[Steve C.]

My take on the light turn out...

Many who travel long distances stayed home because of the threat of rain. Our local news and the weather channel the night before was not very encourging. But as we know the day turned out ok. Also for many to make travel plans and schedule the time without knowing far enough ahead IF they were even going to have the event had some impact. Lack of advertising in the Pontiac magazines might also have had some impact. And as suggested the car show on Sunday after the race not before as in past years.

On the performance levels.... quite a few indicated their times were off. Some said 2 to 3 tenths! Personaly with my T/A it could only muster 11.30-31 runs where as last year it ran consistant 11.06-11.08.

Dispite some real bad tire shake and getting out of the groove we did manage to make one nitrous pass with the Fairmont. On one kit only with a conservative soft tune-up it ran 8.79 at 155 mph. The car is set up for 1/8 mile racing and with the 1/4 mile and nitrous use the trap rpm was way high at or near 7800 rpm. Plus after that run the track officials got on John for having his NHRA licence expired.... so he ran footbrake at 10.00 flat ET during elimination rounds.