AHDRA 2008 – St. Louis, Georgia, and Maryland
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St.
Louis – Gateway International (Madison, IL)
April 19-20, 2008
Friday
(April 18th) at 4:40 am things were moving…there was an
earthquake that registered 5.2 on the Richter scale! Talk about a wake up call! Of course, at the time we didn’t even
know what had happened and found out later when we actually got up to
make the rest of the trip to St. Louis.
We
were all set to do some test-and-tune on the Friday, but rain had
dictated different plans. It
rained the entire afternoon and evening.
Saturday
morning greeted us with more rain, and we did not hit the track until
11:52 am! The cool conditions (it
never got up to 65) helped our ET’s and we ran fast all day. We made the field on our first run in
SEP by slowing the bike down and running a conservative 11.773. SnappyOne
loves the cooler temperatures, so we decided to also run in the SE class
(10.90 index).
Our fastest pass in the afternoon was an 11.301, which is way too
fast for the 11.50 class, but qualified us into the SE field! It was touch and go
all day, racing the rain drizzles in the afternoon and the evening and
lots of break-downs on the track, but we still managed to finish out the
day by 8 pm!
Race-day Sunday brought us sunny skies
and warm air. The afternoon was
quite a bit warmer than Saturday – getting all the way to 86
degrees! We went two rounds in the
ET class, but went out in the first round of SE. We went all the way to the third round
in SEP!
Sorry, we don’t
have any pictures for you from this weekend.
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Commerce, Georgia – Atlantic Dragway – May 24-25, 2008
Saturday morning
greets us with plenty of sunshine and warm air. It reached 94 degrees on Saturday afternoon,
and we were still able to run the number.
We qualified #7 in the 24-bike SEP field. Our friend, Erik Nelson, grabbed the
number one spot!! Good going,
Erik!
On Sunday, we won the
first round in SEP over our friend Burt Chapman. Chip cut an .023
light – good going, Chip! In the
next round, Chip cut a near identical .024 light (consistency is
wonderful), and it was a tight race with friend Troy Young, and Troy pulled the
win. All in all, a great fun day
racing with friends!!
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Rising Sun, Maryland–
Cecil County
Dragway – June 27-29, 2008
AHDRA
Northeast Nationals
Presented
by Horne Concrete Construction & Structural Concrete
GREAT
track! The facilities are
great. We wish the vendors could
have been down in the “main” part of the
pits with the rest of us, though.
It was a drawback having them way up there!
We decided to test-and-tune on Friday
afternoon, and it was very productive for us. We were able to find our power band for
the heat and our last two runs in the early evening were 11.502 and
11.509 seconds –
nice and consistent J.
Had “only” gotten up to
97 degrees at about 3 o’clock. The 11.50 runs were just after five
p.m.
For
qualifying on Saturday, our power was a little off, but we still did very
well and qualified with an 11.516 pass.
This landed us in the #3 qualifying spot! EXCELLENT. Our luck did not continue for race day
Sunday, though. We went out in the
first round of ET, but won our first round of SEP.
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Chip waits for
his opponent to do his burnout while Dave Israel looks on.
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