April 30, 2000 -- Hey, I finally
did a Drag Racing
Story of the Day by myself! Check out our adventures at Virginia Motorsports
Park during qualifying at the NHRA moto1.net Nationals. We had a blast. We
are back home on Sunday and we have several BIG tasks to tackle, including
our banner ad problems and getting the Drag Lists updated. Talk to you
soon! bp
April 29, 2000 -- New Story
of the Day and Draglist
Links. I will be hitting Richmond at about 1pm today. See you down there. My
brother Tim, my son Jason, and I will be bouncing between Bruce Mullins'
pit and the pro rounds. I'll be the big dude with shades and the black
draglist.com cap. Don't even THINK about not stopping me to say hello if
you see me! Bill
April 28, 2000 -- New Story
of the Day and Draglist. Ron Dilley provides some early notes from the NHRA race in
Richmond. I plan to be there this weekend, at least for Saturday. If you
are going, I will be somewhere around Bruce Mullins' trailer. Hope to see
you there! Bill
April 27, 2000 -- New Story
of the Day and Draglist. We made more progress on the banner
ads today. They no longer point to the banner software manufacturer, but
they point back to us! We will have this ironed out this week. And
remember, April is FREE for all banner advertisers while we get this
fixed. Thanks again for your patience! Bill
April 26, 2000 -- New Story
of the Day and Draglist.
April 25, 2000 -- New Story
of the Day and Draglist
Links.
April 24, 2000 -- Hi, everyone.
Hope you all had a peaceful and restful Easter holiday on Sunday. I sure
did. Paul Graham is hard at work on getting our banner ads back up.
I am hopeful we will be back on track for tomorrow. We did not get the Drag Lists updated this weekend, but will have them in a day or two. We do have a new Story
of the Day and Draglist. Enjoy! bp
April 23, 2000 -- Happy Easter,
everyone. We have a new Story
of the Day and lots of new Draglist. We did not get the
Drag Lists done today. We will
sneak a few hours in on Sunday to get that done. Hope you have a peaceful
and happy holiday. bp
April 22, 2000 -- New Story
of the Day and Draglist. We also have begun to offer Drag Racing Yesteryear
Videos in ALL video formats, including PAL,
PAL-M, and SECAM! Our
overseas friends will appreciate that. Check out the new tape format
options on the R/R Video page.
We are still working on the links and will have them up as soon as we can.
bp
April 21, 2000 -- Howdy! We have a
new Story of the Day,
an updated Heads Up Drag Racing Calendar,
new Draglist, and an updated Desperately
Seeking section. We also added some Greg Gage photos to our
coverage of Bruce
Larson's USA-1 Dragfest. Check it out! Paul Graham should have our banner ads
working sometime today. Advertisers, we are going to extend your banners
for twice the amount of time they were down! Thanks for your patience!
PLUS: UPDATED
Drag ListS THIS WEEKEND! bp
April 20, 2000 -- Hello again. We
have a new Story of
the Day. Fresh Draglist, too. I hope you are feeling the effects of our brand,
spanking new dedicated server! Draglist.com pages should be loading about
30 percent faster! Paul Graham is still working on
our banner ads. He said he will have them working by Friday, 4/21.
Remember, we are going to extend all our advertisers for
twice the amount of time their banners were down! Thanks for your patience!
Oh yeah, one more thing -- WE WILL HAVE UPDATED
DRAG LISTS THIS WEEKEND!
April 19, 2000 -- Hi gang. Check
out our new Story of
the Day. Fresh Draglist
Links, too. Paul Graham is still working on
our banner ads. I hope to have them up and rolling by today. Of course,
whatever time we have been down, we will extend all our advertisers for
twice that time. Thanks for your patience! Bill
April 17 & 18, 2000 -- Hello
gang. Holy cow, what a whirlwind of activity! Sunday found my brother Tim
and I at MIR's Pro Challenge. The Saturday qualifying portion of the race
had been rained out, so Royce Miller decided to hold the ENTIRE
qualifying and eliminations portion on Sunday. I talked for 13 hours straight
(and my voice shows it). We also had fun hanging out with fellow announcer
Jerry Daisey, and racing pals Johnny Rocca and Troy
Critchley, and the New Generation Racing Team of Rick, Matt, and
Robin Stambaugh and the gang. Unfortunately, since I was at Bruce
Larson's place all Saturday and at MIR all Sunday, I couldn't work
help in our conversion to the new dedicated server here at Martel Bros.
Performance and Draglist.com. Don Wilshe worked hard to get our
email working again yesterday, and Paul Graham is hard at work on
our banner ads today. Advertisers, we are going to extend all your
banners for double the time we were down at no charge. Check out new Stories
of the Day for 4/17 and 4/18. My personal congratulations to
Bob Gilbertson and Robin Judd, two first time winners in NHRA Funny
Car and ANDRA Top Doorslammer. I love the underdogs!!! See ya soon. bp
April 16, 2000 -- The USA-1
Nostalgia Dragfest was a blast! Read more about it in our Story
of the Day! bp
April 15, 2000 -- Don Wilshe
and the Martel Bros. have placed us on a new high speed, dedicated
server! My apologies for not having an updated Story
of the Day for 4/14 while Network Solutions pointed us to the new
box. The story was done, but it was stuck in limbo between the old server
and the new. It's a good one, so check it out a day late! Of course, we
have a highly entertaining Story
of the Day for 4/15, too! Bill O'Neal tells a priceless tale of
Mickey Thompson's exploits as an off-road racer.
