[bill7947]

Wow! Thanks everyone for all the kind words. Once again, I am glad that everyone enjoyed the race and my description of the race. A pair of jet cars ran immediately before my third round stock race and covered the track with diesel fuel. It took NHRA a while to clean up the mess, before stock could run. I was kind of hoping the wait might bother my competition and maybe work to my advantage. I was going to be the first pair of stockers to run and was waiting in my car, right by that gathering under the tower and I could see and hear that something very strange was going on regarding my pending race. I have been running that same car, for a long time and I have already heard every possible insult that anyone could possibly direct at me or the car. It has actually gotten way better than it was when I first started racing the car. I just figured that anyone that had the nerve to show up at a race with that car better be prepared to be insulted by those that think my car has no place in NHRA competition. It does not bother me at all. If it bothered me, I guess I would build a different car, rather than run that same car for so long! I am just having way too much fun racing that car and will probably keep driving it until NHRA takes the class away someday.