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Karen Stoffer, Geico Suzuki

NHRA 2006 begins

NHRA 2006 beginsSunday, February 12, 2006

Posted by: Karen Stoffer, GEICO Suzuki

The first piece of news that I want it tell you is that I am fully “released’ from the doctor. Yeah! He took final X-rays on Wednesday and said I looked completely healed. My hand should continue to “loosen up” in the next few months and be just fine.

With that good news I will be flying to Florida this Friday to begin testing. This first trip will be a quick one with the objective for me to prove to the team that I am fine. After that we will begin the testing for the race team tune–ups.

I’m excited that we received the “fully released” news the weekend that the 2006 NHRA racing season will begin. It kind of puts a closing on last season for us as the new season begins. The computers and TV will be tuned in to the race all weekend. This weekend will be busy in many ways for us. My sister’s birthday was Friday the 10th, so her family, minus Scott, came up for the weekend. We had a nice dinner at a local restaurant. Here’s a picture. Going from left to right is my dad, then mom, Bill, Laura’s husband, my sister and birthday girl Laura, myself and my oldest nephew Jeff, Liz, and my middle nephew Brett.

It’s was also the opening of the Winter Olympics in the Torino, Italy. Living here by the Sierra Nevadas, we have many athletes from the area participating, which makes it even more interesting to watch.

Also, this weekend we have NASCAR at Daytona and the Supercross. The TV will be going all day today.

We are also getting close to having the shop erected at our house. Here is a picture of this weekend’s progress. It’s been beautiful here so we spent Saturday outside with the computers broadcasting the NHRA Pomona event and flipping to the Olympic medal updates.

It’s Sunday morning now and I just finished watching NHRA2day. As our guests say goodbye and head home to southern California, we will spend the day working on the shop, exercising, and staying informed on the sporting events today. Of course, we’ll be glued to ESPN 2 from 4:30 p.m. on to catch the finals of the opening 2006 NHRA POWERade racing season.

Goodbye for now.

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