HoosierDaddy Posted August 17, 2003 Report Share Posted August 17, 2003 Eddie Wallace was on the trailer when I got there, something must have happend during practice.23 cars timed during qualifying. Mark Chrudimsky hit the wall pretty hard in turn 3 during his run ending his night early. Dont know what the problem was, as on his first lap he was running strong. Brandon took fast time with an 18.3 something. Greg Davidson wound up on the pole after the invert with Donnie wilson outside pole. Second row inside was Joe Aramendia with brandon outside. As they took the green and dove into one, G Davidson took the lead as Wilson, Aramendia, and Bendele fell in behind. Wilson pressured Davidson early, but then backed off and looked as if he was just riding and had the better car. The top four stayed the same for the first 25 laps. At this point a big puff of smoke came from Brandon's car and he pulled it in with a flat RR tire and they worked on it for a while. Meanwhile, on the track the first yellow flew for an incident on the frontstretch involving John Meyer and Robert Richardson. Richardson couldn't continue. Back to green with the top three of Davidson, Wilson and Aramendia breaking away from the rest of the pack. At times wilson was all over Davidson, but then would back off for a few laps. Bendele came back out only to have the exact same thing happen again and another flat RR. Cant remember all the cautions, but there weren't many, and there were no major wrecks. The top three was still Davidson, Wilson and Aramendia and remained this way until about ten to go when Aramendia got in the wall coming off two. He was done for the night. As they took the green for the last time it was Davidson, Wilson, Welch, Colt James, and Doug Hooks rounding out the top five. During the last laps, Wilson clearly had the faster car and was all over Davidson but just couldnt get around him and Davidson ended up holding on for the win. The top five at the line I believe were Davidson, Wilson, Welch, James, and hooks. Bendele ended up having a broken panhard bar, which kept causing the flat right rears. It was an ok race, but there's been better romco races at SAS. Only nine cars running at the end. If I'm wrong on any of this please correct me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txtom Posted August 17, 2003 Report Share Posted August 17, 2003 Nice recap, Hoosier. Eddy Wallace crashed hard in practice after Bubba Naumann spun in front of him. Eddy had no where to go. A preliminary look of the car showed the chassis is probably alright; all the right front and rear suspension, as well as the front sheetmetal, airbox, etc was torn up. A bar was bent into the headers, etc. Shame, he was right at the top of the practice sheet before that. Doug Hooks made a generous offer of his back-up car to Eddy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonestar88 Posted August 18, 2003 Report Share Posted August 18, 2003 Sounds like you hit all the high points Hoosier, that was about it.Tom, real busy weekend for you from what I saw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txtom Posted August 18, 2003 Report Share Posted August 18, 2003 Howdy Keith, Yeah, it was a busy weekend, and unfortunately, not very productive. It started Friday night up at Kyle helping Eddy shake his car down, then Saturday morning I was up at 5:00 to go to work, spent a little while about 60 feet in the air checking a plane out, then a little time finding some stuff we needed at the track. Then you saw all the going's on with David's engine change, and Eddy getting his torn up. The reason I left kinda quick after ROMCO is I had David's hurt motor, and some of Eddy's pieces in the back of my truck, and I took them to Mac's shop in Austin Saturday night. I knew I wouldn't feel like doing it Sunday,(I barely got out of bed!), so I took the stuff up there. Got home at 2:15. and by the time I showered all the racecar off me, It was about 3-3:15. Great run for you, don't have to listen to John fuss about bent bars and stuff! Get that gear out of it, and run about a 5.29, (or a 5.49 like Mac would!), and that thing will fly! Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonestar88 Posted August 18, 2003 Report Share Posted August 18, 2003 Tom,  10-4 on the bent bar stuff, but I agree with the gear change 529 should do it. Think we're going softer on the rear springs as well. See ya soon  Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishracer Posted August 18, 2003 Report Share Posted August 18, 2003 what's up with the ROMCO car count. It really looked bad with track size of SAS. Lots of disparity out there. The lead cars were a full second slower than their qualifying times during the longer green flag runs, running 19.3-19.6. The rest of the field was running high 19's low 20's. Whats up, with all that money they spend you would think they could run faster. Heck the TSRS and MODS didn't drop off that bad in the same amount of laps. I guess when you can't spend as much you work harder on the setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandit Posted August 18, 2003 Report Share Posted August 18, 2003 Fishracer, the Romco times tend to drop off due to the amount of rubber on the track after long runs. Also if you run a Romco car too hard you won't have a right rear tire left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garnerac Posted August 18, 2003 Report Share Posted August 18, 2003 When are the Romcos back at SAS? They run great on that half mile. Much better than the 3/8. DG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txtom Posted August 18, 2003 Report Share Posted August 18, 2003 Garner, ROMCO is not due back until October 11. That is the big San Antonio season ender with a couple other classes. I think the TSRS and TPS cars share that night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garnerac Posted August 18, 2003 Report Share Posted August 18, 2003 I'll be watching Indy Cars racing side by side at well over 200 miles per hour that weekend! Thanks though! DG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racecar25 Posted August 19, 2003 Report Share Posted August 19, 2003 i taped all 3 feature races saturday night. i must say 96 car and 82 romco cars were the class of the field. i watched the romco race today and noticed how wilson's car would run exactly the same line as the 96 and joe's car pushed. donnie ran the 96 car clean all night and it was some good racing. the tsrs race was good except the people in front of me stood up the whole time so they were kinda in the way of my filming that race. i liked all the racing action and it was over early! good job too all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted August 19, 2003 Report Share Posted August 19, 2003 U got any way to import them to ur computer possibly via firewire? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonestar88 Posted August 19, 2003 Report Share Posted August 19, 2003 Racecar25, Â The 96 and 82 were the class of the field that's for sure, but the one that impressed me the most was Colt James. This cat to me was the Hard Charger of the night. Great job Colt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivicic Posted August 19, 2003 Report Share Posted August 19, 2003 I agree Lonestar, that was by far the best race I have seen Colt drive in Romco. He drove a smart race and kept his cool when he and the 13 got together on the last restart. Good job Colt!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wkr77 Posted August 19, 2003 Report Share Posted August 19, 2003 Good job Ponyboy!!! You drove a great race. You have my vote! Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colt15 Posted August 19, 2003 Report Share Posted August 19, 2003 Thanks Keith. How did the Mod race end up for you only got to watch the first few laps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonestar88 Posted August 19, 2003 Report Share Posted August 19, 2003 We had a real good night, finished 6th and had all the wheels on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorwal22 Posted August 19, 2003 Report Share Posted August 19, 2003 Hey Keith, Â I'm so happy you did so well in SA! You to Colt, I'm pulling for yall all the from Georgia. TSZ is a great way for me to keep track of everyone back home. Good luck to all and I miss all of you. Â Lori Wallace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandit Posted August 19, 2003 Report Share Posted August 19, 2003 We left early so I did not to see the race, but hearing Colt finshed fourth was the best news I had all weekend with all the bad luck he has had in the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonestar88 Posted August 19, 2003 Report Share Posted August 19, 2003 Eddie, Sorry about the car, tom said it was looking real good . LORI glad to see ya on TSZ all the way from Georgia sweet Georgia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hray Posted August 23, 2003 Report Share Posted August 23, 2003 racecar25, How did your tape of the mod race come out? Did you get any of the passes back in the field or is it all of the leader? Interested in how much of the #77 coming from 11th to 2nd you got, and is there anyway to get a copy? ------------Sounds like this could become a business! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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