Tough loss..........

Our great friend and driver, David Pace, lost his brother Richard this morning. The entire Speed Merchants team offers our sincerest condolences to David and his family during this tough time.


Brad

New parts, new year

Preparing for the 2009 racing season has begun. A new set of billet aluminum cylinder heads from Don Webster at Billet Machine Technologies tops the list. We are also going to hone our cylinders .010 to make a 4.040 inch bore and get new pistons. Rods rings and bearings and we are ready to put our engine back together. The clutch also got new facings and certifications for another year. As far as the car goes things are coming along nicely and I'm very excited.
I start my new job with American Electric Power January 5th. Being a new employee with a rotating shift work schedule is probably not going to allow for as much racing as we did in 2008. So far it looks like some spring testing in maybe May and the Goodguys race at Indy are what the springs holds in store for the Speed Merchants. From there we will just have to see but I really want to book some one day/night match races at some of the tracks in our area. I have made contact with those tracks and hopefully we can work something out that will give us some opportunities to run the car locally and have some fun while continuing to tweak the engine and clutch.
To all my friends, family and readers of this blog HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

Brad

Cover and feature in Vintage Fuel!

We made the cover and feature article in the latest online issue of Vintage Fuel magazine! Thank you so much Christy (editor) and Dave (photographer). It is a huge honor and I am extremely excited. You can see it at: www.vintagefuel.com
The cover is there and you can go to the article by clicking on the featured racer link on the right hand side of the page. Please check it out!
I also want to post a link to some of the neatest drag racing photos I have ever seen. Copy and paste the address in your browser and you will be amazed at what you see here:
http://markjrebilas.com/blog/2008/12/best-of-2008-best-drag-racing-photos/


Brad

Looking forward.................

2008 is coming to an end shortly and thoughts of 2009 are filling my head. There is a lot of work to prepare for a new racing season. Much of that work is at a standstill for me. As many of you know the manufacturing plant where I have worked for almost 14 years has closed and my duties there will end Dec 15. I will start a new job Jan 5 at a local electric power plant. I have a lot of concerns - Will I be able to get the time off required to make the events next year? Will I be able to afford the parts required to be ready for another season? Will a sponsor step up for the team and give us the funding so badly needed?
Time will answer all of these questions and I will do my best to exercise patience in the meantime. I am extremely grateful for all the help and support we were given to get through our first season. I can only hope for the same for next year.
Brad

Some explanation of the sequence

Here's some details of what happens from the time we tow the car to the starting line to the end of the run.

We tow up, unhook the car from the truck and position the car beside the truck and lined up with the track.

We have batteries in the back of the truck and we run cable to the starter which mounts to the blower.

When we get a signal from the track official John gives the engine a big squirt of alcohol from a squirt bottle to prime the engine. I begin spinning the engine over with the starter and John signals Corey who pulls a ground wire from the coil which energises the ignition and brings the engine to life. John continues to feed alcohol from the squirt bottle to the engine until the nitro fills the fuel lines and the engine starts running on the nitromethane. I remove the starter from the front of the engine and hand it over to Allen who puts it in the back of the truck. Randy switches the power on to the data recorder.

David rolls the car through the water box and feathers into the throttle and the engine roars as the tires boil with smoke. David lets out of the throttle and brings the car to a smooth halt a few hundred feet down the track. I jog down the track and give David signals as he backs up toward the starting line where John is standing signaling me. We make sure that the car is lined up straight and centered in the rubber he just applied to the track on the burnout.

David stops the car behind the staging beams and John checks the oil pressure and idle speed. He has an adjustment on the hat riser that he can raise or lower the idle to get the idle speed he wants. He then guides David within inches of the first staging beam where he turns the car over to David to proceed staging.

I go around the back of the car and wait for David to light the first staging bulb. At that point I start the data recorder and David pulls a cable which switches the fuel system on the car from low pressure to high pressure. You can see the fuel start billowing from the pipes and the sound of the engine gets really serious. David then lights the second stage bulb and waits for the tree to activate the green light and he is gone!

You can see most of this in the photo sequence below except for the backing up. You can also see that on the run the car does not just drive perfectly straight down the track and that it lays a clean stripe of smooth black rubber down the track. These cars are really a handful to drive and they are always on the edge of spinning the tires. At the end of the sequence you can see a lot of raw fuel coming out of the pipes because the engine went lean around half track and destroyed some of the spark plugs. This caused the car to lose some of its acceleration and David felt it and shuts the car off early around 1000 feet into the run. That also attributed to the relatively slow speed (198mph) for a 6.14 run.

