Wanted to share with you some details from our exciting day of racing. The long and short of it is: We ran in TWO final rounds! We lost both 
but we had a blast all day long! Here is a rundown of each class and how we fared:
Silly title, I know. But I don’t know whether the weather will cooperate this weekend or not. We will be racing at Mason Dixon this weekend and the weather forecast is for cloudiness some of the day, and that will be following 2 days of rain. Also, it will be in the 40’s in the morning. Way too cold for drag racing. Unless you enjoy breaking axles, transmissions and blocks. I don’t.
We’ll just have to see. I’ll let everyone know if we end up racing, and results of the race. This will be first one where the family doesn’t come along if we do end up going.
I’m very excited that we are planning to race on Oct 25th. We’ll let you know how it goes. Hoping for quick times and consistent lights.
We have really had a blast taking the car out the past few times. We have been out to Mason Dixon twice in the last 5 weeks. Both times we ran with the outlaw pontiacs which is always fun. But it was a little soured by losing first round in both events because of red lights. I am eagerly looking forward to the thrill of getting down to the wire at the bottom end of the track. Its really different being back on the 1/4 mile track vs when I was running on 1/8th mile. It seems like the finish line is forever away. And frankly it seems like it would use more gas but I honestly haven’t noticed an increase in consumption. Which is very good at $8+ / gallon
Tags: drag racing
Well, not much going on at the track for Leese racing. But we are moving the operation back to Maryland. Moving a racecar operation is expensive, so we’ll just have to see if there is any money leftover to run. If there is, we will race with the outlaw Pontiac drag series most likely.
Man, it has been such nice weather out there lately, it DEFINITELY feels like racing weather. We haven’t prepped the car yet because we are considering moving to a new town this spring. If we end up spending $3K on moving, it seems like racing will get prioritized out. Pretty much a bummer, but that is the way life and racing work out sometimes.
We are very excited that the holidays are coming and that means a new year and a new season. We haven’t had to do too much to the car, thank goodness, so we have just winterized it (put extra air in the tires) … living in florida, there isn’t much risk of busting a freeze plug or having other severe weather related problems. So we are just planning on having a nice holiday season and also with the chance of moving in the spring we are looking at our parts inventory and considering paring down a little.
Well, just want everyone to know that even though we didn’t get a chance to compete – we had a great time doing test-and-tune runs. Had a really great reaction time on the second run, and a great ET and sixty foot on the first run.
Dragtracker is working nicely for organizing our runs and quickly finding runs from comparable weather conditions.
Tags: 60', drag racing
Found this article very interesting…
http://sportscarnet.com/blog/2008/09/shocking-and-fascinating-facts-about-top-fuel-dragsters/
Looking forward to getting out on the 4th. Hopefully I can keep cutting good lights and get even better at the top end game. Iactually feel pretty confident with that, but getting a good dial-in, well, I don’t have any experience with it since Dad always dialed us in. But I hope to get the hang of it before too long. It was always about trusting him, so the times that I wouldn’t have dialed the same thing he did, I would have lost and so I need to use his logic a little better at those moments.
Tags: dial-in, drag racing, finish line