I will let Brent go into the details of the voting and why it is the way that it is. All to a purpose of arriving at 10 per class comprised of the top points finishers from 2022 and, in the event that those top finishers decline for whatever reason, a fan-picked class to get to 10. That's the cliff notes version.
Here is the venue as it looked at TPC '22. Brad Holzhauer is making
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80s stuff seems difficult to get. I have a some back to about 90 or 91 I have to put up yet.
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Kinda like that thought.
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Thanks for the kind words and very good to catch up with you all. It's been a while. I hope I can get up there just to take it in. It's a different world now, but hard to imagine E MI pulling without SW ON. Always seemed to go together.
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I do note that for example if you go to Thursday afternoon, the results are there for the Flights, but not the Finals under each class. You'll have to go to Thursday night (or whenever that particular class' Final was) and then you'll see the Finals results. I didn't check them all, but I believe if you do that, you should be able to see everything.
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Profit is not possible. Anything extra above expenses goes to the purse. Pretty simple.
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Michigan Farm Stock Pullers used to have the "rope" class
A loop on bicycle rims 5' off the ground from 50 to 300. Pace flag that you could not pass. 50' behind it came the lag flag that you could not fall behind or you were out except at the end when you spun out. It was fun to watch guys game it.
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1. Yes and yes.
2. Yes and yes.
3. Yes and beer concessions.
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I think the last PS with OHC was The Dover Center Boys and the Showtime 88 Series from Ontario. I'm told the head still exists on a shelf there.
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Not necessarily a fair summation of growth. Is anyone building a brand new 5.0? I doubt it. Growth is coming at the expense of 4.1, LPS, and PS. Those 5.0s have to come from somewhere.
I've come around to seeing the need at below the GN level for 5.0 to be a thing, but man are there too many classes anymore.
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10000 component 680 any pump 5.0 is equivalent to 8500 cast 540 P pump, and for sake of argument 6.0?
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Sure was. I won't say who because my memory may be foggy and I not only don't want to falsely implicate anyone, I am further uncertain any wrong-doing was proven. It was quite a while ago.
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Yes. In the crossover allows maximum mixing time (cooling) to occur. Ideally, no ports would need to be on, but if you have a hot hole, that's where you can control that.
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A basic MSD 6AL box with your choice of chip in it will work. Plenty of antiques out there with that on them.
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He's right there. At the Pullers Championship last spring, he won both nights.
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Growing up in the 80s and 90s around here, most had Chevys. A handful of Donovans or Arias were around. The first one I remember as different was Jerry Stewart's Down And Dirty at NFMS. It didn't seem to come from the tractor. The sound seemed like it came up through the floor and shook me in my seat.
And yeah, nothing compares to nitro for noise. That'll rearrange you.
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Rumor is you've got the itch. Hope it's true. See you in 3 weeks brother!
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2023 competitor license application has all state/regional orgs as selectable for membership. Doesn't appear to be anything changing besides the letterhead.
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I appreciate that, but the Throwback Thursday series on BMPT is curated by me. No stealing involved.
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Bret Berg
The Owens
The Blagraves
Esdon Lehn
The Schlabachs
Schiebla & Burge
RJ & Brandon
Ben Ellis
The Capozzos
The Veghs
Everyone at 618 Motorsports
Lance Micek
Russell Hildenbrand
Just for starters based on my experience with them. Plenty more I am sure of it. Get them comfortable where they ignore the camera's presence for real moments and start there.
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You have GOT to be kidding. With all the reinvestment Garrett has made at his place and Victor Alvarez just did this summer next door at the dragstrip it's a shame suburban sprawl wants to ruin a very good thing. The Bandimeres are looking smarter all the time with their agreement with local officials and developers. If you buy a lot or home across from the track there, you sign a form ac
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Why would we delete that? You make a fair point.
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The Dollansky's held the lease at Dodge City to run the facility and be the promoters. As of a couple of weeks ago, they are now working directly for NTPA to drive sponsorship and marketing engagement. If the new leaseholder/promoter intends to book a date, that responsibility now falls to them. Racetracks being leased to someone for operations is fairly common.
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Salenbien Performance Maybee, MI 734-777-1380
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As far as I recall, they themselves told me it was a 466 and the roller chassis is not for sale, just the 2nd gen body is. To clear up rules questions, billet blocks have been allowed in the SS truck class a long time and they are permitted in 3.6 as well capped at 460ci (this limit applies at least to ODSS for diesel drag racing as well which is why the Hypermax dragster is not seen at one of t
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A consummate pro. If he said it, it was boilerplate. Such a good man. For what we do, he was the best and he earned every bit of it. I ache for Jeremy and Miles, but they learned from the best. They got this. Glad we got to have him. Pulling was better with him. He IS the sound of tractor pulling. I can't imagine it without him.
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Google is your friend on Lucas Oil and Cali.
Patience is a better friend.
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Not one word of that is true.
Google Lucas Oil California. The leadership of that company is not that easily swayed.
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Go to a fair convention every 5th year when calendar dates regress a weekend and watch the chaos ensue among fair boards comprised of people who weren't there the last time it happened, but what the heck do I know?
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