[Billy Nees]

The only record that I can honestly remember setting was the HF/SA record in the Sunbird from H&ll. It was early in the year at Delmar and there were loads of cars there just to set records (it was FAST!). I went out for my first run and just nudged the record a couple of hundredths. The "then current record holder" was there without his car and came over and congratulated me and told me that he would get the record back as soon as he got his car back together. Knowing that, I went out for my backup pass and went a few tenths quicker. As it turned out, I went too fast to use my first run as a backup and was going to have to make a third pass to use as the backup. The "then current record holder" comes back over while I'm waiting in the lanes and tells me that he'll still get his record back but he'll probably have to "blow up his stuff" to do it. Third pass, I went over 1/2 a second under the existing record, scaled and fuel checked and stopped on the return road to show the "then current record holder" the timeslip and ask him if he thought that he could go faster than that, he said no.
After the third run, I went to teardown where there must have been over a dozen cars tearing down before me. I started taking the car apart and was told by one of the Tech Inspectors,"Billy, go get some dinner or take a nap because we're not doing you until last because we don't even know how to check that thing". I got done at after 2 the next morning.
HF/SA was a fun class. It's too bad that NHRA decided that it wasn't worth having around anymore.