Odd Bits

   Another Saturday with lots of choices as far as racing goes.  There's the Nostalgia Finals down at the Patch and they're running the NE1 and NE2 groups this weekend. There's a couple of Nostalgia funnies doing some testing today and I believe one of the Oakdale boys is testing his big show car out there too.
I thought about going down, but an eight hour round trip drive just doesn't sound appealing.

  Closer to home, but still a couple of hours' drive, are the Fuel Altereds running at Eagle Field in Firebaugh - also in the SJ Valley.  I thought about heading out for this too, but couldn't get a confirmed car count and certainly wouldn't go if there were less than four - which may very well be the case.  Also, going to a show and not being able to do anything in the pits...sounds pretty boring to me.  Maybe if I'd planned ahead and found someone to go with me, but alas, I didn't.  I'll look for posts on it later to see how it turned out.

   I did watch the NASCAR Nationwide race today and I'm so glad that I love drag racing instead.  No disrespect, but I'm usually at a loss for the appeal.  I understand the strategy involved and appreciate how that factors into the whole race, but it reminds me somewhat of a pro-basketball game.  There's usually a lot of activity that means nothing until the end of the game - same thing in roundy - round racing.  I'm sure there's people that totally disagree with me and I don't care.  It's just that I'm not interesting in learning all the nuances surrounding it.  There's much more to study in drag racing that will serve me better.  Anyway, my purpose in scribing today wasn't to beat up NASCAR; because if it was down to watching NASCAR or some sit com on TV, you better bet I'm watching the race. 

  So we're down to less than 2 weeks before the end of the series and things are definitely heating up amongst the competition and in our own camp as well.  I talked to Huggy yesterday and Shawn today.  Both gave me an update status on the car.  The blower has been refreshed and is ready to start huffing again.  We had the cylinder heads re-bored and racks built.  Over the next week the clutch packs are going to be built and we're hoping to get at least 3 or 4 runs on test day.  Also found out that besides Krabill, Rupert is supposed to be testing too.  There was one other car that was mentioned, but I can't recall who it was right now.  I contacted my buddy, Les, who produces the most wicked-sick racing videos, to tell him about the test session too.  Hopefully he can make it and will film the precursor to the championship for everyone.