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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. Edit, remove question... forgot about the current inboard brake setups and what that requires for axles...
  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.
  16. Congratulations to Texan Chris Buescher for winning the NASCAR Richmond race this past Sunday! I'm surprised it hadn't been mentioned already. It's also the first win for RFK (in their current ownership structure), too - as a long time Ford fan, I'm happy to see the Roush "ownership chain" back in the winner's circle after such a long drought (since Roush now has partners, "ownership chain" was the best phrase I could come up with regarding his continuity as owner, now partner). Reading the race coverage articles, I saw that Brad Keselowski had an interesting sponsor - buildsubmarinesdotcom. I guess that's kind of like the Schneider trucking line's race car sponsorship some years back (is it still going?) where they said a principal reason for sponsoring was to attract drivers.
  17. https://www.lonestarspeedzone.com/topic/80319-mark-chrudimsky-photo/ - post #8
  18. Cub Scouts do Pinewood Derbies - Cub Scouts are younger Scouts, before they are old enough to become Boy Scouts. In my experience, most Cub Scout "packs" do a Derby at least annually. I'm sure every Boy Scout council has a website with a "unit locator" page on it (google "boy scout council" and the name of the nearest, biggest city/town) - if you search the unit locator page for Cub Scout packs, you should find contact info for packs near you. I was about six years old when I saw my first race car up close - a family up the street and their brother and cousin ran a car in the top class at the old Pan American Speedway in San Antonio, and my brother (about age 14 or 15) was on the crew. I would walk up the street with him and watch them work on the car, and pretty soon I had to go see what racing was! As a former Pine Wood Derby race leader, I will say that the time before the Derby starts can be hectic, with kids getting their cars checked and maybe having to modify them a bit (or more) to fit the rules (especially regarding weight!) - but once a kid has his car through inspection, I think it would be great to have real race cars to look at! Re. 24nomo ticket-giveaway idea - give some to radio stations (for contest winnings?), or give them to local businesses that advertise on the stations and have the stations announce that tickets can be picked up at the business (or announce it as part of a commercial). When I was in Montgomery, AL, the asphalt track there used to do that.
  19. There was a good battle for the lead in the Factory Stock feature between Kowalik (29K) and Maupin (91) - Maupin was right on Kowalik's tail most of the race. I saw on MyRacePass that Kowalik was DQed - does anyone know what for? My wife (who rarely goes to the races with me but did this time) picked Kowalik during hot laps, so I was sad to tell her he was DQed... She also picked Duane Toyne (a familiar name from Thunder Hill days) to win in Street Stock, which he did fairly handily - and he passed tech, so her picks were not 100% jinxes. 😀 Great field of 27 cars! Apparently one of the SUS sprint car drivers got tossed for bad conduct during the feature. The only semi-significant incident seemed to be when one driver spun in turn four but kept going, and another spun in three to avoid him and bumped the wall (I'm leaving out names, car numbers, and alleged actions since the SUS results aren't on MyRacePass or on here and I'm not sure of the second SUS car number). I went to Corpus to see the SUS sprints there on July 23 and a SUS driver got expelled there too for unacceptable behavior. No SUS drivers got tossed when I went to Texana/Edna earlier in the year, so I'm not jinxing them and the sprint cars didn't bring rain with them (re. Top_Shelf_12's comment about scheduling sprint cars and rain in another thread, and the rainouts at S TX Race Ranch). Good field of sprint cars and it was interesting to see that the winner was someone not at the top of his heat race, so he apparently judged well where the track condition was going.
  20. The online auto-auction company? I had never heard of them until you mentioned them above - but that's what comes up when I Google-search the name.
  21. Kyle Bush was the apparent 2nd place finisher - Elliott initially finished third and got bumped up by the 2 DQs to get the win credit (pending appeals). https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nascar/chase-elliott-wins-at-pocono-denny-hamlin-kyle-busch-disqualified https://www.espn.com/racing/nascar/story/_/id/34290768/chase-elliott-given-win-pocono-denny-hamlin-kyle-busch-disqualified
  22. I'm not usually one for digging up old threads, but this was the first thing that popped into my mind when I read the news... Two of 'em busted... Here you go - two at once. It will be interesting to see what happens with the appeal
  23. He annoyed someone - I saw the end of the race on TV and they showed him getting door-slammed by someone after the checkered flag.
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