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  1. Yep - we did, and it was a good race. Good, tight show - even made it back to the San Antonio area before the rain rolled in. I'm still wondering what broke on Macedo's car on his qualifying attempt. At first, it looked like the LR simply came off the car as if not properly tightened, but replays on the big-screen pit TV and DirtVision showed it wasn't just the wheel. The WoO roving reporter said the birdcage was still attached to the wheel and whatever else wound up in the infield, so it looks to me like the axle tube may have separated from the center section or fractured part way between center section and birdcage. I'm glad Macedo was okay and no one got hit by the loose wheel (and attached parts) as it when flying and bouncing to the infield.
  2. I think the track forum would also be an appropriate place, since it is news specific to the track. What a lousy situation for all who are owed or are losing money because of the situation.
  3. I believe there is also a gear-ratio rule in Top Fuel - I don't know (from a quick online search) if Fuel Funny Car also has a gear rule, but I'm pretty sure it does. Yes, it's pretty amazing how these guys keep beating the performance-limiting rules.
  4. I hope this helps - it mentions Ford Crown Vic: https://www.4m.net/archive/index.php/t-198574.html Maybe that will give you enough to look up and confirm specs.
  5. Thanks, Reb - much appreciated by me, too
  6. The announcement doesn't say who won the award at the weekly level. Only the touring level is specifically mentioned - did Abbey win both awards?
  7. As the team owner, Childress certainly has the right to be upset, but I think he should have been upset at Hill's crew chief, Petree, or himself. I didn't watch the XFinity race (outside of coverage of the escapades), but I saw Hill's comments about not knowing if he had to win to advance or not and I watched the Cup race Sunday. In the Cup race, crew chiefs for the drivers fighting for the last two "round of four" spots were telling their drivers where they needed to finish (the radio transmissions were played on the broadcast). Why didn't Hill know if he needed to win or not? His crew chief or team owner/management should have kept him updated on where he needed to finish in order to advance.
  8. Thanks for posting that, Josh! That should be an interesting race - I'm putting that on my calendar to see if I can attend and possibly get some friends to go as well.
  9. "how have y'all missed this? Well, somebody had to be the first to post it on here for us to know about it, and that somebody was you! I think promoters think everyone is on F@#!Book (I have little/no interest in being on that) and these forums seem to be somewhat neglected these days as far as news. The series is good news. The big news (to my mind), barely alluded to in the video, is Mary Ann may not be running Cotton Bowl next year. Whatever happens there - I hope it is the long-term best interest of keeping the track open.
  10. Thanks. I hope they are able to get it repaired by the 14th.
  11. This is the first mention that I've seen about TRP repairs on LSSZ - please elaborate.
  12. My wife and I had some friends with us at I37 Saturday that have had little (one couple) and no exposure to racing (the other couple). I'm glad to say there was some exciting racing in multiple classes. In the FS feature, besides the race for the lead there was a good mid-pack battle for several laps - looked like 5-6 cars really going hard (but fairly clean) after each other. Our friends found the evening exciting, overall. Reb, you left a little out. Feelings must have been high during/after the LM feature. I thought Bowen's comments about getting door-slammed on the cool-down lap after the LM feature were interesting. There was also the little out-of-car episode by another driver during the LM feature. Maybe he thought he was getting intentionally spun for "financial reasons"?
  13. For those like me who are not on "a social-media platform with the initials F and B"... I saw the "wanted poster" while looking at the track's page for schedule info, and the flyer is from the track website. Let's hope the grand to win brings a decent sport-mod field, and I love it when promoters do things like the bounty to bring interest (gotta love the wording on the poster, too). I'm bringing some friends that have never been to the races and some that have only been once - I'm hoping to make some new fans.
  14. It's a Texan heat wave (😉) - or - when you're hot, you're hot! From what I read in the Richmond race recounts (since the race didn't appear to be on broadcast TV), RFK could very well have run 1-2 had Keselowski not muffed a pit stop - so the win and 4th is not too terribly surprising.
  15. Thanks - I'd forgotten about that, and I had not noticed any mention of it on any of the broadcast TV coverage I watched so far this year. I remember the commentators (a/o the last Fox or NBC broadcast I saw, 3 or 4 weeks ago) were commenting about how RFK is improving and a win would come soon (my subject-to-error interpretation, anyway)... Turns out it already had come last year, as you mentioned. And you are so right, Ron - the more competitive teams, the better.
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