Only a couple of races left now in the season. It is hard to believe that the year has gone by so quickly! After our win in Memphis, we traveled over to Richmond for the NHRA Virginia Nationals. On our first qualifier we did just what we wanted to and made a nice, safe A to B, 4.22 run, which gave the boys something to tune from. On the second qualifier we let everybody know that we could run with the best as Jon “O” and Nicky tuned our DHL Toyota to a stunning 4.10. Only Ashley Force Hood managed to beat us, but we did end up in the No. 2 spot after Friday qualifying ended. Usually this means that you will stay in the top of the sheet after Saturday is done but some cool weather and great track conditions changed all that! We never managed to make it down the track on Saturday. Our car was running better than our 4.10 run but then it would just blow the tires off around 300 feet. Other teams were ripping off 4.0's like they were giving them away and we dropped down to the number 11 spot by the time qualifying ended Saturday night. That meant we had to run Ashley in the first round. She and her team were red hot as they had run a 4.14, 2- 4.09's and a 4.06 in qualifying.
Sometimes you get lucky and sometimes you make your own luck is what I always say. On paper Ashley had the best car but because of our win the week before and our 4.10 on Friday night, they couldn't take us for granted like in the past. We both left the starting line about together but by about 300 feet both our cars started to smoke the tires. I was probably ready for it more than in the past because on Saturday it smoked the tires right about the same spot both times. As soon as our DHL Toyota started to spin, I lifted for bit and then stepped back on it. A bit is only a few tenths of a second but that's all you need when the track is as good as Richmond was. It hooked right back up and went straight to the finish line. Again I saw that now seemingly familiar win light come on and now we had won 5 rounds in a row! Not bad considering I didn't see one for almost 23 straight races earlier this year.
Second round, we had to race my buddy Del. My crew got the car turned around fast like always and we tuned the car up to run around a 4.10. We both staged and at the flash of yellow we were off. Unfortunately, our car didn't go too far before the engine just quit and Del sped off to a nice 4.12 for the win. Our guys poured over the car after that run to see if they could figure out went wrong. In the end it looks like they figured it out and hopefully it won't happen again. I stayed for the final and watched Del take out Timmy. It was a great race and I was more nervous watching the final than I was being in it the week before! It was great to see Del win and we even took a picture later of us celebrating. It's a bit blurry but we both are holding up our Wallys.
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Last Tuesday I dropped by the Worsham's shop to do a little bowling with Chuck and his buddies. It had been a couple of months since I was last there and it is always a fun time. I found out that the Storm bowling ball sales manager, Jim Callahan, was bringing with him one of the best women bowlers in the world, Liz Johnson, to bowl with us. Now to me that was pretty exciting because when you get the chance to play any sport with one of the best in the world, that's a pretty special privilege. We all got warmed up before she got there and I actually bowled over 180 the first game, which was good for me but a little off the 210-plus games Chuck and a few of his friends bowled. Liz showed up and you could tell right away how good she was. As the game went on she got better and almost never missed getting strikes in the latter frames. We bowled for a few hours and finally Chuck Worsham beat her by a pin, 258 to 257. She probably averaged 240 and we all had a great time. We even got her into NHRA drag racing a bit and she had Jim take a picture of her and I together. Oh yeah, I let Eddie win a few times to stop him from complaining about what I wrote in my blog the last time we bowled…haha.
Yesterday Del and I played in a golf tournament together with a couple of his buddies. It is pretty nice to live in SoCal where it is almost always sunny and warm. It must have been over 80 yesterday and beautiful. We didn't win the tournament or win any prizes but it was a nice, relaxing way to spend the day. Vegas is in a few days and after racing four weekends in a row these last two and a half weeks off have seemed like an eternity. Our entire Kalitta/DHL team is ready to get back at it and in my opinion we have as good a chance as any to win in Vegas.
Don't forget to check those odds!
Well, unless you live in a cave, you know that we have had a great couple of weeks here at Kalitta Motorsports, but let's take a minute to see how we got there. It all started Thursday, Oct. 1, when I arrived in Memphis. I met the “O” Bros and Nicky at the airport and Jim “O” took us over to one of his favorite places for some lunch, Leonard's BBQ.
