"Live" from Indy US Nationals 2011

Originally Posted by Bruce Noland

My car had 0 passes on it when I arrived at Bowling Green and 9 passes total when Kenny and I ran. I didn't go to Indy this year expecting to win anything. I thought it would be a victory just to qualify and I did do that. Maybe you should come out and try your luck since you are an authority on winning races. And I'll race any where I want and some computer cat isn't going to tell me to stay at home. What a joker?

Bruce,

I like your new Vette, It runs and looks very nice.

[Tim H]

Originally Posted by Larry Hill

Well guys, Indy is now in the books and it was a great one! It is always great fun to see people that we don't see often, usually just at Indy. And that is what it is all about. Going and having a great time and seeing old friends and making new ones. It was great to see Mike and Paula Cotten, Keith and Tonya Lynch and all the Louisiana gang. It was also nice to see our new friends, the Skillmans, and Doug Duell and John McLeod.

It is also like Charlie Westcott said--racing!! Not for fame or fortune, but the competition and knowing that at that particular time, you went just as fast as you could. With that being said--we ran just as fast as we possible could last week--and in a heads up run against a Mustang or Challenger, we did not have a prayer. Neither did Boudreau, Zimmerman, Costello, Stubbs, Cummings, Emmons, Wilkes, Kincaid, Periard, Totaro, Hudlow, Taylor, Mattingly, or Corda.

And as much as we love coming to Indy, if something is not done by next year to put the new cars in their own class, we may not be back. We want say positively that we won't be back because we are getting older and this is what we love doing. You miss this Indy and there may not be another one. But you go to qualify and then know that you have a chance to win the biggest race of the year. We would like to just have a fighting chance.

Well said. They should fix this situation with soft hp ratings for the new factory iron before all the old classic muscle car stockers decide to stay home.I followed the coverage on the net thanks to folks like yourselves and it was truly discouraging to see all my old favorites get chopped off at the knees buy these underrated cars!

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by Bruce Noland

My car had 0 passes on it when I arrived at Bowling Green and 9 passes total when Kenny and I ran. I didn't go to Indy this year expecting to win anything. I thought it would be a victory just to qualify and I did do that. Maybe you should come out and try your luck since you are an authority on winning races. And I'll race any where I want and some computer cat isn't going to tell me to stay at home. What a joker?

Damned few racers would tow hundreds of miles with a new car with no passes on it to race at one of the toughest division races in the country, and then tow to Indy, not sure of being able to qualify.

Bruce not only did that, but he did it successfully. It's a great looking car, with a ton of potential. And Bruce is just the sort of guy to make it reach that potential. We talked in the staging lanes, and it looks like he already knows where to find 2-4 tenths.

I may not agree with Bruce on a lot of things, we've gone at each other as hard on this board as any two people in recent memory. But I'll say this, anyone who questions his dedication to drag racing in general, and Stock Eliminator in particular, has no idea what they're talking about. And given Bruce's investment of time and money in a traditional old school class car, he's got every right to speak out about NHRA making the car uncompetitive in its class with a stroke of the pen.

[Ed Wright]

Well said!

[Toby Lang]

Well, the plan changed a bit. I got a hold of an internet connection. I will post the three videos I have ready to go. They will be in 720p.

Agreed. It takes alot of courage to load up an untested car and drive 800+ miles to a division race for the first passes on a new car. 3 days later at Indy making runs at the biggest race of the year and quailfying. A big accomplishment and something to be proud of. Something that keyboard jockeys have no idea about.




QUOTE=Bruce Noland;280940]My car had 0 passes on it when I arrived at Bowling Green and 9 passes total when Kenny and I ran. I didn't go to Indy this year expecting to win anything. I thought it would be a victory just to qualify and I did do that. Maybe you should come out and try your luck since you are an authority on winning races. And I'll race any where I want and some computer cat isn't going to tell me to stay at home. What a joker?[/QUOTE]

[Bob Lasko]

Toby,
Your videos are great. Its like being there. Very professionally done. Better than ESPN.
Great Job.
Bob Lasko
SS/CS
1134

[Ed Wright]

Toby, thanks for all your hard work. I enjoyed meeting you in the stacking area at Rob & Steph Cruzen's trailer. Chris Ashley seems like a neat young lady too.
Thanks!

[Dyno]

Thanks to everyone who has posted pictures and videos of the race. I had to wait 34 years to attend because of school starting (I am now retired), but I have attended and raced the last 3 years in class and finally got to race on Sunday because enough people left. It is easier to find me looking at the bottom of the ladder, rather than the top. See everyone next year. Dyno

[Toby Lang]