Yes, this would be our THIRD race in May, and the second in a row that we were going to be at the track for 3 days.  This is one of the bigger races at Eagle Motorplex , and one of the only where we will geta chance to see a good selection of NHRA Stock and Super Stock cars.  

  Rose and I both took Friday off so we could be at the track that night.   Rose got most everything ready and went off to boot camp, and then we picked her up in the MoHo on the way out of town.   Chloe was bringing her friend Jessica along this time. 

  We parked that night and just went to bed because it was well after midnight when we arrived.  There was a Test and Tune scheduled for Friday as well as Gamblers races for both Electronics and Non-Electronics.   I hadn’t done anything to the Dart over the past couple of weeks, and it came out of the trailer working great.  There was a crazy tail wind of almost 15 MPH, so it was running 12.80s in drive at almost 108. 

  Chloe made a couple of runs in the Jr and it was fooling with me again:  Both runs were 10.59s at just over 60 MPH.  Since I had just gone through the clutch, I liked to believe that it was the changes I had made that gave it this consistency, but I know better than to believe in this car after only 2 runs. 

  I went into the No-E  Gamblers race that night and did well.  I was able to win it and collect $200 for the effort.   I had some really fun races!  In the semi finals, I raced the way cool SS/AH stick car of Peter Willie, from Victoria. (there is a shot of his car in our Vegas Photo Gallery)  I was dialed 12.83 and he was dialed 9.03.  After going .011 to my .023, he came charging after me with over 43 MPH difference.  I could see that he wasn’t quite going to beat me to the stripe and I pounded the brakes, taking a .003 stripe for the win, running 12.832.   I raced the J/SA Camaro of Chuck Porter in the final and the difference was all at the tree for my win. 

  Unfortunately, that was the big story for the weekend.  Saturday, I went -.003 red in the first rounds of both Sportsman and Gamblers, and lost Sunday first round of Sportsman from being late at the tree and missing the dial by a tenth.  Yes, another 1 tenth mistake.  I’m going to make some changes to how I run the car for Sportsman as I think that when it gets hot, it is shifting itself a bit earlier, killing the ET. 

  Chloe went 2 rounds Saturday and 1 round Sunday.   Turns out that the car was not as consistant as I had dreamed it was going to be.  It’s too bad, as she really is doing her job at the tree, but the car isn’t repeating.   The good news was that the new Shockwave clutch arrived Sunday morning.  I will be thrashing to make sure it is installed for the next race, which will be on June 20/21.