Were you there in 2004?

[Robert Simpson]

Originally Posted by Lynn A McCarty

Would anyone do it today? It seems now there is an assault on those setting records. :-(

I heard rumors people were taking weight out as scales measured heavy, and the mph numbers were short. Any truth to that?

Hey Lynn, I was there. The weather was just that fast. Slight tail wind good track etc. We had our car in bracket mode. It was allot of fun especially tear down. All the car were lined up in the staging lanes angled toward each other, there was a line to have the heads carb etc checked. It was the first time I saw a SS/K 283 run a 9! Tyler Cassel was there to run it with Robin Brown. Tyler 10.02, Robin 9.98? The scales were close. I always ran on the safe side. It was fun watching people working hard to run hard, on purpose. Fun times. The MPH for my car was very close to what I had been running, nothing funny for me.

[Stephen & Horace Johnson]

Originally Posted by Robert Simpson

Hey Lynn, I was there. The weather was just that fast. Slight tail wind good track etc. We had our car in bracket mode. It was allot of fun especially tear down. All the car were lined up in the staging lanes angled toward each other, there was a line to have the heads carb etc checked. It was the first time I saw a SS/K 283 run a 9! Tyler Cassel was there to run it with Robin Brown. Tyler 10.02, Robin 9.98? The scales were close. I always ran on the safe side. It was fun watching people working hard to run hard, on purpose. Fun times. The MPH for my car was very close to what I had been running, nothing funny for me.

I remember this race well, this was the first 9sec K car, and I think Tyler was running the guts out of that SBC to get the record from robin!! There was pretty much not any down time at all, you just went out and made a pass, almost like a Test and Tune! This might have been the same race i went into a bad wheelstand and bent both rims, broke tie rod, crushed oil pan and headers........

dad and I have been talking to the div 2 director and track owner about coming back.........(fingers crossed)

[Lynn A McCarty]

Stephen, if the air is that much better, then u should be running way more mph unless your running out of something :-).

No one ever set a record for the money except maybe an engine builder...anyway for the prize money.