Paul and Chris took Paul’s ’85 Mustang out to the track this weekend to race in Pro Bracket at the A Street Automotive ET Gold Cup Series with the new 31-spline Moser spool in the rear-end and new, single-plane intake manifold on the engine. There was a separate race on Saturday & Sunday to kick off our 2021 schedule! Now I turn it over to Paul for the complete racing recap – Roger
Capture from Chris Young video on Saturday
We enjoyed beautiful weather this past weekend for the season opener @ Pacific Raceways. We took Paul’s Handan Trailer Repairs sponsored ’85 Ford Mustang out for this 2-day race in Pro and all went really well. The car ran flawless all weekend after a few upgrades over the off-season which was a new spool for the 9-in Ford rear-end and an intake change.
Saturday:
We got 1 time run and the car went 11.751 @ 114.10 with a .043 rt. We made it to the 4th rd and was still rolling but unfortunately ran into the 5 pm curfew.
Sunday:
We got 1 time run and car went 11.785 @ 114.22 with a .031 rt. We made it to the 4th rd once again but this time took a loss against Al Chinn due to going red. I made a rookie mistake by letting the car creep forward while the tree was coming down but lesson learned!
As was stated above the car was flawless with much improved consistency in 60 ft times (first 5 passes all 1.58) and it sure helps with reaction times, dialing the car, etc. We had 3 passes where it ran pretty much dead on the dial.
Big thanks to the crew this weekend that helped keep the car cool in between rounds and just had an all around good time at the track as that is what makes it fun. Thanks as always to my crew chiefs Dad & Bro as they truly are the ones that make the car run like it does as I pretty much just hop in it and drive.
Huge congrats to our sponsor Handan Trailer Repairs as their son Jiovanni Collecchi won Super Comp and Super Pro on Sunday. Way to go kid!
Hope to see you all again soon! – Paul Young
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