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Good afternoon all, yes its me again. If feels like a just left Indy, oh yeah I did. We just pulled in about hour ago, there are about 75 rigs already in the stacking area. Track opens at 4pm today. The weather is supposed to be perfect for the weekend with temps in the low 70's and no rain.

When I got here I heard some bad news about a trailer that caught fire in the stacking area. John Kurzenberger races a '67 SS/FA Camaro. His 5th wheel trailer with a lounge caught fire while he was sleeping. He was with his wife and 3 dogs. They all got out safe and he was able to get the race car out and the dually unhook. The trailer could not be saved, he lost everything in the trailer, tools, part, tires and everything in the lounge. What a tough break for John. The first photo is John's car under a tree next to where he was parked, he pick the car a few moments ago.

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Good morning all, with bright skies and cool cool temps, it should make for a fast day. If you are looking to set a record, today's the day.

Temp 61
Humid 60%
Bar 30.02
DA 600ft
Wind none.

We start at 10am here at Etown because of a noise ordnance. I'm going to try a live stream when Super Stock runs today so check the Class Racer face book. Facebook Link.... I will try to link it here too and let you know what time, but I'm thinking about 11:30 Super Stock will be up.

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Ken did they find out what caused the fire on John's trailer, something simple that we could over look? Hate to see that prayers to him and family.

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Good luck all. Hope some records are set. I love watching stock n super stock on friday morning.
Look forward to pics. Cant make it today. Im cdl driving school for work.
Go JA!!!!!
Chris

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Fire Marshal said there was a kink in the propane line.

Stock just finished up with Q1, Super Stock is in the lanes, I'm heading over to the finish line to live stream. Jump over to facebook in about 30 mins. Facebook Link

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Wow, its been a horrible day for oil downs and race cars wrecking. We had a few oil downs, but more seriously, we had two wrecks. The photos below show what happen to the COPO. We heard that a tire went down.

The next incident was Lou Centolanza is his 69 Barracuda, he could not slow the car down and went into the safety net. they are still working on the net and we will be down for a while. Both drivers are okay.

I will have a qualifying sheets up for Stock and Super later today.

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That's a really hard hit. It had to have spun around and backed straight into the wall. I'm guessing they could back-half it and turn it into a F/SS car.

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I'm not sure, the C pillar is pretty beat up but anythings possible. The first photo is Lou Centolanza's 69 Barracuda before he went into the safety net. Doug Walker sent me that photo. He will post photos from today's action later tonight. Kalyn Guenther gave me the second photo of Charlie Malo before his crash. I have few batch's of photos from Kalyn Guenther, so stay tuned.

There were no qualifying sheets posted. Go to live timing for qualifying. http://www.nhra.com/results/2017/luc...ock-eliminator

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First batch from Kalyn Guenther.

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Next batch.

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Anyone have the new Sat. run order?

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Yo Ken!
Would be highly interested to hear what the word is on the tire, if in fact it was blowout or cut or not?

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Friday afternoon super stocks.
Shooting from the grandstands.

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More Friday afternoon super stocks.

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Friday afternoon stockers.

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More Friday afternoon stockers.

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Terrible news about the fire and crashes. Prayers sent and fingers crossed that the guys and gals involved are able to bounce back. Just glad nobody hurt. Thanks for the great photos and updates; please keep them coming!

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Brett, I will do my best to find out what the cause was.

Thanks Doug for the great camera work.

Good morning everyone, weather for today is a repeat of yesterday. We did have some unexpected rain last night, but its all clear now. Temperature is a chilly 55, but will warm up nicely by mid day to around 70. There is no run schedule as of yet. Yesterdays delay's will mostly likely see a major change in the schedule. I will post it as soon as I here something. Start time is 10am as always at Englishtown. The photo below is Joe Cokinos 96 S-10's catastrophic engine failure. As you can see you can't see Joe as the smoke just engulfed his S-10 and lingered for a few minutes.

