[GTX JOHN]

I was on the starting line observing the race in person.
I know both the racers and have raced them both several
times and run the same class as they do.

I watched both of them prepare their cars for a Heads Up
race and push them to starting line. I saw the tension and
effort they had made to win the race in their demeanor and that
of their crew. Unless they are the best actors I have seen in my
Fifty years of drag racing............The race was the real deal!

Justin's car was probably a good .1 to .2 faster consistantly
and in qualifing. Vegas is Home track to both of us......I watch his
car in testing all the time and know it's performance capability.

By the sound of Gilleys car when he put it on the
two step.............He had raised his chip up a significant amount......
I would do the same thing and pull out all the stops on a Heads Up
especially if I knew I was the underdog and indeed we HAD done the
same thing and gambled by raising the chip to the limit and gambling
that it would work with very little to lose being on the short side
of a heads up second round in Super Stock today.

Larry Gilley won the very First National Race he ever entered in Stock
and won the fourth National he entered right here in Vegas a couple of years ago!

He came to Vegas to race and win again.
What I know of his intergrity and his conduct as a person,
I do NOT believe he was Bought Out PERIOD END!!!!!!

I have carefully read each and every post on this Thread and I have not
seen a shread of concrete evidence put forth!!!!!
I do not have a dog in this fight, I have been beaten and have beat
both of these men as like most anyone who races in Division 7 for a
few years.

Again..........I was there and closely watching the race with great interest
and curiosity as they were in my class and often my competitor.........
How many of you gentleman were there by the starting line watching with me?

John Irving
Irving Family Racing