June 5, 2005
By: Jeremy
Band competitions, chorus competitions, school trips, robotics, and a whole bunch of other things have forced us into a late start to the season. We raced once at Beaver Springs, once at Island, and twice at Numidia. The first race of the season at Beaver Springs I red-lighted first round with a -.011. The bad news came when we decided to make a trip to Island Dragway. Numidia hadn't opened yet and we needed to make sure we got to race at an NHRA track to be eligible to race at the Eastern Cpnference in Bristol, TN. On my first pass down the track at Island, the crank broke in the motor, ending my day. So we came home and took out our backup... the 10.50s motor I used to capture the 2000 Numidia track championship.
We then used that motor to race the first two races of the season at Numidia. The first race I lost semifinals to Vinny Dimino and just this Sunday I picked up my first win of the season over Chelsea Summerhill. I'm very happy with the way this old raptor motor is running. It's not fast, but deadly consistant and I can still cut a light! We hope to have the blockzilla motor back for the trip to Bristol, but if not I will not be that upset.
We will be racing now full time at Numidia and whenever possible at Beaver Springs. I would like to go to a few night races at Beaver now that they are getting a sports lighting system. Thanks Bob!
I've also been racing the Honda on Friday nights and some Sundays at Numidia, getting ready for the high school challenge race.
I have it figured that I am 2nd in Jr points at Numidia only 1 round behind Justin Bowden! I'm really looking forward to the divisionals at Maple Grove this year!!! Thank you NHRA for moving it away from that other "race track"!
See ya at the track!
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