"Live" from Charlotte 2017

[Larry Hill]

Thanks y'all!! It is great to be back! Nothing much happening today but stacking! Hopefully parking and registration will go well tomorrow !

[Ken Miele]

Good morning all. Hats off to the NHRA parking crew. Great job getting us in an parked. I was told they would start at 7am today, and sure enough the rigs were moving in at 6:45am.

It looks like most of the rigs that were stacked are all parked. pretty dam good to get it done in less than 3 hours. No waiting at the credential trailer, great job there also.

Not sure what the problem was on Tuesday not letting us stack. I did here that someone got a little upset that a dozen or so rigs were let in. There is so much parking space around here, it makes no sense. The rigs that could not stack on Tuesday, parked in the pro holding lot. There was no security at the Pro lot, but it was okay to park there, go figure. There was security at the sportsman lot. A nice gentleman at the sportsman lot was more than glad to lets us park until he got the word to stop. All I can say is in spite of these ridiculous decisions from the top, the guys in the trenches (parking crew) always seem to come through for us sportsman, good job guys.

[Ed Carpenter]

I need to find a new profession that will allow me to be at the race track on Tuesday.

[Larry Hill]

Tomorrow is fun day at the Four Wide's, we have Class and Factory Showdown. Could this be gear head nirvana? We have not heard a word about testing at Galot. We have no idea who was there or how fast they went. We hope to have more to report later.

[Randy Parker]

My lady source at Galot was hush hush, im thinking the new copo might be a history maker!

[HR9121]

Well I'm here! Got here and my well laid plan went down the drain as there was a security guard blocking the rear entrance. In years past we have just went in and parked ourselves but not this year. We were directed to a holding lot across the street its lot Y if you're coming in behind me. I was told they would move us in tomorrow morning at 7 am. Ed I guess I will have to get me one of those jobs too so I can start getting here earlier! There won't be any visiting for me tonight so I should be well rested tomorrow.

[Yo Ken]

Not many cars were out today so I did not get many photos. Seems the only cars out were the COPO's. Start time is 9:30am tomorrow with Stock being out first.

[Ken Miele]

Good morning all, the weather for today will be hot. It is already 78 on the way to a high of 88. numbers for this morning....

Temp 79
Bar 29.35
Humid 60%
DA 2920

We are still on schedule to start at 9:30, starting with Stock.

[Ken Miele]

Sorry for the lack of reports, I had brake issues with my car, try to get it fixed as I type. Here are a few quick shots. I have more media and will post videos and photos later today.

Its hot here, and the track has been an issue for some of the Showdown Cars. The DA is now at 3400FT and the temp is 89. Stock is done with qualifying, only a few class runs left. Super Stock will be up later, we are behind schedule because of a few oil downs.

I will be back later...

[Larry Hill]

Stock has 2 qualifying runs in and the 1st round of class. We got a text a while ago that said we would not run round 2 until after 8 tonight. I guess that is after the pros finish their 2nd run today.

We were lucky enough to get the bye 1st round of class. Now we run Martel next round and Boudreau has the bye. It will be past Larry's bedtime when we run tonight!! I sure hope he doesn't take a nap! Pauley is here tuning Gary Richard, and boy did he go fast! Martel is fast, too!! We have not found the final qualifying sheets. Larry is going up and seeing if someone has them somewhere. The last sheet still showed Ficacci in B/SA and he was actually in A/SA, so I don't know how much else is incorrect also. And then they have FS/XX cars mixed in and it is a mess!

And the radio station does not work and there are not speakers in the pits where we are, so it is anyone's guess what is running now!!