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[MSwiss]

Actually once anyone starts practicing on the track, I turn the music down to a low level so you can hear what your car is doing and be able to easily call out if you're off.
Once racing starts, the music is off.
PS: Is #28 on the list just a goof?

[TSR]

The only trace I have of Jerry Brady is from Bud Stordhal of Dyna-Rewind who told me that he is (or was) a big shot in the New York AFL-CIO...

[GT40]

I think I mentioned this once before, but when I was a kid and my dad and I would race at our local track on Saturday nights, when it came time for him to do his qualifying run, he would give me a quarter, and tell me to go put Pinball Wizard by the Who on the jukebox. He was strictly a country music fan, but there was something about that song that seemed to energize him for qualifying.

[TSR]

I use Wheaties in the morning.

[Tex]

I wouldn't expect Mike or any other track owner to have music playing while "serious" racers are practicing, qualifying, or racing. As mentioned, it's important to hear what the car is doing. But I WILL be bringing my music along; we might be able to find a place/time to groove to the old '60s stuff. Cream? Got it... "Wheels of Fire". Blind Faith? Oh yeah... "the" album cover and all (you KNOW what I'm talkin' about!). Doors? The first is the best. Jefferson Airplane? Ditto.

[Pappy]

I use Wheaties in the morning.

And Viagra at night.

[Indiana Outlaw]

Actually, I used to like the music at Speedworld!!!! Got me into a rythym.

[TSR]

Got me into a rythym.

Is it contagious?

[Indiana Outlaw]

Don't tempt fate.

[Pappy]

Just bringing this thread back to the top so people know to sign up. Complete list on page 1.

[Cheater]

Jeez, just like at the wing car races where everyone has their iPod speaker systems blasting?

I've posted about Mike Asher listening to his Walkman using headphones when he won I-15 at the USRA Nats in 1990, so this is really nothing new.

Hey, Mick and everyone else, Slotblog also has a decent calendar function. I added the Sano Shootout to it the other day, but it would be great if everyone else would list their events on the calendar, too.

[MG Brown]

Hey, Mick and everyone else, Slotblog also has a decent calendar function.

I tend to leave this to the organizer of the event unless they have specifically asked to have someone else post it.

[Cheater]

MG, just wanted to start making some noise about the Slotblog calendar, hopefully to encourage folks to use it on a regular basis.

If we actually get some content in the calendar (besides the birthdays added by the forum software from the members' profiles), there are a couple of interesting functions I can enable.

[Pappy]

Keith, I'm staying at the Motel 6 on W. Roosevelt Rd. in Villa Park. Cheater said he and Jay Guard are staying there, too. I picked it because it was the cheapest.

[MG Brown]

I'm looking to make room reservations in the next few days, is a consensus emerging yet as to where racers are staying?

I thought since the intent of this race is to be "old school" that we'd all sleep under the track!

During the 2006 Wing Nats I stayed at:

Marriott Chicago Southwest At Burr Ridge
(Willowbrook)
1200 Burr Ridge Parkway
Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527
630-986-4100

I was able to get a 3-star suite through Priceline for $50/night.

Check the Racers Guide to the 2006 Nats posted on OWH for more suggestions close to Chicagoland Raceway.

[MSwiss]

The place MG mentioned is in a very, very nice area and is a bit closer to the track than the Motel 6 in Villa Park.

The Motel 6 location has a bit more of a scenic route to the track IMHO. It'll take you past the Ferrari dealer on Ogden or with a two minute detour west of Rt 83 on Ogden, the super-cool new Lambo dealer.

Also for those bringing wives, it takes you past Oak Brook Mall which has as fine shopping as anywhere in the suburbs.

[NJ Racer]

Who is racing and who will be watching, or tailgating?

[MantaRay]

From an earlier post by Mike Swiss... Speaking of Lambo's... Below is a pic of a Lambo Murcielago LP 640 (Chicago Sun times) that Chicago Bear Lance Briggs piled up at 3:15 Monday morning.



Lance Briggs' exact repair bill hasn't been tallied yet, but Ron Ludin Jr. of Lin-Mar Motors Inc., where the car was originally towed, estimated the damage at about $150,000. "The body panels are cracked all around, the radiator popped out and there's heavy, heavy suspension damage," Ludin said. Scott Rothermel, general manager of Lamborghini Chicago in Westmont, said the tab will be steep: "It's a handbuilt car, so nothing fits. It will have to be rebuilt by hand." Here's the price tag on select repairs." (Sun-Times)

[Tex]

OK, made my reservation at Motel 6; SOMEbody's gotta be loud and keep Butch awake all night!

Mapquest wants to direct me up I-55 from St. Louis to Chicago. I told one of our local racers this and he cringed. He said he'd been up that highway a number of times and said it was wall-to-wall traffic all day and all night in both directions. Can anyone else confirm this? Is there an alternate route between St. Louis and chicago? Perhaps naively, I'm planning on driving from St. Louis to Chicago in 6 - 7 hours. Is that realistic?

[MSwiss]

I think he was joking with you. I-55 is fine. It might tighten up right around St.Louis, Springfield, and of course Chicago if you're passing through them at morning or late afternoon rush. The other 95% of the time you're passing by cornfields.

I've had my Focus up to at least 115 MPH on I55 going down to Bloomington to race at Mink's. I don't run 115 in wall-to wall traffic.

If you don't hit Chicago right at 4:30 or 5:00 PM, it should take you 5 hours or less (if you don't stop to eat).

[Pappy]

OK, made my reservation at Motel 6; SOMEbody's gotta be loud and keep Butch awake all night!

You'll be sorry when you hear me snore.

[MG Brown]

I-55 around Chicago USED TO have some serious issues with potholes that could swallow a Hummer Limo, but a few years ago they repaved and all is well in transportation land.

(I have been waiting the longest time to use "Hummer" and "Swallow" in the same post.)

[Pappy]

Why?

[Cheater]

Pappy, maybe we should have a Model 6 Snore-Off, as that's one competition I believe I might actually be able to win.

About five or so years ago, four of us backpacked across the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, from the eastern to western border, a distance of about 95 miles. So we wouldn't have to carry tents, we reserved spaces in the park's CCC-built shelters, all of which are surrounded by chain link fence because of the numerous black bears in the park. (The shelters are also infested with mice, requiring packs to be hung up on cables with excluder discs, but that's another story.)

At two of the shelters, people awoke screaming in the night because they thought a bear had gotten past the fencing. It was just me snoring...