Well, after a rough start to the 3 day event, I pulled it out on Sunday and won Nostalgia class. Then onto the King Ford Run off I went to the semi finals.
Weather was near perfect, except for some light rain on Friday morning as we entered the gates. Beyond that it was blue skies and perfect summer breeze for three days.
We started with 2 time trials Friday for the Gamblers race that afternoon. I have been having horrible time with my lights so I was playing clutch linkage and front tire pressures to get myself back into it. I was close, but with a -.004 first round I was not quite there.
Saturday we got 3 time trials and I was doing well on the lights and the car was running well, in the 11.00-11.03 range. Traction was good and it was carrying the wheels to the 60ft mark. My first faux-paw of the weekend was trying to finally try out the 780 carbs I had converted to single feed. As I was swapping them out I had to swap AN fittings on the carbs. Well my rear carb fitting was stripped and would only unscrew about 1 turn and lock up. I quickly decided to not go any farther. I then tried to get the fitting back in and NOT leak. It took a few adjustments but just short of completely stripping it, it quit leaking like a sprinkler. Ugh. My next major failure was after winnning first round with a .004 light.............I somehow, with much ado I never heard the call for second round and missed it completely. Ugh. My big issue was there was no one around me with Nostalgia class to "watch" for. The sound system is all that at Norwalk(Summit Equip Motorsport Park), but they had it turned down to "1" and you could barely hear it only if no cars were running. In the thick of things it was very hard to hear. It was my complete fault. Oh well. Sunday I turned the radio on in my trailer and had it blaring so that issue could not happen again.
On to Sunday, the car was running well, my lights were good and I went 5 rounds to win the class. That is where the King Ford run off comes into play. They take Sat and Sun winners and run them off. I had to run Sat NOS winner to advance. I stepped up really hard, put a .000 light on him! I then had to run the Street class winner. I adjusted clutch linkage and tire pressure and went .035 to his .025. I went -.002 under my dial. It was moot as he went dead on with a 5. There was no wiggle room if you do the math. That Street class winner(son of a fellow I raced with at DW42 for years) went on to beat the No box winner for King Ford!!! (Box and No box had run off to get a winner).
All in all a good weekend. I did find out that my helmet is out of date? WTH? I told them that I just was at Columbus and they didn't say anything(and Trails is very, very strict). He just said they musta not looked very close. He let me run but said I better get a helmet for my next race. Sooooo, I guess my winnings will go towards a new bucket, and a couple new fittings for the carbs.
Until I get a new photo acct set up somewhere, not pics to add.
