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Topic: Dinwiddie FFW
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lawless
Gearhead Posts: 274
From: Richmond, VA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 06-26-2003 08:43 PM
   
I just love saying Dinwiddie!!!  Anyone going?? I will be going as a spectator on Saturday. Maybe on Sunday also. There is a chance that I will have a handful of complimentary passes to the event. I typically get them when VMP does big events, but I normally will not know if I have them until late Friday afternoon. If I end up getting a bunch of them, I will post it here. It's always nice to save 20 bucks...  oh... and believe it or not... there is no rain in the forcast for Sat or Sun  chris ------------------
64 Fairlane Hard top
289 4-speed -- SOLD to a good home.
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capri man
Gearhead Posts: 3385
From: doerun, ga.
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 06-26-2003 09:15 PM
chris did you see this? i copied it from another site."posted June 26, 2003 01:12 PM
I was nicely told today that my services were no longer needed at VMP. I was given several lame excuses but the writing was on the wall when they had been in a budget meeting for the past few days. Several rainouts have devasted the income and I guess I was expendable. My dedication to the track was second to none and I put in more hours on a weekly basis than anyone. I never missed a race and grew the track in the past two years after it had gotten in miserable shape and I know racers can attest to this. I have never been used like this before but live and learn. I just want to say to the racers that I had the honor to meet that I hope everything goes good for you and hope to see you in other places. By the way, if you know anyone that is looking for a dedicated worker and manager let me know. With 4 kids, I need to get busy again. I hope all have a great year! Greg Duff
Ex-Track Manager
VMP" i dont know him or anyone else at the track but he seems to be getting a lot of support from the racers on the other site.
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mike r
racing is real
everything else is just a game.
81 capri-7.51 @89mph 1/8
1.54 60 ft.
http://prestage.com/site/site_display.asp?SiteID=141
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lawless
Gearhead Posts: 274
From: Richmond, VA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 06-26-2003 09:30 PM
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Originally posted by capri man:
chris did you see this? i copied it from another site.
Nope, I didn't see that. It's been a good while since I have raced at VMP.. about 4 years... I have been moving around quite a bit. Everything has been getting killed in this region because of the weather. My radio stations put on a friday night concert series in Richmond. We've had two rainouts and two shows that have gone on, but weather threatend the whole time taking a toll on our crowd. There have been rumors that VMP has been having financial problems the last few years... I'd be interested in reading that thread. Can you post a link or email it to me??
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kid vishus
Gearhead Posts: 4538
From: middle of NC
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 06-26-2003 09:55 PM
I'm going racing and try to get my first win in over a year. The weather around here has really "put the hurt" on a lot of weekend oriented activitie's, especially race tracks. They said on the news a couple of weeks back we had rain at least one day out of the weekend 13 of the 16 weekends up to that point. It's tuff for tracks to make any money when it rains all the time. The weather has really put a financial strain on some local tracks. And off the originally topic, a lot of the times when a track manager gets replaced, there is more to the story then you see, or hear. It's too bad for the former manager, but there's more than one side to every story.
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capri man
Gearhead Posts: 3385
From: doerun, ga.
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 06-27-2003 08:36 AM
here you go.
http://drr.infopop.cc/6/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=3476075&f=75460652&m=139601602------------------
mike r
racing is real
everything else is just a game.
81 capri-7.51 @89mph 1/8
1.54 60 ft.
http://prestage.com/site/site_display.asp?SiteID=141
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lawless
Gearhead Posts: 274
From: Richmond, VA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 06-27-2003 09:06 AM
thanx Mike
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mustangs68
Moderator Posts: 17837
From: Hampton,Virginia,USA MCA#39406 M&M #12
Registered: May 99
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posted 06-29-2003 01:01 PM
If any of you guys plan a trip to Dinwiddie drop me an e-mail (active on the icon) been many a year since I seen drag racing in Va
sam
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RADRIDE
Gearhead Posts: 240
From: Va.Beach, Va.
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 06-29-2003 08:46 PM
I went on Sat.as a spectator and even got Trina to go.It was a good time.I paid an xtra $10 to put the 03 Cobra vert. in the show.Was worth it as I got to park right behind the grandstands and on hard pavement.Made for easy trips to get water,which was often.Lots of good racin with late models,vintage and lots of trucks.Those Lightnings are fast ,but the fastest truck was an old 64/65 steel beast.This FFW has gotten much better the past few years.
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67coupe
Gearhead Posts: 384
From: dallas NC usa
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 07-01-2003 10:17 PM
i was there with my buddy with the truck we built it was the inerstate steel ranger we finishet 2nd in tough truck overall it was a good weekend ------------------
Josh
67 coupe with 351c
8.41 in the 1/8
1.90 60'
at 82.03 mph
94 Explorer
30 model A currently rustbucket
in process 67 convt with efi 5.0 and t5
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