Wilmington April/May Picture Post

[Cajun Kid]

Gregg and Woody it was good seeing you guys at the Track.  Sorry I did not have much time to talk, I was short handed with just one crew member so. With all the changes to my Studebaker we did last summer for SpeedWeek 2015, the car needs a bit more attention to get it and me ready.

To all my friends on land racing.com it's been awhile since I have been on here, hope you all are well

Charles Venable aka Cajun Kid

[55chevr]

All good Charles.


Joe

[bearingburner]

I thought that big time investments had done you in. Or you had become  a charter member of the Beautiful People,. Hope to see you a Loring in July.

[gkabbt]

As you will see, day started out on the damp side. We had to wait for the track to dry so racing started late.
As the day progressed it turned into a really beautiful day with sun out and temps into the mid 70's.

Many folks had left yesterday as the weather forecast seemed to change from minute to minute.
For the folks that stayed, lines were REALLY short and many made multiple runs.

As for statistics of this meet:

Ransom Holbrook had top speed for bikes at 244.
Ron Keselowski had top speed for cars at 233.

For the Hot Rod Magazine Top Speed Challenge:
Jay Bell won Real Street with a top speed at 229 in his Firebird.
C. Douglas Johnson won Super Street with a top speed of 222 in his Mustang.
Both cars are EXTREMELY well done and are the last two pics in my link below.

For the 3 days of racing, a total of 507 runs were made. Brian said it would have been in the 700's if we had not had the problems on Saturday.

All-in-all it was a good meet.

Here is my Google Photos link for today:

https://goo.gl/photos/Txj9YUJLofNdJdM99

As usual, I hope you enjoy,
Gregg

[gkabbt]

Jesse, I see you're looking at this and I wanted to let you know that Carl (IIRC), with his yellow Mustang, did get into the ECTA 200 MPH club with a VERY nice pass of 204.

See you guys in July

Gregg

[gkabbt]

Just saw on the ECTA Facebook page that Brian had posted the Final Results, Timing Log and New Records runs and here is the link:

https://axwaresystems.com/axstorm/calendar_main.php

Gregg

[gkabbt]

Paul, I see you're looking at this and I gotta say that it was REALLY weird not seeing you and your Ranchero at this meet.
I heard it is the flu bug and I hope you're feeling better.

See you in June?

Gregg

[Jessechop]

Jesse, I see you're looking at this and I wanted to let you know that Carl (IIRC), with his yellow Mustang, did get into the ECTA 200 MPH club with a VERY nice pass of 204.

See you guys in July

Gregg

Didnt know he was out there untill you said something and then I looked closer at the pictures. Car looks alot different than the last time I seen it. Good for him, not easy to run that speed on anything

[WOODY@DDLLC]

Added some more pix so have another look-see: https://goo.gl/photos/fDeBxc79yKkhyMTs7

Remember the June meet is a two-day event.

[gkabbt]

Been busy and should have done this earlier but.......

Charlie, good seeing you this weekend and IMPRESSIVE runs from the Stude!!!!!

Joe, I'll be doing the long trek up to Loring and will see you in July!

Gregg

[krusty]

Charles - nice run(s) in the Stude. I was there with the 4434 black roadster E/BSTR helping out with the new engine and data. This is the engine that was in the recent Hot Rod mag. Sorry I didn't get by to see you. We're gonna have salt this year!?

vic

[RidgeRunner]

Gregg and Woody,

     Thanks for your time and effort to take photos and get them posted.   

     They always take a lot of the sting out of not being able to attend a meet.

                    Ed

[revolutionary]

Great pics all!

Glad We were able to raise some smiles with our little outrigger scooter...

[Stan Back]

Beautiful pics of beautiful cars and bikes.

[Eldo]

Hi all; well despite blowing up 1st run, 1st day, we had a great, great time last weekend! We where running our Norton in M/PG1000/4 class. Despite a lot of preparation going up in smoke, we learned a ton and met lots of really great people! For anyone wondering, I thought I'd post some pics of the "Norton carnage" we had. We'll regroup and be back for the June event for sure! Can't wait! https://goo.gl/photos/G8BhPMuFp8c4Eiic8