I took a few days off after the Las Vegas race. I was worn out. But, I was back at the track over the weekend because the Division 7 race was in town and my little brother Tony, and my sponsors from Western Stabilization, Ashley and Justine Jeffrey, also were racing.

I helped the Jeffreys build two Super Comp cars at the beginning of the season. At the Las Vegas race, Justine’s car wasn’t running right so I went to the track Thursday morning to help work on the car. There was a test-session at the track that day. I got to the track and the car had a miss.



The first thing we did was change the transmission converter. We thought would solve the problem but it did the same thing, so it was back to the drawing board. We worked until 7 p.m. Thursday night. We couldn’t get it fixed. We basically changed everything on the car. I woke up Friday morning and went back out to the track.



The only thing left to do was to do some re-wiring. We had changed fuel system, transmission, ignition, coil, distributor, wires, plugs and went through the entire engine and couldn’t figure it out. We were discouraged, but I didn’t want to quit. We went though and re-wired it and it sounded so much better when we fired it up. She went out and on the first lap it ran perfect.



It was my birthday Friday and it was neat being at the track. People thought it was funny I was under the car working. I love the sportsmen racers and I’ll always be one at heart. That won’t change because I’m running Top Fuel now. At the end of the day, they had birthday cake and ice cream for me.



Friday night my brother organized a group of us to go to the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay. My favorite 80s cover band, The Spazmatics, were playing. The band didn’t start playing until 11:30, so we were there until about 3 a.m. Then we went to the Ivan Kane’s Forty Deuce. That was a good time.



Saturday I caught some sleep for a few hours and spent the day at a buddy’s pool and watched the Cup race from Phoenix. I went back out to the track for the race on Sunday. Both Tony and the Jeffreys did well. Ashley fell in the third round and he had a perfect reaction time. Tony went to the third round in Super Gas and the fourth round in Super Comp.

Justine won her first race in the car we worked on for two days. That was awesome! It was really cool. To go out there and watch her win was great. They’re family to me. The Las Vegas points race is one of the toughest of the year. There were 160 Super Comp cars. I get excited when I win, but when she won, it gave me goose bumps. It was special to help them win a race. That was a dream day for them and it was neat to be a part of that. She did an awesome job in the car. Congrats Justine!