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He guys, sorry for the lack of reports, but I almost became a statistic this weekend also. With all the bad luck that has happen to racers this week it looked as if I was next. During Stock eliminators last qualifying shot this morning we had an oil down. It probably happen a dozen or more pairs ahead of me.

My car left the starting okay, it made a little move out of the grove, but nothing I haven't done before. As soon as the car landed I was going to start to bring is back and at that moment it made a hard right. I just prayed Anthony Bongiovanni, my sponsor saw me. Lucky for me he spun the tires and we had a little distance between us. It does not look bad in the video, but it could have turned very ugly. It turns out there was a little oil left on the track after the clean up. It was just a little left of the grove from the center line. My tire just barely grazed it thankfully, god knows what would have happened if I got into all of it.

The schedule has changed a bunch today, and Stock is still schedule to run first round as soon as everyone gets their qualifying shots in. I am thinking about 4pm today. Sorry folks but I wont have time for a live steam today

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Stock final qualifying and first round ladder. Super Stock still has one more qualifier.

http://classracer.com/et/etownstk2017.jpg

http://classracer.com/et/etstkladder2017.jpg

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More photos before I turn in.

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Last batch for the night.

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Good morning everyone, its another chilly morning with temps in the mid fifties. It will warm to about 70 today with no chance of rain. Stock should be out first with 2nd round at 10am.

I few top end shots from yesterday's Super Stock qualifying.

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I'm their in spirit!, not that anybody cares. But, I couldn't make it! I know the Air must be great. Regards, O'laughlin,etc. I have a bit of the Irish disease thing here... Will, certainly will be checking the results!, Love the packages some put together!, and hate FS...been racing my truck this summer on Fridays at Island, and on Wednesday's at the Valley! My regards to all, -best people I ever met!

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Stock is done with round 2, Super Stock round 1 is running now. Here are some photos from yesterdays action.

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Stock is down to the semi's.

Bubba Linke over Shane Oaks

Joe Demarzo over Rich Fetch

Jim Boudreau over Duane Hoven

Fred Thibeault bye

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Super Stock is going in to the Quarters.

Kent Hanley over Bobby Fazio

Paul Guenther over Yves Perigny

Joe Hertline over Arnie Martel Jr

Joseph Santangelo over Charlie Bubka

Greg Porter bye

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Get it done Freddy!!

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Stock going into the finals.

Bubba Linke over Joe Demarzo

Fred Thibeault over Jim Boudreau

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Go Papa go!!

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Super Stock going into the Semi's

Joe Hertline over Gregory Porter

Kent Hanley over Joseph Santangelo

Paul Guenther Bye

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Super Stock going into the finals.

Paul Guenther over Joe Hertline

Joseph Santangelo bye

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Super Stock....
Joseph Santangelo over Paul Guenther

Stock.....
Bubba Linke over Fred Thibeault


Guy's I will be back later tonight with more photos of the day.

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The Santangelo guy can drive.

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Ken thank you for those top end shots those were awesome. And course the race reporting is awesome too.

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Good morning everyone, we are home safe and sound. Just want to say thank you to every body for all the help. Can't say enough about NHRA racers, especially Div.1, there is no better and thanks to raceway park personnel, old bridge police and fire dept.We lost a lot of parts and equipment. Luckily we have family in the area and that made things easier, nobody was hurt that's all that matters ,car is safely tucked away, but don"t be surprised to see it show up at atco testing, just kidding. Once again special thanks to my new best friend with the bolt cutters, don't remember his name. We will be back better, stronger and who knows maybe a little faster.now let keep everybody affected by IRMA in our thoughts. Once again thanks everybody.

john & linda kurzenberger

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Stock racer Tom O'Loughlin had the bolt cutters

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thanks

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Thanks so much Nick, here a some more top end shots.

John, please check your pm.

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More top end shots along with yesterday's action.