Our first round Saturday was pretty much a shot in the dark. We went fat early and threw that run away.

Second and third rounds were progressively better and left us racing against our old friend, Ray Cason, in first round eliminations on Sunday. We go way back with Ray - he sponsored our first pro-drag bike 10 years ago- but we weren't quite ready with our tune-up to beat him. We went out first round, but we went faster than we ever have at 190 MPH, so I am confident our latest tune-up has brought us some of the performance we needed. Let's just say we ought to have a very fast bike to start out with for our race in Reynolds, Georgia. By the way.. it's only 7 hours away and always lots of fun...

Anyway, here's a side note: Our pit bike (my personal bike) made its quickest and fastest run ever at a local bracket race at Bradenton Motorsports Park. 12.93 sec. and 130.1 MPH. Maybe these are signs of the start of a really speed-filled season!