Well; I went out to the track tonight thinking it was open track night for "fun runs" and was sadly mistaken. My friend and I showed up at 5:30pm because I had called the track about tonight earlier in the week and they told me "the gates open at 5pm and racing goes until 11pm". I assume that meant gates open at 5pm and racing starts at 6pm; silly me. It turns out that gates opened at 2pm and racing started at 3pm and everything ended at 9pm. Back on track.............. me and my buddy arrive, go through tech and get in line. The linesman comes up to me and says "what's your time?" and I'm thinking he just was interested in what I run........no sir........he wanted my time for BRACKET RACING. It seems we just missed out on all the time trials and were JUST in time for eliminations. My best at that time was a 12.40 so I tell him to write 12.40 as it was a nice cool night(coldest since summer). After waiting in line for about 40 minutes it's our turn to run; luckily not each other, and I get lined up with some pro driver piloting a giant engine on a chassis with a seat behind it!!! We line up and I launch pretty good but still spun the Hoosiers(everybody was struggling for traction) and I feel pretty damn good about my first "bracket race". When I get back to the booth and get my timeslip I am both happy and devestated(sp) at what I ran. I dialed in at 12.400..................and I ran 12.399..............I BROKE OUT BY .001 SECONDS!!!! Needless to say I was eliminated my first pass and wasn't allowed to run again.


On the positive side I ran my PB ET and trap tonight and it was spinning the tires.

12.399 @ 113.11 off of a 1.91 60' boost was 17.2psi

The temp was 79* when I made that pass