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Went To SGMP Today #626355 02/27/10 11:53 PM 02/27/10 11:53 PM
Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 52,972 Romeo MI MR_P_BODY OP Master
MR_P_BODY OP Master Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 52,972 Romeo MI	The wife and myself went to SGMP today and watched some racing... seen some very fast cars and a couple of crashes... no one was hurt but sure tore up their cars..... meet a couple of our guys there, Bob (EH100) and Aaron(W5Dart378), had a great time BSing with them... seen both of them make a pass, Bobs van made a good clean pass.... Aaron put his Dart on the BUMPER, he came out and it started climbing till it was on the chute mount when he pedaled it coming down pretty hard but fortunately nothing was hurt.... great rides both of them. I must say that SGMP is a ZOO, I never seen so many people on the starting line, people were standing every where and guys pulling their burn outs dodging people... CRAZY. Was pretty cool(temp) there today with a pretty good wind blowing right up the track which I'm sure didnt help Aaron with his wheelie. That place was so SLOW getting cars down the track that they have to go back tomorrow to finish the race(they only got 1 round in today) Well its on to home for the wife and me starting tomorrow........ Bummer... but I have work to do at home

Re: Went To SGMP Today [Re: MR_P_BODY] #626356 02/28/10 03:44 AM 02/28/10 03:44 AM
Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,590 Indy J joshking440 Lunch is on me!
joshking440 Lunch is on me! J Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 4,590 Indy	yea, mr pbody.....I bought the pay per view after rich posted about it..."it was a zoo" in most every sense of the word down there

Re: Went To SGMP Today [Re: joshking440] #626357 02/28/10 07:31 AM 02/28/10 07:31 AM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 6,314 The Swamp MegaDart master
MegaDart master Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 6,314 The Swamp	Quote: "it was a zoo" in most every sense of the word down there must've been a heads up race. Not like that on bracket night...

Re: Went To SGMP Today [Re: MegaDart] #626358 02/28/10 10:13 AM 02/28/10 10:13 AM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 32,394 Q Quicktree I Win
Quicktree I Win Q Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 32,394	Quote: Quote: "it was a zoo" in most every sense of the word down there must've been a heads up race. Not like that on bracket night... heads up 20k to win

Re: Went To SGMP Today [Re: MegaDart] #626359 02/28/10 10:30 AM 02/28/10 10:30 AM
Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 9,366 Lehigh Acres, Florida rickstershemi master
rickstershemi master Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 9,366 Lehigh Acres, Florida	Quote: Quote: "it was a zoo" in most every sense of the word down there must've been a heads up race. Not like that on bracket night... Yep, have to agree with Wayne....don't judge SGMP by that event ORTC is a different animal.....won't see that at the majority of events there Wade sure put some teeth in that track from what I've heard Rickster

Re: Went To SGMP Today [Re: rickstershemi] #626360 02/28/10 04:22 PM 02/28/10 04:22 PM
Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 52,972 Romeo MI MR_P_BODY OP Master
MR_P_BODY OP Master Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 52,972 Romeo MI	Quote: Quote: Quote: "it was a zoo" in most every sense of the word down there must've been a heads up race. Not like that on bracket night... Yep, have to agree with Wayne....don't judge SGMP by that event ORTC is a different animal.....won't see that at the majority of events there Wade sure put some teeth in that track from what I've heard Rickster No I dont think its like that on a normal basis... and yes that track was biting, seen alot of cars standing it up.... one of the mustangs held the wheels up about 2' to about the 330' mark... I had heard that the owner didnt expect that many cars(place was FULL) but things like 1 person working the window at the concession stand was real slow... just simple little things that could have been better.... parking was a joke.... park anywhere you can fit in, no one directing traffic and being the first time there I was some what lost as to where to park, I ended up parking next to a rig and asked the guy if I was going to be in the way, he said I was fine so thats where I parked

Re: Went To SGMP Today [Re: MR_P_BODY] #626361 02/28/10 04:35 PM 02/28/10 04:35 PM
Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 9,366 Lehigh Acres, Florida rickstershemi master
rickstershemi master Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 9,366 Lehigh Acres, Florida	Quote: Quote: Quote: Quote: "it was a zoo" in most every sense of the word down there must've been a heads up race. Not like that on bracket night... Yep, have to agree with Wayne....don't judge SGMP by that event ORTC is a different animal.....won't see that at the majority of events there Wade sure put some teeth in that track from what I've heard Rickster No I dont think its like that on a normal basis... and yes that track was biting, seen alot of cars standing it up.... one of the mustangs held the wheels up about 2' to about the 330' mark... I had heard that the owner didnt expect that many cars(place was FULL) but things like 1 person working the window at the concession stand was real slow... just simple little things that could have been better.... parking was a joke.... park anywhere you can fit in, no one directing traffic and being the first time there I was some what lost as to where to park, I ended up parking next to a rig and asked the guy if I was going to be in the way, he said I was fine so thats where I parked Mike my guess is they've cut back on personel try to save a few bucks in this economy.... It's always run very smooth when I've been there... Did you get to see Wolf make that 4.44 pass...????? Rickster

Re: Went To SGMP Today [Re: rickstershemi] #626362 02/28/10 05:01 PM 02/28/10 05:01 PM
Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 52,972 Romeo MI MR_P_BODY OP Master
MR_P_BODY OP Master Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 52,972 Romeo MI	Mike my guess is they've cut back on personel try to save a few bucks in this economy.... It's always run very smooth when I've been there... Did you get to see Wolf make that 4.44 pass...????? Rickster If it was yesterday that he made that 4.44 pass then yes I seen it... seen a couple of 4.xx passes, quite a few 5.0 passes.... there was ALOT of fast cars there

Re: Went To SGMP Today [Re: MR_P_BODY] #626363 02/28/10 06:56 PM 02/28/10 06:56 PM
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 12,129 Cleveland sunroofgtx I Live Here
sunroofgtx I Live Here Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 12,129 Cleveland	Watched it most of the day. Unreal coverage. One of our customers, Vern House, crashed pretty badly. Walked out but totalled his 8.5 tire Camaro. Glad you got to see that stuff, Mike. Have a safe drive home.. See any of our stickers out there?? Join the quickest team in motorsports. Team FireCore. CustomWiresets.com

Re: Went To SGMP Today [Re: MR_P_BODY] #626364 03/01/10 12:50 PM 03/01/10 12:50 PM
Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 6,890 North Alabama M Monte_Smith master
Monte_Smith master M Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 6,890 North Alabama	First off, there was 96 cars in the big class, 74 in another and 56 in another. Those are just the heads up cars, not counting the index and open comp cars. So they were trying to get nearly 300 cars, up and down a cold racetrack. One round of qualifying took 3 hours to complete and that was assuming things went smooth. You can't turn those high HP cars loose on a cold track, once the sun goes down. As far as running them slow, it was an 1/8 mile race on a 1/4 mile track. Some were missing the turn and having to go to the end and some dropped the chutes and could not make the end. Also a couple oil downs. That did slow things up at times, but I still thought they did an excellent job, given the number of cars and the weather. The fact that they could not finish on Saturday was a direct result of car count and weather, NOT a poorly run event. I was there for 4 days and while at times there were too many people on the starting line, I never saw the ZOO or people dodging cars on the burnout as mentioned. Monte

Re: Went To SGMP Today [Re: Monte_Smith] #626365 03/01/10 01:08 PM 03/01/10 01:08 PM
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Anonymous Unregistered A	All I will add is I was uncomfortable starting a burnout with people standing with there backs to me between me and the starting line.

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