Another weekend, another run up to Beech Bend! – or – The NHRA Lucas Oil Series comes to Beech Bend Dragway – or – Woo Hooooooooo!
Any way you name it there was a lot going on at Beech Bend this weekend. The NHRA Lucas Oil Series was running there and they had quite a field of cars on the property. Everything from stockers to diggers to funny cars all of the classes appeared to be well-represented. The event ran from Thursday (8/24) through Sunday (8/27) so it was a big event for them. I only went on Saturday and even then I didn’t stay all day because that race was just the first half of a “Twofer”. I came home, cleaned up a little bit and went to the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway for the August stock car race. All in all a good day of racing for me.
Stroll Through The Pits ….. |
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| Actually this should have been titled “An Early Morning Stroll Through The Pits” since that is what it was. It was about 7:30am and most of the cars were still covered, crews having not arrived or finished their coffee in their motor homes, but there were still a good number out and we had an enjoyable stroll around the property. | ||||
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On The Track ….. |
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Stock Eliminator (and a couple of Factory Stock at the end) … |
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Super Stock and Super Stock Wheel-Standers … |
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Super Gas … The Super Gas class was very well represented at this event. I didn’t count the number of cars but there were a ton of them! |
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Super Comp … Super Comp was a large field as well. I don’t know if it was larger than Super Gas but it was pretty big. |
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Top Dragster … When we start getting into the 250+ cars I have a nasty habit: I enjoy WATCHING them more than I enjoy taking photographs of them. For that reason when we get this point of a drag race the photographs during a run start to dissipate in direct proportion to my interest in watching the hotrods ;) I might shoot burnouts or cars sitting still but most of the time I just watch the runs. |
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Top Alcohol Dragster and Alcohol Funny Car… I only saw one Top Alcohol Dragster make a run. Perhaps some others sat that round out, I don’t really know. There were several Alcohol Funny Cars though so I was happy ;) |
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Top Sportsman … I had to get back to Nashville and was unable to stay for the Top Sportsman class, which really disappointed me. Top Sportsman is one of my favorite Sportsman classes and I really wanted to see them. But for some reason these two made out-of-sequence passes so I at least got to see them. |
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