Beware of the "cracked rear wheel" Bandit

[buzzinhalfdozen]

Mike, glad to hear you didn't actually have a problem. Although it would be poor form to do something like that to try to get someone off their game I'd like to believe it was an honest person just misdiagnosing a concern. Sometimes we are so focused on one thing we tend to overlook a lot of things, like a visual inspection of our rides. Anyway glad you didn't really have an issue. Joe

[Michael Beard]

I bracket raced at Pageland Dragway in SC on Saturday. Put 2 psi more in my radials than I normally run to make an adjustment on the tree. They called Modified to the lanes three times, and nobody wanted to be first out on a 'fresh' track. I went up, and was in the first pair out. Hooked like a bear! Big thumbs up to the Pageland Dragway crew.

There's no reason to have iffy track conditions at a national event, IMO.

[Bobby DiDomenico]

I'd have to agree it was someone who might have thought the wheel was cracked, but it wouldn't have taken much just to swipe the wheel to see. And you could always have asked anyone else there to see quickly. If it was cracked, I'm not letting a car I'm working on go down the track, I've told my buddy that my first concern is the car doesn't crash. And if the car doesn't crash he's going to be OK.

And in all the years we've raced against Anthony in IHRA Division 5 and at NHRA races, him and Rodney have never been anything but upstanding to race against.