Not for Nuthin' But Close!

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

Cecil County Update!
I replaced the Driver with a Trained Monkey after consistent floggings didn't change the Drivers demeanor. The Monkey needs work.
It wasn't the usual C.C. weather by a long shot! More like Numidia in July.
The car still continues to surprise me with it's consistency. Once I (I mean the Monkey)"found" my starting-line RPM with the new converter, I was .022 on my last T&T run and .005, .007 and .020 on my two Q runs and 1ST RD.. The car runs whatever it is supposed to run give-or-take a couple of hundredths. It ran the fastest ETs it ever did at this weight and on a not-good weather day (15.023 15.60 index). With this combo in the car it should have gone 14.80s at Atco. We'll find out at M.G. this coming week.

Back to the Monkey, I put a 15.09 on the car pretty-much assuming that it would go an 09 or a 10 against a AA/SA dial of a 9.88. The Monkey had the tree and decided to dump said AA/SA car in the lights and gave up the win light by .0025 killing .02 and 3 MPH. .577 under in over 3000 ft. of air!
Good junk.
Bad Monkey!

Yep..Sounds like me at the last Combo race. I was racing a 10.0 S/S car in the semi's and decided, from the looks of things, to give it up .Turns out I had 4 hun to work with, but then ended up way over the dial.
Last time I did this a 10.7 Stocker was rare. Now, 9 sec. cars are everywhere.
So now I've decided, if I can't tell who's getting there first....keep it welded to the floor and hope the car knows what to do.

Glad to hear it wasn't the car's fault LOL
I see the 60' s are coming around :-)