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Old Apr 27, 2007 | 11:43 AM
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I'm still about 6 weeks out of driving but,,,,,,,
I was going over the schedule at Byron and there isn't very much in the way of strictly T&T. It's been a couple of years since i've been there soooo on the days that they have scheduled T&T and something else, how much time do we have to drag before we get booted for these special events?

Long-winded enough question for ya?
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Old Apr 27, 2007 | 05:29 PM
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made 11 runs last year on a typical day, so i don't know what you're talking about.
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Old Apr 28, 2007 | 05:54 AM
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There are only about 7 full test and tune days. IIRC, when I was there before, we were able to run T&T until say Junior Drags started. After that you were lucky to get in 2 runs in 3 hours.
11 runs? Wow. My busiest day there only netted me 6. That was on my bike.
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Old Apr 29, 2007 | 12:11 AM
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if you stay from start to close, you can get in a ton of runs at byron. If not you can always try GLD for T&T nights or slick only nights
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Old Apr 29, 2007 | 09:07 AM
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I heard GLD was a crap track. Still true or have they fixed it up?
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Old Apr 29, 2007 | 10:21 AM
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crap track how? They're NHRA now, and I like it better than US41 track in indiana
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Old Apr 30, 2007 | 06:48 AM
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This was several years ago. I heard the track and buildings needed a bit of TLC. Several of my friends stayed away from there because they were worried about running their cars on a track that had "issues".
True or not, I have no personal experience with GLD. It's just what I heard.
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Old Apr 30, 2007 | 09:36 AM
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I go to GLD all the time. I have never seen any kind of problems with there track.
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Old Apr 30, 2007 | 09:38 AM
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Works for me. Gonna have to try them out.
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