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[John the Impaler]

If you're coming from the south, or east, or southest, or east-southeast, or south-southeast (sorry...I was a scout...still remember all my compass points), there are a bunch of highway closings due to recent storms and flooding.

Closings on Rt. 17/86, from Binghamton to Waverly NY.

Rt. 81 closed in a bunch of places, from north of Harrisburg PA to north of Binghamton.

Rt. 88 from Albany to Binghamton...closed in a bunch of places.

Etc. etc. etc.

NY road status - http://www.511ny.org/traffic.aspx

PA road status - http://www.511pa.com/Traffic.aspx

[Yosh]

Thank you for the links - guess we'll have to find a new way!

[GROOTS]

Thanks John !! Great job !

[svvs]

anyone find a good alternate route yet? I'm going to look into it tonight but seeing if anyone has a nose on the ground compared to looking at websites and hoping for the best.

[svvs]

I spoke to the new owners of the falls motel....17 is open. I don't know about 81 though.

-Vick

[Chris Windsor]

Anyone know if you can get in to the track Thursday night.

[TEAM MEDICARE]

Anyone know if you can get in to the track Thursday night.

From Marsha Toombs (Registar FLR Fun One)

YES

[Muda]

I heard you can now take the Hudson River all the way to the Falls Motel parking lot.

[Scott Koschwitz]

Have fun, and good luck, fellas. Updates are always appreciated by those who can't join you this weekend.

[TeamFigmentedRacing]

Results? Videos?

[TEAM MEDICARE]

Results? Videos?

Results?? Maybe those Lendrum boys (and dad) should all go work for Penske

1,2,3,& 7 Congrats!

[svvs]

I should have a video compilation this week of the "highlights".

Highlight 1: Qualified 3rd for SM2. I know it's a ten car class and all, but it's the first time I've been close to a Lendrum or Bob Karl Jr on the track without getting lapped.

Highlight 2: Watching SSM "pilot" Chris Windsor stick the landing and not skip a beat. Even got to bring him a "coffee" after the race.

Lowlight 1: Having things under my pedals in said SM2 race.

Lowlight 2: Getting caught up in the bust stop incident on Sunday.

[Muda]

So, you AND Yosh AND Gene got impailed?

[svvs]

Yosh got taken out and he and Jason and JK (and a host of others I believe) spent a good amount of time replacing suspension parts.

I got caught up in a four car mess in the bus stop (couldn't get far enough off the track to not get tagged. Need new fender and door. Funny enough that's the fender I had to replace last year that a tree fell on (amongst other incidents).

Gene was the car that went in at the carousel? JK was behind him....said it looked like something on the car broke. He hit hard.

[geneclev]

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Yosh got taken out and he and Jason and JK (and a host of others I believe) spent a good amount of time replacing suspension parts.

I got caught up in a four car mess in the bus stop (couldn't get far enough off the track to not get tagged. Need new fender and door. Funny enough that's the fender I had to replace last year that a tree fell on (amongst other incidents).

Gene was the car that went in at the carousel? JK was behind him....said it looked like something on the car broke. He hit hard.

Yes it was hard 80 MPH when front hub broke down to 65 MPH at impact.I am trying to load video but its a work in progress

[Muda]

Wow, had a LF go bad on me half way through the SM2 feature @ Thunderbolt last month.
Never saw one fail catastrophically (was leading and I really wanted those flags) so I ran it to the finish.
Will think twice next time.
Glad you're OK Gene!

[wreckerboy]

Chris (Windsor) posted pictures of the damage to Gene's car on the F Book earlier this week. Hard hit, and glad you're allright, Gene.

[Muda]

Yes, saw that.

[svvs]

My video from the start of the SM2 race on Sunday. I didn't qualify well, and that didn't end well for me.



The driver of the red #45 car came up to me and apologized. I give him credit for doing that, but still think he made a bad move on the first lap of the race and let him know that. Hopefully everyone involved can get their cars back together and move on.

[Yosh]

Here is my last lap of the race on Saturday.



Steve Berry had gone off driver's right at the Bus Stop which bottled us all up a bit. You can hear me breathe out of the throttle in the Outer Loop as I was watching to see where he would come back in (he didn't get off the gas at all). The Black/Silver/Red 06 car behind me said "well I had a run on you." Someone needs to clarify to him again that coming up and hitting someone in the rear at the apex of a corner a.) isn't good and b.)isn't a "run" but a "hit and run".

I'm a little torqued that the driver of the 06 didn't bother to figure out where I was after the race - it wasn't like he didn't have a close up view of my car - I had to go find him. Chose not to throw paper, but his attitude stinks and his judgement lacking.

Bent up the car pretty good - needed a LF upper & lower, ball joint, tie rod, hub, and wheel. LR needed a hub carrier, hub, wheel. Thanks to Chris Windsor and Nick Leverone, managed to get the parts and with tons of help from John Kuitwaard, Jason Livingood, and Chris Windsor we managed to get it somewhat pointed straight. Feel bad that Jason missed his SM2 race, but we did both run on Sunday. Car still needs a ton of body work - LR quarter is destroyed and missing a taillight, and I'm not sure I can bang the LF fender out into a nice shape again The hit was hard enough that it stretched the motormounts quite a bit - the throttlebody slammed into the hood and the motor went so far back it bent and broke the heater core pipes.

The real shame is that the car had been really good on Saturday! Consistently managed times in the 22s and got the car well into the 21s before the incident.