At Tri State Dragway in Earlville, Iowa this weekend, we achieved a significant goal with the car.
It was actually a 'double-up' on two goals. With the NHRA National Index for G/SA being 12.00, any run in the 10's would both get it into the '1 Second Under' club while at the same time breaking into the 10's.
The weather was pretty decent but the DA was rising quickly before the first pass. The car left smoothly, carried the front end out quite a ways, and really ran hard to 1/8th. In high gear, I knew it was on a good one when the tach was at 7,400 about 50 feet before the finish line.
The time slip read
10.955 @ 119.53.
Good enough for #5 on the qualifying sheet.
The next run was a 10.947 followed by a 10.964 and a 10.969 before I went out in the second round (126 cars).