TVWDRA Race#5 @ Temple Raceway 5/20 Sponsored by BIG WIG RACE CARS & CROW TRANS.

[Guest]

[Eric Ellis]

It was an awesome day at Temple Raceway on Saturday 5/20 and TVWDRA Race #5!

The total number of VW's in the race program was 26 and the staging lanes & stands were filled with a bunch of VW enthusiasts from the Dallas/Ft Worth, Austin, and San Antonio areas (had more of the "regulars" been there, we could have easily had a 32-35 car field!).

After six rounds of racing, Rick Tarter won the event in his Bug Shop backed "Flashback" Squareback, when he raced Al Smith in the Graffeo Gearboxes supported '64 sedan. San Antonio resident, Clint Royal, was the semi-finalist in his clean turbo sedan that was sponsored by Pierce Automotive. Ricky Marshall and John Henslin took home the quarter-finalist cash.

As promised, BIG MONEY was paid out at Temple, to the tune of over $2850 in cash & prizes

Rick Tarter hauled in $1320 cash and a full set of custom aluminum door panels from Big Wig Race Cars. The runner up got $630, semi-finalists won $287 each, and quarter-finalists each received $100.

Al Smith won the best reaction time contest, with a .5005 light. Kevin McCartney was closest to his dial-in when he ran a 8.834 on a 8.83 dial-in. For their efforts, Al and Kevin took home a very nice set of GearWrenches and a cordless LED trouble light from Owens & Johnson Racing.

The Volkswagens were a HUGE hit with the people at Temple. The crew and management folks at Temple Raceway were VERY courteous, ran a super smooth event, and invited us to come back anytime. We'll be back!

On behalf of the TVWDRA, I'd like to offer up a HUGE THANKS to all of the great sponsors who contributed to this event, the staff at Temple Raceway, and everyone who came out to race or spectate.

I'll post my pics soon, but if anyone else has digital photos from the race, please either email them to me (hotrodvw@need4speed.com) or upload them to the racing gallery on the Samba at http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_cat.php?cat_id=52.

If you put your pics on the Samba, please use the title "vwtemple" (no quotes) when uploading, so it'll be easy to search for/link to all related pics.

--Eric Ellis

[69vw]

69vw, is this your car?
http://web.wt.net/~matbeach/DSC00477.JPG
Nice car!

No but it does belong to a friend Nick.  I'll pass along the compliment.

[bigwigracecars]

Yeah, that event was cool!  I'm tired of spectating though.  Gotta get something going soon...

[Eric Ellis]

In case you missed the live broadcast of tonight's Volksbash Radio episode, the host did fairly lengthy recap of the TVWDRA race at Temple.

You can listen to a recorded version of the broadcast (.MP3 format) now by clicking here...

Thanks, Ray!

--Eric

[ACDRM]

I knew there was something I was supposed to listen to tonight!

I am doing my article on the event and was curious if anybody could help me out with the drivers of the following car #'s?

#408
#302
#628
#301
#300
#304

Thanks again to Carl for getting the round-by-round time sheets so I could include that into the article. 

[Ricky Marshall]

408 JASON MARSHALL

[Eric Ellis]

#300 is the guy w/the red street car (California plates & friend of Bubba - don't know his name)

#301 is another one of the San Antonio guys ("Mischief") - http://web.wt.net/~matbeach/DSC00484.JPG

#304 is Nick Hendricks' dark green '57 from San Antonio - http://web.wt.net/~matbeach/DSC00477.JPG

[Mitch Pullen]

408 JASON MARSHALL

  something told me ricky   would know that one.!! .......the tires worked  out perfect.!!!  u sold me  ....thanks.!!!!!

[Henslin]

#300 is the guy w/the red street car (California plates & friend of Bubba - don't know his name)

#301 is another one of the San Antonio guys ("Mischief") - http://web.wt.net/~matbeach/DSC00484.JPG

#304 is Nick Hendricks' dark green '57 from San Antonio - http://web.wt.net/~matbeach/DSC00477.JPG

#300 Ray Salinas?

[Carl Nolen]

#300 is the guy w/the red street car (California plates & friend of Bubba - don't know his name)

#301 is another one of the San Antonio guys ("Mischief") - http://web.wt.net/~matbeach/DSC00484.JPG

#304 is Nick Hendricks' dark green '57 from San Antonio - http://web.wt.net/~matbeach/DSC00477.JPG

Bubba's friend in the red car is Ray Salinas(tvwdra member).

[64dragbquick]

I had a great time racing my car and even though I lost in the first round by .019 seconds. I thought my car went well without tuning it. Wait until I put my turbo on, then it will be faster. Hopefully in July the turbo exhaust will be on and running faster. See you on June 10

[Turbo]

Just wanted to let you guys know that all of us from San Antonio had a great time at the race in Temple despite the temperature and humidity. Thanks for inviting us and we all look forward to being there next year.

John

[SuperDave]

Next Year the racing is'nt over yet there is still more racing and tracks to see come on out to the rest of the races.

[The Snowman]

Don, did you ever figure our your ignition problem in the dragster?

The Snowman

[Eric Ellis]

Here are a few photos of the big money winners. More at the following link:

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_search.php?search_keywords=vwtemple&search_terms=all

(HINT: After accessing this page on the Samba, hold down the Shift key when clicking each of the thumbnails, so that they open in a new window, and you don't have to go back and forth to the index page)