Blake Alexander rides out wild explosion in round one at Norwalk
Blake Alexander rode out a wild blower explosion while racing Shawn Langdon in round one of Funny Car at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals.
Blake Blowed It Up (1 Viewer)
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stitcherbob
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SoCal Racer
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That was a major bummer for Blake, being a new team owner and all. You could almost see him mentally tallying the dollar signs as he surveyed the damage.
T.Smith
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Having worked for Tony and T.J. Zizzo for over 25 years, I know what that facial expression looks like!
Treeshaker
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As an owner he will be telling the driver that you cannot keep your foot in it that long with that many cylinders out. Only bad/expensive things will happen doing that.
TooTall999
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I'm wondering why Dan didn't hit the kill switch when he had that many cylinders out?
Jer
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Its raceday
Usual password less 1
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As a driver you got to make that decision if you want to try and get the win on 5 cylinders or if you want to save your stuff. Seeing as he is not running for points and he is the owner now, I am sure he will think twice about doing that again! Plus sometimes the switch doesn't work that well once you get past 1/2 track.
T.Smith
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After a certain distance down track, the switch doesn't work, so you have to make that decision within the first 2.5 seconds of the run.
Sean D, shondoo
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Why is that? Is that by design or the equipment simply won't receive a signal from that amount of distance?
I know I'm going to sound like a dumba$$ for saying this, but if it's the latter, that would really surprise me. I would think in this day and age there is certainly some sort of technology out there that would allow that signal to be received from well outside of a quarter of a mile, let alone inside......
Sean D
T.Smith
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I'm not sure, Jeff Arend may know the answer to that. I believe that's all Dave Leahy's stuff, he would be the best to ask.
stitcherbob
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It's 2019...almost 2020 and I can't get a constant clear signal on my car radio of an AM signal from NYC......WTH
Warning: war story. When I was in the Air Force, was stationed for 3 years in Roswell, NM. At night, we usta listen to KOMA, Okla City, on AM. Would come in for awhile & fade out, then back in. Music they played was better than local Roswell station KBIM. (How do I remember that after 50 plus years...) Also listen to Wolfman Jack, XERB, out of Mexico. Both those stations had powerful AM at night. I think we also picked up a Chicago station, WGN??? We do have a local Phoenix AM station that plays oldies but moldies in the day time. Can't remember listening to AM at night, probably cuz I'm home watching Velocity channel. 
Warning: war story. When I was in the Air Force, was stationed for 3 years in Roswell, NM. At night, we usta listen to KOMA, Okla City, on AM. Would come in for awhile & fade out, then back in. Music they played was better than local Roswell station KBIM. (How do I remember that after 50 plus years...) Also listen to Wolfman Jack, XERB, out of Mexico. Both those stations had powerful AM at night. I think we also picked up a Chicago station, WGN??? We do have a local Phoenix AM station that plays oldies but moldies in the day time. Can't remember listening to AM at night, probably cuz I'm home watching Velocity channel.
If my memory is right it was WLS Chicago
stitcherbob
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OK, how about this one...Like ABC is American Broadcasting Company......what did WLS stand for?
stitcherbob
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Ahhh.....the oldsters have awoken......NCIS must be a repeat (LOL)
I just wanted an excuse to use that GIF......
