The drag racing series that I am racing in was invited to bring the event to Heartland Park Topeka for a Friday night race. WOW!!!! Usually there are about 75-80 cars that enter at the home track and at Topeka there were 101 cars!!! It made for a great night of racing and the last round finished up at 2:00 am Saturday morning. I have to say that I was very excited about being able to race on a world-class track.
I ended up qualifying 3rd in my class with a 14.49 second run on a 14.40 breakout. Got a bye run on the 1st round of eliminations. 2nd round my opponent broke out in round 1 so I got another bye. At a little after midnight I lined up and made the bye pass…and let off early just in case. I ended up running 14.391 – yep I am an idiot.
The 2nd round pass was the best my car has EVER 60’ and 1/8th mile’d. 2.214 60’ !!!! For my car running on P215/70/14 a typical 60’ is 2.285 – 2.300.
The family and I had a great time and the photographer that follows the series got some great photos of my car leaving the line.
The next race is the coming Saturday at KCIR. Hopefully I will remember all that I have been learning so that I can get into the finals.
TomO
I ended up qualifying 3rd in my class with a 14.49 second run on a 14.40 breakout. Got a bye run on the 1st round of eliminations. 2nd round my opponent broke out in round 1 so I got another bye. At a little after midnight I lined up and made the bye pass…and let off early just in case. I ended up running 14.391 – yep I am an idiot.
The 2nd round pass was the best my car has EVER 60’ and 1/8th mile’d. 2.214 60’ !!!! For my car running on P215/70/14 a typical 60’ is 2.285 – 2.300.
The family and I had a great time and the photographer that follows the series got some great photos of my car leaving the line.
The next race is the coming Saturday at KCIR. Hopefully I will remember all that I have been learning so that I can get into the finals.
TomO