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WHERE'S THE RADAR?

It's official now that the future is short for Inyokern Drags, touted as the world's oldest continuously operating dragstrip.

Apparently a new person at the FAA thinks that a pilot could confuse the dragstrip with the active runway at Inyokern Airport, a former World War II Navy airstrip, and thereby cause an accident. Although no such mishap has occurred in the 50 years of operation by the Dust Devils Car Club, the FAA says because passenger flights now land at the airfield, the dragstrip will close at the end of October. The NHRA Pacific Division Junior Finals will take place at the Inyokern Dragstrip on October 15-16. [9-19-2005]

SIGHT 'EMS

The Agent saw former timing system guru for NHRA Art Hayward in the pits at the U.S. Nationals. Seems like Mr Hayward had taken over the duties that C.J. Hart used to have of delivering ice, food and other goodies to the NHRA crews during the event. The Agent wonders if they thought of getting Mr.Hayward out of retirement to look at the timing setup? [9-19-2005]

EXTRA MINUTES

Over the past weekend the Agent spotted Rick Henkelman consulting on Joe Windham's injected nitro dragster at the NHRA Division 7 event at SoCal's California Dragway.

Rick said his cell phone was "burning-up the minutes" since he was also consulting on the tune-up for his former partner David Baca while he was competing at the NHRA Reading event.

The cell phone consultation helped to tune Baca to a No. 9 slot and Windham's dragster qualified 4th, going out in the Top Alcohol semi-finals. [9-19-2005]

SCHOOL IS IN SESSION

The International Motorsports Alliance at California State University San Bernardino will be conducting a one-day course on Performance Car Dynamics at Irwindale Speedway, Friday, September 29

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The series will be taught by Don Alexander, noted racing instructor and consultant, and former editor of Circle Track magazine.

For more information or to register for the class, contact Jace Baker, Professor of Management, at jaceb@csusb.edu. [9-19-2005]