Last weeks results plus day 1Las Vegas national event

Sorry about the delay in getting last weeks results posted . I had a lot of things to do between work and racing it's been a little crazy. I'll get you caught up with last week first. If you remember Dave won first round and we qualified number one which gave us a bye run in round two since there was a odd amount of cars.Round three we had the car that finished number four in the world last year. He beat us on reaction time but we ran a 9.06 to his 9.08 so we won by eleven thousandths of a second . Unfortunately Dave red lit by three thousandths of a second in round four and that ended his day .I also won first round and in round two left the starting line with a .003 reaction time the car decided to go left and I fought it to half track but had to lift when I almost crossed the center line. I'm not sure what happened I kept turning right but the kept going left. My best guess is I got little out of the grove, the left rear tire got in the loose stuff and with all of the weight on the rear tires it wouldn't steer so it just kept going left . What happens when you launch the car the weight shifts to the rear tires so the front end is barely on the ground and doesn't respond very well when trying to turn . Now on to this week . It's Saturday morning and we'er running only Dave's car this week . They don't run my class at all of the national events and this is one of them. We had two qualifying runs yesterday . The first one was at 9:45am and we ran to fast 9.017 . The second run was at 8pm and I slowed it down to much and ran 9.091 . At this race we only get two try's at qualifying so this morning is round one . Hopefully I can get it close . As always thanks for checking in ,wish us luck Kenny Speed

2 for 2 in Vegas

 . I'd have to say Saturday couldn't have gone much better . We each had one more qualifying pass and then first round of competition . Dave's last qualifying run produced a 9.068 just a little more than a hundredth of the index . Q3 was my quickest run at a 7.514 and we ended up in the 20th spot on the qualifying sheet out of 34 but I once again red lit , ok in qualifying but I can't do that on the next run or I'll gone . We felt pretty good about the way every thing looked going into round one and back to the trailer to got ready . Dave's class is the largest with 130 cars in so even after first round there will 65 cars left . Dave was up first and we needed to make an ajustment because the wind had picked up . It's about 2pm when we run and the dragster goes 9.050 dead nuts for the win and with the perfect ET we grab number number one spot and with an odd amount of cars in round two we get a bye run tomorrow into round three . Sweeeeet . It's a long wait for my run we're last up so it's 7 o'clock when we roll in and it's cooler than on any other run we made so we should be a little faster . We put a 7.50 on the window for our dial in and it's time to go . Our opponent is dialed at 6.92 so he has to spot me .58 seconds and neither one of us can go faster than our dial or we loose . I run 6.51 and his 6.91 is to fast so I get the win . My light wasn't great but is was a ton better than his and it wasn't red .We both get to race tomorrow . We shot some new video today so as soon as I edit it i'll post it . Well it's 12.30 and i'm beat . See ya tomorrow .Kenny Speed

Hard work pays off

Today we buckled down and got to work on getting these cars straightened out and at least for now it paid off . It was the first day of the 2nd division 7 race of the year . Dave and I both made two qualifying runs . Dave went first at about 930AM and after spending a few hours looking at data all the back to last year I came up with a setup I felt would get us close to the 9.05 index . After running 9.20 and 9.21 yesterday we needed a good run to get everybody in a better mood. The changes I made paid off with 9.07 only 2 hundredths off the index . Now it was time to see if the changes I made to the chassis on my car worked . My first pass came at about 1230PM and car went straight down the middle of the track to 7.541 so two for two so far . I did red-light by a mere 8 thousands , but in qualifying that doesn't matter . I just needed a little more delay in the box to fix that . They changed the order for Q2 so I ran before Dave . Once again she went down the middle with a little bit faster 7.528 and .002 reaction time , I'm stoked . Back to the trailer to get Dave ready . Dave's run dragster runs a very close 9.039 only .011 of the index so both cars are right where we want to be . So a few prayers and a little elbow grease and some good results . Now if we can do the same tomorrow we might have a good weekend . I'm done for the night . Check in tomorrow and find out how day two goes .

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. Kenny Speed

Vegas test session Not so good

GOODMORNING , It's race day , time for some fun and time to get these cars dialed in . Yesterday was not the best test session we've eve had by far . We weren't even close on Dave's car . The index for Super Comp is 9.05 in Vegas instead of the customary 8.90 . The reason for the change in index is because of the elevation of the track . Vegas is 2100ft above sea level . The higher the altitude the less oxygen in the air . Less oxygen less horse power so they slow the index down to compensate for having less HP . The theory being when you go to different tracks with different elevations the car should be close to the corrected index . I hope I explained that so you can understand it . Now on to my car which for some reason didn't want to go straight down the track on either run . It was like driving on a slip and slide . After doing that twice I decided to make some changes to the chassis setup so we'll have to wait untill tomorrow to see what happens . Bottom line pretty much a waste off time . We'll try again tomorrow . I'll let you know how it goes . Thanks for checking in .

Kenny Speed The Smallest Minority on earth is the individual.Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. -Ayn Rand

Next up Vegas

Ok I have know idea what's going on with my blog but this is the third time I'm writing this . Even though I saved it , it disappeared . It's been a long three weeks since I updated the blog ,sorry about that, but life gets in the way . The auto repair and tire shop has been slammed and short handed . The Tattoo shops are kicking ass ,thanks to Bobby and our new Chandler manager Big Mike . And I had my 17th wedding anniversary with my best friend and the person that although sometimes it's probably not the best idea , let's me be me. Not to mention dealing with me busting myself up all the time . So I'm in Vegas, got in Wednesday afternoon so we could do some testing Thursday with both Dave's and my car . Randy , Randy Jr , Pacman and myself spent the last three weekends working on the car and trailer getting ready for Vegas . I have to mention without Randy I couldn't even go racing . He works is ass off making sure the car is ready and runs the shop when I'm gone . We're running both cars this weekend and only Dave's next weekend , NHRA for some reason is not running my class at either race in Vegas this year .Bryan's car is still waiting on engine repairs . Hopefully we will have all three ready for Sonoma . The more cars the more data ,especially for Bryan and myself since we run the same class . I'm going to try and update the blog every night we're racing for the next to weeks. Got to go for now , time to racing. Thanks for checking us out . Kenny Speed