After a great lunch, we went over to the track to see how the boys were doing. We hung out there for a while and then the infamous Technicoat Cowboys called wanting to go out for dinner later. We went back to the hotel, got cleaned up and then met Bob and Glen at one of my favorite restaurants, Ruth's Chris. One big steak, some crème brulee, and a few frosty beverages later we were on the way to Beale St. for a little fun. If you have never been to Beale St, it is like a few blocks of lights, bars and Blues clubs. You can hear some great music there and see some great sights ... you can even carry your drink from bar to bar out on the street, legally!
Friday didn't go all that well for us as far as racing went. On the first run, our DHL Toyota dropped a cylinder and only ran a 4.28. On our night run we were a little too aggressive and it smoked the tires at about 150'. Mike Neff ended up running a 4.13 and that wasn't even good enough to get in to the Top 12! It just goes to show you how tough the Funny Car class is right now. That didn't stop us from going out with the Cowboys again and for the second time in a row, we were back to the hotel early...early in the morning that is!
Saturday morning came a little too fast, for me anyway and we had a tough task at hand trying to break into the field. On our first run, our DHL Toyota did something it usually doesn't do, it smoked the tires almost at the hit of the throttle. Now, we were going into the final session not qualified yet, and without a good baseline run to look at. Jon “O,” Nicky, and Connie came up with a game plan for the last qualifier but until you get to the finish line under power, there are a lot of things that can go wrong. Luckily for all of us, our car made a nice, straight as a string conservative 4.25 run to get us into the 15 spot. This earned us the unenviable task of running the No. 2 qualifier Jack Beckman who had run a 4.10. I figured that I had better be on my game so I left the track pretty early and was back in my room and asleep by 10 p.m.
Sunday, we got to the track by 8 a.m., but Mother Nature wasn't cooperating very much. There was a light drizzle that just wouldn't go away. By noon it was raining and things weren't looking good. The crew guys and I were up in the lounge playing the NHRA Drag Racing game on our PS2. I actually had got Doug Kalitta's Top Fuel Car to run a 4.46 @ 330mph with my tune up so everybody was trying to beat my low ET. Now for some reason, I totally forget what happened between 1:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon and Monday morning at 8 a.m., but there are reports of me playing golf in Kansas before the race was called on Sunday ... really?? How would that be possible?? Anyway, that's another story all together.
So, fast forward to Monday morning at 8 a.m. when I show up at the track. The weather is still not looking great and there is a really light drizzle. It is cloudy and dark and the sun is nowhere in sight. They are telling us that the race is going to start at 10 a.m. but it doesn't look very good. Nothing is worse for a driver than sitting around and thinking about what might happen later. It's harder to stay focused because you can't go through your normal race day ritual. Then of course when you think you are going to be sitting around for a while, they call you to the lanes and now everybody is in a hurry.
The conditions were so good as far as air quality and track temp goes that we figured we had nothing to lose, so the boys tuned it up to try and run a low teen or high 4.0. It made it about 300 feet or so and the started to spin. I got off the throttle and then back on and it made a right hand turn for the wall. I didn't see Jack so I drove it about as far as I could go without crashing and then lifted. I saw our win light come on and a split second later Jack went flying by. Cool, round one out of the way! Next we had to race John Force. I had a great record against him, if you call 0-10 great. That's right, in over 14 years of racing on and off I had never beat John Force at a NHRA National Event and to tell you the truth it kind of pissed me off. Let's face it, you want to be able to tell the grandkids one day that you actually beat him ... at least once!
So here we are, round 2. Jon “O” and Nicky have been working with Aaron Brooks pretty closely lately (Thanks A.J.!), and they tell me that it should run a 4.10. I am thinking to myself these two things. 1.) If I had a dollar for every time a crew chief told me we were going to run way faster than we had before I would be rich, and 2.) If you know how to run a 4.10, why didn't we do it in qualifying or for that matter all this year? Anyway, I hit the throttle and it feels strong, at about 300 feet it just plants me in the seat right to the finish line. I see our win light come on and Andy yells at me over the radio that we just ran a 4.10...no @*%!, I say to myself … we beat John Force and ran a 4.10…things are looking pretty good! Did I mention that our 4.10 was low ET of the second round?
