I've reached a new level of exhaustion - I think.
Got to the track at Noon on Thursday for testing. First run it dropped a cylinder at the hit and never really cleaned up. Turned out to be a bad spark plug.
Second hit was way slower than we wanted, but the air was miserable.
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Saw a couple neat cars. The Gary Scelzi "Tribute" car is owned and flown by one of Clay Millican's crew guys.
The Prowler is a 1 of two - the guy custom made the mold himself and has 2 of the bodies from it.
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In Q1 Friday morning, we took the pole out of the gate with a 6.103 on the 6.10 index. Nobody was able to touch it in Q2 or Q3. Back to Back poles for NHRA events.
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First round off the trailer Saturday morning we had a friend of ours here in DFW - AGAIN (3 races, three locals in first round). His nitrous didn't work, so dad shut off and coasted around him for the win. Second round the sun got up in the sky and the air went bad - we were doubting the predictor, but it was right. Luckily the other guy red lit because we were way slow.
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Third round is it's own story. All weekend long the track was having clock issues. Unfortunately, it bit our opponent, so they made us re-run the race, even though our opponent was mathematically ineligible.
0.315 light + 6.506 ET = 6.821 total
0.021 light + 6.270 ET = 6.291 total
6.76 dial - 6.27 dial = 0.490 handicap
6.291 total + 0.490 handicap = 6.781 total , for a margin of victory in our favor of 0.040
Using historical incrementals, I was able to determine that we were on a 6.235-6.242 run. We didn't want to slow ours down, so we rolled with it. Our opponent is on nitrous, so we knew they would be turning theirs up.
A small burn-down ensued at the tree, and dad was late. But it didn't matter because they turned their up way too much and went out the back door while dad shut off at the predetermined point, beating them again.
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Once through that hurdle, we had the world champion up next. He didn't make it easy for us, but he left a door open for us to go through. That led us to the #2 qualifier, where dad made a mistake of lifting too early when our opponent lifted and got back on it.
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