Back from Bowling Green

Well, we made it back safely (car, driver, and crew) from the National Hot Rod reunion at Bowling Green Kentucky. We had a good time. We had our share of problems but we lived to fight another day. We are struggling with getting our car down the track. We have been thrown some curves and we are back on our heels at the moment. We ran a 6.65 on our first qualifying run Friday. That was good enough to get us in the show and it's a good thing because we were unable to run the 2nd and 3rd qualifying sessions. Why???? because while warming the car up in preparation for the 2nd run our brand new top - o - the line blower locked up. Nice............. None of us were expecting that for sure! Fellow top fuel racer and all around great guy Brendan Murray loaned us his spare blower which we were able to get on the car and use for eliminations on Sunday. We ran a very sad 6.82 to our competitor's 5.72 (which was low ET for the race) and had to load up and go home. We are left scratching our heads as we try to sort the clutch, fuel and ignition systems out to make a decent showing at Tulsa in just a few weeks. We will put our heads together, look at the budget and come up with a plan that we think will make the car respond in a positive way.
There will be a lot of pictures coming soon from both Indy and Bowling Green. I will post a bunch of them here as soon as Randy sends them to me.

Brad