Next we have to race Ashley Force Hood. The boys are looking at the computer and like what they see. They tell me to hang on again against Ashley. Now the last two times I have raced her I have had great lights, like a mid .070 and a high .060 and she has left on me both times! What happened to the Ashley that was a .110-.130 leaver? So I decide to steal a bit on the starting line so I don't get embarrassed again! I have a .064 to her .080 and run a 4.109 to her 4.119, what a great race, but in reality we probably leave at the same time and our car actually runs a high 4.08! Now we are going to the final against Tony Pedregon.
Tony is one of those guys you really don't like to race because he is a great leaver and driver and his car runs well to boot! My crew guys, Andy Cetwinski, James Riola, Rob Pierce, Chris "Caveman" Butler, Rick Ducusin, Jared Graibel, Jason Hurd and Randy Shatzer (in spirit) get our DHL Toyota turned around in 27 minutes! Unbelievable! As a matter of fact, for almost every round we were one of the first cars up in the staging lanes. It really gives you a lot of confidence as a driver to know that you have the best crew out there! Alright, on to the final. We ended up waiting for almost 20 minutes for Tony to make it to the lanes. He does a real short burnout and then tried to make me red light by deep staging, but it was futile as I was on my game on the starting line and Nicky and Jon “O” sent me to a stunning 4.09 at the 5th fastest speed ever at the 1000 foot. Again in reality we probably ran a high 4.06, low 4.07 but we won!!
The outpouring of emotions from everybody involved with Kalitta Motorsports was evident. I didn't know whether to celebrate, throw up or cry. It was really strange and I think we all felt like that. After the finish line interview we towed up through the pits on the way to the Winner's Circle. We stopped at our pit and I saw Connie standing there. He went to shake my hand but I gave him a big hug instead! I told him, this is for you and Scott and I handed him the Wally. He looked at it and said thanks, then he told me that I should have it. In the end we are going to bring it to Scott's grave site and party with Scott for a while! So our teammate Doug Kalitta, who also had a great weekend going to the semis, convinced Connie to stay for the Winner's Circle pictures. Looking at the pics, I know that both my team and I, and Connie were glad he stayed. There were lots of smiles, hi fives and great pictures that capture the emotion of that great win. I know that I will remember it forever! Our team hung out at the track until 11 p.m. that night and many members from other race teams came by to congratulate us. Phones were ringing, texts were coming in and we were smoking Swisher Sweets and drinking Coors Light, just like Scott would have done! It was an unbelievable night.
The next day we had to go to the track to get all our stuff loaded up because we had a DHL display to do at the Norfolk Naval Base in Norfolk, Virginia. We were at the track by 8 a.m. (all of us a little wounded from the night before) and on the road by about 10:30 a.m. We drove all day and most of the night and got to Norfolk 15 hours driving time later at 3:30 a.m. local time. We got a few hours sleep and then went to do our display. We got to meet a lot of people there including some of the "Top Gun"-type fighter pilots and a Captain.
After our display, they took us on a tour of their fighter jets. We even got to fly an F-18 simulator. That was really cool, but they weren't ready to turn the keys over to me for a real one...hey I didn't even crash it? We got a tour of the hanger and got up close and personal with some F-14 Tomcats painted in Russian colors that they use for dog fighting. After that we watched a few of the pilots practice some acrobatics right off the deck...and we were standing close! They are loud when they go full afterburner and over 600 mph just a 1000 feet or so from where you are standing. It was nice that my whole crew got to go as well and somehow it made the 15-hour drive seem not as bad! We ended up going to the Outback for a real team dinner (not that our winner's dinner at the Waffle House at 12.30 a.m. after the race doesn't count), but this one was a little nicer!
I am going to end this blog now with a pic of the great thing my wife and daughter did for me when I finally got home after Richmond. They did a great job coloring our driveway with chalk and it made me feel extra special. It's nice to have a family that supports you when you are off racing. I know it's a tough thing to do when your husband/dad is gone all the time!
I still can't believe that we did it! We got "The Wally!"
Since I last blogged things have been a blur. We went to the Indy test session a few weeks back to try out some new clutch parts that we thought might work. Our test session went very well. As you know we have struggled quite a bit this year to get the car to run some good early numbers. Finally at the test session our car started doing just that. The funny thing is that I could put our "new" parts next to the "old" parts and I don't think that the average person could even see a difference. That's what makes this sport so tough. You can be a few thousandths of an inch off on something and it can dramatically affect the way the car runs ... and there are literally hundreds of parts like that on a race car that have to be matched and perfect. The nice thing that started happening is that our DHL Toyota was starting to repeat and become more consistent. It is very hard to come up with a "tune-up" if the engine and or clutch is not behaving the same way run to run. Now that it looked better after the test session, it was time to prove it at "The Big Go" or the "Mac Tools U.S. Nationals" as it is officially known.
The Mac Tools U.S. Nationals is really cool for a driver because you get two night sessions. Night sessions are the ones where you can let it all hang out and go for that great e.t. because the track and atmospheric conditions are usually at their best. We started off with a straight-as-a-string 4.18 run on Friday night, and on our computer it looked like a carbon copy of the test run that we made. Things were coming together. On the Saturday day run we just overpowered the track by a bit but it was running faster than our 4.18 when that happened. Saturday night we figured we had nothing to lose so we really stepped on it. It made it about 300 feet down the track and was on pace to run a low teen but then for some reason it just smoked the tires. Nicky, Jon O and the boys put their heads together and found a problem in our clutch management system which was causing the clutch to come in faster than we wanted. Once we got that fixed we made a fantastic 4.14 run during the day session on Sunday which put us solidly in the field in the number 10 spot. If you watched any of the ESPN2 coverage of the race I am sure that you saw it, because my good friend Bob Bode had a spectacular body-shredding explosion right next to us. They showed it on the tube from every angle, so we got a lot of TV time. The important thing though was that Bob was OK and he was, except for maybe his wallet. It goes to show you how safe these cars really are ... at least for something that goes 0-100 mph in less than a second and over 300 mph in four seconds!
After the last qualifying session ended and everything was put away we went over to the banquet that we had to honor Connie Kalitta and his 50 years in drag racing. Todd Myers, Rachel Brunner, and everybody involved at Kalitta Motorsports really went the extra mile in putting the "Barbecuing the Bounty Hunter" Roast together. It was a sellout and almost everybody who is anybody in drag racing was there to share in the laughs. After a great sit down catered meal, the emcee, Bob Frey, got to the roasting. For a guy that's only about 130 pounds soaking wet, he went after Connie pretty good. He probably knew he could outrun the Old Man but if I was him, with what he said, I would always be looking over my shoulder at the track! Next a panel of "roasters," including the legendary Frank "The Beard" Bradley, "Big Daddy" Don Garlits, Jim Head and "The Greek" Chris Karamesines got to tell some of their favorite Connie Kalitta stories ... and let me tell you there were quite a few. Alan Reinhart was there as well working the room for some more dirt on Connie and at the end Jim "O" took the stage went in for the kill. Connie took it really well and lots of laughs were had by all. When Connie was finally allowed to handle the mic, we all thought anybody that had roasted him was ready to get it back. Instead an emotional Connie Kalitta got up and told everybody there that this is why he drag races. The lifelong friends that you make in this sport that really care about you, the wild times and stories that can come from it as well, are things that you will remember and laugh about for the rest of your life; nobody can take them away from you and no amount of money can buy them...you have to earn them and that's what Connie has done. If you go to our web site at www.teamkalitta.com . You can order a copy of the DVD that they made of he roast ... just lock the young ones in their room as this is certainly not a PG affair!
Monday was race day and our DHL Toyota team was ready to rock. Everybody on our team had a little extra spring in their step. We were at the year’s biggest race but we also had a car that was running great. We had to run my old buddy Jerry Toliver first round. Jerry and I have our own points battle for 13th which has been going on all year. We text each other all the time as for most of the season I only had a one-point lead on him. A few races ago we gained an extra qualifying point over him, so of course I had to text him that I had now officially "doubled" my points lead over him. Kids will be kids. Anyway I managed to strap a good light on Jerry and then our guys unloaded a nice 4.17 on them to defeat their formidable 4.19 lap. On to the second round for the second race in a row. We then had to race Ashley Force in the second round. I knew she would be looking for a little redemption after giving me my first round win for the Kalitta's the race before. We left about together and she ran a nice 4.17 to beat our 4.20. We made her earn it and if you don't already know, she went on to win the race.
I flew back home on Tuesday and got caught up on some work around the house. The family and I then went to Palm Springs to my in laws to spend a few days relaxing. We ended up running into Ray from DHL as he was there doing the same thing. We hooked up with him and his buddy and played a little golf at the Greg Norman private course at PGA West. After that we hung around the pool and relaxed. Later that night I convinced everybody to go to a restaurant called "Roy's Hawaiian Fusion." I have been to a couple before and if you like steak or seafood, and there is one close by, you have to go. I am a big seared Ahi guy and theirs is great, but if you prefer steak or cooked fish, you won't be disappointed. We got home Sunday night and on Tuesday morning I was on the plane again. We had a DHL display to do at Fort Bragg. When we arrived there Wednesday morning and drove over to the display sight, I couldn't get over how big the base was. Later I found out that population wise, it is the biggest in the United States with just over 52,000 enlisted men and women there. That doesn't include their families so I am sure that the number would be well over 200,000. It is like a city on base with everything from movie theatres to fast food places to golf courses right there. It takes over an hour just to drive across it! We got to meet a lot of the soldiers and lots of them are huge race fans and very knowledgeable. One guy in particular, "Chris" (and you know who you are), was a "super fan!" He made the three-plus-hour drive out to the races with a couple of buddies, so at the end of the day we gave him a couple of used slicks. Who knows what they are going to do with them but he promised to send pictures! We started the car up a few times for them and even had a couple of the guys sit in the car for the warm up ... not many people in this world can say they warmed up a nitro Funny Car!
Next we were onto the NHRA Carolinas Nationals at probably the best drag strip in the world, Bruton Smith's zMax Dragway. If you have never been there, you have got to go if you ever get the chance. The weather report was not favorable at all with rain forecast for all three days. I guess when you are Bruton Smith though, you can manipulate the weather because somehow we got all four qualifying sessions in as well as race day with barely a drop. Friday didn't look too good for our team if all you did was read the results. Our first run it was probably on pace to run a 4.13 but it smoked the tires at right about 400 feet. On our night run it dropped a cylinder at the start and only ran a 4.34. Saturday went better as we unloaded a great 4.14 to move us up to the 12 spot. On our last run we tried to see what the track would hold to get a good idea for what to do on race day. When you are a driver and you are not in the Countdown, it gets you into a different mindset. You basically have nothing to lose and if the guy you are racing is in, that's where the pressure is going to fall. We had to run Tim Wilkerson first round who is a great family friend of ours. Bob Wilber, who is his PR guy, used to be my PR guy at Worsham's, so if I could pick somebody NOT to race, it would be them. But that's what we do, we try and beat who we are racing on the starting line, and then try and outrun them to the finish line, knowing that we will still be friends and support each other after. I know in the past when a team had to race us, they knew if they had and average reaction time and elapsed time that they were probably going to beat us.
However, now that Connie, Jon O and Nicky have our DHL Toyota running fast and that my reaction times have been good, sometimes you are going to pressure the other team into having to make a great lap and have a great light to beat you. We both had great reaction times and we sped off to a great 4.14 lap as Timmy overpowered the track about 300 feet. Three round wins in the last three races and none in almost a year!! We were on a roll. Unfortunately, "the roll" ended with a loss to Matt Hagan in the second round. I had managed to get a two-hundredths jump on him at the Tree but we went into smoke at about the same spot as Tim. The good thing is that we are learning and the competition is not looking forward to racing us anymore. We hope to spoil a bunch of peoples days in these last five races and maybe even win a race while we are doing it. We have three races in the next three weeks so keep tuned to ESPN2 to see how we do.
Thanks for reading!
Well, it's been a while since I last blogged so let's get back up to speed. Before the Brainerd race our DHL Toyota Funny Car team had a display to do at Goodson Tools. I had never been there before but was familiar with their vast supply of engine building supplies. Once I was there I was very impressed with the whole operation, the friendliness of the employees and the incredible amount of inventory on hand. If you are building an engine or just want to check out the cool picture of one of our fuel motors on the cover of their catalogue, just go to http://www.goodson.com/.
The display that we did also featured a lot of show and race cars as well as an Eliminator boat and Tim Wilkerson’s car. After the display, Dave from Goodson tools was nice enough to take us out on the Mississippi River in his little 30-foot boat (sarcasm). I had no idea that Minnesota was so beautiful and from a couple of the pics I took from the boat you can see why. We also visited this little floating bar. It was located right next to the dam and set of locks that they have there, hence the cool name: The Dam Bar and Grille. I even got the T shirt.
Next was the event in lovely Brainerd, Minn. We struggled again on our first two qualifiers but then managed to make a nice 4.24 run on Saturday. That set us up with Tony P. in the first round. I managed to get a little jump on him at the starting line but then he began to just pull by us at the finish line. The good news was that our DHL Toyota made a respectable lap and had Tony had any type of problem, we would have been right there.
I got a little surprise on Sunday after the race when my buddy Del called asking if I wanted to ride back with him and A.J. Anytime you get the chance to fly private that is a good thing. We got back late Sunday night and made the drive from Santa Maria back home. Wednesday, I drove back up to Santa Maria for a little golf match with Alan. I ended up playing in a fivesome with Alan, his buddy Steve and me taking on the other two. I had a great start birdying the first two holes. On the back nine, A.J. and I both shot one over par, and we both ended up carding mid-70 rounds and collecting some well-earned money from the other players. Thursday we made the flight to Reading, Pa.
Our luck changing weekend started on Friday. With doom and gloom weather reports, the weather actually held off long enough to get a run in. We smoked the tires almost instantly and ran a 12-second run. While that doesn't sound too lucky, there were actually 17 cars there and Ron Capps only managed a 15-second run. With the threat of rain all day Saturday at least we were in the field. The second bit of luck came on Saturday. Our DHL Toyota was the first car to make a run. We were just trying to go A-B and it left the starting line fine. However at about 250’ it blew the tires off. It caught me by surprise and I ended pedaling the car to a 5.01. I was pretty worried as there were a few cars behind us that could bump us out. The first couple did and then Gary Densham, who was driving Terry Haddock’s Funny Car got shut off after the burnout. This meant that if it rained out the last session, we were in for sure. Of course as you all know it did rain out and we ended up in the 16th spot with a date with the No. 1 qualifier, Ashley Force Hood.
Now for those of you that don’t know this little piece of trivia, I was actually the person that Ashley Force got her first ever professional win driving a Funny Car against. I was driving the blue CSK car at the Gatornationals in 2007. We had qualified third I believe and had to run her first round. I got about a four- or five-hundredths advantage on her out of the gate, but then just past the Tree it smoked the tires for no apparent reason. She made a nice lap and there you go, Jeff Arend, now forever the answer to the trivia question, “Who did Ashley Force get her first ever round win against?”
So anyway, I am looking forward to racing her as I feel there is a little redemption coming my way and hey, so far the luck has been good, at least in my eyes. First round is here and at the Tree Ashley has a great .070 light to my .078. As we race down the track I see her put about a car length on me but then after half track we start pulling on her. Then our car starts spinning hard and putting out cylinders. It was close, but on the radio Andy tells me that we just lost another close one. Now I don’t know if the NHRA Stats Guy keeps any stats on who has lost the most number of close races but if he does, I know my name is at the top of the list!
I get back to the lounge and start putting my stuff away and sulking a bit ‘cause we lost first round again. About 10 minutes later I hear all this hooting and hollering. Everybody is high fiving and they are thrashing on the car. I am like, 'What’s going on?" They then tell me that we won. I said “Really, was I imagining her beating me to the finish line?”, and that’s when they told me that she got DQ’d for being too light at the scales. I couldn't believe it, the luck continued and we now had our first round-win for Connie and our DHL team. The guys got the car turned around in record time and we were ready. Unfortunately the track was not, as some water was seeping up through the track just past the finish line. I guess the luck gods wanted me to enjoy that round-win for a little longer! Next we had to race John Force and I knew he would be looking for a little revenge against me. I took a little starting line advantage on John, but his 4.29 was a little too quick for our 4.39. All in all it was a good weekend for us.
Later that day Connie came in and said he wanted to test in Indy on Wednesday. So the guys loaded everything up to go back to the shop, service the car and then drive over to Indy. I hung around with Del and we watched A.J. and Larry win again in Top Fuel. Alan told us a couple of weeks ago that he has about got a handle on the Top Fuel car and to watch out at Brainerd. He was right and I think everybody better watch out for the rest of the year! We flew back to Indy, and now I am sitting in the hotel downtown writing this blog.
The Indy race is coming up in a week and a half. Hopefully our test session goes well and we can kick some butt and win some more rounds at Indy!
Cya there.