I don't usually take a camera with me, but this time I did since these were going to be my last races this year.
I guess I can start off with the car first. It's the first DSR car ever sold. It was Tony's car that they tested in Jan. It's tag number is 007 and they named it Sam squared. It also has Antron's body and wings that came from Lucas. We got the chassis 2 weeks before we left for Vegas. We gathered all the parts and had it at Indy Saturday, they were having an NHRA open race and they were going to let us test. We warmed it up, took it up there, did a burn out, packed it all up and headed to Vegas Sunday night. We got there Wednesday, unpacked, fiddled with a few things and ran a 5.46 at 250 on the first pass on Friday. We had 60 ft's in the .920's the whole time, which is pretty quick for an a/fuel car.
We ran the National and the Divisional in Vegas, and didn't qualify for either, I think the bump for both of them was a 5.42. Then in Pomona we missed a qualifying run because of rain, tried a few different things and didn't qualify there either. The first lap it ran a .926 60ft and a 2.55 330ft, it was smoking the tires at 300ft though and was still 3rd quickest of the session. We backed it down a little there and it shook the tires, the driver peddled it and it ended up takin out the finish line cone.
I guess I can start off with the car first. It's the first DSR car ever sold. It was Tony's car that they tested in Jan. It's tag number is 007 and they named it Sam squared. It also has Antron's body and wings that came from Lucas. We got the chassis 2 weeks before we left for Vegas. We gathered all the parts and had it at Indy Saturday, they were having an NHRA open race and they were going to let us test. We warmed it up, took it up there, did a burn out, packed it all up and headed to Vegas Sunday night. We got there Wednesday, unpacked, fiddled with a few things and ran a 5.46 at 250 on the first pass on Friday. We had 60 ft's in the .920's the whole time, which is pretty quick for an a/fuel car.
We ran the National and the Divisional in Vegas, and didn't qualify for either, I think the bump for both of them was a 5.42. Then in Pomona we missed a qualifying run because of rain, tried a few different things and didn't qualify there either. The first lap it ran a .926 60ft and a 2.55 330ft, it was smoking the tires at 300ft though and was still 3rd quickest of the session. We backed it down a little there and it shook the tires, the driver peddled it and it ended up takin out the finish line cone.
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