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steve stockton
New Member
USA
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 Posted - 04/21/2008 : 13:18:46
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| 4 finals and 4 runner-ups in one day, talk about bitter sweet. congrats to Jesse, Andy, and Shawn |
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SommersRacing
Starting Member
18 Posts |
Posted - 04/21/2008 : 19:00:25
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| Great job Andy and Jesse. |
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steveroehrs
New Member
USA
59 Posts |
Posted - 04/22/2008 : 08:25:54
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Big Block Shawns runner ups were not the major story of his weekend. On Saturday for test day, he was testing his car on a 150 shot of NOS to get ready to compete at the pump gas drags in May. On his first pass he went through the traps @ 145mph. During that pass, the clip that holds the pin that connects the brake pedal to the master cylinder push rod come off and the pin fell out. When he went to step on the brakes, the pedal was flat on the floor! This started the first round of effenheimers. He then reached for the chute lever and then realized he had the safety pin in the chute release. More effenheimers!!! He swerved back and forth to scrub off some MPH and downshifted nearly sending the car out of control. He was still going way to fast and the pearock birm was approaching very fast. More effenhiemers!!! At the last moment where the guardrail ended, he made a hard right to avoid the birm and a certain crash. The car turned and went into the grass and headed for a bunch of large pine trees. As he turned the car, it went up on the left side tires doing a Joey Chittwood balancing act. He continued to turn as there were large trees ahead. He was able to thread through the trees running over a 6 foot pine tree that ripped off his front valence. The car finally came to a stop after doing a 180 on two wheels threading between the large trees facing towards the starting line.
If that wasn't enough, the next pass he made, he stood the car up on the back bumper in a giant wheelstand. When the car came down it bent a few things under the front end. He straightened out what he could and went on to race on Sunday making it to the 4 finals. That's one hellava weekend! |
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Travis Sorokie
Junior Member
USA
326 Posts |
Posted - 04/22/2008 : 10:55:50
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DANG!!! Glad he is OK...as that sounds like it could have been VERY ugly.
See ya in Staging!!! |
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Lenny5160
Junior Member
USA
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Posted - 04/22/2008 : 11:07:33
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Did somebody wash his mouth out with soap after all those effenheimers? 
Seriously, I am glad everything worked out as well as it did!
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Brian Zenzen
New Member
60 Posts |
Posted - 04/22/2008 : 13:28:58
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| way to go this weekend andy! congrats to everyone else |
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stronglikebull
Junior Member
USA
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Posted - 05/01/2008 : 22:09:39
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| effenheimer,,,,f-inhimer,,,,ef-in-i-mer,,,,davey hamilton,,,,man, spell check doesn't have any alternatives for these words,,wierd!! |
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SUNDAY,SUNDAY,SUNDAY !!!!
