Friday Updates from Houston regional

Hello everyone from sunny Baytown, Texas. We have "Chamber of Commerce" weather today and tomorrow, but with a 50% chance of rain and cold on Sunday, new Division 4 Director Trey Capps has elected to complete the race on Saturday.

TD, TS, Comp, Harleys and Top Alcohol will receive one qualifier today and one tomorrow morning approximately 11 am. Those classes will then go into first round of eliminations. All other classes will go straight into first round tomorrow morning.

I am about to walk around the pits and make notes of who is here and post a few pictures. Be sure to spread the word we are doing live coverage this weekend!

 

Cars

Looks like 12 TAD and 9 TAFC on the property.

Tad
Gingles
Shields
Copeland
Meyer
Martinets
K Brounkowski
D Brounkowski
Manners
Pierce
Domingue
Fair
Strasburg

TAFC
Payne
Lindberg
Leanders
Billington
Whiteley
Lombardo
Westerfield
Yale
Hool

We are a few moments away from calling Alcohol to the lanes.

 

Top Dragster Q1

Top Dragster Q1



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Get well soon

Would also like to say get well soon to TAFC racer Bryan Brown who had to have an emergency appendectomy yesterday.

 

Tad q1

TAD Q1

Left: Chase Copeland 6.524/257.04
Right: Mike Strasburg 5.348/269.56

Strasburg puts the revs up on high c and makes a nice clean a to b run. Copeland with shake early and takes a long pedal.

 

Tad q1

Left Darvin Martinets 6.988/157
Right Buddy Domingue 8.265/155.69

Both cars labored off line. Martinets had raw fuel out of his blown car on the top end.

 

Tad q1

Left Brandon Pierce 17.93
Right Michael Manners 5.508/262.74

Pierce goes up in smoke at the hit, Manners makes a clean a to b run.

 

Tad q1

Left Duane Shields 5.394/272.06
Right David Brounkowski 5.434/248.89

Good clean run by both cars. Looked like Brounkowskis car was eating itself up on top end.

 

Tad q1

Left Forrest Fair 6.675/160
Right Randy Meyer 11.401

Meyer up in smoke at hit. Big wheel stand off the line by Fair, has to pedal it to set it down and it came down hard. He did get back on it but moved to the wall.

 

Tad q1

Left Gord Gingles 13.40
Right Karl Brounkowski 5.813/238.93

Gingles wheels up then shake and smoke. Brounkowski very lazy but gets in field for now

 

TAFC q1

TAFC q1

Right Ulf Leanders 8.608/98.64

Takes off wheels up Shake and a pedal about 120' out. Makes a hard move left and he lifts.

 

TAFC q1

Left Jonnie Lindberg 8.52/101
Right Ro Yale 6.732/147.41

Yale double bulbs and Lindberg just gets staged in time. Big shake for Lindberg and he lifts. Yale sticks with it and gets real close to wall.

 

TAFC q1

Left Mark Billington 6.10/185.08
Right Kris Hool 5.948/185.08

Billington looked to be on a good run early but got on the centerline. Hool was moving around too.

 

TAFC q1

Left Shane westerfield 9.004/99.51
Right Annie Whiteley 8.716/115.41

Great 60' by both then a bunch of Shake and big moves towards the centerline. Both drivers click it. .943 60 by Westerfield, .936 for Whiteley.

 

TAFC q1

Left John Lombardo 6.715/153.68
Right Jay Payne 5.787/251.95

Both drivers into Shake, both pedal. Lombardo moves around and clicks it off. Payne is able to make it to the stripe but was moving around.

 

Tad q1

TAD Q1 order

 

TAD Q1 incrementals

TAD Incrementals
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Tafc q1

TAFC Q1 order