RJ and I are still rolling North and about 1.5 hours from home, but I just relinquished the steering wheel for the first time today.
I had a freakin blast.. i ran BD, Pro Street, 12.0 and Heavy eliminator. I made 2 rounds in Heavy and then slept at the tree. Made it to finals in Pro Street and 12.0, semis in BD..
Car ran awesome
Almost all day. During test and tune I finally broke my 11 second cherry and squeezed out an
[email protected] .... there were several close runs, 12.036 12.07..... but after remembering that I left my toolbox my tackle box of electrical stuff, and my other carburetor in the trunk, i shed enough to get to the 11's. This is still with 1.74-ish 60's so there's still more to come.. The car was going over the scales at 4035-4020 depending on how much gas I had, and if I farted..
Ran Big dog semis against the black blown challenger and got a nice jump on him off the line with a 0.269 RT to his 0.463 but he got me at the end with a nice 11.88.
Something odd happened in the re-run with Rob Hamilton in the 12.0 semis. Our first run was bad since the tree went Sportsman not Pro, on the second one i had to peddle it off the line... I am pretty sure it was that run when things got weird. ..
I stopped in the pits to check the tire pressure and adjusted them to my morning pressure, the heat of the day moved the pressure up 2# so i bled it off .
I staged for Pro Street and did a big ol burnout, lined up... and the car went Tea Party.. shot hard to the right toward the center divider.. lost Pro street to the gentleman with the blown Marauder. He was running dead nuts 11.40's all day but it would have been a fun race.
I hot lapped back for the 12.0 finals and made a quick pit to change my pressure back and lined up to the black blown Challenger for 12.0 ... i snuck around him and took the right lane, thinking something might be up with the left. I had spun and gone right in the left lane in my two previous runs. We lined up and the car went harder to the right.
So, something is up with the axle. I had some odd burnout behavior all day so hopefully its just the Eaton needing TLC.
So, runner up in 12.0 and Pro Street is what I earned . Not bad for never running a Pro Tree before... or racing heads up ever before.
I also took home the Most Time Slips plaque with 22 runs.
Thanks to Don and the sponsors for the event.
Thanks to Stumpy for the coaching and the case of Yuengling...er Yeungling...err... Pennsylvania Pabst..
Thanks to Rob for bringing down the entertainment
The parking lot was a little entertaining, but Jose used his Jedi mind tricks to bring that to a close. My dumb ass said all the wrong things to diffuse the situation.
Thanks to everybody that the Beertestr mooched beers off of, and apologies to those I did not have time talk to at the track.
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