Super Stock was fun..

Our foray into the world of Super Stock racing was fun, and we learned a lot.

We learned that we are not very far off of being very competitive in Super Stock. But running a Stocker in Super Stock without doing all of the things you can do in Super Stock was fun, but that is all.

In Super Stock, we could have modified our Cylinder heads, used a bigger cam, and used bigger tires. And in spite of not doing any of this, we were still pretty competitive.

We qualified 12th among almost a hundred Super Stockers. That wasn't too bad.

Then, in the first round of Class running against other Super Stockers in our our class (SS/JA) decided to run against the fastest car in our class, and the only one in our class to go faster than we did in qualifying. You might ask why we would, by choice, face the fastest car in our car? The reason is simple: It made no sense to us to run other cars and maybe beat them all, only to run up against this car in the finals and lose then, if we are going to lose to him at all. As it turns out, our little Stocker couldn't beat that particular SS/JA Super Stocker. So we were eliminated from Class.

So, Saturday morning we run in Super Stock Eliminator where we get to dial what we think we can run, and then we runa handicap race against other Super Stockers, we also need to run their "dial". Our first round we won by having the other driver break out or run faster than his dial. That was car a bit slower than ours. And because he got the head start, and couldn't see us coming after him, he kept pushing all the way to the light and went too fast.

Our next run later in the day was against a car far faster than our. He was a high 8 second or low 9 second car, whereas, our best runs have been high 9s and low tens. That meant that we got a head start. And on the previous run, we ran all out and recorded a 10.30 time. So we decided that with the weather change; warmer air, higher humidity, etc, we dialed a 10.33. We got a good start, and were off down the track, the other car then started, got a slightly worse reaction time, but came on like gang busters, and was catching us near the finish line, but this time our car ran faster than we thought it would. We ran a 10.25 which being lower than our dial, means that we were disqualified. Close, but no cigar.

So our next race is next weekend right here in Las Vegas at a Divisional race. We are still deciding whether we will run Stock or Super Stock in that race. But we have a week to think over the pros and cons.

Probably no reports for most of this week since we won't be racing and car is still in the trailer at Las Vegas Speedway. Also, just a note, I will be incommunicado for a while as my cell phone is dead until later in the week when I change hotels and pick up a new charger.

David