[Ed Carpenter]

Well well we had an interesting weekend. Yes the turnout was poor. David Latino and I had a discussion about it before our first rd race. I can't explain why no one shows up. The race was run well. Nice track. I've never seen that many people show up for an IHRA race. It was packed. Hell when I left there was still a huge line trying to get in the place. We had just put a new clutch in the car the night before at 1 in the morning. Our first pass it tried to turn over backwards on me. We took some clutch out and on the second run it was even more aggressive and pulled the wheels as high in second gear as it did on the starting line. We took a little more out. It responded by doing the same thing as the second run only now it pulled the wheels in 3rd gear. Well after the run I had no clutch at all after I crossed the scales. Rob uses a bigger throwout bearing for his clutch. The t/o bearing had pushed threw the fingers on the clutch. My daughter had a playoff soccer game that night. I had to leave. So my son stayed back and took it apart by himself and got it all back together with some help from Shawn Allsup who was just there spectating. Thanks Shawn. My son Brent is the man. He loves to work on that car. Without him I wouldn't be racing. Against David Latino I cut a good light .018 but I used up the entire track on the pass and couldn't run the number. We had fun and met alot of new people. Ed