My first race was in 94. I had been working on building my Bee for about a year when they opened up a new track locally (Steel Valley Dragway) . Well , I decided that I would take the wifes 79 Trans Am and go give it a try. I had been watching bracket races for more than 10 years , so I had a pretty good idea of how things worked. This was at their inaugural event. I entered the trophy class and ended up winning ! Needless to say that I was "hooked" and spent every weekend, for the rest of that summer, racing instead of working on My Bee. That Tran Am was putting down some blistering 16.5x passes ,lol , but it was still a lot of fun and I went on to win 4 more trophies that year.