The Fonz Returns.

 

Another two weeks, ok maybe closer to three have blasted past since our last blog but still faster than Hannagan qualifying a lap around Eldora but things here have been pretty quiet. Since our last bathroom banter we raced at Cedar Lake in the Olsen’s #34 car out of Stillwater over the father’s day weekend. On night one we timed in slower than we had hoped but were not unhappy as Ron had never run this motor before and it was an older dash 12 motor which we knew would be a touch off and we had no fuel spec sheets so we were flying blind. The sad part for me was that my brother in law the great JR jr set fast time which meant that Sundays fathers day lunch would be painful for me if I didn't step up the pace. See, Amy thinks her brother is the closest thing to perfection that god created in the male form. Plus I thinks he’s still a little upset about me telling everyone that he thinks he’s Fonzy with his comb in his back pocket.

 

We won our heat which put us in the dash draw inversion but ole Fonz drew the inversion which put him out of six and us out off 10th. We moved into third reasonably early even though our front wing broke and collapsed within the first five laps. Scott winters had carved through traffic and had put 5 or 6 lapped cars between him and the rest of us by the first caution but what was worse than the lapped cars and a collapsed wing was that Jerry was running second and that is almost as much motivation to step on it than following Hannagan down the highway in the motor home. After the restart Jerry and I had a good race swapping positions a couple of times before I said enough is enough. Now since Jerry doesn’t read this as it only has one picture per blog I can say that after I passed him the last time I made sure I took the wind off his nose as  I cut down on him to make sure he didn’t repass me. We set of after Winters and reeled him in but ran out off laps. All in all a decent night as we had made improvements on the motor. Read More