Sorry I Disappeared!!

Hi Everybody!

Sorry I've been out of touch but haven't had access to a computer, so I'll recap since our blog last Friday.

Saturday we had our 3rd qualifier & first round of eliminations. We ended up qualifing 8th and we prepared for first round of eliminiations. Marty did a great job getting a hole shot on Frank Schuster, and we won with a 5.72 over Frank's 5.71. We serviced the car saturday night and made some changes to prepare for our second round on Sunday morning. Woke up to a beautiful day and we were ready to go racing! After the warm up we realized we had broken two intake springs and in order to make the run we had to change all eight. Nick & Tommy went to work but, unfortunately we had run out of time to get them all replaced. This is the first time we had been plagued with breaking intake springs all weekend. We are making changes to run a different spring in Houston to rectify this problem.

We tested on Monday and found the changes Tommy had made for Sunday were definately going in the right direction. Our first pass was a 330 ft. shut off pass and we were very happy with the time slip. We went back and tried to hop the motor and clutch way up to see if the track could handle a very aggressive change. The track had heated up and we were too aggresive and shook the tires. The third pass, we backed it down a little bit and the track had gotten even hotter and we were still too aggressive-the car shook the tires again. Although this may not sound great, Tommy was very happy with what we learned.

It was great to be back in Gainesville, we had a bunch of visitors in the pits and it was good to see old and new friends.

Eddie and I loaded up the car and the pit area on Tuesday and headed to Lake City, Fl where we will display the car at the Texas Roadhouse restaurant there this evening from 5-7pm.

Right now its about 1pm and we're hanging out at a truck stop waiting for later this afternoon to roll around so that we can pull into the Texas Roadhouse.

Am planning a speaking event up near the Florida panhandle for Friday on our way out of the state-will fill you in tomorrow on the details.

Have a wonderful day!

Jay