Well it was a beautiful warm if not hot Southern CA day today. A slightly heavy cross wind on the track. Four Vipers showed up along with a bunch of mostly late model cars (a large Corvette contingent). Plenty of nice cars and people hanging out for the day. Thanks to Hugh Hoard for offering me a Racing jacket when the track officials wanted to boot me off. Chris and Lyle were there from DC performance offering support to Hugh in his NHRA licensing runs.
The car ran consistent and hard as usual and I must say the man upstairs was watching over me today. My last pass was up against an altered dragster. I was sure he would immediately blow by me. Whether it was a shake down run or just inexperience or both, I was clearly ahead of him. As we were approaching half track I felt his presence in my peripherey. It seemed like he suddenly dissapeared and I quickly glanced in my rear view mirror only to see the top of his cage and his car flying in the air just over my rear spoiler. I've gotta say the results looked frightening and it was a miracle that this person actually was able to walk out of the wreckage. I can only imagine what the results would have been if I was just a hundreth of a second slower. I guess I should rethink the deal of not running a roll bar.
The car ran an easy 11.29 @ 128.8 with a consistent 1.8 60'. Pilot sport cups. My goal is an 10.9X pass in this pure street combination. I think a full day of practice should honestly establish this car as a true N/A, no power adder, all emissions, 91 octane daily driver 10 sec machine. The real question is do I tempt fate and run it again without a roll bar?
I ran a new Z-06 a couple of times, nice power from the factory, but he was 10 mph slower.
The car ran consistent and hard as usual and I must say the man upstairs was watching over me today. My last pass was up against an altered dragster. I was sure he would immediately blow by me. Whether it was a shake down run or just inexperience or both, I was clearly ahead of him. As we were approaching half track I felt his presence in my peripherey. It seemed like he suddenly dissapeared and I quickly glanced in my rear view mirror only to see the top of his cage and his car flying in the air just over my rear spoiler. I've gotta say the results looked frightening and it was a miracle that this person actually was able to walk out of the wreckage. I can only imagine what the results would have been if I was just a hundreth of a second slower. I guess I should rethink the deal of not running a roll bar.
The car ran an easy 11.29 @ 128.8 with a consistent 1.8 60'. Pilot sport cups. My goal is an 10.9X pass in this pure street combination. I think a full day of practice should honestly establish this car as a true N/A, no power adder, all emissions, 91 octane daily driver 10 sec machine. The real question is do I tempt fate and run it again without a roll bar?
I ran a new Z-06 a couple of times, nice power from the factory, but he was 10 mph slower.
