Live from Atco , NJ - NHRA Lucas Oil Series

[joe176]

Originally Posted by Dan Fletcher

I'm planning on arriving Thursday late afternoon, with the hopes of parking and teching. There exists a decent chance that I don't make it in time to get in. Between me and the kids, we have four entries. I hadn't even considered that tech would be closed Friday morning till I read Joe's post, but obviously it makes sense that it could be. Not to be redundant, but Joe, you're very sure that Lang said we can tech Friday am?

Thanks...

Dan..here is Bob's reply to my email....Bobby...his offer should be to everyone.

I will say yes to friday tech, and I have no idea about Thursday at this time


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From: Joe Franco [joe176@optonline.net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 10:42 PM
To: Bob Lang
Subject: Tech

Bob...will there be sportsman tech on Friday with the schedule change...also how late is it open on thursday. Thanks, Joe Franco

[Dan Fletcher]

Thanks Joe...

[Jack Matyas]

OK - So i'm not there live today but here's the lastest from the track - the Storm that was called for this morning passed thru earlier than expected and at this moment its clear with temps in the low sixties and a very slight breeze .Tomorrow is expected to be about the same - possibly a little more breezy ...........

This stuff is pretty easy to predict - maybe it could be my next new career - beats pedalling cars for a living .

[BKSG1198]

I know we dropped off everything last night and there was TONS of Asphalt left for everyone to park. With the amount of cars that are left I can't see them having to park cars in the Stock Car Track or on the Return Road. Looks to be a VERY VERY Windy day tomorrow with gusts up to 30mph (40mph at Atco cause of the open area), so if it wasn't rain playing H**l on us 2 weeks ago now the wind. Wonder if we will go 1/8 mile racing?

[Ken Miele]

Jack, I just pulled in to the track. Looks like a ghost town, as you can see from the pictures not many are here.

The weather report is as follows, bright sunshine about 60. We have a steady cross wind at 15 mph gust to 25 mph.

The forecast for tomorrow is about the same. Sunday looks like the best day, sunny with a high of 70 and much less wind.

[Ken Miele]

Morning everyone, its a beautiful day with bright sunshine. Its a cool morning with moderate wind. The wind is supposed to pick up today, it will be interesting what call is made for the day, 1/8 or 1/4?

More rigs pulled in last night and there are coming in regularly this morning. It still looks as if many racers decided not to come back. The alcohol and comp pits are empty. I only saw 3 alcohol cars.

Frank Maiolo's car has to be one of the nicest 69 Camaro's that I have ever seen as a race car. The detail of the paint job along with everything else is outstanding.

We are supposed to start at 10 beginning with stock.

The numbers for the weather look to be fast.

Temp 56
Humd 46%
Bar 29.72
DA 445 feet

More later....

[Mike Brogniez]

Safety first will no doubt be the guideline for the 1/4 or 1/8 call.
New England Dragway has already made the call for a 1/8 race..........
Hope all goes well for the completion of the race without any other incident.

[Jack Matyas]

Originally Posted by Mike Brogniez

Safety first will no doubt be the guideline for the 1/4 or 1/8 call.
New England Dragway has already made the call for a 1/8 race..........
Hope all goes well for the completion of the race without any other incident.

For those of you wondering they are underway at Atco - and racing quarter mile - hopefully Ken will jump in soon .............

[thomas sheehan]

It's sat at noon time.
We did get a time trial in for stock, super street, and super stock (1/4 mile).
It is sunny and wndy.
After a few pairs of super gas, they stopped running because of the wind (a little more gusty than earlier).
We've been down for about 20 minutes now.

23 out of 39 SS cars returned for competition.
43 out of 58 stockers mde the time trial session.

[thomas sheehan]

well.... the decision was just made.

super gas is running again (1/8th mile).
Comp, alcohol cars will all get 1/8 mile tt.

Then they will let us know the rest of the schedule.

At least we're running again.