Hopefully this will give some insight into what events take place during a run for those of you who read this blog but have not yet had a chance to see us race in person.
Brad

rest of sequence

sequence photos.........

A sharp fellow named Charles was at Bowling Green taking sequence photos from the starting line. I am going to try to post a sequence that shows us starting the car, the burnout, staging and the run. It might take two posts to get them all in. The run was our first qualifying run Friday afternoon.

More BG photos...

A night time pit shot and Allen's Sunday morning presentation of a digital scale for David to weigh clutch counterweights. Bob Gibson was the one behind the lense on these two.
Brad

Pictures from Bowling Green

First season in the books.....

I have had a few days to reflect on the season and gather my thoughts. It's hard to grasp that it's really over. Our goal when the team was started was to run low sixes consistently and do it without hurting parts. That is exactly where we ended up and it is quite an accomplishment. I could never have done it without lots of help but I'll get to the "thank you"s later. We had some trials and setbacks but that is just part of doing something as difficult as top fuel racing. The important thing is that we persevered and overcame the obstacles and grew stronger as a team.
I can't say enough good things about the group of people that have helped me. We are good friends first and foremost and teammates second. In the heat of battle tensions run high and tempers can flare but racing is not as important as relationships and we stayed true to that.
Now on to the thank you part:
My beloved wife Susan. Baby, you truly are the best! My partner and best friend - your love and support is monumental. Thanks!!!
John Dearmore and Allen Webb at DRE Racing. You guys are beyond talented! This car would never have made noise if not for your help and great parts. If it can be built these guys can build it! Thanks!!!
David Pace and his wife Gayla. David, a better driver and clutch man does not exist in my opinion and Gayla you've supported him in doing his thing and even bought a drum of fuel! Thanks!!!
Corey Davis my bottom end guy. You took on the most important and thankless job on this team. A great attitude and hard work for no pay. You have become a GREAT "diver", true friend and a huge asset to the team and you always keep things light with hilarious comments. Thanks to you and Jana for her support!
Randy Compton. You've dedicated your time and energy to collect the data and spend time between races keeping the wings functional and always looking for ways to make them better. The sandwiches were great and kept us energized while the thrash was on. Thanks to you and Kacie for her support!!!
Betty Dearmore - wife of John and mother of Allen. You opened your home to all of us and made sure we were well fed and cared for. Thanks!!!
Bob Gibson. Your knowledge and contacts were vital to keeping this low budget operation going and your help at the track was great. Thanks!!!
Jimmy Johnson. Thanks for digging in and getting dirty at Bowling Green. Your helping hands are always welcome on our team. Thanks!!!
Fellow racers Brendan Murray, Art Dromgoole, and Charlie Proight. Thanks for lending us parts at the races to help keep us going when things went wrong!
Goodguys Rod and Custom Assoc. John Drummond, Larry Westervelt, and Troy Coker.Thanks for having the races out here East of the Rockies, treating us with respect and giving us good, safe places to race.
David Miller. A great photographer and generous guy. Thanks for the great photos!
Ray Moats at Taylor. Thanks for the great plug wires and quick service!
Davis Clips and More. Thanks for the beautiful paint job!
Larry Fidance at Denso. Thanks for providing us with killer Denso Iridium spark plugs.
Green Cylinder Heads. Thanks Kurt!!!
David Freeman. Thanks for letting us use your magneto and being a "remote" team member. Hopefully next year you won't be so remote. Ha Ha!
Mom and Dad. What can I say here... even though you are gone you're always with me and always a part of me. Thanks isn't even close to enough.
God. enough said.


I'll end this post with a quote from Allen Webb at Bowling Green Saturday night after a long day of hard work. "I love this! Brad, this is your car. When we are at home we call it "Brad's car" but 5 weekends out of the year this is OUR car."
I couldn't agree more Allen. This is OUR car and OUR team. No man is an island and no man less of an island than me. I am proud, grateful and humbled.

Brad

A heartbreaker...................

