Re: Famoso - Div. 7 ET finals next weekend!
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09/23/20 08:54 AM
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Keith, I'll be at Famoso next weekend in S/Pro with Team Sacramento. Do You know if there will be an ET Brackets Final in Vegas for all 7 NHRA Divisions like is usually held at the World Finals in Pomona? It's not clear and a Friend of mine in Div 6 says Yes, but the word from Div 7 is No? Good Luck to You. Dave A Hello Dave, From what I was told the National Championship this year is at the Dodge Finals in Vegas Oct30-Nov 1st, Winners of Saturdays Team race go to that. The Sunday race format looks pretty good as well which sounds like a spin off a bit of Kyle's Spring Fling type races with cars vs cars and dragsters vs dragsters down to 16 before they mix. Good Luck.
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Re: Famoso - Div. 7 ET finals next weekend!
[Re: Keith Richards]
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09/23/20 09:13 AM
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Looking forward, any one else racing?
Go get 'em Keith! I will be racing at the IHRA Div 9 Summit Bracket Team Finals on Oct 1-4 at Darlington, SC. With the Farmington Dragway team.
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Re: Famoso - Div. 7 ET finals next weekend!
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09/28/20 04:36 PM
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Well unfortunately here we are with Fire around us again..........we had fire to the North - West and East of us for 2 weeks just finally put out last week. Hopefully they get this under control by mid-Wednesday or I will be pulling the plug, not leaving the wife here by herself if it gets worse........Our house is in the center of pic. (yellow dot). Wife just sent me a pic of her Hellcat at work....
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Re: Famoso - Div. 7 ET finals next weekend!
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09/30/20 03:38 PM
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Darn Keith,.. You folks can't catch a break with those fires. Good Luck with that and Famoso. I'll say 'Hi' if I see You.
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Re: Famoso - Div. 7 ET finals next weekend!
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10/01/20 10:16 AM
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Keith hopefully the fires steer clear of your family, best of luck. Have a few friends going looks like a "light" turnout but when you have tracks that never even got in a bracket race all year what can one expect. Best of luck to all who make it to Bakersfield.
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Re: Famoso - Div. 7 ET finals next weekend!
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10/04/20 10:39 PM
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Thanks for the comments and concerns on the fire, it appears to have moved well away from us at this point at least what of it is left.
Well I went solo as planned as the wife had to work Friday. Car ran great and was very predictable, 1st round had a great race with a Maverick from Arizona (I think), his dialed 10.42 to my 10.49. We left with almost identical reaction times and I had a fender on him to the 1/8th, at that point I started pulling away as this motor has a pretty good pull on the back 660' and at 1200' with a good car length on him I backed into him and turned on a win light with a 10.490, whew so close to breaking out! 2nd round was like a new 1st round as they ran all the buyback cars so it was almost 4 hours later. I had dialed for a bad 60' at 10.54 in 96* heat, one of the cars in front of me lost its motor about 100' out which caused a 45 minute clean up, weather stayed the same in that time and I was good with my dial although I had a sneaking suspicion I was going to hook muck better and was racing a fast 8.22 dialed corvette so knew I had to cut a light and be ready for some brake at the end, the car hooked hard and once again our lights were not far off, only problem is I got off the pedal to early as he looked so far back I thought I had him covered, I got back on the gas at about 60' before the stripe but ended up feeding it to him. Was very bummed and my predictor said I would have ran a 10.53 so blew it big time, as they say it is what it is and cannot wait till next year!
I did meet Dave, great chatting with you!
Here are a few more pictures from the weekend.
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Re: Famoso - Div. 7 ET finals next weekend!
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10/05/20 12:01 AM
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And Congratulations to Team Vegas for the Team Win...
Tony
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Re: Famoso - Div. 7 ET finals next weekend!
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And Congratulations to Team Vegas for the Team Win... Yes Absolutely! Congrats to Team LVMS.
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Re: Famoso - Div. 7 ET finals next weekend!
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10/06/20 05:07 PM
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How was the smell this year?
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