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Well, it has been a while since
my last blog....like a really long time! After suffering a first
round loss at the CHRR back in October, that kind of set us up
for a long winter. I stayed very busy back here in Oklahoma starting
a new business in my shop at home. I have been doing chassis
repair and modifications on sprint cars and building some parts
for those guys. I just finished building a new cage for a Yamaha
Rhino and hope to start selling a few of them.
With just a few days until the
50th March Meet, I am starting to get pretty pumped about it.
Our team went up to Bakersfield a couple of weeks ago and had
a fairly successful outing. The car showed great promise with
some of the new items that the guys built and installed over
the winter. After pedaling the car at about 100 ft due to tire
shake and shutting it off at about 800 ft. it had half track
numbers good enough to 5.87. We have got to get this car to run
deep in the 5.70s if we are going to be competitive this year
and it looks like we are on the right track.
I would like to take some time
to thank M&H tires and John Hashim for working so hard on
getting us a safe tire. I know this is a big priority to these
guys and I know how much effort they have put into this deal.
With that being said, I am excited about Hoosier tires coming
in with a tire that so far looks extremely promising for being
an alternative to the M&H. With safety being priority one,
I think an alternative tire will take some of the pressure off
of the drivers, crew chiefs, track management and give M&H
some time to possibly develop a whole new tire without the pressure
of short deadlines. I expect that we will see several cars with
Hoosiers at the March Meet,that is something that is going to
be hard to get used to! Next weekend will begin my 12th year
in nostalgia top fuel and all that I have ever seen on these
cars is an M&H tire.
Lara, my dad and my brother Chad
are all coming with me this weekend. I am excited to have my
family back at the races with me again, my mom will be the only
one not coming, she is just scared to death to fly! I have to
figure out a way to get her over that!
Stop by and say hi next weekend
and check out our new shirts that we will have for sale. Bert
has done an excellent job on them and they look great! See you
in a few days!
Til next time, Troy & Lara
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