We decided to make a production of Jeff's first lap, so he had a John Force size "SUPER"crew for lap #1.
We checked under the hood for.........I don't know.....I guess to make sure there was somehin' under there. Zap let the smoke out of the passenger side door and gave Jeff some much needed fresh air. I think, at least I hope, somebudie' turned on the make believe data logger, checked the height of the non-existent wheelie bars & made sure the chutes were ready to deploy should they be necessary. I brought Jeff to the beams as the tension began to build. Jeff brought the RPM's up, the last yellow flashed, Jeff dumped the clutch and the LT1 put so much torque to the ground that the car literally moved toward the finish line. Jeff tripped the beams a mere 8:85 seconds later. (see clip)I think Cheryl was havin' too much fun watchin' and forgot to keep the caah in the center of the frame.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7MccYtl008
The second lap I made a pass with a skeleton crew. With the track temp getting up around 145° the crew had to go for water. Car sounds great coming up to the line. Oh wait, that sound is coming from the Blown Vette in the tower lane,
I lit up the top 2 bulbs, Set the line lock, brought the engine R's up. I too dumped the clutch and before I knew it, time to shift. [last year shifting into second was not necessary]. I did a 2-3 shift and all was going well. Time to shift again but I was close enough to the beams I decided it wasn't worth the lost time to shift to 4. The scoreboard flashed a new best time for the caah @ 8.67. Didn't make the 8.48 again this year, but did get a little closer. There's always next year. Time for some shut-eye. See ya' later.
) story to tell next time around 
