It’s Saturday night and we are in Columbus at the Pontiac Nationals. They are just finishing up the 4th qualifying fuel session. I had a quick minute in the weekend to write what’s been going on.

I have been working in Cleveland this week, so instead of flying, I drove to Columbus for the NHRA race. Columbus is considered home for Mac Tools, and each year they have a pre-race celebration at the local Quaker Steak and Lube. It was on Thursday night and the usual Mac teams showed up. As usual, it was great food and great fun.

Friday was a day of rain, rain, and more rain. I know, it sounds like we are back in Atlanta, but we not. It actually rained off and on for the last three weeks here so there was no surprise to the locals that Friday’s racing was delayed. Luckily, that’s all it was. We were able to get most of the qualifying completed.

Here is a picture of Larry Dixon and Gary, taking advantage of the down time Friday, to catch up. You see, Gary, Larry Dixon, and myself grew up in the same town. We’ve been friends for years.

Back to the race, NHRA worked their magic and dried the track in time for qualifying. We finished up Friday qualifying third. Today we made no improvements, but slipped to only fourth.

We are actually running without one of our team members this weekend. Debbie is back in Florida helping with the birth of their second grandchild. He was born on Friday. Here is a picture of him only hours old.

I added another picture to this blog. A race fan came up to me here in Columbus and asked me to sign his die-cast. He also asked me to look at his arm. I couldn’t resist taking a picture.

Well, that’s all for now.