This one was hard to swallow. We were number one qualifier on Friday with a 6.14 out of the trailer. Saturday we ran a 6.16 at 212 mph and got bumped to number 2 by the Nitrodiction team who ran a phenomenal 5.85! Sunday morning came and the news from the Nitrodiction team was that they destroyed their engine block on that run and they were done for the weekend. It was really cold and at 9 am we got the word that they wanted us in the lanes at 9:30! We had to try several times to start the engine to warm it up and it was NOT HAPPY about being so cold! We finally got it fired and warmed up and we headed to the starting line. We were up against Joe Krepenski's car with Kevin Lennon driving it. David nailed the starting line with a .077 reaction time and we ran a 6.15 at 207 mph for the win. We had a very consistent race car and a driver on his game. We were at least a half second quicker than the rest of the field and it was shaping up to be our day. We readied the car and the call came for round number two - the semifinals. She sounded great on the burnout and the stage was set for another six -teen run and another round win but it was not to be. Once again the hard truth of top fuel racing was thrust upon our team as a couple of header studs backed out of the left head and let oil spray onto the left tire. The car made a hard turn and came inches from the guard rail. David backed off the throttle and centered the car back up and was about to stab it again when the car again moved towards the wall and David wisely aborted the run and saved the race car as our opponent zipped past him at the finish line. It was a hard pill to swallow but that is the way racing goes. We loaded the car in one piece and we live to fight another day.
I have a lot more to say and a lot of people to thank but I need to sort out my thoughts so I'll save it for another day.
Brad

Last race............

The car and all equipment is loaded and we are leaving tomorrow morning for our last race of the season - the Goodguys Nostalgia Nationals in Bowling Green KY. The track at Bowling Green is a great place to race and we are looking forward to going back. Since this is the last hoorah for us this year we are going to let it all hang out! Hopefully all our hard work and learning this season will come together for us. A win would be the best way to cap off our first season.
John made it back from California Monday and has been resting up for this weekend. He had a great time at the California Hotrod reunion and his car recreation debut was a smashing success. Above are the pictures of his absolutely gorgeous race car just the way it was ran in the 1960s.

Brad

What's up........

I just want to give some updates of what is currently happening with the team and specifically with John (crew chief). A couple of years ago John was contacted by a fellow from Southern California named Larry Crossan. It seems that Larry had seen some pictures of one of John's top fuel cars from the late 60s and took a liking to it. He wanted to know if with John's help and permission he could recreate the car for a show/cackle car (or a car that can be started but due to modern safety rules can not be raced). John agreed and they set out to recreate the car as it was when ran in 67/68. The original car was destroyed in a crash so it had to be recreated rather than found and restored.
It is now 2 years later and John is in California right now putting the finishing touches on the car and preparing it for it's debut next weekend at the prestigious California Hot Rod Reunion. It is a great honor for John to have his car chosen out of the thousands that ran in the 60s to be created and the whole Speed Merchants team is very proud and excited for John. I have posted a couple of pictures above that I found of the original car. I am sure John will be sending some pictures of the recreation soon.
As for the rest of the team and our dragster we are only waiting on the blower to be returned from repair to complete the car for Bowling Green. The blower should be here today or tomorrow and the car should be ready 2 weeks early. That is a great feeling.
This coming weekend a friend of mine named Rick McElrea asked me to drive his 10 second Vega (Ford powered) at a 2 day $10,000 payout race in Tulsa Oklahoma - Friday and Saturday and I am really looking forward to that.
Team member Randy compton traded his 57 Chevy for a really nice little front engine dragster with a mild blowm 350 Chevy named the gold digger. I am excited for Randy and he hopes to get it to the track soon to get his feet wet and get comfortable driving the car.I am posting a couple of pictures of it above as well.
Brad

Fed Ex - not the tightest ship in the shipping business

I feel a warning to my blog readers is in order. I mentioned the damage that occurred to my parts in the last post. I filed a claim with Fed Ex for the damages. They picked up the packages from DRE Racing and had an "Inspection Team" look them over. They then brought them back to DRE and when John opened them they were more damaged than before and to top it all off the inspection team reported no visible damage to the parts! UNBELIEVABLE! I called the Fed Ex claims manager and expressed my shock and dismay. She told me to send pictures - well we had plenty of them before and after - so I emailed them to her hoping that she would see the obvious damage and overturn the verdict of the inspection team and pay my claims. Please keep in mind that I paid extra money when I shipped these parts for insurance to cover their value! Miss Goldia Smurda, (Fed Ex claims manager)sent me two nice letters yesterday stating that my claims had been denied because there was no visible damage to the outer carton or contents. I guess unless the box has a huge hole in the side and the contents are in a hundred pieces there is no visible damage.
The morals of my story are:
1. Don't think because you buy insurance when shipping things that you are covered.
2. If you are shipping something valuable build a wooden crate for it. It'll be cheaper than the worthless insurance.
3. Use UPS whenever possible.
I posted before and after pictures of the manifold at the top of this page . Please comment on this post and tell me if you can see any visible damage.

