April 7, 2011 Hey guys! We are back (well most of us)! Shawn and Nik are road-tripping it to Charlotte! What a trip! The divisional certainly had its ups and downs but the National made it all worth while! We qualified number one at the LODRS event but our excitement was short-lived when we burnt a pushrod first round. But that just goes to show you that ANYTHING can happen in this fabulous sport that we are all addicted to! We have learned time and time again NEVER to get ahead of ourselves! Wanting to move forward, we decided to put the weekend behind us and have a great week in town…usually Sunday night is always the rowdiest and we ALWAYS start the vacation off at P.F. Chang's for the most delicious Chinese food EVER! We purposely always ask for the private dining room because, well, we can be a bit loud. Of course, we proceeded to drink, dance, and have a good time the rest of the night! The remainder of the week wasn’t as eventful but we managed to squeeze shopping in, riding the Harley's and I even got to meet up with an old friend of mine! Sometimes its nice not having to do anything! The boys went out to the track on Tuesday to service the car but my intuition tells me there was a whole lot more play than work! In-n-out burger was eaten about every other day…and yes that sounds gross but when you live in the Northwest, you have to get it all in while you can! I think we will be good until the fall! For the most part, we really couldn’t have asked for better weather while we were down in Vegas. It started out cold and windy at the divisional and got gorgeous during the week and into the National event. To be honest, coming home was a little rough! Since I have been home in Vancouver, it has been sunny, rainy, snowy, and it even hailed! Mother Nature just can't seem to make up her mind…moving into the National last weekend, we really had the attitude of lets have fun and try to redeem ourselves from the race before! Things weren't looking too promising when our body panel ripped off of the car in qualifying. Ironically, our spare is for the other side! And seriously, who has a spare body panel? So funny! But nobody can keep us down! Thankfully, Brad Hadman was there and he managed to work some magic and we got her all fixed up! We qualified number one with a 5.371 and things really started going uphill from there! In first and second round of eliminations, luck was on our side when we had two bye runs. Third round we raced Mark Taliaferro and ran low E.T. of the event with a 5.367 to move onto the final. Then we had Joey again. Joey, Joey, Joey. We knew going into the final that it was going to be a good race. They had a consistent car all weekend AND last weekend and as every racer in this class knows, Joey is deadly on the tree. Everything seemed to fall in place for us, and we ran 5.365 in the final for the win!! The excitement was uncontainable for the team as you can imagine and we continued the celebration for the rest of the night! We really missed Harry this last weekend though! It just isn't the same without you! We just want to say great job to Joey, Joe and their team on two fantastic weekends in Vegas!! The team wants to thank our sponsors, Mundie's Towing, United Petroleum, and Lordco Auto Parts for your support! We couldn’t do it without you! Well, while Shawn and Nik are driving cross-country, "Clark Griswold style", I will be watching over the home front until next week when we all fly to Charlotte. Must be nice to play tourist for the week! I won't lie…I am a little jealous! I am from the States and those boys have seen more than I have…that just ain't right :-) On a more serious note, our hearts go out to the family of Lou Gasperelli who passed away this week…Lou was a very well-respected man at the track and know he will be missed…well, until next time…hope y'all have a good week and don’t forget to watch the Sportsman show on ESPN2 on Saturday the 9th at 12:00pm PST! Talk to you soon!!!
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