What was your best moment in racing

cicero819 · 11-28-2011, 10:28 PM

Winning the U.S nationals in stock... Oops I was Walter Mitty again. Seriously the best time was with my older brother driving to the US National during the late 60's and 70's with all our fun experiences flat towing his Jr Stocker, sleeping in the back of the 57 Nomad tow car, driving to California to Pomona and not qualifying(didn't matter we were having fun). Him making it back after his third tour in Vietnam as a Helicopter pilot and getting to do it one more time before he was shot down. Those were the best of times. Claude

Big Show · 11-28-2011, 11:51 PM

Its not often that you get the chance to assist a drag race legend to fulfill a dream. In January of 2001 I was crew chief of the car that Bret Kepner set a national record.
Brian Olsen let me prep a mess of a car and took it over 1200 miles, untested, to attempt to set a record. It wasn't easy, first it was disqualified at tech. After straightening the classification issue and setting the record, the car died on the return road. It looked like no back up, however after a thrash in the pits the piece of dirt in the carb was removed and we set the record lower in each of the next four runs.
Bret treated me like a Top Fuel crewchief, asking me for instructions and providing feedback after every run. The crowd was 3 to 4 people deep around us in the staging lanes! What a class act.
Thank you Bret and Brian, I will never forget that day.

11-28-2011, 10:28 PM	#1
cicero819 VIP Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Aylmer Quebec, Canada Posts: 1,087 Likes: 31 Liked 69 Times in 30 Posts	Re: What was your best moment in racing Winning the U.S nationals in stock... Oops I was Walter Mitty again. Seriously the best time was with my older brother driving to the US National during the late 60's and 70's with all our fun experiences flat towing his Jr Stocker, sleeping in the back of the 57 Nomad tow car, driving to California to Pomona and not qualifying(didn't matter we were having fun). Him making it back after his third tour in Vietnam as a Helicopter pilot and getting to do it one more time before he was shot down. Those were the best of times. Claude

11-28-2011, 11:51 PM	#2
Big Show Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Upper Midwest Posts: 9 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: What was your best moment in racing Its not often that you get the chance to assist a drag race legend to fulfill a dream. In January of 2001 I was crew chief of the car that Bret Kepner set a national record. Brian Olsen let me prep a mess of a car and took it over 1200 miles, untested, to attempt to set a record. It wasn't easy, first it was disqualified at tech. After straightening the classification issue and setting the record, the car died on the return road. It looked like no back up, however after a thrash in the pits the piece of dirt in the carb was removed and we set the record lower in each of the next four runs. Bret treated me like a Top Fuel crewchief, asking me for instructions and providing feedback after every run. The crowd was 3 to 4 people deep around us in the staging lanes! What a class act. Thank you Bret and Brian, I will never forget that day.