With apologies to the Mopar folks there, especially since many of them took today off, like Barry and AJ, better it rain today than tomorrow!

Overall though, I hope the rain is done for all of the rest of the racedays, from this weekend on. Mother Nature has been one cruel beotch this year.

I never had the pleasure of formally knowing Curt, outside of a hello and a head nod passing in the lanes, but I know he was a good guy, and a friend to many. It might be just a race to some, but it means something to me, to pay a little respect via horsepower to his memory.

God speed to Scott Kalitta. May you and Eric eat all the ice-cream in Heaven, after all, eating ice-cream always makes you smile.

i met scott kalitta in Englishtown in 1993 at the Mopar parts nationals. actually got to go up in his rig and meet him, and **** lahie....it was part of a jr dragster program. scott was a super nice guy and talk to us like he knowed us all his life. RIP scott.

God speed Scott Kalitta.

That car never had a chance to slow down. Looked like he got chute out but it never opened. It just spun around closed behind car from what replay off ESPN showed. Then the wall at end of track which car hit at high speed.

im still wondering why the **** they have a concrete wall at the end of the track.
makes no sense at all to me.i thought sand, safty net ect is supposed to be used

i mounted a cam on ryans car yesterday. here is the 2nd round pass
i had a new belt on to break it in so there is some belt squeal due to its a little tight,
but it gives a good prospective of what these kids do from their point of view.
round 2 pass

Thats a cool video Jeff. Makes me wish those things were around when I was little.

jeff which cam do you have i was looking for the last few weeks at in car and helmet cams....just wondering what you used!

Congrats to AJ Casini for winning Pro at the Chrysler Classic! Congrats to Barry Barnett for his win in the Sportsman class too! Shelly Casini made a nice showing as well....I believe that she made the semi-finals! Great job guys!!

i just used my canon powershot dig. cam.
used a tripod top mount and just zip tied it to the cage. then the cam clips right into it.
just put the cam to video mode and youre ready to go.
i was shocked myself on how well it turned out

Awesome job Aj, Barry, and Shelly! I was glad to be out there Saturday, lots of VERY nice mopars.

Congratulations also to Nick Bowman for winning slant "6"! Congratulation, AJ, Barry and Shelly!!

Good job ladies and gents. Mark, is there such a thing as a nice mopar? lol. God Speed to Scott Kalitta.

My Bro was on!!! He would have been tough at Bristol the way he was killing the tree and driving the stripe! About the only bummer is that he raced Shelly in the semis instead of the final. He was .007 green, she was -.004 red, and it's probably a good thing, because she was under by .002, and he was under by .01x. AJ started driving angry, then angrier (stripe sandwich, anyone?), and whacked his way to the win! It was sweet! It was also very cool to see Curt George Jr win the truck class.

I can't imagine what the Kalitta families and teams are going through right now. Take nothing for granted, in a second it can be all gone.

I agree, Chuck. Let's all be very thankful today and everyday after!

Sorry Nick, I didn't mean to exclude you Congrats buddy!

Saturday was the first "greasy dodge weekend" I have ever been to........ and I have to say there were a lot of nice mopars there.

I hope the Mopars against the world, and the junior race turned out well for the track, as I enjoyed it, and will be back again if they do it that way again.

Congrats to the Pittsburgh winners in the big car classes..... I can't really say that about the juniors though, because the Beaver spring cars came and kicked our butts, I sure hope we look better than that this weekend .

I saw quite a few spectators, some stopped to ask questions about our juniors.

steve,
i know for one, i could have kicked ryans butt sat.
he gave the stripe back and left sam cross first.
makes me think he still has a crush
last year at beaver, he couldnt go up to her and ask her which lane she wanted without turning red and getting tongue tied around her.
i think the PRP teams will hold their own this weekend.

Geez, Jeff, take it easy on the boy! I don't know if there's a racer on here that hasn't given the stripe back at least once. I know I sure have. All part of the joys of bracket racing!

I have done it so many times I cant recall. Shoot I did it two weeks ago...

Good luck to all the Junior cars this weekend. Keep some of the IRON at PRP.


AJ