It was a great night for me making it to the 4th round before I went to sleep on the tree ending what was a wonderful night for myself, my dedicated crew and the ’57. This was our first time back out with the ’57 since breaking our old 5-speed at the Wild West Nostalgia Race. My profound thanks to Liberty’s Gears for providing the new gears to make it possible!
In the 2nd round I cut my FIRST perfect reaction time which I needed to get around the always tough, Dustin Ward. The margin of victory was only 0.0019 seconds at the stripe! We were scrambling a bit with our dial-ins tonight because as the temperature and humidity were improving, the water grains were rapidly increasing putting us in unchartered data for the ’57. Chris did a great job!
Going back to the Hoosier slicks made a BIG improvement for us this year! We averaged a 1.448 60-foot time throughout the year on hot tracks! And the excellent track prep by the crew at Pacific Raceways is greatly appreciated.
These are the last passes for our old reliable 331 which we originally put together in 1993. Next year we’ll have our new 350 in the old buggy!
And a shout out to Jim Doyle, Anthony Hutchison and Mike Gardner who gave all of us some fantastic shots during the 2014 race season! A great job by professional photographers and I’ve posted just a small sample of the shots they took this evening below!
Congratulations to the Pacific Raceways 2014 Track Champions!
Super Pro: Norm Braedt
Pro: Jack Ward
Sportsman: Nick Douglas
Motorcycle: Jake Havens
Junior Dragster:
EF-65 Junior Storm Points – Alexis Krier
EF-65 Junior Thunder Points – Luke Cavar
EF-65 Junior Lightning Points – Kelsee Gage
Enjoy the ride and we’ll see you in 2015! – Roger
And here is just an example of the great shots taken by the dedicated photographers out at Pacific Raceways taken this evening alone:
A very unique shot by Jim Doyle of Martin Lambert with his Monza “Taz” and our ’57 launching in the 2nd round of qualifying this evening. I believe this was taken from the tower
A very difficult low angle shot taken by Mike Gardner of the same launch that Jim Doyle took from the tower. Great shot Mike!
Anthony Hutchison captured this great shot during qualifying tonight. Thanks Anthony!
We love this shot that Mike Gardner took on our 3rd round bye with the front parking lights lit. We love the new grille and the now functional parking lights! Thanks Mike for the memories!
You can see many more great pictures from the track by Mike Gardner at Mike’s Adrenaline Charged Photograpy
