medicine hat july 17, 2009

reaction .104

60 ft 1.59

ET 11.7

mph 113.2

lorry and dad headed over to the hat for some quality racing friday night. then resumed hay duty saturday.

drag season

consistant today

quite an episode to erect the canopy:)

passing time in the pits

chat chat chat

dirt-Y devil

these cars are also fun to watch (between the green & the black ones, have to be loyal here)

perfect day

nothing like wrinkling the tires with your arm rested on the window

papa's #1 fan

"look mom a "mador" truck!!"

had to photograph the orange car

sir jordie

all these guys and their "TUBE" socks with shorts.....bad

beautiful lift for the bel-air

seems like the pictures kind of all get looking the same, but for these racers every race is new and every bit of a rush....maybe if i was strapped to the hood it would make for some interesting photos and even a rush pour moi.?

the cars have been racing, the blogger has just been BUssssss-y. so here are the stats:

SIR a few weekends ago May 29, 2009, as rules must be followed, Bob got kicked off the track for having too fast of a car. Dad's best times:

reaction: .161

e.t.: 11.746

mph: 113.108

in Speedy Creek on June 20, 2009

Bob was able to make it to the 3rd round of the bracket racing losing out on a red light:

their best times of the day:

reaction .025

e.t. 9.80

mph: 139

Dad was being a little too much of a perfectionist and cut a red light in the first round.

reaction: .19

e.t. 11.9

mph 111

reaction

the season is getting closer to a reality

the hibernating machines

special thanks to blair from nitro image for allowing us to post this shot.

check it out

http://chaoschoppersandplankers.blogspot.com/

practical transportation

Times

more photos are to be coming from some VERY capable photographers as once again i missed the race:( thx for everyone else capturing my father's passion!!!

SIR Saturday, September 20, 2008

thumbs up
facing the test
fast car, craaaaaaaazy duramax
shine
the fancy truck credit to mr. rhyle
rhyle and bob headed to idaho with their ladies and bob's truck. delbert HAD to race and his beast of burden is STILL waiting to have the motor fixed..sooooooo he used rhyle's truck and had fun with it while he was at it
all smiles

photo credit to mom, glenda allan
& ben allan

photo credits to the one and only.........GLENDA ALLAN

Saturday September 6, 2008 SCDRA

we have to post the results from this race despite the fact the photographer was at a meeting in regina. the fiat raced this time and would have been interesting to shoot.

delbert with the belair 11.98 @ 110 mph

bob with the nova 9.84 @ 133 mph

the fiat 16 @ 87 WHOLE mph with 3 BAD hiccups taking off...definately a crowd pleaser

next race @ SIR this saturday

july 12, 2008 SCDRA

KING OF THE HILL July 12, 2008 SCDRA

King of the Hill: Dad won the bracket racing on Saturday!!!!!
12.155 @ 107.32 mph with a dial in @ 12.1
haden holding papa's trophy
an interesting loading mechanism
victory supper
the nova, of course
this car was dynamite
definately some effective traction (winning run)

chris paquin on the suzuki, this time i'm pretty sure i got your name right

guy with the falcon's new paint

lady driver YEAAAHHH!!!
double trouble drag racing manager/rep

pretty good reflexes
looks pretty innocent here

dad and bob going at it

kerri and bob
dennis kushner
the nova with the hiccups producing a 9.94 @ 131.9 mph
distributor pooched
adjustments

mom shooting up a storm
mini-photographer

knocked a few seconds off the cars running into a nasty head wind