Our 2020 season got started Thursday February 6th at Pomona with two qualifying attempts.
The first one was off to a good start before the tires shook about 100 feet out. The second run was just as ugly with almost instant tire smoke. Our next attempt wasn’t until Friday evening. Again tire shake caused an early shut off.
Going into eliminations we were qualified in the back half of the field meaning we would be paired with a fairly quick car. That would be Chris Demke who qualified with a 5.23. He just happened to be who beat us in the semifinal at the 2019 World Finals.
After a lot of thought we put together a tune up we thought may solve our problems. Low and behold as if by magic a 5.29 popped up on the score board along with the win light. That was low ET of first round beating Chris’s 5.30. Casey cut a perfect .000 reaction time to Chris’ .037. There was also a perfect reaction time in Alcohol Funny Car making this the first time for that ever to happen.
Second round we had James Stevens. I failed to adjust to the rapid cool down of the air and race track Saturday evening and the dreaded tire shake returned ending our weekend.
The next outing will be the 4 wide in Vegas followed by the Regional the next weekend. April 3-4-5 for the national event and April 10-11-12 for the regional.