"Live" from our D-2 southern spring trip 2017
This is a continuation of our Orlando post! We went to Orlando last week, then off this week, then on toGainesville divisional race and national, then off a week, then South Georgia, the Galot!!
So after our bad luck in Orlando, we moved up the road a piece to a KOA in Wildwood, FL. Larry got the parts shipped here and almost has it back together again. Alice and Joe went south to Polk City and Jim and Pam went on to Gainesville. We will all get back together the first of next week and get ready for racing again!! I have some pictures that I will post a little later! |
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So here are some of the pictures I promised you:
http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...6D663E95E0.jpg Here is Terry Nagel and his wife Linda-- Winner of Stock Eliminator last weekend in Orlando http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...262AA95796.jpg This is Larry working at the KOA Machine Shop! He has everything fixed and put back together ready for Gainesville!:) http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...9E29088F79.jpg Yesterday we drove over to Port Orange and met Alice and Joe for pizza! Some of you may recognize Pizza Joe (the Dough Maker) who used to have a hemi car! Guiesseppe's Pizza!! well worth the 2 hour drive!! And a very nice man!! |
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We met a friend of Pizza Joe's, Charlie Lawson who restores cars and I took a few pictures there:
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Heading out tomorrow morning for the 1453 mile trip to Gainesville, see everyone Tuesday morning. No snow here in Minnesnowta.
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See you there! Safe travels!
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Hello everyone, we are here in Gainesville at the track. There are about 5 rigs here waiting inline. Word is they might start parking us later today. Larry and Patsy just pulled in, unloaded their street car and went to lunch. I'm sure you will here from them later.
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Slightly off topic but does anyone have the run schedule for the Gator's? Trying to get time off to watch class. Thanks
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Looks like it will be tomorrow before we move in. It is almost 5 and nothing is happening !!
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Well we are in Gainesville stacked outside on the little paved roads. There are probably about 20 rigs here now. From what we have heard parking will begin about 4 tomorrow, but that is not official. We have not talked with anyone who knows for sure. And then another rumor was that only the ones who are testing are going to get parked. Whenever I hear something official, I will let you know or the Boss will!!
Here are a couple of pictures from today: http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...0FDAE9ABC3.jpg This is Larry on the roof of the motorhome pulling the fan motor out of the AC so he can order a new one! Scary!! http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...BC2412004B.jpg Here are Jim Marshall and Jim Roberts supervising! Actually Mr. Roberts got up there with Larry and helped a bunch. Thanks, guys! And Terry Nagel, also. Larry was going to put a ladder in the back of Terry's truck to get up on the roof, but someone was kind enough to loan him an extension ladder that worked much better! |
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The wildwood flower grew wild on the farm, And we never knowed what it was called. Some said it was a flower and some said it was weed, I never gave it much thought One day I was out there talking to my brother, Reached down for a weed to chew on, Things got fuzzy and things got blurry, And then everything was gone! Didn't know what happened, But I knew it beat the hell out of sniffin' burlap. |
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Funny, Bunk!!!
Still sitting here waiting to get parked! No word yet! |
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We are moving in!
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Where is Redman when you need him???
Finally started parking about 3. Parked where they told us. Now no satellite tv! Parking was really a fiasco! All sportsmen are to the right we were told. But if you drive around, that just applied to some! Oh well! We are just here for 2 weeks with no tv. May be moving tomorrow |
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Welcome to the latest enhancement, I've been to two Nats. so far this year and the experience has been deplorable to say the least and there's a trend. I reckon ya'll should be better off cause your under the track rules for this weekend which should roll into the Gators, I hope. Whoops, it's an NHRA owned track, yes?
Firstly, Pomona which is the easiest of all tracks to timely pit at, it took 5 hours to park 106 rigs. All this happens a day before you make Q runs and you've just wasted many hours. Don't even think about getting tires or a tranny/convertor change or any work on ya car. While there is no TECH line to go to, the credential line is yards deep, again killing your race weekend set-up time. You'll need to get used to that! Secondly at Phoenix, an even bigger joke. Rigs were circling the many access roads and parking lot's for hours before the 7:00 am gate opening. It was so bad that there were cop cars protecting the gate and making them keep moving. The Indian casino kept booting any rig from their property for days. Some paid to park in the expansive track a week or so early. Because this is a huge facility there was no reason for any of this. Rumor has it that the track would have taken all the rigs in but NHRA said NO!! Again, 5 hours to pit 110 rigs which is ridiculous to say the least, all in the day before Q runs and they absolutely don't give an FK !! Two rigs missed the gate opening while circling for hours by about 30 seconds and ended up being #60ish by the time they got to circle back around. To summarize, I feel that the inefficiency of the personnel will eventually run racers off and eventually cause racers to miss Q and TT runs because they are trying to put 20# of crap into a 10# box! The frustration level in the holding pen was so high that many racers were in the 'never again' mode. Isn't it great to be to be a customer of the World Famous NHRA ! As for Redman, we miss you so much, you were treated unfairly. Sorry everyone, I could go on but that's enough for now.. |
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http://www.nhraracer.com/content/gen...173&zoneid=175 Agree that with any organization making changes it brings new challenges. The ball is in their court now to learn from the first two National events and hopefully make headway on where the new bottlenecks are occurring. As someone else stated a first year industrial engineering student could have predicted this. As for parking some experienced racers probably need to make some constructive polite feedback to those doing the stacking/parking. At a recent marathon event I was supporting my daughter-in-law's first 26.2 miler and noticed some "rookie" officials botching up some things and stepped in to show them how to improve what they were doing (which was nothing). They had obviously received no training nor understood how things are suppose to flow, perhaps some of this applies here. I've been unable to race for the last three years but just offering that racers can become part of the solution. |
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It is a beautiful day here in Gainesville for the Division 2 points race! Parking went pretty well after the initial screw ups and everyone today is just pulling straight in.
