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Old 03-14-2004, 04:29 PM
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Default Early Reports From Team APE @SBSO

I just got a call fom Rudy, aparently there was some weather to deal with in the morning and racing began a little late.

We took down Tom Kempf's 2000 Z28, and it has run two passes so far.

First Pass 9.34@149mph

Second Pass 9.37@146mph

We are running in the top gun class, and as far as I know we have the #1 time of the day so far.
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Awesome..!!!!
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Its official Tom's car won the Top Gun class.

Great job and congrats to the crew, wish I could ahve been there to see it.
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9's are getting borring. When are we gonna see some 8's outa that car?

Nice runs. Congrats to Tom & the APE team.
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Originally Posted by Black Sunshine/ 00SS
9's are getting borring. When are we gonna see some 8's outa that car?

Nice runs. Congrats to Tom & the APE team.
On the 9.37 pass he ran a 5.90 1/8 mile, but had to step out of it hence the loss in MPH from the previous pass.

There is certainly an 8 second pass in the car, and it is coming soon. We are still ironing out the combo, so many things were new in Carolina that we never really got to tweak things.

North/South here we come. 3-peat perhaps?
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congrats that is great!!

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Nice showing, congrats.
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congrats to Tom! nice times! what is meant by three peat? i must be missing something, lol!
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Originally Posted by taner
congrats to Tom! nice times! what is meant by three peat? i must be missing something, lol!
We Won the Cartek Shoot out , then we just won our class at SBSO, so winning our class at North/South would be a 3-peat.
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First you'll have to get past the N vs S champion.
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I was out there, people in the stands were laughing because he couldnt do a burn out, but they were in aww when he took off.

Congratulations on the win!
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Congrats to Tom and APE on another solid day at the track.

Rick
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Congrats" on the win!
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Originally Posted by Rick C5
First you'll have to get past the N vs S champion.
And some of us that been low profile about our wintertime changes.8's here I come.
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Originally Posted by 2001-WS6
Congrats to Tom and APE on another solid day at the track.

Rick

Great Job Guy's you have a great running car there. Hope to be at the N/S Shoot out see ya there
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Any videos or pics?
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There is a thread in the actual SBSO forum that has a video of the last pass of the day. It was a 9.6x@13xmph, some guy walks past the camera just as the board lights up.
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Tom better make that thing a little quicker if he wants to win at the N/S race Nice job APE
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Got the other vids converted and uploaded... I'll probably go back and clean up that last past video as well..

https://ls1tech.com/~brian/video/
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Great runs Tom and congrats to the guys at APE, great effort

Keep up the good work, the North VS South should be a good race; hopefully we can help represent the North



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