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I will add another fact (as some could say or be thinking I am not working hard enough), last winter I worked my heart and fingers to the bone and dieted the car down for the first time ever to the natural class that the guide says I fit (DF/S), and I had just run -.797 under at Pomona (the only place it has ever run those kind of numbers (both in 1995 and 2023). And at the very bottom (weight wise, bare minimum wt. allowed), of the DF/S class, it missed running the index by a number of tenths in testing, so I piled the weight back on properly and covered up the DF/S Class w/ black tape until I find a way to make it legally a lot faster. So, I am working hard and spending more to apply available off the shelf or hand created tech that the rule book now allows that was not always available to my combo. It is like the car, a slow and methodical process.

And no Billy...I think we both love racing those 8-9 second cars w/ much slower rides. Next to sex and watching my children and grand children grow into productive adults, it is the most fun I have ever had in my 67 yrs. of life!

An A/SA class car has a 4lb./hp Weight to HP factor ...an EF/S Class car it is 25.00lb. (Or 21.00/HP difference). Factoring 6HP/99Hp car=150 lbs. Total extra. 16lbs vs 150lbs. Cry me a river fast guys...take the hp hit and still run a second plus under and leave me and mine alone as you can still drive around and away from me on the top end if you have room left by me at the tree...I want you to go as fast as you possibly can go in the other lane, just not at my expense of not making the index without (either one of us potentially), cheating or risking being judged illegal or out of spec. to the rulebook.

The 2 races that make me get up on the wheel the most at the line are heads up in class, and the fastest and slowest in the category (that day), races matchups.

Those are the most fun I can have w/ my clothes on at my age! Win or lose I am having a blast doing so. Life will be gone in the blink of an eye, do not ruin it.