As Joe posted above, a perfect day for racing.
My pics from today are showing bikes and cars in the staging lanes and starting line this morning and then some in the pits this afternoon. There is one pic showing a roadster coming through the lights but my camera is not good enough to really get good pics of these. As I posted yesterday about the number of entries around 90 - 100, many folks were getting multiple runs as the day progressed.
Things were incident free until around 3:00 when Pete (I think that's right) Calaguiro in the 6222 LS1 Turbo C/BGALT Yellow Studebaker made his second pass. When he came into the lights and pulled his chute on this 199 run, the chute raised the rear of the car and he started into a right hand power slide. This sent him off the track, into the grass through a ditch ending him up near pit road at the short shutdown. Thankfully he did not roll. My next to the last pic shows his car after he stopped. It's not on fire, I think just steam from the radiator.
After the 6222 incident was cleaned up and we went back to racing, another minor incident occurred on the very next run. Bob Larimore in the 1123 B/GC Firebird came into the lights on a 170's pass and the throttle appeared to stick. I'm assuming that while he was dealing with what was happening he did not pull his chute until after short shutdown and just barely got the car stopped before the end of the track.
Great driving from both guys!
My FM radio did not pickup at the starting line so there were many cars and bikes that ran that I did not get speeds for. When I went down to the pits, where the radio worked great, I did hear that one of the bikes had run a 229. Sorry, don't know what the fastest car was although I do know that several were over 200.
I would like to send out kudos to Charles (Cajun Kid) Venable in the 805 C/CFALT Studebaker. He tried at Maxton and here to get over 200 and he finally did it today with a 200.982 pass. GREAT job Charles!
Sean Motes, in the 9860 AA/BGSS Big Bad Black Cad, lost his transmission on his second pass after running 178 on his first....MAJOR BUMMER! If you do not know, this thing is street driven!!!!! Man, I LOVE this car!
4-barrel Mike ----- Mike, on the second page of my Photobucket, there are 4 pics of Paul Calaguiro's E/CFALT 2.3 N/A Ranchero engine that might be of interest to you. He's got some neat stuff in there.
Sorry for the long post but it was a good day.
Here is my Photobucket link and I hope you enjoy:
http://s947.photobucket.com/user/GKABBT/library/Wilmington%2006082013?sort=2&page=1Gregg