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Date Posted: 13:55:00 06/30/09 Tue
Author: Mrs. TBH
Subject: Dallas Raceway Results - 6/27/09

After a small amount of sleep 13 drivers rolled into the concrete palace with winning on their mind. After two rounds of qualifying here's how everything unfolded: We started qualifying a little later than normal trying to beat the heat for the drivers (in 3 layer fire suits) and also for the dedicated fans sitting in reflective bleachers in 100+ degree weather but unfortunately Heath Harvey (who was the 2nd pair of cars down the track) expired a motor and the block/oil pan windowed above the engine diaper so we were shut down for a pretty lengthy clean-up BUT the track was in great shape after the track crew cleaned and prepped the right lane.

#1 Gaylen Smith - 3.965 at 191 mph
#2 Frankie Taylor - 3.982 at 191 mph
#3 Ken Thomas - 4.003 at 185 mph
#4 Doug Riesterer - 4.093 at 176 mph (Welcome Back Doug)
#5 Steve Wiley - 4.096 at 178 mph (Piloting Jimmy Hector's Corvette)
#6 Chuck Nuytten - 4.163 at 171 mph (Nice pass Chuck)
#7 Gene Hector - 4.198 at 175 mph
#8 David Baldwin - 4.350 at 163 mph
#9 Jackie Deaver - 4.368 at 166 mph
#10 Wes Johnston - 4.502 at 124 mph
#11 Eric Clark - 4.521 at 156 mph
#12 Chuck Poindexter - 4.781 at 147 mph
#13 Heath Harvey - 5.408 at 89 mph

First round:

Doug Riesterer (W) 4.004 at 184 mph (.039 RT)
Steve Wiley (RU) 4.184 at 173 mph (.148)

Nice clean pass for Doug meanwhile Steve was in the other lane all over the track finally hitting a cone.

Ken Thomas (W) 3.977 at 185 mph (.166 RT)
Chuck Nuytten (RU) 4.361 at 162 mph (.083 RT)

Chuck was going for the win but he just couldn't get around the Bad Bird.

Gene Hector (W) 4.073 at 179 mph (.062 RT) **Upset Win**
Frankie Taylor (RU) 4.091 at 186 mph (.108 RT)

Saw the pass from the return road and it looked like Frankie was moving around a little which ate up ET and Gene snuck by him for the upset win.

Gaylen Smith (W) 3.997 at 191 mph (.115 RT)
David Baldwin (RU) 4.342 at 164 mph (.013 RT)

Same first round match up from the night before and David is still chopping the tree down but he couldn't get around the hard charging HEMI HELL FISH in the other lane.

Semi-Finals:

Ken Thomas (W) 3.973 at 185 mph (.064 RT)
Gene Hector (RU) 4.148 at 175 mph (.033 RT)

Despite the slight hole shot advantage, Gene wasn't able to defend his starting line lead against the LenMar Motorsports/Bad Bird driven by Ken Thomas. Ken's going to another final round.....which one of his teammates will be his competition?????

Gaylen Smith (W) 9.730 at 47 mph (.006 RT)
Doug Riesterer (RU) No Time

Doug was in the staging lanes and when he fired his car up there was a knocking noise so they wisely shut it off. Gaylen left the line with tires blazing white smoke which was great for us since nobody was in the other lane.

Final Round:

Ken Thomas (W) 3.981 at 185 mph (.027 RT)
Gaylen Smith (RU) 5.340 at 85 mph (.047 RT)

About 200 feet into the run, the throttle return cable spring broke and Gaylen lost the throttle so all he could do was watch Ken drive into the winner's circle. Don't know what the outcome would have been but I would have liked to see the race "balls to the wall" for both cars.

Congratulations to Ken & Susan Thomas and the entire LenMar/Bad Bird team for a well deserved win. After being plaqued with problems the night before, y'all really bounced back strong.

Congratulations to Gaylen and Team TBH for your runner-up finish as well. Lots of hard work paid off with a win and runner-up in one weekend.

Now, off to Topeka to play with the other boyz!

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