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I've asked my wife Jill if she's wanted to race, ever since we were dating, and she's always said no. I asked her last week if she wanted to drive my FF/SA Turismo at Rockingham this weekend, and without blinking, she said Okay. ".... what?!" She said Okay!

We ran the test n' tune last night, but she only got to make two laps before lightning and rain set in. Two time shots today, and then in her very first round of eliminations ever she draws... the track champ from Dunn-Benson. She puts an .026 light on him and forced him into a breakout for the W!

Proud of my Baby Bear... :cool:

http://www.staginglight.com/photos/jill_burn.jpg

She has a great teacher! What would you expect! Jim

Better watch Mike you may be next Lol.

Thanks Michael -- just what we need -- another hitter ...............nice job coaching her ! !

Congratulations. I've had a similar experience, but with motorcycles. I've ridden Harleys for years and once in a while the wife would ask to join me. Suddenly, a couple of years ago, she asks if she could get a bike of her own so we could "ride together". Long story short, with no involvement from me, she takes the Harley Rider's Edge course, gets her endorsement and buys herself a Sportster. She's since traded that in on a Softail Classic, and if I don't feel like a ride, she'll actually go by herself. Don't know about the rest of you guys, but I think it is extremely cool when a woman takes the initiative to explore things her husband likes.

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Originally Posted by Michael Beard (Post 189674)

Now you have gone and created a "Monster"....lol. Your a lucky guy !

Good job, Michael.
Now, all you 've got to do is get deep staging brought back to class racing...

Good for you! Congrats on getting the wife "dialed in" to our wonderful sport.

I'm with everyone else tho', she has one of the best teachers the sport has to offer.

Unk

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Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone (Post 189727)

Good job, Michael.
Now, all you 've got to do is get deep staging brought back to class racing...

You got that right! She was pretty solid on the tree her first ever weekend of racing, being able to deep stage. Shallow staging that car makes it 10x harder to find the zipcode of the tree.

On Sunday, Jill was .014 off the trailer. First round she was .06x and said she knew she was late. Just got packaged up. Monday, we went right into first round of eliminations with no time trials. To quote Chris Plott. "I saw her rolling through that last bulb and it turned green. I 'bout threw up on my steering wheel." She was .004. :D She was still in, going into the 3rd round. Made it into the rainout split!

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Congrats on getting the wife "dialed in" to our wonderful sport.

Um, yeah.... let's not talk about dial-ins... the crew chief sucked this weekend, but the driver was good! ;) The wind was really tricky. She comfy with the burnout toward the end of the weekend, and it started repeating 60's dead on, and the 330' times were all great. Just kept moving around in the back half. It was one of those Maple Grove-like weekends, where it'd go from head to tail and back all day. Great first outing, though!

Welcome to your new addiction, Jill! :D