Weekend at the Farm!

Hello everyone,

It is a rainy Thursday evening as I start this blog. I usually write on Mondays but I did not make it to Raleigh this week. This blog is hard to keep up with. If you put it off a day, it is Thursday before you know it.

The weekend at Farmington started off normal. We made two uneventful runs Friday. Saturday we made two great qualifying runs and then the rain set in. What we noticed was that the reaction times varied a little. If we have any doubt about our runs we usually enter the combo race to make sure ever thing is OK. Not today. Rain, rain go away.

Sunday we awoke to beautiful Carolina Blue skies with a slight head wind. We took three thousandths out of the delay box. In the other lane was Ronnie Procter in his beautiful Ford Mustang. I was introduced to Ronnie at the IHRA World Nationals in Norwalk Ohio in 2005, where Sandy defeated him in the finals. Large day for Wilkins Motorsports. But today Sandy goes .027 red. Where did that come from? The only thing Sandy could figure was that the front end was still set up tight from last year. He ran the Big Dog series at the end of last year on a pro tree. He had the car set up to react quickly. It was perfect at Rockingham. Any how, Ronnie Procter went on to get runner up in Top Sportsman. Congratulations goes out to Frank Teague on his win.

We tried out the new awning this weekend and it went up pretty quick. It is lowered in the pic because they were calling for high winds Saturday night. We will have it out next week at Mooresville. Sandy's sponsor, Signal Seals and Fasteners, is from that area and the owner Don Gray will have employees and family there. We want to look as good as possible. See you in Mooresville, NC.

Don Shuford