Guess what? It’s raining at Reading. Bet you’ve never heard that before. More of that later in this blog entry.

We left Indy around 2 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon and drove in rain the entire way through Ohio and Pennsylvania. After fueling, we’ll pulled into the track around 12:45 a.m. Thursday morning. I didn’t wash since it was raining and the forecast called for more rain.

I got up Thursday morning to park in the motor home lot and made them park me on a gravel road in the back of the pits. I learned my lesson a few years ago here after it cost me some $500 to have the motor home pulled out of the mud. I wasn’t going to let that happen again. I didn’t want to be parked in a low area or in the grass, and that was the best idea I’ve had in a long time.

We pretty much sat in the motor home all day on Thursday. It rained non-stop all day long. Mike Green called me around 2 p.m. and said don’t bother coming to the pit because they were leaving for the hotel. So, I surfed the web and watched TV. I watched a bunch of crime investigation shows like Forensic Files. If I wasn’t a race car driver, I’d probably be a detective.

Last night, we were going to grill out, but Mother Nature didn’t cooperate, so we made some guacamole and had chips and guac for dinner. Then, we watched Derailed. It’s a movie with Jennifer Aniston. For some reason, it made me nervous, so I only made it about halfway through before going to the back and watching TV. Mel watched the entire movie and thought it was okay. After listening to the rain throughout the night, I looked out the window and saw all the water and thought that it was a good idea that we parked on that little gravel road.

I’m a little worried that we might be coming back to Maple Grove in a few weeks. The fuel bill for the race will be pretty darn high if that’s the case. The radar doesn’t look very good today. It looks like it will blow out for the rest of the weekend, but there are a lot of other factors that go into the making the decision like spectator parking, water on the track and wet and muddy pit areas. I think NHRA’s decision to move the Reading race to August was a very smart decision. Sure, we might not set national records since it will be summertime, but we also shouldn’t have to fight the rain.

Keep your fingers crossed NHRA fans that we get this thing in.