Here are the pictures I took this year. I mostly went through the pits and took pictures of the race cars as that's what I'm enthused about. I can ID most of the cars in the pictures but I was too lazy to make captions. If you want an ID, just ask. 
http://home.attbi.com/~kendall32212/nats03/
I had a great time as always. The racing was great; I am focused on the Stage cars as that's my interest. In particular, Scott Winsett's car (with Jay Carter along to tune and fan the smoke out of the car after those half track burnouts) and Billy Anderson's car were great. A lack of traction robbed Scott of his 7 second time slip, but the car certainly had the MPH at 167.
Anderson's car was truly amazing. I have never seen a race car with that level of craftsmanship (at least one that ran that well!). Hearing it on the two step was amazing also..it blew a tire chock about 30 feet away with just the exhaust!
Jim Dotson ran a string of 8.05s and beat Bob Armstrong in the final of Turbo Q16. Kent Rudbeck ran an 8.08 hard on the brakes...that's the bad thing about the brackets, we would've seen several 7 second passes if it weren't for people pedaling to not break out. Ricardo Lacosta's car was running strong with some 8.80s (I think).
The TSO class looks to be taking off. Letting the S2 headed cars in was a great move and there was some excellent racing. I think others have already covered Cal's run and the final between Odell and Dave. Let me just say that Odell and Dave are good guys..lots of others would've gotten out of hand and ruined a good day of racing. I felt bad for both of them.
The TSM class was excellent. Everybody can identify with these cars, and they were flat out hauling. Dave Bamford ran a 9.90@138 on Friday before having to swap turbos due to a protest. The turbo swap didn't slow him down much and between him, Jason Cramer, Roy Garcia and Louie Lopez, it was great racing.
I can't resist: for any of you Power Plate doubters out there, Dave Bamford has before and after 6 channel EGT recordings from his RacePak that show the Power Plate evened his EGTs out to within 50 degrees!
I am not a V8 guy but they were flying as well. The silver Skyhawk with the blower went something like 8.17@169. I am in love with the girl with the flamed bikini who works on it, too.
Other cool things were Mike St. Eve's street car (the black Vette) running a 9.70 with a smaller cam than last year and Derek's 240Z running some 10.50s. The turnout at Toot's on Thursday night was great and I enjoyed meeting loads of people..I promptly forgot all of your names, but I tried.
http://home.attbi.com/~kendall32212/nats03/
I had a great time as always. The racing was great; I am focused on the Stage cars as that's my interest. In particular, Scott Winsett's car (with Jay Carter along to tune and fan the smoke out of the car after those half track burnouts) and Billy Anderson's car were great. A lack of traction robbed Scott of his 7 second time slip, but the car certainly had the MPH at 167.
Anderson's car was truly amazing. I have never seen a race car with that level of craftsmanship (at least one that ran that well!). Hearing it on the two step was amazing also..it blew a tire chock about 30 feet away with just the exhaust!
Jim Dotson ran a string of 8.05s and beat Bob Armstrong in the final of Turbo Q16. Kent Rudbeck ran an 8.08 hard on the brakes...that's the bad thing about the brackets, we would've seen several 7 second passes if it weren't for people pedaling to not break out. Ricardo Lacosta's car was running strong with some 8.80s (I think).
The TSO class looks to be taking off. Letting the S2 headed cars in was a great move and there was some excellent racing. I think others have already covered Cal's run and the final between Odell and Dave. Let me just say that Odell and Dave are good guys..lots of others would've gotten out of hand and ruined a good day of racing. I felt bad for both of them.
The TSM class was excellent. Everybody can identify with these cars, and they were flat out hauling. Dave Bamford ran a 9.90@138 on Friday before having to swap turbos due to a protest. The turbo swap didn't slow him down much and between him, Jason Cramer, Roy Garcia and Louie Lopez, it was great racing.
I can't resist: for any of you Power Plate doubters out there, Dave Bamford has before and after 6 channel EGT recordings from his RacePak that show the Power Plate evened his EGTs out to within 50 degrees!
I am not a V8 guy but they were flying as well. The silver Skyhawk with the blower went something like 8.17@169. I am in love with the girl with the flamed bikini who works on it, too.
Other cool things were Mike St. Eve's street car (the black Vette) running a 9.70 with a smaller cam than last year and Derek's 240Z running some 10.50s. The turnout at Toot's on Thursday night was great and I enjoyed meeting loads of people..I promptly forgot all of your names, but I tried.
