We finally managed to get our Super Gas/Rod car finished 1 day prior to attending the IHRA Rocky Mountain nationals last week. We fired the car for the first time at the race track. Running the race without any seat time left this pilot a "little rusty" and eventually led me to a first round runner-up late Sunday evening.

We needed to find some additional seat time!

We found it yesterday making 10 licks on the car in Edmonton and going to the finals of our first bracket race of the year. My opponent, James Pahl (Castrol Raceway track champ and Super Summit Series competitor at Rockingham in 2006) was .024 on the tree and ran right on his 10.23 dial with a nine. We were .017 on the tree and ran 9.943 on a .93 dial. The difference was 9 inches at the stripe or .004! Mission accomplished!

As some of you may know, we completely tore our "new" ride apart over the winter. Powdercoating the chassis and tin; installing new chromoly rod ends, painting the body and applying completely new graphics designed by Greg Obzuko. It was a lot of hard work and eventually led us to a very late start to the 2008 drag racing season.

I have a lot of people to thank for making this happen but I won't take up any more of your time. I will contact those individuals and personally thank them for all of their patience. One thing I have learned over the years, you can't do it all your self and you need to surround yourself with a lot of talented people and I have certainly found the motherlode!

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