Good morning from historic Beech Bend Raceway Park! It’s a glorious crystal clear morning here as racing has commenced in the sportsman classes. With a sunny forecast for the weekend it promises to be full hot & heavy action. Hot Rod Eliminator, The Geezer Gassers as well as the  Nostalgia Super Stockers have already made runs. Nostalgia Comp and Nostalgia Gas are currently in the lanes.

There’s no doubt Beech Bend Raceway is one of the quaintest, most nostalgic facilities in the land but along with that comes low bandwidth issues! We’re gonna have to post this evenings final qualifying results and highlight photos from the hotel in town so check back around 9pm central time for all the days professional and sportsman qualifying results. Keep in mind we only post qualifying results from the classes that run set fields. The all-run classes like Nostalgia Comp, Nostalgia Gas and others will not have qualifying orders to post since they are all-run categories. Sometime we get questions about those.

In other news, I escaped unharmed from the press room here atop the drag tower this morning after discovering a hornets’ nest inside the light fixture. About 30 angry and confused large multi colored flying beasts came charging out of the fixture and they meant business! Track owner Dallas Jones came up with a can of WD-40 and diffused the situation. “WD-40 will kill anything but a broken heart,” Jones quipped.  Gotta love Dallas and his southern charm:-)

-John Drummond

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