This is one of the first weekends that I have been home. It’s good timing too, because I love the spring and the good weather. For those of you listening or watching the ACDelco Nationals in Las Vegas, my weather at home is the same as Las Vegas, except that it occurs the day before. The wind and rain that delayed qualifying on Friday, was here on Thursday. Similarly, the beautiful conditions on Saturday, was here Friday, and so on.
Gary and a group of friends from the area took their race cars out to play in the beautiful weather. Actually, they have been working to change all their cars over from gas to E-85, an alternative fuel.
The previous owner of Bently Nevada, now, General Electric, where I work, has a gas station, here in town, which sells E-85. Gary has been looking into this for some time, and hooked up with Quick Fuel, and Heath at raceone85.com to help with the conversion to E-85.
The day at the track was a success. All the race cars did very well and went quicker than they had in the past. The unique thing about running E-85 is the sound. People say it sounds like a Top Fueler. Gary says it goes from rumpity rump to cackle cackle. All the guys came back pretty happy about the test and tune day at Top Gun.
Gary wanted me to go out and video tape, but unfortunately, I had to stay home and get caught up on things. I have recently joined the population of “Facebookers” and my home computer had some issues right after. During the computer down time, I missed an opportunity to be part of a cool April fools joke too. My computer is not fixed, but, I spent the day identifying the problem and ordering the parts. They’ll be here next week and then I can be up and running.
I was able to get a few pictures off the computer to share here. When we did the GEICO Powersports commercial, Morgan and I posed for many photos and here is the one they selected for the back of the RV that travels the NHRA Full Throttle series. I’m still sometimes taken aback when I see myself in all black leathers.
Over the last few weeks we’ve been changing our website to the new brand and colors, and the GEICOgarage.com site is progressing right along too.
Well, now it’s time to get out and spend the day on our home landscape.