[F500] Runoffs results?!?!?!?!?

[Steven Beem]

Probably add 1 more.  Carl failed his engine
Wednesday.  We will probably be tearing into it
tonight to see what happened.

steve

--- GHG Motorsports <ghbmsport at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 494's
>  
> 493's aren't national yet
> 
> It is very unusual.  Coincidence or are they getting
> older?
> 
> John Whitling <jwhit at alliancemillsoft.com> wrote:
> Are these failures with 493 or 494 motors?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Gebhardt, Robert (R.) wrote:
> 
> >Geez Wes! I hadn't heard anything about that. It
> makes it kind of hard to concentrate on driving with
> all that stress. Great job!
> >
> >That does bring the lower end count up to two. I
> don't know if you'd heard, but Brian Novak lost a
> rod bearing on the crank while leading Doug. Adding
> insult to injury, it locked the rear wheels and sent
> him into the wall causing suspension damage on the
> right side of the car. 
> >
> >It was good to see everyone again! What a great
> week we all had weather wise. Great racing too. 
> >
> >Thanks to Jeremy for the takeoff bodywork. I
> haven't gotten to Jay's to pick it up yet, but I do
> appreciate it.
> >
> >Bob Gebhardt
> >Team Novakar BS'r
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: f500-bounces+rgebhard=ford.com at f500.org
> >[mailto:f500-bounces+rgebhard=ford.com at f500.org]On
> Behalf Of Wilfong,
> >Wesley
> >Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 8:57 AM
> >To: 'f500 at f500.org'
> >Subject: RE: [F500] Runoffs results?!?!?!?!?
> >
> >
> >Mike,
> >Glad to see that you guys weren't literally blown
> off the road.
> >
> >You neglected to mention blowing out the ignition
> side
> >crank bearing in the morning warm-up, & swapping
> everything to a
> >spare short block. The first start up was to drive
> to the grid
> >after the 3 min. warning. There's nothing like
> drama.
> >
> >These guys never gave up, & I was about ready to.
> >
> >Yeah, I had a PUSH that I hoped would come back to
> neutral
> >but it got worse & worse until I went off the
> outside of Madness
> >& packed the radiator full of grass.
> >
> >Man what a start! It was like riding a bull in a
> stampede !
> >Reference the picture in SportsCar, it was much
> tighter & wider.
> >Should draw some re-plays on TV.
> >
> >Thanks again,
> >Wesley
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Mike Moench [mailto:M.Moench at verizon.net]
> >Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 9:00 PM
> >To: f500 at f500.org
> >Subject: Re: [F500] Runoffs results?!?!?!?!?
> >
> >
> >The Sidewinder Team left saturday around 5pm. We
> had to wait because of a
> >protest by Mike Bymaster of Jim Lyle. This protest
> was thrown out. We were
> >trying to beat the hurricane home. At that time
> there was an apeal underway
> >to the stewards decision to exclude Doug Marsh.
> > I have no first hand knowledge of the port
> condition. I was told that
> >it was more than the normal chamfering. I know that
> it is necessary to
> >deburr the edge of the ports to stop the rings from
> hanging in the ports. In
> >my opinion Doug was no faster than the rest of the
> field down the straight.
> >He was seriously hooked up in the corners. Very
> impressive performance by
> >all of the top qualifiers!!
> > I would also to thank Doug for the excelent start.
> The slow pace allowed
> >the field to strech out on the green flag and
> accordian up in the first
> >turn...........NO BIG crash on the start!
> > The Sidewinder effort was hampered by the three
> hurricanes preceding
> >the trip to Ohio. We arrived totaly unprepared. We
> sepent all week playing
> >catch-up and screw-up. It wasn't until the race
> that we got into the 130's.
> >If we had been in the 130's on Monday or Tuesday it
> could have been
> >different. Wes did go from 20th to 7th in the race
> prior to an overheat.
> >Next year we will be in the 129's!
> >
> >Regards to all
> >Sidewinder Mike
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