Author Topic: "Private" meet -- Top Speed shootout!  (Read 505125 times)

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Re: "Private" meet -- Top Speed shootout!
« Reply #510 on: September 24, 2008, 06:59:59 PM »
Thanks Slim, Ray, Et Al, for another days worth of excellent coverage.   :cheers:

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Re: "Private" meet -- Top Speed shootout!
« Reply #511 on: September 24, 2008, 07:04:13 PM »
Thanks Slim, Ray, Et Al, for another days worth of excellent coverage.   :cheers:

+1. Thanks much.

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Re: "Private" meet -- Top Speed shootout!
« Reply #512 on: September 24, 2008, 07:05:45 PM »
Hey we like all the rats!
McRat, RaytheRat, and Noonan!

Are you sure that was a golf ball and not Noonan's head?

And thanks to everyone for great coverage. The huge gaps in info for Speed Week and Bub were tough to take.
Well, it used to be Los Angeles . . . 50 miles north of Fresno now.
Just remember . . . It isn't life or death.
It's bigger than life or death! It's RACING.

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Re: "Private" meet -- Top Speed shootout!
« Reply #513 on: September 24, 2008, 07:11:28 PM »
Yeah but we had 500 entries, this one has about 10 big difference to cover. Dean next time you are at speed week visit the timing trailer and see what it takes to handle 2 or 3 courses 12 hours a day for a week. Slim , Ray the rat and others do a great job and we love it. I agree on the WOS it took forever to get the times.
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Re: "Private" meet -- Top Speed shootout!
« Reply #514 on: September 24, 2008, 07:15:47 PM »
Pat,
Thanks for the cool pictures and info..

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Re: "Private" meet -- Top Speed shootout!
« Reply #515 on: September 24, 2008, 07:23:28 PM »
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Yeah but we had 500 entries, this one has about 10 big difference to cover.

Amen there. I watched El Mirage last month with only 87 entries and it's a bunch of work.

I wasn't so much complaining about that as I was amazed, thrilled, speechless, (maybe not so much), blown away, and based on the number of views, so was everyone else about what is going on here.

More! More!! More!!!
Well, it used to be Los Angeles . . . 50 miles north of Fresno now.
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Re: "Private" meet -- Top Speed shootout!
« Reply #516 on: September 24, 2008, 07:28:32 PM »
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Yeah but we had 500 entries, this one has about 10 big difference to cover.

Amen there. I watched El Mirage last month with only 87 entries and it's a bunch of work.

I wasn't so much complaining about that as I was amazed, thrilled, speechless, (maybe not so much), blown away, and based on the number of views, so was everyone else about what is going on here.

More! More!! More!!!

Dean,

I was surprised you did not bring out your streetluge during the World of Speed event last week :wink:

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Re: "Private" meet -- Top Speed shootout!
« Reply #517 on: September 24, 2008, 07:30:59 PM »
Well done Slim ... good job by all ... this is a good as it gets without being there ... Joe

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Re: "Private" meet -- Top Speed shootout!
« Reply #518 on: September 24, 2008, 07:31:09 PM »
This topic has been read: "Read 9352 times".....
Very impressive......and bet it will make 10K+ before its all said and done.


It hurts me to read this thread.....I almost feel like I should be there trying to help out anyway I could with the broken rides.


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Re: "Private" meet -- Top Speed shootout!
« Reply #519 on: September 24, 2008, 07:41:40 PM »
Dam hellis should not be alowed any closer than 1000' vertical---2500' horizontal---down wind only!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: "Private" meet -- Top Speed shootout!
« Reply #520 on: September 24, 2008, 07:48:19 PM »
The coverage has been great, my thanks to everyone there and their great reporting. If everyone would show their thanks by going to that little box in the lower left corner of the home page and send a few bucks it would help assure that this kind of coverage can happen again. I know how JonW hates to ask for money :roll: so I thought I would do it for him. I love this stuff.

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Re: "Private" meet -- Top Speed shootout!
« Reply #521 on: September 24, 2008, 07:48:22 PM »
Lynn car after the incident, which I received a few minutes ago:

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Re: "Private" meet -- Top Speed shootout!
« Reply #522 on: September 24, 2008, 08:00:32 PM »
Pictures didn't open
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« Reply #523 on: September 24, 2008, 08:00:54 PM »
oops, double hit
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Re: "Private" meet -- Top Speed shootout!
« Reply #524 on: September 24, 2008, 08:06:29 PM »
Same here in Mt. Thanks for all the work everyone has done to get as close to being there as we can   :cheers: