Is It Time to Go Racing Yet?

Yes sir!! That is the question. Is it time to go racing yet? A racer starts to get itchy when the weather gets up around 65 degrees. After a couple of weeks with the weather in the teens, anything above 40 is a heat wave. With the start of the IHRA season next week, a lot of racers get to enjoy sunny south Florida. Good luck to all.

Well, as Sandy posted last week, you know he has been skiing and spending some time with family and friends in the mountains. He has also gotten his truck trailer painted. I have posted a few pics showing the paint guru Chuck Chapman performing his magic. Chuck did an awesome job in a short amount of time. Who says paint and body guys are slow.

Sandy, Chuck and I have decided to start the racing year off in new way. We are heading to Pomona, California for the 50th running of the NHRA Winter Nationals. I am kind of a history buff when it comes to drag racing and what better race to attend than the 50th Winter Nationals. We fly into Ontario on Friday around lunch. I think we are going to hit a couple of sites, such as the NHRA museum, maybe John Force Racing and we may take Sandy to Hollywood to get his star on the walk of fame. On Saturday we will head to the track for the day and that night we may go to a legends event at a nearby hotel. This will be drivers from the past 50 Winter Nationals doing a question and answer session as well as telling stories. Interesting to me, maybe not to the Flea and Chuck. Who knows what we will do. Fun no matter what.

Sunday we will be at the track all day seeing some great racing action. Hopefully that weekend will be rain free. Last year they had a ton of rain. They got one qualifying session, and eliminations were finished the following Wednesday. We fly out Monday morning, so racing better finish up on Sunday. Either way, we are getting our racing started earlier than usual and that’s a great sign for me. Every day is a great day for me.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. Take care of you.

Don

2010

Well here we are in 2010. It's a new year and i hope things are looking up for everyone!

My first day of 2010 was spent at JJ and Suzie White's house eating collard greens, fat back, and some black eyed peas. OK so this is the first time i engaged in the tradition of eating these items, but as bad as 2009 was i figured it couldn't hurt. As you can see from the picture JJ added some dimes to the collards. Supposedly if you get a dime in your collards you will have a prosperous year, therefore he made sure there were PLENTY of dimes!!!

This past weekend was spent taking care of some business and a little pleasure. I dropped off my tow rig at Chuck Chapman's body shop for a little touch up on a couple of items that needed attention. Chuck and his guys jumped right on the project and i expect to pick it up next weekend. This picture shows Chuck doing his thing.

I left Hickory and headed North to Boone. The North Carolina mountains had been receiving allot of snow and cold weather over the past couple of weeks so some friends and I decided to hit the slopes! We went to Sugar Mountain on Saturday and skied from 12:30 to 8:00pm on Saturday night. And yes....it was cold, exactly ZERO degrees when we finished Saturday night. The picture is from the top of Sugar Mountain while it was snowing.

Its a new year, new things to come, so keep your eyes out for upcoming announcements.

Sandy