Chandler, AZ race

[Bobby DiDomenico]

Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone

Heads up Match up.. in the lanes...About as old school and new school as you can get....

That hood scoop looks huge, how tall is it?
Could you drive that on the street and not hit things?

[Mark Yacavone]

I have to say, all in all the new track management did a great job with their first Divisional.
The track was in great shape from what I could tell, and from what I heard.
Even with the Saturday overnight downpour, once we got going Sunday, Mike Rice and company did an excellent job completing the event before it got too late.
Yes, that was praise for NHRA , this time.

A few people asked if we were having a S/SS combo at our March 22nd event (see flyer down below in the events section).
Yes , we'll run a combo no matter how few cars may be involved. I just didn't put it on the flyer because of the Vegas Divisional going on that same weekend...I had to take the 22nd date...It was the only one available to me.

[Bernie Cunningham]

Yac, really!!
Your trying to make diamonds from coal. We started just a couple of hours late because of no drying equipment and run second round at 6.00 PM! How does that happen????

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Bernie Cunningham

Yac, really!!
Your trying to make diamonds from coal. We started just a couple of hours late because of no drying equipment and run second round at 6.00 PM! How does that happen????

Okay, B.C., Point taken
No jet dryer yet..but it's not supposed to rain in Arizona.
At least now they know they need one..
Alcohol has to go off at a certain time..and god knows what else..
Otherwise they'll lose all 10 of their spectators for next year..You know that.
It's just not an hour for hour trade off..Start /finish
So, they fumbled through..better?
Good ya see ya, mate

[SStockDart]

Generally speaking, something was going down the track , most of the time.....except for the vette that hit the wall....They got it all in and had rain on Saturday. Obviously, it would have been better to get a couple of rounds in Saturday, but the rain hit.

[GarysZ24]

It was great (for a change) to be a Stock Eliminator racer at this event, with the 3 qual's on Friday, and the two on Sat. However, I agree with Bernie that wasn't cool having to wait 7hrs from round 1 to round 2 on Sunday....but it was still nice to be out there playing in the game....

[Bernie Cunningham]

"No jet dryer yet..but it's not supposed to rain in Arizona.
At least now they know they need one.." HUH YAC

Yac, I'll have to disagree again. Seems to me that the desert air will dry wet pavement by itself, even after a thunder storm. The facility is fundamentally flawed because it wasn't designed around a drainage plan, I can understand that too, no worries.

What they need is one of those big suction trucks that my city uses to go around and suck out the debris and water from the storm drain sumps. That would take care of the standing water puddles which, in reality, delayed the start to Sundays activities. The desert will take care of the rest. Driving street cars up and down was pointless.

Gary H, you're spot on, Div 7 never gives 5 Q's. WTF!
As I said to me friends, I would have lost the farm betting that we could have even run on Saturday. The Nostalgia car doing T&T was sweet too !

Should have used the 'LUCK' with the weather to at least run a round instead of another Q hit. Does our DD even think about this, or even watch the weather, he's a professional after all, been doing it for a while now. Ya gotta think out of the box occasionally, or not even care, but he is the man in charge and calls the shots! Dang Gamit, we have 48 car fields for the TOP D's and S's now.

Ya just can't get 'em all down the track in a one day Eliminator, OK ! Can't wait for this years Vegas Fall Div. race !! This is, by far, the slowest Div. to send 'em down the track efficiently. Just say'in !!

OK, I'm sorry for the rant, didn't mean to, but I feel better now, it really doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me still. DONE !!

[Ed Wright]

I went to a Div 7 LODRS at Vegas while at the SEMA Show a couple of years ago. They had some extra classes I had never seen at a div points race before. Some nostalgia stuff iirc. Took up some time, and it just seemed to take them a long time to run anything anyway. I left there thinking "these guys are sure laid back." LOL

[Mark Yacavone]

Gary just reminded me..They were supposed to run a round of Top Sirloin or whatever Saturday evening ..which they weren't able to do...So throw that into the mix for Sunday too...

[GarysZ24]

Just curious if anyone video recorded the race for you tube?