St. Louis 2025 (15 Viewers)

[LoPony]

So far, Friday rather uneventful with some minor issues with the 1320’ timers.

 

[65 Goatboy]

Weather is perfect.

 

[LoPony]

Stellar Q1. Really nice to see TJ Zizzo, Kyle Wurtzel, Will Smith, and Cam Ferre putting up a 3.91 their best run ever. DWilk in FC, 3.89.

 

[TSK]

Great run by Cameron.

 

[J. S.]

Stellar Q1. Really nice to see TJ Zizzo, Kyle Wurtzel, Will Smith, and Cam Ferre putting up a 3.91 their best run ever. DWilk in FC, 3.89.

Nice to see a fuel qualifying session with both lanes decent and few tire smokers for a change.

 

[Just Paul]

Kyle Wurtzel 3.71 !! Bad ass

 

[LoPony]

Yep. Great Friday. I was looking at what Millican was going to do in Q2. He’ll likely race Schumacher 1st round, which should go his way, if you know what I’m saying. He and Brit went for it Q2 and smoked the tires. Congrats to Doug, 3.67 @334.

They keep talking about there’s a big bump in the left lane. Didn’t Britt go 340 in that lane?

 

[Topfuel386]

Thanks Paul!

 

[LoPony]

Kyle, congrats! How does that rank for y’all?

 

[Topfuel386]

That was a career best et and mph. Prior was a 3.74 at 327.

 

[Butch]

Kyle, could you feel it in the Butt-O-Meter?

 

[J. S.]

I was looking over the Comp Eliminator Rd 1 results on DRC, and I see there is a "Cali Neff" who was defeated in Rd 1. Neff is an unusual last name, and thus I am wondering of this could be a Mike Neff daughter? Anyone here know?

 

[none]

I was looking over the Comp Eliminator Rd 1 results on DRC, and I see there is a "Cali Neff" who was defeated in Rd 1. Neff is an unusual last name, and thus I am wondering of this could be a Mike Neff daughter? Anyone here know?

Cali is Clint Neff's (also a COMP racer) daughter. No relation to Mike.

Alan

 

[mick]

if memory is correct, cali also won the comp clash at indy last year. all female final i think it was? mozeris(sp?) can't remember first name

 

[twostep]

I was looking over the Comp Eliminator Rd 1 results on DRC, and I see there is a "Cali Neff" who was defeated in Rd 1. Neff is an unusual last name, and thus I am wondering of this could be a Mike Neff daughter? Anyone here know?

Long live Comp Eliminator! I've been to a race at the 'Plex many years ago that had over 80 cars trying to qualify for a 32 car field. They could have just parked the nitro stuff for all I cared. All the fans want to walk the pits and see the Pro stuff but if you don't take the time to visit the Sportsman pits you're really missing something. Great people, doing it for the love, and some incredible machinery to be seen.

 

[65 Goatboy]

Who's in Madison this weekend? It's our home track but due to unforseen circumstances we are not there.

 

[Nitro Fiend]

When they announce that the event is sold out like they did today does that mean that people actually get turned away ?

 

[Nunz]

When they announce that the event is sold out like they did today does that mean that people actually get turned away ?

Maybe it's about actual seats? Being a racetrack, there's always room to stand,, walk the pits, etc.

 

[65 Goatboy]

Sold out means seats in both grand stands. We live two hours away in Southern Illinois so it's our home track been going there since before it was WWT. Pretty sure the west grand stands are still general admission, east side is pit side reserved.

 

[J. S.]

Sold out means seats in both grand stands. We live two hours away in Southern Illinois so it's our home track been going there since before it was WWT. Pretty sure the west grand stands are still general admission, east side is pit side reserved.

Either way, that's great news to have a sellout. I think it shows that local track ownership, and the track event Title sponsor, have a major impact on attendance here because they do a lot of advertising in the St. Louis region. People have to be told there is a race to see. They can't be expected to just find out on their own. I think this is a big reason attendance is low at other tracks - particularly NHRA owned tracks. They do almost no advertising. And we see the unfortunate results.