Live from St. Louis open!!

[Larry Hill]

No Jim, the pink panther is still at home unfinished. Larry has been out of town more than he has been at home lately, so has not had time to work on it. So we are here with the " Private Lee" ( not quite the General Lee!).

The weather is sunny and nice, but cold. They have cancelled the test n tune for tonight. We are supposed to begin at 10:30 in the morning. So far we have seen Danny Bird and Brad Van Lant and his son. Jerry Newsome is here also.

Well, we have the satellite going so we can watch the NCAA Sweet 16 tonight. Louisville won last night. Guess we will cheer for Memphis tonight.

More later.

Patsy

[Sean Ward]

Thanks keep us updated sounds like record air

[Larry Hill]

We got teched. Fred and Kevin Suiter are here. Also saw David Morgan. We are running Stock/superstock combo here. I don't know a lot of superstockers, but I will try to keep up on them also.

Does anybody know why they DQ'd Jerry Davis at Houston?

More later.

[Frank Castros]

Larry & Patsy,

Good luck at Gateway. Please say hey to Jim Lovallo for me (he'll be there helping Hanlon) and convince him to take his wedge car out of the garage and go racing. It's a race car, not a show car!
Thanks as always for the updates. You two are way cool!

Frank

[Larry Hill]

Beautiful day in St. Louis, but boy is it cold. When I ran the air about 11:00 it was 48, with an adjusted altitude of -399'. There were 32 stock/superstock combo cars that went down and only 5 Top Stock cars. Jeremy Duncan was the quickest Top Stock car at 10.43, but Danny Bird went a 10.71 at 103 mph. We were out of gas and had to buy Sunoco here, and went didn't go too well--10.70 at 120. Jerry Newsome had something go wrong off the line, so he didn't get a good run. Fred Suiter went 10.46 at 123.

In Combo, Brad Van Lant about crashed on the starting line as did GTA I think they said Stealy was the name. Stealy crossed the center line. It looked like they were leaving and then got into something. All this was in the right lane as was Newsome.

This is who is here in the order they went down the track as I understood the names. BTW, I don't hear real well. Been around these race cars too long!
Dyer, Summers, Pricen, Stealy, Schaeter, Fred Suiter, Buth, Duckett, Randall, Wizenfel, Greening, Wimmer, Rowe, Morgan, Jamie Greening, Shaw, Kevin Suiter, Hodge, Hanlon, Omalley, Beeler, Sturgell, Schaeter, Harrision, Hollingsfield, Brown, Murphy, Simpson, VanLant, Harrison, Owens, Buth.

Frank, I talked with Lavollo this morning and he said he has his car up for sale and is not going to race it. He said it is listed with Gateway something or other and he has just lowered the price. I will tell him you said hello when I see him again. I've been sitting inside since it is pretty cold and windy outside.

If you are here in St. Louis come by and see us. We are at the end of the row across from the Top Fuel concession stand.

I will see if they have posted a qualifying sheet and let you know how everyone is going.

More later.
Patsy

[greg johnson]

Hiya Patsy..........

Glad ta see yu & the big guy made it thru another "grueling" Ky winter.....lol
Sorry to say nobody from Pontiac is gonna be there...........MY story is either too busy, or too lazy to get stuff put together to go................ the forecast kinda skeered me off too...........

Hope you all have fun, & best o luck to everybody.
Please tell everyone "howdy!!"

greg

[Larry Hill]

Sorry but my internet connection has been off all afternoon. So I will give you the results of Top Stock 1st. Brad Van Lant beat Fred Suiter 10.32 to 10.34. There were 8 cars:
1-Fred Suiter 10.17
2-Jeremy Duncan 10.43
3-Brad Van Lant 10.43
4-Larry Hill 10.44
5-Jerry Newsome 10.47
6-Danny Byrd 10.50
7-Kevin Suiter 10.73
8-Jim Schaeter 10.80 in Bob Gibson' Corvette
1st round:
Schaeter broke against F. Suiter
Byrd red-lighted to Van Lant who spun
K. Suiter red-lighted to Duncan
Newsome's car died against us

2nd round:
Duncan broke a transmission against Van Lant who ran 10.35
Fred beat us like a drum 10.24, 124 to our 10.37, 126

Final:
Van Lant 10.32, 125 to Fred's 10.34, 127.

It was a great day of racing.
Still cold here. Had to hold up for a while for sprinkles. Calling for rain tomorrow.

In Combo there were around 32 cars. Roz Gresens has gone home already with the car smoking. Looked like the big R/S car of Wizenfel broke.

Hey you Pontiac, IL guys: You're missing a lot of fun. Wish you were here.

More later.
Patsy