Well, it's that time of year again! Another Jr Dragster - Eastern Conference Finals event is in the books. Not the same degree of success as last year, but a fun week none the less. Benjamin's City/County baseball team had 2nd round playoffs Thursday night till 8'ish, which gave me very little time to finalize the prep for the trip. So, with 2.5 hours sleep, Benjamin, Danny and I pulled out at 4:30AM on Friday - Mom and Amanda were set to arrive the following Tuesday (Amanda couldn't miss Acting Camp!!).
A second round playoff loss allows Ben to focus on the week of racing!
It's early! Danny was the first one up, dressed and shaking me awake at 4AM - and he's not even racing yet!
No trip is issue free! So, this year it was a massive trailer tire explosion about an hour from Bristol, TN. In 10 years of towing, this is the first time I've had a blown tire. The boys were quite excited as it broke the boredom of the 9+ hour pull. Of course the jack I keep in the trailer was rusted up, so after unloading the trailer to get the spare we had to unload the back seat of the truck to get the jack! Danny was mesmerized by the old tire! As we start up to continue, the truck throws a code....some days.
We get there a little later than we wanted to, but easily got our desire pit spot - but with 800+ kids racing for a week, it filled up fast!
Benjamin's final round photo has been used in numerous NHRA publications and on their website throughout the last year, so we had high hopes of repeating the success from 2014 - ignoring the fact that we had changed classes, are running a full second quicker, 10 mph faster, and put a fair amount of work into the chassis... ie; we have zero historical data to work from!