Brad

Thoughts before the last race of the season.....

We are most of the way through getting the car ready for Bowling Green. The engine is back together and in the car. The clutch is in. We just have a few final things to finish up and we should be ready a week or so early. Fed Ex threw us a curve when I shipped the manifold, injector and fuel system to John for inspection and flow testing. The boxes arrived crushed and mangled and the stainless steel fuel lines and Y nozzles on the manifold were badly bent and twisted. Nothing that we can't get repaired but it definately slowed us down. I had the packages insured and I have filed a claim with Fed Ex but for some reason I expect a fight to get reimbursed for the damages..........
We are all very excited about Bowling Green and we really want to let it all hang out at this one. We've learned a lot this year and progressed at each race. I am hoping it will all come together for the last race of the season but this is top fuel racing. There are a million ways for things to go wrong and only one way for things to go right.
As the team owner thoughts of the winter and next season start to work their way to the forefront of my mind. I have been diligently making contact with potential sponsors all year long but as of yet I haven't found that "right" one for this team.
My "other job" which I have held for 13.5 years is coming to an end Dec. 15. Big changes loom on the horizon for Susan and I. I could quite likely end up going to college again for the next 2 years. The days of racing out of my own pocket will have to end. That puts a lot more pressure on me to find a sponsor. We have a lot to offer and would work our tails off to make sure they got their money's worth but there is a lot of competition for the sponsor's dollar and as we all know times are tough and the budgets aren't being expanded. I will not give up. I will work harder. I will succeed or die trying. I have great people around me and a LOT of determination.

Brad

More pictures from Norwalk

These were taken by our own Randy Compton and Randy Baker who helped us on Sunday.
Brad

Pictures from Norwalk

These photos were all taken by Louise Kunkel. She and her husband Frank were on the grounds all weekend with Frank video taping and Louise taking still shots. They are great friends and we look forward to seeing Franks videos of Norwalk and Indy when he gets finished editing them. Thank you Frank and Louise!

