Gator Gumbo-John the Plumber team

[jim sanders]

thanks FH.... LEAVING RIGHT NOW...

[jim sanders]

well not much good news.... it was the hottest day in my history of being at the track i think even with the tent and gallons of water and POWERade i wasn't feeling to good until the sun went down and had a few tin1's while watching the late rounds.. all day our 60ft times were all over the map.. if it didn't slip or spin it would run a normal predictable et. we know our tires are about done but i think the track temp or greazy had an effect on us as we really don't have enough motor to "overpower" the starting line . oh well due to the heat there were very short fields in all classed... all the points racers were there but few others.. so they were hot lapping the classes quickly and the coplete program was done by about 10:00pm or so. both of the cutlasses were running engine temps well above our normal comfort zone... just a brutal day i tell ya !! some good news is Bill's new converter really woke his car up running his quickest et's to date even in the conditions we had !! he was in the low-mid 12.20's all day as we were in our hot weather 12.79- 12.85 area.. oh well now the bad news.. we won only 1 round of 4 in eliminations . 1st round of street et. lost 1st round in pro/et and blew $25 to buy back in. lost round 2 in street, then lost round 2 of pro/et and we were done... Bill went a round further in both classes (i think) then is was beer time and the shoulda woulda coulda's bench bs session all in all we didn't loose much ground in the points as some other top 10 cars also went out early... will report when points are posted.. Bret was there and took some nice shots of the car and he also did some announcing which was fun to hear over the P.A and radio in the van. a guy from the mopar club tore up his car pretty bad after hitting the right wall then powering into the left wall almost head-on... looked bad but he was ok..did i mention it was just too hot to be a human yesterday?!!!

[draglist]

You were out there doing it... that's what matters... super hot in Iowa, too... we got the same weather. Thanks for representing us out there, dude. bp

[jim sanders]

thanks B.P. here is a Bret photo from yesterday.. i am ordering some copies to be framed.. my favorite pic so far (until we win one

[jim sanders]

another 1-- I think this would look great on random rods.. ya think?

[jim sanders]

points update.... not as bad as we thought ... presently 3rd with Bill right behind us.. we were only passed by the car that won the final... a missed oppertunity for sure yesterday.... oh well.. on to next week

[wheelzman]

GOOD TO GO is GOOD TO GO. Good show Doc.

[flyinhillbilly]

at least y'all didn't get plumb beat up in the points jimbo still got a fighting chance, i believe y'all will get r done!!!! and if you don't you won't miss it by much.

[Rapid Randy Baker]

[Doug]

Hey Jim..
Tough day for sure but at least you all showed up.

Great pics too...

I swear, if I look hard enough at that first one it looks like that left front tire is alllllllllmost in the air.