May 22, 2009 - Beech Bend Raceway Park

This weekend was the Sports National Open at Beech Bend. Friday was a test day for us; we made 4 passes, 2 of which were quarter mile passes. We used these 2 passes and the quarter mile pass from last weekend to apply for my Top Dragster license, which I successfully obtained. We used the nitrous for all of these passes. We sprayed the nitrous for 2 seconds for time trials #1 and #2, 2.5 seconds for time trial #3 and 3 seconds for time trial #4. On the 3rd time trial the tower forgot to switch the tree from pro tree back to sportsman tree, so my light is ridiculously late.

Time Trial #1			Time Trial #2			Time Trial #3			Time Trial #4
RT	.030		RT	.018		RT	1.119		RT	.048
60'	1.061		60'	1.075		60'	1.064		60'	1.054
330'	2.937		330'	2.956		330'	2.931		330'	2.928
1/8	4.561		1/8	4.560		1/8	4.548		1/8	4.531
MPH	149.35		MPH	151.49		MPH	150.01		MPH	155.60
						1/4	7.237		1/4	7.189
						MPH	175.68		MPH	181.57

Saturday was the Jeg's Super Quick race. We also entered Super Pro whose eliminations were to be run on Sunday. We made 2 qualifying runs for the Jeg's race and 1 Super Pro time trial before heading into eliminations of the Jeg's race. For our first qualifying pass we sprayed the nitrous for 3 seconds instead of our usual 2 seconds. According to Friday's passes this would put us in the low 4.50s, which we would need to run in order to stay in the top-half of the field as this race typically has the quickest field of all the Jeg's events. We underestimated the car's performance and our first qualifying pass put us in the top qualifier spot, which we held until the last pair of cars when a friend pushed us back to #2. For the 2nd qualifying pass and eliminations we only sprayed for 2.5 seconds.

Time Trial #1			Qualifying Pass #1			Qualifying Pass #2
RT	.023		RT	.012		RT	.014
60'	1.088		60'	1.055		60'	1.068
330'	3.089		330'	2.915		330'	2.938
1/8	4.796		1/8	4.508		1/8	4.557
MPH	144.09		MPH	152.37		MPH	154.02

Below are our time slips from eliminations of the Jeg's race. The '384K' column is us and the other column is our opponent.

First Round - Lost
		384K
Dial	4.56	4.55
RT	.070	-.004
60'	1.047	1.059
330'	2.943	2.932
1/8	4.548	4.553
MPH	153.09	153.84

We were supposed to run the eliminations of Super Pro on Sunday, but it was rained out. The race has been rescheduled for June 14th.