Live from Maple Grove Dragway - NHRA Lucas Oil Series

[Ken Miele]

My pleasure.

Good morning all, its a beautiful warm sunny day. It will warm for the rest of the week with temps in upper 80's. A slight chance of late day showers but nothing to worry about, it should be a good week for racing.

Test and tune will start at 11PM and run until 5PM. No lines to get in as they opened the gates early. Still room to park on black top if you wish, but the fields are all in great shape and with very little chance of rain you can pick the spot you want.

[Jack Matyas]

Today was exactly as promised - blue skies ,sunshine and I dare say just plain hot.Not a record setting day but it's the one we've been waiting for .Still some great pit space left if you're on your way here .

Anthony Bongiovanni brought out his new '16 Mustang and talk about craftsmanship - stop by and take a look - enjoy the pics till then .And BTW, it made some fast shakedown runs today even with the heat and humidity .

Back later with more photos ................

[stik]

Is this similar to the dutch classic as far as the amount of classes and car count?
I never attended this race and would need to take off from work to do so.
I hope it's worth missing work for


thank you

[Ken Miele]

Originally Posted by stik

Is this similar to the dutch classic as far as the amount of classes and car count?
I never attended this race and would need to take off from work to do so.
I hope it's worth missing work for


thank you

There will be more class cars at this race, its definitely worth coming out. Here are a few shots from today, it was warm but I will take it over the cold any day. Tomorrow Stock will be out first at 8:30AM for their first qualifier.

[Tim Lewis]

Looks like I won't be able to make it now. Was planning on coming up early today but not looking like I will be able to get out now.


Hey KEN check your private message PLEASE.

Thanks.

[Jack Matyas]

Good morning all - Welcome to the 45th edition of the Lucas Oil race here at Maple Grove Park .Plenty of history in the last 45 years here and today it will continue .

We are scheduled to start in less than an hour with Stockers getting on the track first .Don't expect any fabulous times as it's already above 2400 feet and climbing fast .The barometer is at a paltry 29.49 with the humidity above 60 percent .

Here are a few more pics from yesterdays test n tune ........

[V M Kauffman]

Good morning all -


We are scheduled to start in less than an hour with Stockers getting on the track first .Don't expect any fabulous times as it's already above 2400 feet and climbing fast .The barometer is at a paltry 29.49 with the humidity above 60 percent .

So what's the problem about going fast? The weather conditions would be considered go here in the Mid West. You will be hard pressed to get a station pressure of 29.49 here (Indy). Normal high here is around 29.20-29.35. Just put the Indy tune up and go race.

[stik]

Originally Posted by Ken Miele

There will be more class cars at this race, its definitely worth coming out. Here are a few shots from today, it was warm but I will take it over the cold any day. Tomorrow Stock will be out first at 8:30AM for their first qualifier.

Ken, thanks for the reply. Looks like I'll be using a sick day from work saturday