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Best I can do..4 transfers
Hot, windy..Had to pause racing

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Very hot and windy. There was a 4 hour wind delay. Second round of stock qualifying it was 92 degrees. Yesterdays test and tune the weather was great. It was about .12 slower first qualifier today. I have a bunch of pics if I can figure out how to post them. One highlight is Luneaks B/SA "MOTOWN MISSLE".

I am going to go jump in the pool and cool off and then try to post pics.

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Boy is that place Sloooooow!

Did Gregg get a new car and not tell us?

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Gregg said he got the car Sunday. Even with the heat the traction was good..

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Luneak motown missle

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More pics

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As you can see I like Mopars and Stick shifts

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some more

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...and no reporters in Div. 7

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Yesterday it was over 100 degrees with minimal wind. The strangest race of first round was Edgecombe A/sa and Roderick G/sa. The Hemi sputtered and died on the hit of the throttle, he got it restarted and cruised down the track and won the race. Roderick broke out. I guess it shows there are thousands of ways to lose a race in this sport.
Also there was something strange that happened with the ladder/final qualifier It showed 69 cars but a last minute revision changed it to 68. I have not gone over it yet to see who was dropped off.
I am leaving in a minute to head back to the track it looks to be another very hot day.
I have more pics from yesterday but need to resize them to post.

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They did run 1st round, yesterday, at least, Stock.
It would be nice if someone could submit it to DRC.

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Stock 2nd rd winners
Gilley
Jerome
Mangus
Faharty
Durham
Rayburn
Luneack
Blake
Echmalian
Mandela
Stein
Wong
Williams
Cocuzza
Calvert
Seymour
Whitney

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Thank you

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Any Div 7 news on Vic Hobbs ?

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Stock 3rd rd winners
Gilley
Mangus
Durham
Luneack
Echmalian
Stein
Williams
Calvert
Seymour

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Super stock 2nd round winners
taylor
keen
mozeris
rizzoli
luneack
zavala
graham
etter

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4th ROUND STOCK winners
Mangus
Luneack
echmalian
Williams
Seymour

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3rd ROUND SUPER STOCK winners
TAYLOR
KEEN
luneack
ETTER
MOZERIS

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5th ROUND STOCK winners
Luneack didn't make the run mangus wins
Williams will race Seymour

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4th ROUND SUPER STOCK winners
ETTER
MOZERIS
luneack

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Finals stock
mangus and seymour
super stock
etter and luneack

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Stock seymour
super stock etter

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Some Fontana Observations

THE GOOD

Even with the heat the track prep was superior

THE BAD
No shade anywhere
No running water
Only hot stinky Porta Johns that were not serviced.
Only one food vender selling greasy sausages A snow cone vender would have done bank.
PA system you can't hear in the stands
They charged $20 a day to spectate even on Thursday. ( Norwalk only charged $10 and they have amenities)

The good
I got to visit/bench race with friends
There were lots of Stick cars
My friend Ken Etter won SS in a tight race with Luneak who was working hard on his stuff all weekend.

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Those observations are typical for Fontana and are reflected in the car count. We see the same thing for NMCA races although we have more vendors people don't like the place and stay away

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Rod ,

Thanks for your report and pics. The pics were not coming thru clear on my computer, it could be me, I am ignorant when it comes to posting pics.

Thanks

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This was the first time I have tried to post pics on here. It wouldn't allow me to post them the first time said they were too big. I put them in my email and let it resize them then posted. I didn't try to open the ones I posted, but that method obviously made them too small and took away the detail. So if I do this in the future how do I resize them so I don't lose detail? I have some more but haven't tried to post them.

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I open them in MS Paint and resize. My camera usually gives jpegs around 2.5Meg to 3Meg. I shrink them to 40% before I post, they're usually around 500K after that.

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Thanks for all the pics. That white 69' Camaro with the billet specialties wheel is sweet!