"Live From" NHRA - Sony/PCRichard Pennsylvania Dutch Classic

[scott smith]

Originally Posted by Ken Miele

Yeah I know its only Wednesday, but parking and tech was open for this weeks Dutch Classic today, so I said what the heck and headed over to the Grove.

I have to say D1 came through again this week. Opening tech early is something they did not have to do, but Dave Ley was out here from late morning until the evening getting anyone teched in that got here early or were already here from the national event. There was a surprising amount of cars out today and I got some photos for everyone. Weather today was as perfect as you can get with temps in the lower 70's and no wind to speak of.

Tomorrow is supposed to be the same as today and I ran into three people going for records tomorrow. I talked to Jim Boudreau, he will be going for the B/SA record. Adam Kerr will be trying for the A/SA and AA/SA record. John Kakalecik will be going for the SS/CA record in his beautiful 70 hemi cuda. I'm sure there will be more cars going for records, the conditions look good for tomorrow, it should be a fun day.

who owns the white corvette now, i seen it for sale awhile back ?

[Mike Jones]

Originally Posted by scott smith

who owns the white corvette now, i seen it for sale awhile back ?

looks like Barry Parker`s car

Mike A114
P/SA

[dartman]

Originally Posted by Mike Jones

looks like Barry Parker`s car

Mike A114
P/SA

Barry still owns it

[Dave Casey]

It is very humid, and we are seeing some sun to the east, but solid clouds to our west. The baro is dropping steadily, and most seemed to be .03-.07 slower. saw record attempts by a few, Keir may have backed up his record in A, not sure. Boudreau went 996 in B/SA, I think I saw Dave Ficacci go 10.01 in B/SA, Steve Ficacci sr went 10.0 in A/S, their D/S car made a run but I did not get the time. Dean Cook II was in the record lane too.

SS has been called to the lanes now, 1040 am

[Ken Miele]

Dave said it all, not a good day for record setting. I caught three cars at the top of the staging lanes doing what ever it takes to lower the records.

[Dave Casey]

They ran all of SS except the Hemi cars which are in lanes, then it started to spit rain, then some big drops started. By the time Iwalked back to my rig, it stpped raining and the sun came out. They maybe resuming running in a few minutes, I think the Hemi cars are still in the lanes 11:50 am

yup they are running them now

[Dave Casey]

Got all this info from the PA announcer.

Teuton, 8.56
Howes lifted early

Abar 8.50
Comella 8.61

Tom Gordon ? 8.94
Gus Mantas 8.69 , he oiled the track badly half hour cleanup

8.78 did not get names for this pair, one driver is from Houma.LA
920

Hess 8.47 156
Smyth did not announce his time

Pancake 860
Wolkowitz car David Barton driving ? 845

looks like the weather will hold for 2-3 more hours by what I saw on the map

stock back to the lanes, see ya

[Ken Miele]

Tom, that is a 440 combo in the GTX. Claude I will be sure to get lots of super class car photos this weekend.

Here are some more photos as racers get ready for the test and tune, it should be starting in about 15 minutes.

Weather numbers for today are good, but I have seen better at this race.

Temp 65
Humid 62%
Bar 29.56
Vapor Pressure .3978
Water Grains 58.5
DA 1478
Wind - not a factor

[Nitro Joe Jackson]

I need some help getting final qualifying sheets and class runs for SS/Stock if anybody can help I would appreciate it. Post it here or either fax it to me, 775-743-8699
or e-mail me it to me nitrojoe@neo.rr.com

Thanks, Joe

[Dave Casey]

a few et's from the first session,

it is a track run test and tune, and you can set records. D1 staff is here in full for teching etc

Keir A/SA 9.89
Boudreau B/SA 9.94
Matyas 9.59
Petras G/S 10.96
Ford A/S 10.24
Roberts G/S 11.06

temp was about 67 , no wind ,warmer than usual for this time of year at this event