Had a good time in Ennis , Texas for the bracket finals . Got there thursday and dropped the trailer . Checked into the hotel around 3:00ppm had everything unloaded and ready to test and tune by 6 pm . First pass i got a bit over zelous and wrung it out in the burnout box filling the top of the motor with oil . Oil light flickered at me after the burnout and sure enough , valve cover leak . Tightened the cover and made 2 good hits Was 6 numbers apart from 7 to 10pm . Truck was running good . Locked camp down and headed out .
First thing friday morning , oil down passenger side of motor . sent wife into town for parts and got it fixed . 1 tt and then gamblers race . truck was still good . driver , not so good . Numbers still in line but i went red first pass right lane . I just flat out left on the second amber . Cold front came through about 10 pm . Temp dropped like 40 degrees in an hour .
Saturday was sceduled to be 1 time trial and then first round of elems . 54 degree track . Time trial was a wild ride .015 in the right lane as it rotated right in the wheelie . I pulled 2nd and brought it down and drug it back leeft into the groove missing the wall by a foot or less . it spun til i made 2/3 shift and left rubber til 120' . fastest pass of the weekend @6.971 . Went red by a touch right lane again 1st round . Then the rain came .
Started out sunday , no time trial put a 6.97 on it and hada decent light in the left lane drove it down with clean numbers and whopped it once rn a 6.99 and broke the other guy out . Round 2 . went red and ran it out 6.984 on a 6.98 . Had a blast . sorry for the novel write up .