Merry Christmas

In my last post, full of anticipation, I said I would report on the Indianapolis Banquet and our awards.

Initially, when the award was annouced, and we all started chasing it, there were several things that we were told.

So we spent a lot of money and won a lot of races, and ultimately won the award.

But guess what, the really big championship sized trophy, wasn't all that big. In fact it was a standard Class winning sized trophy. But I have it now. I was also told that I would get our Class trophy from Vegas at teh Banquet, but nobody there had a clue about that.

Initially, we heard that a Gold Card came with the win, but later heard it would be a Jacket, and that was apparently later to changed to .....absolutely nothing.

There were other promises and to date, they  are still unrealized. But who knows...

Well at least we would get the Program card for the Banquet to keep as a souvenir. The only problem with that, is there is no mention of our award in the Program. I don't t think this was the fault of the Division people, as they just didn't get the news in time.

So it was all of the Junior dragster winners that got their awards, and spoke their thanks, and a bunch of other awards as well, and then... they called the three winners, Super Stock Automatic, Stock Stick, and Stock Automatic, handed them their trophies, and that was that.. Wham bam, thank you maam.

At least we got a free dinner. We had two tickets, one from Division, one from NHRA, and the kind folks at Milan Drag Strip gave me one too. Thanks friends.


The food was quite a bit below average, and they ran out of the chicken, and  and other stuff too... we stopped at a restaurant afterwards, to get some real food.

So, all in all, the whole thing was pretty much disappointing all the way around.

The only good part was seeing  a couple of old friends, and meeting a couple of new ones.

I would have posted a picture of the trophy, but it same as the others, and if you have seen one, you seen them all. 

As you can tell, I was more than a bit disappointed about the way the whole program was handled. That last trip West cost as much as we won from the Contingency Sponsors, so now I can only hope that the Contingency Sponsors actually pay up. Mopar, and Comp Cams are the only one to pay so far, and quite frankly I am still owed by many for the Columbus Sports Nationals win. It is sad that when you support a product, and win, these contingency sponsors are either very slow pay, or no pay at all, except for a couple.

Next year, my car will have a lot fewer stickers on it. No, I will leave them on but put a big red NO in a circle over them so folks know they don't pay.

To everyone who follows the blog, even the competitors, I wish you all a Very Merry Christmas, and happy New Year.

God Bless, and Safe Racing.

David