First meeting of the year and why did it have to be so cold after those lovely warm days leading up to the weekend.

New crew members Nick and Emma survived just! I haven’t told you about Nick yet, he’s joined us to take Martins place on starter as he’s got a new job and can only make some days at some meetings. We will miss him, but when he is available he will be helping Dave with the tuning. Nick did really well considering he had never been drag racing before, so treat him gentle if you are asking question at the track. Emma did well keeping us supplied with food and hot drink and is getting to be dab hand at parachute packing.

Anyway back to the important stuff, first pass was a very respectable 7.26 (normally I’m lousy on the first pass of the year) and the second shocked everybody (well me anyway) a personal best ET of 6.673. So we were all very happy bunnies going to the Nags Head Pub Saturday night to warm up.

Sunday was a bit warmer but we were plagued with tire shake on both passes and had to shut of early.

Race day arrived cloudy with sunny spells and less wind. Only fore cars for round one Dave Wilson against Doug Ripley and Rob Turner and I in the other pairing. I had the left lane which may have been fortunate as I had a bit of a driving job, on the launch the car picked up the front, hooked right and changed lanes, Rob was long but we live to fight another day.