Runner up in Norwalk

Well race fans, the race in Norwalk was a mix of highs and lows for us but overall was a very successful weekend for the Speed Merchants team. Friday's qualifying was rained out, imagine that! So that meant 2 qualifying runs on Saturday and eliminations starting Sunday morning. We ran a 6.35 at 205 mph out of the box on our first qualifying run Saturday. Not what we were hoping for BUT it was a very clean run and definitely nothing to be ashamed of AND was good enough to put us into the #1 qualifying spot!!! That was great but we knew there was a better run in the car the way it was set up. Back up to the line and this time she rips off a 6.18 @ 221 mph! That's more like it!!! Back to the pits for a long Saturday night, motor comes completely apart and clutch comes out for a new one to go in for eliminations. By about 11 pm Saturday night we had the car ready to go for eliminations - the good news is that nothing was hurt from the 6.18 run.
Sunday morning rolls around and we are at the track by 7 am and it is raining........forecast says it'll clear up and it does sometime around noon. The crew is out with the jet drying the track and the sun comes out. It's time to go racing!!!! We are #1 qualifier so we are paired with the #6 qualifier Rick Rogers. The car sounds pretty good but it has a large dead spot when David pushes the throttle to do the burn out and the car almost dies but it quickly recovers. It is very lazy off the starting line and then finally takes off about 80 feet down the track. We get the win with a 6.89 - way off the pace from our qualifying but a win is a win. Back in the pits the engine will not turn over! We've been down this road before at Bowling Green and sure enough it was the same problem - the blower was locked up. Over to our pit comes the owner of the car we had just beaten - Art Dromgoole - and he offers to loan us his spare blower! We begin the chore of trying to make a different blower work on our manifold and injector system and we have to get it finished and do our regular between round maintenance in an hour and a half! When the call is made for the semifinals we are ready. Up at the line we are up against Joe Krepenski's car who had run a 6.44 in qualifying - by far his best time ever and definitely good enough to beat us if we didn't improve from the last run. We fire and David stomps the pedal for the burnout and again the huge stumble - we are really scratching our heads trying to figure out what is causing this! As David backs up from the burnout we see that the other car has not fired yet and we get the signal from the starter that we will be making a single run!!! We are going to the finals!! Again the car is LAZY off the line - even worse than before but then takes off and runs down the track to a 6.88. We are going to our first final round of the season and we are happy but our minds are still churning trying to figure out the problem of the car stumbling at the hit of the throttle - and it seems to be getting worse.
In the final we will be facing Kevin Brewer who is having the best day of his racing career. He has been running low sixes in eliminations and shows no signs of slowing down. Back in the pits we do our maintenance and everything looks good but again our main concern is the stumble. There are about a hundred years of racing experience in and around our pit and nobody seems to have an answer for the large dead spot at the hit of the throttle. We only have about an hour to be ready so all we can do is try a few things and hope for the best.
We fire the car and David rolls through the water and the car will barely even spin the wet tires and it bogs over the starting line. I run out in front of the car to back David up and he signals to me that he can't work the throttle- the butterflies are stuck closed! I tell John and as David is sitting behind the line to stage John walks over to the car and adjusts the linkage on the injector hat and signals David to roll in and stage. The lights go green and Brewer is gone- our car rolls out about 100 feet lazily and then roars away down the track. Brewer gets the well deserved win with a 6.08 to our 6.79.
Congratulations to the Brewer's and the whole Midwest Threat team. They've been struggling for 2 years and they finally had their day on Sunday!!!
We've got a lot of work to do before Bowling Green in October. We'll be taking our fuel system apart for a fine tooth comb inspection to find our stumbling problem. I have all the confidence that John will find it. I think we'll be cocked and loaded for the last race of the season in Bowling Green!
I want to say how extremely proud I am of my whole team. We worked great together all weekend and overcame some huge obstacles to reach two milestones - our first final round appearance and our best yet time and speed of 6.18 @ 221 mph.
THANKS GUYS!!!
I want to also thank Susan for being such a great wife and supporting me in this crazy passion of mine. I love you baby!!!
A huge thank you to DRE Racing (what can I say - you guys ARE my team!, Denso Iridium spark plugs, Taylor plug wires, and Green Cylinder Heads

I will be posting more pictures as soon as they become available.

Brad

The next few days

Corey and I put the rods and pistons back in the motor and buttoned the bottom end up. John and David are coming up here for a day or two this weekend. David will meticulously assemble the clutch while John and I check over the whole fuel system and the blower. By Sunday everything should be back together. Corey and I both have next week off work. We'll get the truck and trailer serviced, cleaned up and packed. Tuesday we'll load the car and Wednesday morning we leave for the 16 hour drive which we are splitting into two days. Thursday afternoon we'll drop the trailer off at the track and get checked in to the motel. It will be the night for a good meal as a team and some relaxation before the hard work begins Friday. We will have one qualifying run Friday, one on Saturday along with first round of eliminations Saturday evening and the final two rounds of eliminations will start at 10 am Sunday morning.
Norwalk should be the best track and the air should be the best we've seen all year. Hopefully things go our way and maybe we'll even have a little good luck!
We're all excited and looking forward to it!

Brad

Teardown and inspection

The engine is torn down and inspected from our testing at Denton. Everything looks great and the Speed Merchants are excited. The car's getting FASTER and we're not hurting parts. This is where you live with a low budget nitro team. You have to walk the thin line with power on one side and destruction on the other side. Our goal is to walk the line and stay consistent, stepping a little over to each side as the conditions and rewards demand. My crew chief John Dearmore is the master at walking this line. He's been doing it longer than I have been alive. We will be ready for Norwalk in 2 weeks, in fact, we've never been more ready for a race.


Brad

Videos from Denton

Here's some short videos of us at Denton.

Burnout:







Early shutoff run:








These were shot by David's brother Richard.

Enjoy!

