DP #24 Drooze, Mandie & Pop shooting for Vegas

[Chris "drooze" Wertman]

Originally Posted by Mike Galuk

Chris, what is the deal with the DQ? Fuel or weight? Mike

Mike Galuk
JOE COOL RACING
M/SA-2002

None....I think they just listed it that way we "bowed" out....I didnt like some things on the car and we pulled. They must have just listed it as a DQ ? Im a little irritated now....at myself we shoulda made 1 run and then would have been at the postponment....oh well live and learn. Sheda made another run under index but well...I guess if I could see the future...lol

Oh well....nope, never even made a qual pass....2 diffrerent issue and well we did something RARE.....erred on the side of caution....if the race hadnt of gotten postponed we could have hurt it and it didnt make sense. Had we been halfway through a ladder or across the country, but 4 1/2 hrs from home ? And not run a qual pass yet....no biggie....Norwalk and then another Nat, well get time to wring her out good.

Las Vegas I was going to regardless, had I know we werent going to make it I would have of course just dropped the car at indy and ran bobtail....but there was a "chance" and it was a calculated gamble. We lost....oh well....Indy we just mucked our hand so to speak.

The trip was best summed up with the Jimmy Buffet song "He Went to Paris" (replace Paris with Vegas) and it goes something like this.

"Some of it Magic some of it Tragic but I've (weve) had a Good life (trip) all the way"