Hey TJ blog readers, Neal Strausbaugh here. Last year, Miller Lite crew member John Collins talked about our visit to Brown Brothers Racing or BBR Motorsports(www.bbrmotorsports.com), during his popular Western Swing blog on NHRA.com. Well, Brent and Duane Brown, the co-owners of BBR, invited us back. Thursday evening after we finished setting up and servicing at Pacific Raceways, Anthony Vanetti, Kevin “Toad” Secco and Collins, all from the Miller Lite team, and just about the entire Skoal Racing Funny Car team all went to Duane’s house to hang out for a night of fun.

Duane has a small motocross track built into the front yard of his house. The BBR folks were kind enough to ask us back to ride their custom-built bikes and hang out for a BBQ. Again, we had a blast. They had at least a dozen of their custom BBR bikes for us to play around on. Let me tell you, Duane’s son, Cameron, can ride. The kid is going to be a supercross monster some day.

We spent most of the time chasing Cameron around. Anthony Vanetti, the bottom end guy on Larry Dixon’s Miller Lite dragster, is probably the best of our bunch at Snake Racing and he couldn’t hang with Cameron. He has a bum knee, but is still a pretty good rider for a guy that just turned 30. The most important thing is that none of us got injured.

I snapped a few photos from our trip to BBR. The pics of the really big guy on the really little bike are Chris Kullberg or “Warrior” from our Funny Car team. You’ve read TJ blogging about Warrior a few times over the past year. Well, needless to say, Warrior is a big dude and the site of him on the mini-bike is quite comical. Watching Warrior chase Cameron around the course was amusing. Let’s just say that Cameron had a slight advantage in the power-to-weight ratio.

BBR hand builds all the pieces near the Seattle-area in Auburn, Wash., which is where we stay when we’re in town for the race at Pacific Raceways. They’ve built bikes for Ricky Carmichael, Jeremy McGrath, Travis Pastrana, Marilyn Manson and Lyle Lovett. Basically, they are 50-sized bikes with 116cc engines. So, they’re really quick, unless Warrior is riding! Just kidding, just kidding!

In closing, thanks to Brent and Duane for having us over. We had a great time, again! We appreciate the hospitality and hopefully we can put a good show on for them when the come out to the track on Saturday afternoon to watch qualifying. Thanks guys! Oh, and anyone looking for a really trick mini-bike, check out BBR’s website. TJ will be back on the blog tomorrow.