Day 1: Monday Sept 10
Got an early start, wanted to get into race mode before the driver's meeting so that it wouldn't be so hot out. Good thing we got an early start because one of our competitors had a dead battery. Between our spare battery and another guy's jump box we got it running. Super cool truck.
On our way in.
The crummy 87 octane turned one of my wheels gold because it was near the exhaust. Yuck.
Unpacking is easy with the big plastic totes.
Ready to go.
After hours upon hours of delays, we finally got into the staging lanes and waited for hours again only to get rained out when were a couple pairs from making a pass. No racing for us on day 1. Luckily we had that tarp covering our gear in the pits. I rushed back and changed back over to street mode and re-packed as quickly as possible in the rain. Just after we finished, it downpoured like crazy. Very lucky.
Hot Rod decided that our class (Street Machine Eliminator) would waive Monday times since not everyone had a chance to run and base our final time off of a 4 day average instead of 5. All other classes would count since they had a chance to run. Kind of a bummer for a lot of class cars that either didn't make a run or made a poor first run and had no chance to improve it.
View leaving the track in the rain.
Stopped at the restaurant just up the road to eat and watch cars while we waited out the monsoon.
These poor guys were having problems with the car stalling out and not running right. They thought they had it fixed but had to drop out of competition not too much further from where this picture was taken. They continued the rest of the week towing the car, Drag Week is more about the experience than the racing.
First check point.
Second check point.
Very uneventful drive (for us) because we had rain tires. It rained. A lot. Made it to the hotel at a reasonable time.