The 10.62-126.7 slip, with a 1.53 short time, didn't leave me all warm and fuzzy, but the drive down the return road with all the cheering and thumbs up from fans hanging on the fence certainly did. Usually by 1:00pm on Drag Week, the energy is definitely waning, replaced with desperation as a handful of racers struggle for that money time slip. With the GLD crowd, that simply wasn't the case, and their enthusiasm permeated the pits. John went up for a second run in his Valiant, not because he needed a quicker pass, just for the enjoyment of running at a track he may never visit again, an d to enjoy the atmosphere. He wasn't alone in that regard either, Clark Strong's 69 Road Runner had already went 11.55 without a bar, about as close as he could cut it, but he made at least three more runs after that.

I changed squirters again on the Valiant, and took a half pound out of the Hoosiers, then helped Skippy swap bottles in the Belvedere after Rachael's second run, staying on the nitrous out the back door, had only netted an 11.89-114.5. My second run was forty minutes after the first, and after complaining about my less than stellar launch the first time, John walked over to help me get the burnout right. The Valiant pushed through the line lock twice, so he backed me off, and had the track official re-spray the pad. With a good burnout, and a quick stage, my confidence that this would be a good run was high, but that slight hesitation at the drop of the pedal was still there. 10.53-126.9 with a 1.51 60' was the third quickest ET. the car has ran NA, but coming off a 10.39 the day before, and knowing it's went a 1.42 already to the first clocks...I wasn't satisfied.