Sunday, 9:30 pm, bedding down in okie city for a few hours before rolling on into work in the morning, left the track at noon today .
Well guys we had a rough weekend , motor trans & clutch are fine but luck just wasn't on our side ...after rolling in on Thursday & getting pits set up we were ready to roll Friday ... Friday morn q1 of top dragster we decided to throw some more clutch to her & see if she would make it down the track . no luck , the threads on the clutch pedal linkage decided to give up on life as soon as I hit the throttle , cut a .041 light but pass was ruined.
q2 on Friday was supposed to happen between the first & second rounds of nitro but too many oil downs in round one of nitro bumped top dragster to Saturday morning .
Saturday morning .. fixed the darn pedal & pulled the clutch back to the old settings .. the bump was a 6.80 at that time so we figured we should settle down & try to make the show ... didn't happen .. tires shook & went sideways at the 100' mark, pedeled her down to the 1/8th & wham ! tires shook, pedeled her again & then the windshield goes dark .. fuel line came loose & had to lift at 5.9 into run.. wild ride, crowd loved it but we were disgusted . 7.12 at 178..
Saturday , 3 pm. now is our last chance . this session we ran right behind the fuel cars so we knew the track was perfect but bump was a 6.71 so we had to ramp her back up . It was wonderful to pull into the staging lanes while force , Hagen & the likes were strapping in ..people looked at us like we were driving a spaceship or something .... a cummins in the staging lanes with all these big boys lurking around, never thought I would see the day . So the fuel cars ran & top dragster took to the lanes, we were second pare , stands were full .
I rolled the old heap into the water box & began burn out .. she jumped up on the tire way differently than she has been doing , I guess the clutch did it , it felt right but was having to pedel a bunch on burnout to keep from over revving , then she got way sideways & I chopped the throttle & killed the beyotch !! I know better but it just happens sometimes if you don't get on the clutch just right . I was pissed & disgusted !!the guys rolled me back but we track boss wouldn't let us refire ... I'm so let down & sad that a rare opprutunity like this got by me. especially on my screw up .. it was a long hard weekend that ended with a major heartbreak. it will be a long time before I get another shot like that .
see y'all next week at world finals
Well guys we had a rough weekend , motor trans & clutch are fine but luck just wasn't on our side ...after rolling in on Thursday & getting pits set up we were ready to roll Friday ... Friday morn q1 of top dragster we decided to throw some more clutch to her & see if she would make it down the track . no luck , the threads on the clutch pedal linkage decided to give up on life as soon as I hit the throttle , cut a .041 light but pass was ruined.
q2 on Friday was supposed to happen between the first & second rounds of nitro but too many oil downs in round one of nitro bumped top dragster to Saturday morning .
Saturday morning .. fixed the darn pedal & pulled the clutch back to the old settings .. the bump was a 6.80 at that time so we figured we should settle down & try to make the show ... didn't happen .. tires shook & went sideways at the 100' mark, pedeled her down to the 1/8th & wham ! tires shook, pedeled her again & then the windshield goes dark .. fuel line came loose & had to lift at 5.9 into run.. wild ride, crowd loved it but we were disgusted . 7.12 at 178..
Saturday , 3 pm. now is our last chance . this session we ran right behind the fuel cars so we knew the track was perfect but bump was a 6.71 so we had to ramp her back up . It was wonderful to pull into the staging lanes while force , Hagen & the likes were strapping in ..people looked at us like we were driving a spaceship or something .... a cummins in the staging lanes with all these big boys lurking around, never thought I would see the day . So the fuel cars ran & top dragster took to the lanes, we were second pare , stands were full .
I rolled the old heap into the water box & began burn out .. she jumped up on the tire way differently than she has been doing , I guess the clutch did it , it felt right but was having to pedel a bunch on burnout to keep from over revving , then she got way sideways & I chopped the throttle & killed the beyotch !! I know better but it just happens sometimes if you don't get on the clutch just right . I was pissed & disgusted !!the guys rolled me back but we track boss wouldn't let us refire ... I'm so let down & sad that a rare opprutunity like this got by me. especially on my screw up .. it was a long hard weekend that ended with a major heartbreak. it will be a long time before I get another shot like that .
see y'all next week at world finals
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