New in car HD video from Pomona

It's time for you to get feel of whats its like to go 0 to 150 Mph in 8 seconds . This video is from  thursday nights dinner winning run . I ran the video until the very end when Dave climbs out of the rail ( another word for dragster ) just to give you an idea of what the entire run is like . The whole run took only about 4 minutes  .As your about to find out we spend a lot of money for a few minutes of  fun . If you think about it a set up like Dave's would cost  about 75k.  That's just car , truck and trailer no motor home or spare parts . Then you get to add in the weekends expenses gas, food, hotel , entry fees , etc .For a race weekend out of town you can figure about at least 15 hundred providing you don't break anything . Is it worth ? All I can say is , hell yes .Now let's  move to Fridays qualifying run . The  morning run called Q3 or 3rd round of qualifying weather wise was pretty much a carbon copy of Thursday . If you remember we were way to fast Thursday morning so we need to add some time to the throttle stop timer . Now here's something cool about the video . If you listen to the rpms of the engine you can here the throttle stop come on and then go off. First the car leaves  the starting line,you'll here the motor rpms climb to about 7200 rpms then the transmission shifts into high gear , about a second after the shift the rpms drop off for about 2 seconds , then its back to wot or in layman's terms wide open throttle .(  A throttle stop is a devise that's connected to the carburetor that opens  and closes the carburetor and is controlled by a timer ) If  you want the car to go faster you decrease the time the stop is on and if you need to go slower you increase the time the stop is on . Sounds simple enough and it is,the tricky part is trying to figure how much to add or subtract to run the class index of 8.90 seconds , remember we're talking thousands of a second . After taking every thing into consideration we added 4 tenths of a second to the stop timer and ran 8.894 just 6 thousands of a second from a perfect 8.900 . We goofed around all day waiting for our first round of eliminations only to have a Super Gas car crash ( no injury's to the driver ) and make them move first round to Saturday morning . Guess what it's now 9:30 pm Saturday and all I can say is rain , so no runs today for us.And finally if your scoring at home  Lucas, Hight, & Line finish atop Pomona qualifying fields for the pro's .Thanks Kenny Speed