I had a good day of racing, Sun 9/20, at Maryland International Raceway, Budds Creek Maryland. This was part of the "Raiders ET Challenge" 8-race mini-series which runs 1/8th mile; and also counted for MIR track points.

I put new tires on for this big event, as the old ones had 232 passes on them. Well that worked great. I made 9 passes and the sixty foot time only varied 1.245-1.249 except for the last pass as the air cooled and oil temp went up (round robin) it went 1.240. That is a new best for me.

The car was running 5.85 and change every run until the 6th round as the air cooled down a bunch. I had dialed down to 5.84 against my opponents 5.50. I cut a 0.030 RT vs his 0.036 (footbrake). He crossed first by 0.0001 seconds, but ran under his dial-in more than I did (5.833 vs 5.487), so I got the win light.

In those 6 rounds, the only round I took the stripe was in 5th when the other guy got way out of shape and got out of the throttle. I was getting used to giving up the stripe and winning as everyone was breaking out and my car kept running 5.85

In the semi finals there were 3 cars left. And I got the bye-run!
In the finals (8th round), I ran 5.830 on a 5.83 dial-in and lost!
The other guy ran 6.112 on a 6.11 dial-in and his light was 0.005 better than mine, so he crossed first by 0.003
We split the money $1100/$900 so I was happy with that. Entry was $89 for 2 races (Sat & Sun), so that worked out to $44.50 per race, and I won $50 in round money on Sat too.

I estimate my car would have run 9.26 in the 1/4 that day. This E85 is working great and saving me some money on fuel too.