Shot up to BIR today for the Division 5 race, and took some pics. I'm no pro, cheap camera, it is what it is...lol

Cy Chesterman ran 5.70 but had a pretty good boom at 1100 feet and launched the burstpanel.
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Scott Murary ran a career best 5.39 266
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Cool Top Sportsman
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Diana Harker ran a very nice career best 5.30, but it looked to me like it got a little hot on the big end they had to sit out session 2 today.
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Moats ran 5.61 Low ET
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Paul Anderson has a very nice set up.
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We had Top Drageter in the house too-- This guy don't mess around!
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Too bad this puppy was not running
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And for all you campers, Bud Corner has been taken away, there is a dirt road now going right though it.
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My old camp site was completly destroied...

2006-

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now-

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Paul,

Sure, the one year I don't make it to the LODRS race at BIR, you do! Oh well, I'll be there in August...... be sure to bring your spare liver! :D

Is your new (last year's) camp site still there.... or did they wreck that too?

Thanks for the pictures.

Brian. :)

Thanks for the pics, Paul...good job.

Paul,
was nice seeing you and your wife yesterday.
thanks for pic of top sportsman chevelle - great looking car.

from the BIR brochure, there will be a bridge built
over the new roadrace section, apparently separating 'controlled' camping
from 'out of control' camping???
will be interesting to see what the crowd control plans are in august.

Mike, what time did you leave? I didn't see you in the pits, or in the stands after the first session.

Mike, what time did you leave? I didn't see you in the pits, or in the stands after the first session.
yeah, i was looking for you too. we were in pits behind
tower for a while and then at end of large bleachers for 2nd rnd.(top corner)
left around 5:30. amazing we didn't see each other again; there
weren't too many folks spectating yesterday.

congratulations to Ben Line (Jason's brother)
winner today in stock eliminator.

Looks like they want to kill every tree in the place. Shade will be hard to find anymore.:confused:

The new owner's a road racing freak. That'd be my guess for the rearranging.

Hey Paul, next time your in the house, come introduce yourself to me. Not sure if we have met or not?? That's me leaning over shooting cars on the line. Not my best side. LOL

As far as Bud Corner is concerned, it will still be there, just set back a little farther south of where it was. Once all the work is done in the infield with new buildings for new inside road course that is needed. It will be even better then it was. Give us time. Things will be okay. If you noticed the area that was taken up by the snowmobile track was leveled this past week. it will be seeded and mostly returned back into camping for Natl's again.

Jed & Kristi are bending over backwards to make BIR one of the best drag strip's and road couse's in the country.

The track needs these improvements to allow more double events to be held.

That means, you will be able to come for the drags and watch cars or bikes go around the road course on the same weekend. How cool is that???

Check out photos from last weekends LODRS event.
Eagle Eye Photography (http://www.egleye.com)

Barry Bergeron
BIR Track Photographer
Division Five NHRA & National Dragster Photographer
Eagle Eye Photography (http://www.egleye.com)

Great pictures, guys. :)

I just returned from Brainerd today, so I'll be editing my pics tonight. In the meantime, here's Roger Bateman on his way to recording a 5.69 @ 250.

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What happened to the Dunkin Donuts car?

What happened to the Dunkin Donuts car?

The only donuts I saw were at my hotel's continental breakfast.

OK, now I'm totally bummed. I forgot about the fact this was going on at BIR and I was a mere 40 miles away at the cabin on Mille Lacs. Crap, you Minnesota guys need to remind me about these things, LOL.

Conditions must have been pretty decent for racing. Thanks for sharing the photos Paul.

A lot of changes and new stuff at BIR, and all good that I could see. There's now a pretty large full service bar just north of the condos called Bada Boom. They were showing the Indy 500 inside for anyone who wanted something to do during the rain delay Sunday.

Traffic out of Brainerd sucked today (Monday). It looked like half of Minneapolis spent the weekend in the Brainerd Lakes area. The traffic light in Royalton had traffic backed up for 10 miles on 371!

Too bad this puppy was not running
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This looks like the car I drove at bandimere last week..but without the engine....and the oil on my face;)..but without the full body panels...! Glad you got a chance to attend the LODRS event Pauly! Wish i could have been competing there!

OK, now I'm totally bummed. I forgot about the fact this was going on at BIR and I was a mere 40 miles away at the cabin on Mille Lacs. Crap, you Minnesota guys need to remind me about these things, LOL.

Conditions must have been pretty decent for racing. Thanks for sharing the photos Paul.

OK.....your wife is gonna have to win some serious money in OCTOBER so you DON'T FORGET THESE THINGS WHEN I DRIVE FOR YOU AND YOUR WIFE NEXT YEAR MARK!!!!:D

What happened to the Dunkin Donuts car?

Wrong HARKER Sammy....that would be KATE..if I am not mistaken! They are both Hotties in our eyes, but KATE is driving the DPM Dunkin Donuts car before Zack Beard get's his shots in it later this year!

Paul Anderson has a very nice set up.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/SongasRacing/P5240476.jpg

We had Top Drageter in the house too-- This guy don't mess around!
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Yeah, my boyee Paul and his family don't mess around!!! they are good people! and That top dragster, did it run 6.80's at brainered???? should have!!!

OK.....your wife is gonna have to win some serious money in OCTOBER so you DON'T FORGET THESE THINGS WHEN I DRIVE FOR YOU AND YOUR WIFE NEXT YEAR MARK!!!!:D

Well, ya know Tim, we are sitting on a winning Powerball ticket. We're just waiting for the numbers to be drawn :D, then we'll go do some serious racing.

Check out photos from last weekends LODRS event.
Eagle Eye Photography (http://www.egleye.com)

Barry Bergeron
BIR Track Photographer
Division Five NHRA & National Dragster Photographer
Eagle Eye Photography (http://www.egleye.com)[/QUOTE]


Thanks for the update. I can't get your link to work. When I click on 2008 events it's blank. I'd love to see some more picks of BIR.

If you are having trouble getting into my site, open your web browser, then go thru Internet Explorer instead. If you have Firefox?? That is the problem. They have strict spam controls.
Any other questions let me know.

Thanks Barry

The traffic light in Royalton had traffic backed up for 10 miles on 371!
wow.
sat. morning we took slightly farther, alternate route to BIR coming from
east we drove hwy. 11 into breezy point/pequot lakes area, then down
371 through nisswa to BIR........ at 10am all the hwys. were congested.
popular area, that's for sure.

I finally got my pics uploaded. You can see all of them here:
Brainerd LODRS - a set on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/brent1210/sets/72157605295310999/)
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Wrong HARKER Sammy....that would be KATE..if I am not mistaken! They are both Hotties in our eyes, but KATE is driving the DPM Dunkin Donuts car before Zack Beard get's his shots in it later this year!

Diana is the driver. Kate doesn't have a ride as of yet this year. The DD deal was for 3 national events; Gainesville, Houston and Atlanta. The paint job/wrap stayed on the car pending sponsorship for more races. Lend America was always on the car as a sponsor. DD hasn't re-signed as of yet, but had good response and are considering future sponsorship. The DD wrap came off and now it is just Lend America. Zack Beard is slated to drive at a later date, but for now and for a while it is Diana Harker. The car will run at Topeka and Diana's Dad Steve will be there racing his TA/FC as well. The entire Harker family will be at HPT to cheer them on.
All the pictures that have been posted are great. Thank you.