call me up if your going

 

i dont know if im going or not...im a lil hurt on cash....and i need the money to get the wifa to work...so i need to see how much its goin to be...the car gets about 400miles to the tank...so ill make calculations right now and see if im going or not

nah man i dont think im going to make it to any meets...looks lime im down to about 30 bucks...unless this supercharger sells...and then i can give you these cams for the 150 you said you would give me for them

 

good lord, im here right now and the wind can almost blow you away

 

Is GME there yet?

 

aaaaa...i want to go so bad!!!

 

event cancelled. gme is there. winds to strong

 

well that sucks

I'm glad I couldn't go

 

They filled up early then canceled. Wind didn't die down. They said to watch the web site for tomorrow but doesn't look like it will be much better.

 

That sucks

 

no updates yet for Sunday. This track will open again in March for street legals. Btw, some guys there were saying that they (autoclub dragway) wil only allow street legal cars at street legal events as of this year. So for example slicks are not street legal so therefore cars with thme on can't participate. Has anyone else heard of such thing?

 

thats weird

just run a DOT DR then

 

I spent quite a while last year at a couple events talking to the manager Beth about the changes in not allowing slicks. And from hearing someone on another board who called them they're now enforcing it. Basically you can no longer run true racing slicks but any other DOT approved tire is acceptable. That means you can run a DOT approved slick or a drag radial. Most of the the DOT slicks are essentially a racing slick that have a small water channel and you wouldn't want to drive them on the street anyways.

I brought up the point about driving in on street tires and changing to slicks at the track but she was pretty set against it. To summarize, they want to keep the street legal events "street" car orientated and keep some of the true race cars out. They were having a lot of issues with some of the older cars (i.e. muscle cars) not running mufflers and too loud of exhausts. When the lights eventually get installed and they start running in the evening the noise levels are going to be a bigger issue and they're hoping the no slicks rule will reduce those types of cars. Apparently the AAA sponsorship also wants to keep it a "street legal" event and racing slicks aren't legal for the street. I believe there was also a comment about the wear on the track (which street tires chunk up way worse so I'm not sure where that was coming from).

Best bet would be to send them a written letter as well as an email and let them know what you think. It would also help to contact AAA corporate or whoever handles the track sponsorships. I think it sucks and if I want to drive in on street tires and change over to slicks there shouldn't be a problem. I've seen and reported cars with balding, steel belt showing radials, running with only three lug nuts, and dripping all over the place and they didn't do anything about it. If they're concerned about non-legal cars maybe they should tech better. The traction already sucks and they don't do a good prep job on the surface so this makes me want to race even less there now, not like they have any events more than every few months now...

 

thanks for the info! very helpful!

 

Just checked the web site and also called the dragway's phone number and neither are showing any racing going on tomorrow and the answering machine states it will be rescheduled later. When they've rescheduled in the past it has sometimes been on short notice so if anyone wants to race I'd periodically be checking their site for more info.

http://www.autoclubspeedway.com/dragway/