I'm ready for some racin!!!!

[PitRow]

Spent a late night last night putting some finishing touches on the car, today after work we're dragging it over to the shop to get it scaled and setup, and tomorrow it we'll be on the track for it's shakedown run!

This season kinda sneaked up on me and I wasn't really feeling it until last night when we got it on the trailer and ready to go. Now I'm anxious to get to the track!

Woo Hoo Saturday night dirt track racin'! Nothin better than loud cars and dirt in your beer!

[Slanted88]

Yeah Man!....Lookin forward to some pic's!

[cajun_1]

Yeah Man!....Lookin forward to some pic's!

Ditto ...

[cowgirl]

Mike, that sounds great!! Best of luck to you this weekend. :)

[Texas-Hunter]

Nice looking car Mike... Give'em hell..

[Bbqgoddess]

Sweet!!
AWESOME!!! Be safe, and win!!!
Post some pictures!!
GO GO GO!!

[blues_n_cues]

great nationwide race tonight- can't wait for tomorrow- damn the torpedoes & rack the ribs....

[Kyote]

spent a late night last night putting some finishing touches on the car, today after work we're dragging it over to the shop to get it scaled and setup, and tomorrow it we'll be on the track for it's shakedown run!

This season kinda sneaked up on me and i wasn't really feeling it until last night when we got it on the trailer and ready to go. Now i'm anxious to get to the track!

Woo hoo saturday night dirt track racin'! Nothin better than loud cars and dirt in your beer!

go fast and take chances...good luck.. Kyote

[PitRow]

Well the race got rained out. Typical Oregon spring time weather. Sunny and warm one minute. Pouring down rain the next. Oh well.

[PitRow]

Well after being rained out last weekend, we wanted to get some racing in, but our series is not scheduled to race again until may 30th. So we decided to load up and head 3 hours south to a track that was running a class we could "compete" in. Now, I put compete in quotes because the class we run in is a crate motor class... we go buy a sealed motor from GM and that's it, you can't do any mods to it. Maybe 350 HP on a good day. The class we were running in this weekend is the same chassis, but an open motor class. Some of those guys are running full aluminum block 800+ HP motors that cost 30 grand.

Anyway, it was a pretty good weekend. Had a couple of mishaps. The fuel line got tangled in the axle during hot laps and yanked it clean out of the fuel cell. Got that repaired just in time for qualifying. Turned in a time that was almost a full second faster than our best at that track last year, and landed us in 13th place, out of 17. Not bad for bringing a knife to a gun fight.

The main was going alright, pretty much outclassed the whole way, but we were holding our own. Managed to make it up to 7th place by the time a yellow flew with 5 to go. Mostly due to cars wrecking out (two cars completely flipped) but we were still holding off and passing some of the slower guys. Coming into turn 3 with the white flag flying we hit a big bump in the upper groove and knocked the battery out of it's tray and disconnected the positive cable, which shut the car down instantly. So we coasted across the white and finished 3 laps down in 10th place.

Not bad for a crate motor against the big boys, and we think we knocked all the gremlins out, which was the point of the whole night. Plus my driver says the car is hooked up better than it ever has before, so we're right on track with the setup this year.



I'll get a couple pictures up once I download them from my camera tonight.

[Capt Dan]

great report and thanks for the update. I would love to see some pics.

I guess thats what they mean by " hitting a bump in the road".!

Get em next time!

[PitRow]

A couple of pics from Saturday. I didn't have a chance to snap too many, we'll see if the track photographer comes up with any.


Click the pics for full size.

[Capt Dan]

Nice job on the pics, thanks. We don't have any dirt tracks around here anymore. I used to go to the dirt track races when I was in my young 20's!

Hope ya have a great racing season!

[Slanted88]

Man...appreciate the pic's. Got 2 dirt tracks close. I need to go see some grass roots racin!

[PitRow]

the flagger for our local track moved over there to panama city a couple years ago. He said you've got some nice tracks over there. I can't remember the name of the one he went to all the time, but it sounded like a top notch facility.