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Old 08-19-2012, 09:46 PM
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Rick went .003 in the finals tonight in Pro class at our track against last year track champion and got down to the top end put a fender on him and did the pedal feast across the stripe. Now that was a whooping. Good job Rick.

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Old 08-19-2012, 09:57 PM
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Holy cow! Congrats again.

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Nice job Rick. You the man.

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Old 08-19-2012, 09:58 PM
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Way to go, Rick!



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Nice job! That guy can race.

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... nice ...

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Hell yeah! Great job Rick!Your just a big ol hairy American Winning Machine!Dang Man is it the Wheaties you eat in the morning? Or the ice water runnin through your veins?! Anyway good Job

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Congrats Rick!!!

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Old 08-20-2012, 08:16 AM
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Damn Dude! Keep it up!

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Congratulations! The consistency is impressive, continued success.

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Old 08-20-2012, 08:49 AM
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Cool....way to go Rick..
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its too bad the car is wounded rick.. im going to go down this weekend and break in some tires before the big labor day race at I-57. We dont ever get our cars to the track on the same weekend. LOL Congrats on the win.. youve had a good year, hopefully nothing too bad with the car.. Im going to try to keep my hot streak going as well. let me know if you need any help.. im 20 miles away

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Thanks again everybody. It's been a very good year so far. I showed up yesterday with a hurt engine. It's having head gasket issues. Not a big deal as it hadn't lost any water as of the 3rd pass when I decided I better start looking things over. I was just trying to limp it through the day and maybe win enough money for a new set of head gaskets.

I knew it was going to be a long day after the first 3 passes. I went 6.07, 6.11, then 6.20. I couldn't get the car to hook for anything but most everyone else was running some of their best times of the season. That's when I started to do some investigating.

I dialed from 6.23 to 6.18 and had I run every pass out it would have ranged anywhere from 6.05 to 6.17. I had to make sure I had a better reaction time than the other guy and make it as close at the stripe as I could. I don't think I made it to the mph stripe any of the passes before I started pedaling. In the final I knew I had to make it good and went .003 and closed up the finish line to .013. I dialed 6.18, ran 6.23, and looking at my 1/2 track numbers it would have run 6.05 so I killed almost 2 tenths on that pass. I just didn't have any idea what the car was going to run from pass to pass so I had to play the game a little different than normal. Anyway, it worked out for the best and the car made it through the day. Now hopefully I can get a set of head gaskets here and put on before Saturday night. Getting them here in time will be the biggest problem.

How many passes are you guys getting out of a set of Cometics? I've made 114 passes with this set. I think they started going away about 10 passes ago.

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good job Rick...hopefully you get it fixed for the next race.......Gene

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good job Rick...hopefully you get it fixed for the next race.......Gene
Thanks Gene!

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