Brad

Results from Northstar

Saturday was calling for rain but the clouds kept their moisture and gave us a very cool and enjoyable evening. We made 3 good hard runs with the best being a 4.14 @ 192.72 mph. Northstar is a great little eighth mile track with nice facilities and great fans. We had a great time, were treated well and best of all we seem to have turned a corner with our setup on the race car. The incremental times are getting down where they should be. David said he was driving a whole different race car than we had at Tulsa! So now the tear down and preparation for Norwalk OH begins. We have 3 weeks to get her ready for the trip up to Lake Erie and Randy and I are going to race our flathead dragster next Saturday at MOKAN in Missouri so I am going to be a busy boy!
Chris Graves was snapping photos at Northstar Saturday night and got some good shots. View them here: http://www.maxcacklephotos.com/
David Pace and the Dearmores had a lot of friends and family at this event and it was nice to meet all of them and for them to see what this is all about. David's brother got some video of the car running at night with nice big header flames. He is going to get the video emailed to us so hopefully I can post it here or at least post a link to it so it can be viewed by our blog readers! I am really excited about that!
Thanks to all who came out and watched and thanks to all our fans who come here to keep updated on our adventures in Top Fuel drag racing!!!!
Brad

Denton Texas

Well tomorrow morning we head Southwest to Denton. The rain forecast is calling for 50% chance of rain but like John told me today - that means there's a 50% chance it won't rain! I talked to Rich at Northstar Dragway today and he said they have very good track drying equipment and not to worry, so I won't. We really need to get some runs on the car to work on our tuneup so we are praying that the evening will be dry. So far this year it has rained every Saturday that we have been at the track with the car except for our first outing in May. That was in Texas so maybe the Lone Star state is good luck for us??? Let's hope so.
I'll post a full report Sunday night so stay tuned!

Brad

Brad Thompson update

The latest word on Brad Thompson is that he has broken ribs, sternum and a vertebrae in his neck that will most likely require surgery. Hang in there Brad, our thoughts and prayers are with you!

Brad

News- Brad has had his surgery and he recovering - doing fine but very sore. There were more cracked vertebrae than originally thought and he now has some titanium pins installed. He's going to be down for a while. Keep him in your prayers.

Brad

Brad Thompson crash.........

Last night at the race in Boise Idaho fellow Top Fuel racer Brad Thompson suffered a bad crash at the end of the final round run. Word is that he was awake but groggy as they got him from the car and that he complained of shoulder and arm pain but that he appeared to be OK. He was taken to the hospital for observations. Our thoughts and prayers go out to "Bad" Brad and his family.

Here is a link to a report from the race with a picture:

http://www.dragracingonline.com/livecoverage/x_7-boise-3.html

Brad

Fliers for match race at Northstar Dragway

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Match race at Denton Aug 16

An update on our testing comin up soon at Northstar Dragway - car owner Bill Morando from Oklahoma City has agreed to bring his car to Northstar to run against us so it will be a "match race" to give both of us much needed testing while at the same time putting on a good show for the fans in Texas. Bill's car will have Daryl Modesto in the driver's seat and Troy Green will be doing the tuning of the car. We are looking forward to running the car in Texas again as the fans are always great in the Lone Star state! I have spoken to the track owner and he is just as excited as we are and he plans on promoting the match race heavily on his website and also handing out fliers etc. Hopefully we can pack the stands for him! Check out the track website- www.northstar-dragway.com for info and directions to the track.

Brad

Next test session confirmed

We are going to North Star Dragway in Denton, TX ( http://www.northstar-dragway.com/ ) on Saturday Aug 16th to mak some test runs. I talked with the track owner this morning and he is very excited to have us. I am currently trying to find a second car to come and run against us. Not too many of these cars down here in our neck of the woods but just maybe...... details to come as I find out more.......

Brad

Springdale United Bank Car Show

Yesterday was a good day at the show in Springdale. The fine folks at United Bank did a great job with the show and made sure we were well fed and watered. Thank you United Bank! We handed out quite a few fliers and met many great people. We fired the car at about 11:15 and the crowd seemed very excited after we shut the car off. I doubt any of the people there had ever heard a car running on nitromethane. It is always fun to see the smiles on people's faces after their first nitro experience. Did I mention that it was HOT!!!!! Imagine that - BUT IT DIDN'T RAIN!

Brad

More photos from Indy

Friend and photographer David Miller was gracious enough to send me these great photos that he took at our race in Indianapolis. Thanks David! Enjoy!

Brad