Congrats Michael Beard, Stock win

Mike McCandless · 04-27-2009, 10:47 AM

The hard luck award goes to randall cantrell. He's a local piedmont dragway racer that borrowed someone's car to run. A 13 second PS car. He's .017 dead on with a 2 and in the trailer. .019 package and goes home. That's brutal. I wasn't good this weekend, I was lucky. The wagon was in a million pieces just days before. In 2nd round, I lost my brakes in the staging beams. The pedal started going down to the floor when I bumped in. I took off and put my foot behind the brake pedal to force myself to not use. Luckily the other guy went red and I coasted down. Turned out to be a minor issue, but in the car I had no clue. It was quick fix. Third round the car wasn't warm enough and the car stumbled and I was late. Once again, guy went red. During the bye run of 4th round, I lost my back brakes. The adjuster broke and I started sliding through the lights. When I ran beard, the weirdest thing happened. I come out of the burnout box and the glove box comes flying open (I didn't even know it opened), crap went flying everywhere. Out of nowhere a bottle of shoe polish got stuck between my foot and the brake pedal. I stopped before the lights trying to reach and it and get it out of the way with no luck. At that point, I didn't want to screw beard around as I hate starting line games. I believe this type of racing is 85% mental and I lost before I even staged. I had too much stuff running through my mind and rushed. I had been .03 all weekend (when rolling through, subtract the 60' and I'm .02 and the stumble was .06). My time runs were all .03-.04. The I pull out an .04 red. I was frustrated at myself, but all a learning experience. It was my third race in the car, so I can't complain.

I was really looking forward to running beard. I knew he would be tough on the tree and I looked forward to driving the stripe with him. When I prestaged and looked over I saw beard looking right at my front tire planning his strategy. I always enjoy running successful racers. You know you need to be on your game and that is what makes this fun. I'm looking forward to doing more IHRA racing as the people are great. My only complaint is that stock eliminator cars take forever to get to the lanes! I came up one time worrying I was late and I was the 3rd pair out, this was for first round haha. I'm looking forward to finishing up stock so we can change motors and the mighty bocephus hits SS

Once again, congrats to beard. Always a stand up racer

04-27-2009, 10:47 AM	#21
Mike McCandless Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 121 Likes: 3 Liked 320 Times in 35 Posts	Re: Congrats Michael Beard, Stock win The hard luck award goes to randall cantrell. He's a local piedmont dragway racer that borrowed someone's car to run. A 13 second PS car. He's .017 dead on with a 2 and in the trailer. .019 package and goes home. That's brutal. I wasn't good this weekend, I was lucky. The wagon was in a million pieces just days before. In 2nd round, I lost my brakes in the staging beams. The pedal started going down to the floor when I bumped in. I took off and put my foot behind the brake pedal to force myself to not use. Luckily the other guy went red and I coasted down. Turned out to be a minor issue, but in the car I had no clue. It was quick fix. Third round the car wasn't warm enough and the car stumbled and I was late. Once again, guy went red. During the bye run of 4th round, I lost my back brakes. The adjuster broke and I started sliding through the lights. When I ran beard, the weirdest thing happened. I come out of the burnout box and the glove box comes flying open (I didn't even know it opened), crap went flying everywhere. Out of nowhere a bottle of shoe polish got stuck between my foot and the brake pedal. I stopped before the lights trying to reach and it and get it out of the way with no luck. At that point, I didn't want to screw beard around as I hate starting line games. I believe this type of racing is 85% mental and I lost before I even staged. I had too much stuff running through my mind and rushed. I had been .03 all weekend (when rolling through, subtract the 60' and I'm .02 and the stumble was .06). My time runs were all .03-.04. The I pull out an .04 red. I was frustrated at myself, but all a learning experience. It was my third race in the car, so I can't complain. I was really looking forward to running beard. I knew he would be tough on the tree and I looked forward to driving the stripe with him. When I prestaged and looked over I saw beard looking right at my front tire planning his strategy. I always enjoy running successful racers. You know you need to be on your game and that is what makes this fun. I'm looking forward to doing more IHRA racing as the people are great. My only complaint is that stock eliminator cars take forever to get to the lanes! I came up one time worrying I was late and I was the 3rd pair out, this was for first round haha. I'm looking forward to finishing up stock so we can change motors and the mighty bocephus hits SS Once again, congrats to beard. Always a stand up racer