We went to Cedar River Seafood again for a great dinner last night, then to Country Foodly again for breakfast this morning. As usual good food. Test and tune starts here shortly from noon to 6 today and tomorrow. Radio station here is 90.3. I will try to get pictures later today. |
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Like Patsy said, the weather is great Temps are in the low 80's. There are a few cars testing today. I would guess about a 100 are rigs here. They just trickle in a little at a time. No waiting when you get here.
I found a few cars out, I will try to get some more later. |
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well it is another gorgeous day here in FL! Yesterday it was cloudy most of the day but no rain. We ran test and tune and the car ran a little better than it did at Orlando, so I guess he got it fixed at the KOA machine shop!!
Testing starts again today from 12-6. Our fan motor is supposed to get here today, so hopefully that will work out well also. And I am a happy camper today as we move the motorhome around a bit this morning until the satellite picked up again! So now we can watch basketball and Fox News again!! The place is really filling up. I predict at least 80 stockers will be here for the divisional! More later!! |
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We have satellite and air conditioning! Life is good!!
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I echo Patsy's sentiments. Another great day down here at Gainesvilles Raceway. Testing to day feels like qualifying, the lanes are always full. The temperature is in the low 80's with low humidity. The DA is about 2200ft.
I have two set of photos and a few videos I will up load later. they Just announced test will extend to 7pm. |
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Thanks for the pictures and have fun and stay safe!
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John Gray's 69 A/SA Camaro from todays test session.
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It has been a great day here at the track. Roz and Rick Gresens are in FL for vacation and came by and visited for a while. Great to see them. We went to Randy's Rib Shack for a great dinner with Jeff Teuton and Kevin Helms tonight. Great food!!
Here are a few pics I took today: http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...cket/033_1.jpg Stan Perry, Mike Crutchfield, and Ronnie Dutton with Ronnie's ss car http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...cket/031_1.jpg Mike Crutchfield SS/DM http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...cket/030_1.jpg John Frech ss http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...cket/029_1.jpg Tim Lowe FS/ http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...cket/027_1.jpg Raymond and Mrs. Skipper stocker |
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Mrs. Tommy Turner stocker http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...cket/025_1.jpg Mrs. Gary Summers with stocker and ss http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...cket/024_1.jpg Jeff Longhany AA/SA http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...cket/023_1.jpg Rick Brown driving John Stock's super stocker this week http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...cket/021_1.jpg John Stock and his cool super stocker |
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Dick Bierie FS/AA http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...cket/017_1.jpg Chuck and Steve Comella SS/AH http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...cket/018_1.jpg Chuck and Steve Comella's other SS/AH http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...cket/019_1.jpg The original window sticker!! |
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Sterling and Cynthia Simmons C/SA http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...cket/015_1.jpg Don Fezell's Daddy Warbucks FS/AA http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...cket/014_1.jpg Dean Messenbring's ss http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...cket/013_1.jpg Gene Jordan AA/SA |
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Glad to see everyone is settled in! We are on our way and I am ready to get this 2017 season kicked off. I have certainly missed seeing everyone and ready to get back at it.
This trip even started out eventful as I broke a fan belt on the motorhome not long after getting 9 and there was really no safe place to get off so I did the job on the side of the interstate. If you ever want an adrenaline rush just lay under your rig with 80 mph trucks going by a few feet away!!! After it was over I thought damn we didn't even get a picture. We were pulled over for less than 30 minutes so I'm calling it a record. Should be getting there in a few hours barring anymore problems so I will see you all in the morning.... |
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Good morning everyone, its a little foggy this morning, but its starting to burn off as I type. Here are the weather numbers for this morning.
Temp 65 Humid 77% Bar 29.90 DA 1100ft Wind slight cross We start the day with Super Street at 9, followed by Stock. Here is a video of Adam Badgett testing his COPO yesterday. |
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Like Ken said, it is a little foggy now, but supposed to be up to 80 by this afternoon.
The morning got off to a great start here at the Baby Gators!! Allen Rhinehart started off the day with "Come On Eileen" and it felt like we are at a National event!! Super Street has been called and Stock is on stand=by. More later! |
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64 stockers made the first qualifying run with Geoff Turk on the top at 1.27 under his 9.70 index at a 8.43 @ 160 mph!!
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Hey guys, I'm going to do a live stream for SS qualifying, head on over to class racer facebook in a little bit. There are just finishing up Super Comp.
Here is the stream for those of you who missed it. https://www.facebook.com/Class-Racer...9441468406709/ |
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As you know it was Mardi Gras last week in Louisiana! And here is what Jeff Teuton brought with him this week!
King Cakes: http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...8618F96EBB.jpg 5 King Cakes!! http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/o...715533CE85.jpg And Jeff let Mrs. Gloria Ley and me have our choice! She picked blueberry and I have Ooey, gooey snickerdoodle! We got big ole beads, too! |
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mr larry can you r whoever post the sheet thanks booboo !!!!
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