ProTree Posted March 28, 2007 Report Share Posted March 28, 2007 Tommy Freeman,IHRA Division 4 Starter from Austin and Clyde "Spook" Peake,IHRA National Starter for the last 30 yrs on the starting line at the recent Texas Amalie Nationals.Photo taken by my friend racer99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrungot Posted March 28, 2007 Report Share Posted March 28, 2007 The men in black.. nice Tommy.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebelracewriter Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 Which is which???? I thought it was going to be of you and Josh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh42 Posted March 30, 2007 Report Share Posted March 30, 2007 Actually Jeff the waterbox guy was gonna take a picture of me and dad together but we didnt get one. I like this picture of pops cause one day hes gonna be the master teaching a student. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebelracewriter Posted March 30, 2007 Report Share Posted March 30, 2007 He just needs a few more grey hairs!!! LMAO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAPA Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 Tommy Is all you have to do is push the button on that little blue thingie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProTree Posted April 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 PAPA,I wish that was all there was to it, just push the button on that blue thingie.That's the easy part,knowing when to push it.Some of the things you're incharge of are track prep,cleanups,keeping it fair for all,watching each car for anything that may cause a problem or a driver to crash down track before you let em go,it's your decision, and if you let one go, can you live with it if you knew that there was a potential problem developing before you turned em loose.Watch each run making sure neither car dropped fluid or parts on the track before sending next pair.Watch the "tree" come down on every run to make sure no lites malfuntioned as it came down,if you dont catch it ,the drivers will.You're looking for safety equipment,certain classes require certain things,believe it or not some forget to put it on.There's rule about staging the car and have to be done properly and it is enforced.This is just an example of some of the things you do on every run and the list goes on and on.When you do it sometimes for 18 hrs straight in a day,there is alot to focus on.Plus the day before the racing starts,I'm a SFI Certified Tech Inspector and spend the day teching/inspecting cars,safety equipment etc.And by chance if and when an on track accident happens,I've been to SFI's Drag Racing Incident Responce Training to learn how to properly fight all the exotic fuel fires and how to do proper extrications of drivers from the tricked out race cars of today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAPA Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 Tommy I understand that there is a lot you have to do but every time you push the button on that blue thingie all hell breaks lose. Thats got to be a blast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rookie49 Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 The short answer PaPa is yes he just pushes the little button on the blue thingie. All the rest is just stuff they do to make it seem like pushing the blue thingie is hard. j/k T33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProTree Posted April 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 you right rookie-lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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