You guys take care.
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Bob if you have never been there before most of the stock and SS guys pit in the circle track its peacefully until everybody starts to warm up and make laps around it. Usually took me about 10 laps to get mine warm. Welcome back and good luck this week.
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Yes James we are pitted in the oval. A few class cars as of now in the oval. We're pitted next to Don Thomas and Terry Hembree. Byran Setters is here as well as Tom Gaynor, Gary Swenson, Grant Singer, Mike Graham, John Cooper, Butch Walsh. And it's hot.
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Its test and tune day and its warm here. I get to make a few passes today to get me used to Charlene's car. As of now the conditions are 25.74BP 79.4T 26.8H 6863DA and 5MPH headwind. Test and tune starts at 2 and goes to 8.
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Bob . take a lot of pictures for those of us who have to stay and work they relive the pressure of work . Charlene can take the pictures if she is not racing .lol
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I'll try my best
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A few cars made runs today. Obviously the conditions affected performance as most racers were very slow. At worst today it was 89.2T 25.70BP 7576 DA. We made 2 runs an all was good. Ran 7 tenths under. In these conditions was happy with that. I'll post qualifying sheets and pictures Tommorow.
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Bob ,any reports from the test and tune today?how many tenths slower?
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Hard to compare for us as we have a fresh engine in Charlene's car but I know there was a few racers saying it was at least a tenth slower than last year.
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A beautiful morning here. 64.6T 55.3H 25.85BP 5855DA A few pictures I took.
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Thanks, Bob
I was wanting to compare the correction factor to one of our slower tracks (Phoenix) Might ask Mike Graham what he thinks if you get a chance. |
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I'll ask him when I get a chance
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Q1 Sheets
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Bob You painted Charlene's car looks good. Lots of points can be had at these 2 race. In SS Div 6 Blair has 4 races in and in 2 place will take the lead by staging his car and when he does well he could close the deal this weekend, I cheering you on good luck Shawn. National points also with Steve and Jimmy there, and Steve is already at the top of the sheet with an odd number of cars on the sheet so far. With Jimmy hanging back will we see an early match up of these two?
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I can't even breathe here
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Another beautiful day in Saltlake as the temps are expected in the mid 90's today. Conditions are as of now 73.5T 28.8H 25.82BP 6362DA. We all get one more qualifying run this morning before going into eliminations. When I get the final sheets I'll post them.
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Thanks for the update Bob! DRC is showing nothing as of yet.
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I saw that. Stock just finished its last qualifying run. It looked to be about .05 slower due to about a 5-6 mph headwind. A few picked up. They should have the final sheet out in a bit.
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Final Q and Ladder Stock
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Superstock Final Sheets
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Don't at this time have the results from the first round of stock. I know second round is a heads up between Mick Alley and Steve Wann. I do know that Jimmy Defrank rolled the beams in his stocker when he got on the two step.
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Sorry for the lack of reporting. Hotter than crap here. 95 degrees. Spent the last hour helping Mick Alley on the heads up against Steve Wann. Steve won. On the lighter side After my first round Charlene spoke the words spoken by Donald Trump. "You're fired" lol.
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Brad Burton over Steve Wann in stock. Brad Rounds over Mark Faul in SS.
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That's right. Old school Pontiac power rules, in div 7. Brad cut a .004 light and ran an 11.154 on an 11.15 dial, for the win ! Great job Brad ! :D
http://www.dragracecentral.com/DRCSt...UMMIT#indextop Three of the six cars in the quarter final round had Pontiac power. :) Brad and Scott had to run each other. :( http://www.dragracecentral.com/DRCSt...er=30#indextop Brad also made it to the 5-car quarter final round in SS, with his Pontiac powered GT Bird. I'd say he had a good day of racing. :cool: http://www.dragracecentral.com/DRCSt...er=30#indextop You can scroll down to page 11 of this RMR link and get more details of the Stock racing. http://rmrracing.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/div.pdf |
Stock Q1 Saturday
Another day in Saltlake. Stock and Superstock R1 qualifying done. Already warm here. I haven't got the SS sheet yet but will when its available.
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I don't see Steve Wann on the Q sheet????
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He sat out the first session but went to number 1 on the just completed second session.
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Didn't see Wann on the Q1 sheet and I thought "what the hay" but see he's on the sheet now ( but Cal Method is in St Louis so stranger things do happen). Going to be an interesting points race...likely to go all the way to the Vegas LODRS again.
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WOW ! Half the Stockers in the top 8 have old school Pontiac power, as does the #1 car in SS. :D That just don't happen in the 21st century--or does it ? :confused:
AND, I just noticed that there is not a single Chevy on the list til the #8 position. Nothin but Pontiacs and Mopars. This is indeed an unusual race ! :) |
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