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Re: Yello Belly claims another victim
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11/19/10 11:50 AM
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Ya know over the years I have found the no matter the size the tree always wins....Hope the driver is ok.
What is the difference between letting a tree grow or planting steel posts. Can you imagine what would have happened, to this Mustang a couple of weeks ago, if it had floated over the wall a few feet earlier.
Maybe it might have some type of shear plates in the design but that base looks solid if you look at the one on the right side. How many more racers have to be killed before this is changed.
Orlando?
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Re: Yello Belly claims another victim
[Re: JERICOGTX]
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11/19/10 12:40 PM
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Raleigh N.C
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Man you guys have some nice tracks.Come on down here to Caroline and go to ShadySide.It will make yours look like Z-Maz,LOL
Lenny, have you ever been to the Dunn Benson Dragstrip? I was there about 10 years ago. I couldn't stop laughing when they said it only cost $5 for the test and tune night. Place was packed. I sat on the gaurd rail next to the water box, and watched the racing. One of the best times Ive had watching time trials. Might have seen a few Franklins exchange hands after a race or two... 
Dunn-Benson has changed a ton over the last 2 years. Now if you want to see wild and crazy I agree with Lenny make a trip to Shadyside if your further east in NC try Harrells dragstrip down towards Wilmington or Brewers Dragstrip outside of Wilson. Either place be ready for anything. 
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Re: Yello Belly claims another victim
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11/19/10 12:44 PM
11/19/10 12:44 PM
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Georgia
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Man you guys have some nice tracks.Come on down here to Caroline and go to ShadySide.It will make yours look like Z-Maz,LOL
Carolina, home of the supertracks.
I loved this shutdown and return road
Looking back the otherway. Just after the finishline, this is reproduced on the track. They have to have a guy on a 4-wheeler parked at the end of the track in case of a crash to notify the tower. The tower personel can not see in that area. Lots of fun at night. 
Good ole Ware Shoals. The first time you go flying through the lights, down that hill and up and around that corner in the shutdown at night, you draw up just a bit.
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Re: Yello Belly claims another victim
[Re: j.mcconnell]
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11/19/10 02:58 PM
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The crashing Mustang was at SGMP. With the small tires in back and the front end up, the air got under it and made it fly. It didn't help when he ran a 1/4 mile at a 1/8th mile race. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Ziu9Xa-Mc
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Re: Yello Belly claims another victim
[Re: bigdad]
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11/19/10 05:31 PM
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They say around these parts that shootings, etc do indeed happen but, I have never heard about it on the news ?
I went during a daylight activity and stayed long enough to look around .
The people that ran the place were nice enough .
I'm sure you do or say the wrong thing and you could easy end up in trouble, I hear Kennedale on Friday night has a tough crowd now too
Denton is close, thats where I go
Well, Texans your not alone..I was talking to a buddy who street races a alot..the infamous Flint mid'night drags. I've raced there, too, but not for years..anyway, he said eversince some shootings there he has not gone back..and never will. And this is in downtown flint..as written up in Car Craft a few years ago.
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Re: Yello Belly claims another victim
[Re: fishy340]
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11/19/10 08:04 PM
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hope the driver is ok??
couple busted ribs and some chipped teeth
and, although I can NOT confirm, he was 
car ran 5.50's
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Re: Yello Belly claims another victim
[Re: LSP]
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11/19/10 09:32 PM
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Mi,U.S.A.
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Anyone ever venture to Manhattan Dragway in Kansas? You could almost touch the cars over the fence as they raced. Made Lapeer look like Indy.
Leave the gun.......take the Cannoli's....Mike
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Re: Yello Belly claims another victim
[Re: Sixpak]
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11/20/10 12:39 AM
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Ya know over the years I have found the no matter the size the tree always wins....Hope the driver is ok.
What is the difference between letting a tree grow or planting steel posts. Can you imagine what would have happened, to this Mustang a couple of weeks ago, if it had floated over the wall a few feet earlier.
Maybe it might have some type of shear plates in the design but that base looks solid if you look at the one on the right side. How many more racers have to be killed before this is changed.
Orlando?
No that's not Orlando....
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Re: Yello Belly claims another victim
[Re: gtx69]
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11/20/10 01:26 PM
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Flint, Michigan
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B1fish540 since i use to race in flint.I have never heard of any racing in the downtown area what street would that have been.I had been living in the flint area since i was 12 years old and hanging around the street racing since 1970.I now live in the detroit area sinc 1998.Again what street was this on in the downtown area?
Well, befor i went there for the first time(around 2002)i didnt know about it either. The location has changed a couple times I think. Used to be on Lieth I guess but has been on James P. Cole for as long as I've known. After 475 was put in the really fast cars use that strech of lonely hi way to race. But the "fun" spot is still Jp Cole Avenue. Its just a block or two off Dort Highway. They have a guy that starts you..like on Pinks..The air was full of tire smoke from the burnouts rising all the way to the street lights in a huge cloud. The southbound lane of the Avenue is the drag strip...its just wide enuff for two cars...and the north bound lane is the "return" lane. In between were at least 100 fans, spectators and partiers. At the end of the "track" are two cross streets..like a short and long turnaround..I used the long one! I guess one of the shoemacher family was killed there back in the day...but thats the only death or crash i've ever heard about..amazing!
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