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Great Racing At Norwalk Raceway For The LODRS

Sunday brought lightning fast passes after a rainy Saturday afternoon shower.  Sunday opened to a totally different weather conditions from Saturday and Friday.  Those days had a strong tail wind very nice sun shine on the smooth race track at Norwalk.  Sunday racing started with huge break outs in the Stock and SStock classes.  The Super Gas / Comp classes made quick adjustments to cooler air.  

Top Dragster and Top Sportsman started off the the opening ceremonies.  In the first round, my opponent was spotted a couple of tenths.  After a good start I realized at half track, my car was on a good pass but I was not going to catch the racer in the other lane.  My only choice was to try to push him out and hope I treed him back at the starting line a couple of seconds ago.  The track was marginal at the start of the day, but Bill Bader's crew made the surface nearly perfect for opening ceremonies.  I was not surprised my opponent broke out but I was surprised by how much.  

The second round seemed it would never happen but no eliminations in the other sportsman classes called for some catch up to occur.  It is time to tell you that having lane choice through out eliminations is SWEET.  Our quicker ET's throughout eliminations gave us lane choice every lap.  The track was very even but the psychological advantage was fantastic.  

In the third round racing Tommy Turner was to be the most challenging round of the event.  Even though my dial is quicker, his MPH well over 200 was going to make an interesting race.  Playing the race out in my mind, Tommy leaves first, by half track I pass him by a couple of car lengths, then he pulls up to my front bumper just past the 1000 foot cone and we wait for the win light.  Well that was exactly how the race played out.  Fortunately he lead me by just a couple of thousands too much.  Good for me and Tommy emerged from the car saying that was fun and that he is so proud of the top end MPH his car makes.  I was impressed.

The forth round was treacherous.  As soon as the engine made boost a few split seconds before the car launched, the fuel system went lean and the engine sneezed.  Almost as quickly the engine responded and launched.  The RT suffered and the 60 ft time was off.  Somehow the car new it needed to make up time and it did.  I caught the other race car and then almost as quickly as my car sneezed, so did my opponents car.  I got a gift.  After passing him out of my sight, I lifted off of the throttle and coasted through for the win.  

The finals were a carbon copy of my forth round win but Gary did not flinch and made a fast, clean pass for the win.  His pass was better than mine.  

Thanks to Paul, Paula and Linda.  Thanks to Air Ride Technologies for the Shock Waves and the ride controller.  Thanks to God and to the Norwalk team for getting the racing and qualifying in.  Thanks to the kids in the Ice Cream Booth for scooping all that ice cream.  Finally thanks to the Bader family for providing a great weekend party.  

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