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Good article with photos on Bob Bode in the Las Vegas Review Journal
NHRA NATIONALS: Day goes Bode's way - - Funny Car driver Bob Bode must have felt as out of place as Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz" on Friday. And not because of the afternoon wind that ended racing early in the NHRA SummitRacing.com Nationals at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Bode, a part-time professional racer, completed the best run of his NHRA career and won the provisional pole for the first time in his land-based racing career. "We didn't know we'd step it up to where we would be in here," the former speedboat racer said of his first appearance in the post-qualifying media center in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series. "We've always had hopes. All the stars lined up." Bode, who raced speedboats for 21 years before moving to Funny Cars nine years ago, said he entered this week optimistic after the team had a "good tuneup" last weekend at the NHRA event in Houston. "The guys are just unbelievably happy," Bode said.
It was a bizarre day for an estimated crowd of 10,000, roughly half the normal size for Friday racing at Las Vegas NHRA national events.
From the ESPN qualifying video attendance was really off Saturday too. I bet there is a big crowd today like what happened last Sunday at the Spring Nationals. ~ fla