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the_worm_
Mar 11, 2001
At NHRA Phoenix this weekend:
15 Top Fuel
16 Funny Cary
15 Pro Stock

(All 16 car fields)
Not looking good for the start of the new season

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the_worm_
Mar 11, 2001
We brought alcohol drag racing to the mountains of Virginia this weekend at a little 1/8 mile track called Eastside Speedway in Waynesboro, VA. When I say backwoods, I mean there is no running water bathrooms, port-o-johns only. This was the 52nd Annual Easter Funny Car and Supercharger Showdown. Narrow track, questionable guardrails, questionable track patrons (we watched a drunk guy roll over a John Deere Gator and bust his head open while we were sitting in the RV. Anyways we won the race for the second straight year. Beat Gary Pritchett in the final for the second straight year. He is the step-son of longtime racer Bunny Burkett. He's married to Top Fuel racer Leah Pritchett.
First pass was a early lift 4.08 at 163. Collected the cones at the end, busted the front wing.
Second pass was a lazy 4.14, he lifted when he didn't see or hear the other car so it would be closer at the finish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9l50wLrA1Y

We run this 34 Ford body for match races because of this track, we put the funny car in the wall here a few years ago and its so much easier for the driver to see out of this. We'll run the bearings and leakdown the motor, swap the bodies and be at Zmax in three weeks for the 4-Wides.

the_worm_
Mar 11, 2001
Pretty much everyone runs a standard funny car chassis now just to be safe. Don't get me wrong, I see some deathtraps, but most everyone starts with a funny car chassis.

the_worm_
Mar 11, 2001
PDRA qualifying yesterday at Rockingham dragway in NC. Top Sportsman racer gets air at the end of the track, flies out and rolls over a Drag Illustrated photographer and down the return road. The driver was the reigning Top Sportsman world champ from the PDRA, Ronnie Davis, he died today. The photographer is in bad shape.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Oh661b-wY

the_worm_
Mar 11, 2001
That really sucks about BVR. They were really starting to get somewhere as a team.

the_worm_
Mar 11, 2001
Anyone catch this video on the NHRA's website of FB page?
TAFC Funny car Marie Ferriolo with the craziest wheelstand I've ever seen in a funny car.
It was this past weekend in Q2 at Zmax Dragway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu8LRgYmue0


She was qualified #15 and we were qualified #17 when she did this Saturday morning. First round of alcohol runs Saturday afternoon so we got in because she couldn't make the call that afternoon.

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the_worm_
Mar 11, 2001
Speaking of cameramen/photographers getting scared. From yesterday's NHRA race at Sonoma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEik1C_yZGA

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