My apologies to my advertisers
for the glitch that is preventing their ads from displaying today. We are
working on it and all banner ads will be extended for DOUBLE the
time that they have been "off the air."
While everyone else sweats tax day, Greg Gage, bro Tim,
and I will be traveling to the USA-1
Nostalgia Dragfest at Bruce Larson's house. Hope to see you there!
Bill
April 12, 13, 14, 2000 -- A new Story
of the Day and Draglist
Link updates.
April 11, 2000 -- We don't
discriminate at Draglist.com -- so we have coverage of this past weekend's
inaugural NHRA race at Las Vegas to go with yesterday's IHRA coverage.
Check out the Story
of the Day for details!
We also have brand new lists in the house! I just went
through and did a dupe search and checked them for accuracy. I need to
format them and get them up on the site. That should happen tomorrow
night.
Hope you can come to the 3rd annual USA-1 Dragfest at
Bruce Larson's place this weekend, Saturday, April 15. Click here
for more info! bp
April 10, 2000 -- Our Drag Racing Story
of the Day is Larry Sullivan's coverage if the record breaking IHRA
Holley Spring Nationals from Rockingham, NC. Also, check out our
new Sponsors page! You can find all our
sponsors' banner advertisements in one place! bp
April 9, 2000 -- Doug Dornbos
tells about his first drag race in the Drag
Racing Story of the Day. Bill
April 8, 2000 -- Jim Hill Jim Hill
explains
what it was like to work in a timing tower before the advent of the
Compulink and TSI timing systems in the Drag
Racing Story of the Day about Chrondek Timers. Bill
April 7, 2000 -- Robb Lowe entertains us with commentary on his choice for Digger of the Century as
the Drag Racing Story
of the Day.
April 6, 2000 -- Good Dad! Good
Dad! I finished Jason's
Junior Dragster Debut story early this morning. Please share our
day of pride and joy. We had a blast and I would encourage all parents who
have a chance to give this a try with their kids. I am going to wrap this
up quickly in order to get a few hours of sleep. Look for new List updates
this weekend! Bill
April 5, 2000 -- Well, bad Dad! I
still don't have Jason's Junior Dragster story done, but at least it is
HALF done! Today we hear from Pat "Ma" Green, who relates
what a zoo the first AHRA
Grand American Race at Fremont was! Greg
Gage sent some good photos of Jason yesterday and we have some
that we took. The story WILL be up tomorrow! Thanks and see you soon. (We
have updated Links,
too...) Bill
April 4, 2000 -- Hi everyone. Just
a quick one and I'm off to work. The body said "sleep" instead
of "work" last night, so I missed Jason's Junior Dragster story
again. In its place is a follow up piece on New
England's roller starters by Top Fuel racer Don Roberts. See James
Morgan's Story of the
Day for 4/02 before you read this... Bill
April 3, 2000 - A funny thing
happened on the way to the site update... We got brand new info from Danny
White today. I thought that would be a good time to refresh the look
of the site with some ideas I have been rolling around. UNFORTUNATELY...
the implementation of these ideas took all my time and I haven't done the
updates yet! If you think THAT'S bad, I didn't get to write the story on
my son Jason's Junior Dragster outing on Saturday, either. In its
place will be a neat funny
car story by King Camaro racer Fred Totten. I will grab another
Drag Racing Story of the Day to use. Hope you like the new layout, at
least! We will have new info to go with it sometime this week! See ya! Bill
Pratt
April 2, 2000 -- We had a fantastic day at the
drags yesterday! Jason had a ball driving a Junior Dragster. Tom
Putnam was great and the whole experience was super (except, of
course, a first round loss...) I was so proud of my son on his first day
of driving ANYTHING containing a motor... I was going to do the Drag Racing Story of the Day
on it today, but I slept late and ran out of time. SO... we have James
Morgan with a great
memory of roller starters for your enjoyment (albeit a little late
in the day)... I will have Jason's story up tonight. See ya! bp
April 1, 2000 -- David Ray with a great Drag Racing Story of the Day. He and TV Tommy Ivo in a good, old, two out of three,
Funny Car versus Top Fuel match race! Plus Draglist updates and more.
We have a special announcement for April 1, 2000! My son
Jason is going to take his first ride in a Junior Dragster today.
Tom Putnam builds terrific Junior Dragsters and he has a program where you
can rent a car for a day and get all the instruction and safety equipment
your kid needs to get in and get started safely. Tom also sponsors Draglist.com. Check him out at Putnam
Race Cars. We are all piling in the car to go down and join Jason
in his first day of competition. Thanks to Greg Gage of Greg
Gage Photography, who has volunteered to be there to take action
shots of Jason's big day.
