to all the people who pulled this event off! We showed up at 8:30 Wednesday morning after driving straight through from Omaha...had no idea there had been rain til we saw the salt, and had no idea how close we were to having no event to race at! This was our first time participating (130 club), so needless to say, we learned a lot. A few highlights (and lowlights): Found a crack in the oil pump cover on our baja VW while warming it up in the pits. JB Weld to the rescue! While waiting for that to set up, we were paid a visit by a super nice guy in a red hat, asking if we'd be able to help move a wrecked Caddy with our open trailer. So all 5 of us piled in the truck and followed him down to around the 6, helped lift / drag the #283 on the trailer, and hauled it out to the timing tower, where the owner wanted it, and left the whole thing parked out there. Didn't get any runs in that day, but were 19th in line for Friday morning. Made 2 runs Fri., 99.6 and 98.4...so close! (My guess for the pool was 100) The 130 course was kind of a zoo - so many Minis! Got a visit from the guy in the red hat again, who was delivering my trailer and some T-shirts from the Caddy guys. Thanks, btw, for those...we weren't expecting that. Started talking to red hat guy...turns out his name is Larry Volk!!! Larry, if you read this, the hour or so that you hung out was the highlight of our trip. And I apologize again for only offering you water or soda.
Saturday was totally different than the previous days over on the 130 course. There were no Minis!! We made our last 3 runs in about 2 hours' time, and never had to wait in line more than 10 minutes. The 2 gentlemen running the start on the 130 course were awesome...I'm sorry I don't remember your names, but you guys treated us like we were the only ones there - thanks! For our last run, they even gave us a 30-ish yard head start...which was just what we needed to crack 100.5! We were geared too tall...only 4000 rpm through the traps. So anyway, I won the pool and took the team to dinner at the Rainbow that night. It was a great trip, and now we're planning for a "big boy course" car for next year. (The Stude in my avatar is a lost cause....long story) Thanks again to everyone involved! Oh, one more highlight - I spent about a half hour at the long course start Sat. afternoon; just long enough to get to see Joe A make his 272 run!! There were a lot of HOLY S-BOMBs overheard when the numbers came out of the squawk box!!
