So last week when I went to Norwalk, a memory of Scott came flooding back to me as soon as a pulled up to the track. I shared it with brother, and I’ll share it here, too.

In 2006, Scott’s Funny Car team and my KB Racing Top Fuel team went to what is now Summit Motorsports Park for big event held by another drag race sanctioning body. The track is less than two hours from our shop in Ypsilanti so we all decided to go racing on our weekend off. It was a long weekend with a lot of rain delays. I think it took until well past midnight on Sunday, but both Scott and I both managed to advance to the final round. It was really cool because we had both struggled that season, he with the newly formed Funny Car team and me being new to Top Fuel. However, that day it seemed like both our teams were finally doing well and making progress.

We didn’t get to run the final that night because it started to rain again. The weather forecast for the next few days looked really bad. Connie had some business to take care of so he decided to leave and send the Funny Car team back home so they could prepare for the next race. Our dragster team decided we could wait it out a couple days if we had to, to compete in the final.

Everyone was really tired from a long, exhausting weekend. The fans had to go home, our families had to get home, but we stayed to race. Scott stayed even though he wasn’t racing. The next day, it stopped raining just long enough for us to run the final. Scott was standing right up at the starting line with the rest of my team when we ran. We won the race. That was my very first Top Fuel win. Scott was always a huge supporter of me and my team. I definitely struggled a lot my first year, and he was always there like a big brother to offer advice and help me out. Scott was the one who taught me how taught me how to drive Top Fuel and he let me license in his dragster. I’m so thankful that Scott was there for my first win that day in Norwalk. I just kept thinking of that whenever I went to the starting line last weekend. I’m glad I have that memory of Scott and glad I could share it here.

I hope you all have a nice Fourth of July weekend. My brother, Austin, is here from California. We’re going to an awesome fireworks show on Saturday night, and we also got some of our own in Ohio. I’ll have some picture to share next week. Have a fun and safe holiday.