"Live" from Belle Rose

[greg fulk]

Good luck this weekend! I'm loaded-up & ready to go to Farmington,NC for the IHRA race. C-ya @ INDY.

[cody pollage]

Hey Bob,
Only 140 cars are pre-registered. The SPORTSnationals is the only race I know of that you don't have to pre-register for nationally. You can just drive on through and pay for your tech card at the gate.

[Larry Hill]

Hey John, I will give you a little clue--Pat already has more miles on his scooter than that and it is only Wed.

More racers spotted today: Greg Hill, the County Dog, Jerry & Mike Bennett, George Widuch, Billy & Paula Lynn, Bobby & Brittney Brannon.

For Top Stock tomorrow: It costs $75 to run test n tune, then for an extra $25 you can run top stock. Testing starts at 1, We will get 1 top stock time trial at 3, then run 1st round at 3;30. Payout will be 50% to winner, 30% to runner-up, 10% each to the semifinalists.

The weather is supposed to be wonderful all week. It sure was today. Someone said the air this morning was minus 150'.

There doesn't seem to be nearly as many people here today--but it is only Wed. We will see how things fill up tomorrow.

Well we got up early this morning so it is about bedtime for us. Just watching a little basketball and off to never-never land.

More tomorrow.
Patsy

[Larry Hill]

Well, we are finally up and at em. Nothing starts happening til noon, so there wasn't a big rush. Maybe Larry will get caught up on his sleep while we are here.

It is another beautiful day here in southern LA. I will get all the air results and post them in a while. There have been trailers rolling in all morning. I will go out and see who else is here and see what is going on and report back in a while.

Ya'll come on down!

Patsy

[Chris Hill]

They've run first qualifying in stock.

Around 10 to 12 A/SA cars, same with C/SA. Mom will post more when she gets a chance, but that may not be untill after they are done running today.

[Larry Hill]

Stock has had 2 runs and superstock is running now. Super Gas runs, then stock class. Don't believe any of the numbers on the runs this morning. You would not believe the sandbagging that is being done. Air was 300' on the first run and 600' on the second. We have 13 A/SA cars if they had all the indexes correct. It is really fast. The wind was blowing a cross wind and cool.

More later after class.
Patsy

[Bill Kennedy]

That was a great run!!! Nice Light!!

[Chuck Beach]

Excellent first round light and great run Larry .... good luck the rest of the day and weekend ...

[Larry Hill]

Thanks Bill and Chuck. The old pink AARP Cuda and its driver are doing ok today!

Pat came by a little while ago and said that this is the best turn-out for the Sportsnationals yet. 561 entries and still coming in. He said he had put 143 miles on his scooter so far. With the economy and all he said they figured on maybe 400 racers, so he is very pleased. He is expecting 5000 spectators out here tomorrow.

You could not ask for better weather. A little breeze and 70's and sunny!

We probably won't run Round 2 until at least 4-4:30.

Just sitting around resting after the marathon yesterday.

Can't wait for the crawfish boil tonight.

More later.

Patsy

[Stk4405]

Originally Posted by Larry Hill

Stock has had 2 runs and superstock is running now. Super Gas runs, then stock class. Don't believe any of the numbers on the runs this morning. You would not believe the sandbagging that is being done.
Patsy

Stock looked like nitro cars, running to a 1000 ft. I don't think all the fastest cars won class since they were trying not to get hp on Monday. Smart moves.