All things gainesville (9 Viewers)

[mick]

nice to see 56th annual as part of advertising for this years race.
5 TAFC's entered, 3 are of nitro variety.
alexis entered in banderos toyota fc. ida not on tf list yet. (thought there was chance she would switch to tf)
team pontiac supposedly making official debut in orlando this weekend, will joe drag it up to babies too?
442 entries for gators already and growing. will be a great race. hope for good weather.

 

[vern]

nice to see 56th annual as part of advertising for this years race.
5 TAFC's entered, 3 are of nitro variety.
alexis entered in banderos toyota fc. ida not on tf list yet. (thought there was chance she would switch to tf)
team pontiac supposedly making official debut in orlando this weekend, will joe drag it up to babies too?
442 entries for gators already and growing. will be a great race. hope for good weather.

Minus one Toyota and add a Dodge.

 

[mick]

Minus one Toyota and add a Dodge.

woops, you're right glenn. she did not retain toyota (did it say toyota yesterday?)
notice jr is shown as a '25 PBRC'?

 

[Dragracer]

So, 1-Torrance and 1-Salinas entered. Interesting, neither of those family teams have any financial problem, guess they just wanted to slow down some.
By the way who is chassis builder PBRC?

 

[Fireball]

A look inside Brownsburg's newest racing business, Precision Built Race Cars

Joe Fitzpatrick and Dan Murphy, who previously worked as fabricators and chassis builders at Don Schumacher Racing, have gone into business for themselves, launching Precision Built Race Cars in Brownsburg, Ind.

www.nhra.com

 

[mick]

good piece by john kernan on the PBRC guys. wonder why jr is only one on gators FC entry list that lists his chassis maker, instead of toyota?
capps not only lists car as '25 Toyota, but also engine as TOYT 500

 

[Dragracer]

good piece by john kernan on the PBRC guys. wonder why jr is only one on gators FC entry list that lists his chassis maker, instead of toyota?
capps not only lists car as '25 Toyota, but also engine as TOYT 500

No different than the JFR funny cars running a Chevrolet engine. It's whatever you want to put on the car or valve covers.

 

[mick]

No different than the JFR funny cars running a Chevrolet engine. It's whatever you want to put on the car or valve covers.

terry, the jist of my comment is why does jr call his body PBRC instead of toyota

 

[MHayes]

terry, the jist of my comment is why does jr call his body PBRC instead of toyota

Sounds like they just listed the "make" as the chassis instead of the body. The Kalitta dragsters are all PBRC, so assuming whoever filled out the entry form followed suit with the dragsters.

 

[mick]

Sounds like they just listed the "make" as the chassis instead of the body.......

and perhaps helping to get the word out that PBRC does FC work too

 

[Jack]

So, 1-Torrance and 1-Salinas entered. Interesting, neither of those family teams have any financial problem, guess they just wanted to slow down some.
By the way who is chassis builder PBRC?

Pretty sure Steve announced he's sitting this year out. As for Salinas he's always put business as his number one priority so that could be the reason.

 

[J. S.]

terry, the jist of my comment is why does jr call his body PBRC instead of toyota

While we're on the topic of F/C bodies, who is making them these days? I seem to recall for a number of years it was Jack Roush and his Roush Composites that was a big supplier. Is that still true? Or, maybe is PBRC making F/C bodies now? We hear about vendors/suppliers for most of the parts on these T/F and F/C cars, but not so much with the F/C bodies.

 

[Dragracer]

Pretty sure Steve announced he's sitting this year out. As for Salinas he's always put business as his number one priority so that could be the reason.

Steve is on the entry list for Gainsville

 

[Randy]

It's up to the team member that enters the cars to decide how it's listed, whether by body manufacturer or chassis builder or whatever. If the teams are paying for the bodies now, they're likely not going give credit to the car manufacturer that the body represents.

 

[Jack]

Steve is on the entry list for Gainsville

Guess they changed their minds after the statements made after the Pomona final. Good to see he's going to be at Gainesville.