If you want to see just how good a shape you are go to a four day big money race. At 65 years old, fat, and out of shape you have to learn the game and pray you have a motorhome. Usually you get one time trial early in The weekend so take lots of notes on wind and weather. Engine warmups start at between 7-8am and racing usually goes till 4am the next day. Usually I win first round so with buy-backs you probably have 4-5 hours till your next round (if you did win). For use old timers that’s nap time. Second round still a nice break then all heck breaks lose. Bad oil down, nap. Lol. When your day ends you still hear racing into the late hours and at 7am go again for two more days. Then you have the privilege to load up and drive home. I love it but it’s not easy.
National events four days, and if it rains, you stay until it's done. And you need to get there the day before. Points meets three unless it's a double. Road trips may be two races back to back in two different locations. And it's get beat and the weekend's over. That's about all I did for years. Working to getting back to it. Been bored since I got stupid and parked my junk. Staying involved with other folks is not good enough. Actually makes it worse.
We were at the Norwalk IHRA National when BB owned it all, after racing at 42 the weekend before. 1000 cars. Stands packed. Rained Friday and the big show got started late. Jet cars and fireworks at 2:30AM. Then the party started. Not much sleep that weekend. Those were the days.
Someone once asked Jim Dunn how much money it took to run a fuel car. His answer was "all of it".
So, how many more years? All of them.
