Good job Al, the racers anymore are all tough, great job to go that far! I see a wally with your name on it in your near future!

Nice job on the R/U,Al...That was some tuff competition!

Great job!!!

nice job Al

Congrats, tough to get to the final, for sure. Went to Indy one year and they decided to run S/ST first round without notice late Saturday afternoon, many guys had left the track to go to dinner or had started having adult beverages. (I won't say which category I belonged to...)

Thanks again guys. Maybe next time I can report on something happier like actually taking home the Wally.

For now it is time to concentrate on the other car for the SCSN race....

Nice Job Al I had qualifying on and then first round as there were alot of points battles going on, but working on the car and listening, I must have missed you out there.

And a runner up means you were number 2 out of 50. Top 4%! NICE JOB

Way to go Al !!!!!!!!

Well not exactly, my math was a bit fuzzy when I posted that and the totals were not correct..Now that they are I woudl have been in 6th plac had I just shown up to three more races and done nothing but pull up for first round.

We can claim points at five divisional races a year. So had I simply showed up for three more races I would have earned 90 points which would have put me at 247. Each round win is worth 10-13 points depending on what round and how many entries were there. So to clarify I would have had to have won an additional four rounds in the remaining three races to get into second. I feel pretty confident I could have done that even attending the minumum of five races. We can attend as many as we like in any division but can only claim 5 for points. That is the reason this last divisional of the year tends to be bigger than most.

So I feel pretty confident that I could have caught and passed Dave for second. But it is a woulda coulda shoulda thing at this point. I had planned to attend at least five divisionals this year but that did not work out. Had the Air Force not moved us and made it impossible to attend three(Fontana, Bakersfield and Fallon)of the races, I woudl have liked my chances to finish pretty close to the top. Since I missed those I chose to just pass on Infineon as well, would have just made me feel worse now being that much closer. Heck it is a guarantee I would have been top 10.

Now to ad salt to the wound even further looks like the cars will get parked here soon. Found out yesterday that I am likely loosing my job in January. This due to cuts in defense spending, and being new to this base I am likely going to be the odd man out. So if this happens, which appears highly likely I will park the cars.

Hope that clears it up better for you.

Happy Birthday Al..

Veterans Day Birthday for a Veteran and a whole family of them..


Chris..

have a good Birthday Al...

Happy Birthday Mr Al...

Congratulations Al and HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

Happy Birthday Al and Happy Veterans day to you and your family!

Randy

Geeze, I go on vacation and miss all this? Belated congrats and a Happy Birthday as well!

Thanks again guys. Hopefully we can represent Mopars well at the Street Car Supernationals this weekend in Hot Street. We will do our best. Oh yeah the other will be running bracket 1 as well but with a new man behind the wheel. Hopefully he does well with it.

Al -
I haven't been to this site for three years so I'm not up to date with what you race. Glad to see that I'm not the only NHRA dot 90 guy here. Congrats on your race. I can't tell you how many rounds I have lost in the past 10 years by making a teeny little error. I know it doesn't make you fell any better but I'm sure you WILL get that Wally!
Ken Bowers SG 1160
P.S. NICE CAR!!

B1Ken WOW good to hear from you. Talk about a name from the past. Great to see you back around here again.

Thanks for the compliment on the car. We try to keep it nice. Just running it in S/ST for now. Maybe someday we will put a big motor in it. But running S/ST in the mid to high 150's sure is fun. Been thinking of going to a bigger bullet and running S/G but those are shark infested waters for sure. As for the Wally, I sure hope so.