Hi, blog fans! Another weekend not at the track, and another weekend with some cool stuff to blog about. On Friday, Ray and I had lunch with our friends Jeff and Belinda Bull. They are from England, and have been racing like crazy over there. Jeff builds engines (Jeff Bull Racing Engines) and has been a great customer of ours for more than 15 years. Belinda is a racer, too. She drives one of the old Pro Stock Trucks they bought over here a few years ago and has been winning some races. One of the engines Jeff built won the Super Comp championship in England. Pretty cool!

On Saturday, my buddy Tom Cotter (author of The Hemi in the Barn) had a big car show at his place in Davidson. If you have read the book, you know he collects cars, and knows a ton of people that do so as well. There were about 75 cars there, and lots of Woodies, too. The weather was perfect for the car show, so I decided to get the Viper out of the garage and drive it over. It’s a 1,400-horsepower twin turbo and it will get with it! I heard someone say my little buddy Fuller had a Viper that was pretty fast. It would be fun to pull up to the line and do some Viper racing. I know he is Mr. Vegas, but odds are I would win!

Speaking of Vegas, we will have a special theme on the race car for this weekend and Pomona. We are going to have Snap-onFranchise.com on the race car, helping get the word out about the great franchise system Snap-on has. In fact, they have one of the largest non-food systems in the world, and of course, they sell the best tools! If you are interested in getting started with your own business, make sure you check them out.

The Panthers weren’t playing this weekend, so I didn’t go to the stadium and watch them get beat. Instead, I hit the road on my motorcycle. It still hasn’t gotten cold yet here, and I wanted to take advantage of what might be the last sunny and warm Sunday of the year. Just being able to get on the motorcycle and ride is really relaxing. I wish I could do it more often!

It’s hard to believe there are only two more races for the season! I really hate that we didn’t make it into the Countdown to One. That DNQ at Dallas really hit us hard, but something else it did was motivate us to never have it happen again. Now we plan on winning in Vegas and Pomona and finishing up fifth in points, which will be the best finish we have had so far.

I had better get back to work! I have some more things to finish before I head out to Sin City. And one of them is planning the party for when we bring home another Wally!

Over and out for now,

Doug