We fortunately had really good weather. Quite a few sun breaks. Only had one 5 minute delay due to brief sprinkles. Left around 1:30 and just 2 miles away ran into a nice downpour.
Got six runs in from 9am to 1pm. Only about half as many cars as last year. Made for a lot of practice runs which was great. First runs at 9am was terrible. Zero traction for everyone. The track was still probably wet from morning dew. Got much better after VHT spraying and guys with slicks laying down rubber.
There were three GN's there: Josh, me and the nice Gentleman from Port Orchard I believe. Nice to see Mic again. Haven't seen him since Turbo Thunder IV when he ran his burgandy Turbo T in the finals against that evil TTA guy, Rob. Cool to see Adam, his Dad and Randy there. Hope you get the Ty running again soon, Randy. Good rig for the wet season. Sam was there running his Cutlass.
Ran a new personal best of 109.64 mph. Ran another 12.4. I hit 12.4 every outing this year at Woodburn, Mission and Bremerton. Fun running with the fast crowd when I'm the only one with street radials. Cut one decent 60' of 1.87.
Half the time I was fighting bogging off the line. I've been experience this problem every race this season. One time it launches hard, another time it's a slug off the line then moves after 10 ft or so. Not a traction problem nor is it blowing black smoke like it's running rich. Possibly it's real or false detonation at the line which is retarding the timing or crappy non lock up torque convertor or something else. I'm going to hook up my new Directscan and start collecing data. Then it's Geno time.
Had a fun time. Bummer more couldn't make it out due to the uncertain weather. Look forward to next season!
