DALLAS (October 18) – Racing at our home track, we were looking forward to saving on those shipping fees for Wally. It wasn’t meant to be our turn, not yet anyway.
Q1 we had a cylinder go out on the right side at about 200 feet. The car pushed to the right and we got about 500 feet out and had to give up the run. By Q3 we were hitting our stride again and had a fantastic pass. This turned out to be our quickest pass of the weekend; clean, straight and right down the groove. Against Dave Richards in Q4, we had a great side-by-side and were nose to nose all the way through the run. Q3 and Q4 we improved enough to make the show for Sunday.
Round one of eliminations we were up against Tommy Johnson, Jr. We had yet another clean pass, right down the groove again, and ran a 4.070 at 308.64. Holeshot wins being what they are; TJ got the win light this time.
“People ask me what my favorite race track is. It's definitely the Texas Motorplex. That's where my dream began years ago. So any race that I'm driving there is a good race. This was a good one as well. We went into Q1 with a new fuel valve and progressed each run as we learned what it wanted from the car. Big Jim was happy with the results and when he's happy we are all happy. We think we have a good hotrod going into Vegas.”
We might not have attained that elusive Wally in Dallas, but we are confident we are headed in the right direction. The numbers show that we are having more consistent runs. Both our speed and ET are showing the improvement. Of course we still want to run in the 3’s consistently. Having these clean passes in Dallas has given us some solid data to carry forward to Vegas, and then to on Pomona.
Heading to The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, October 28-30, we hope Lady Luck rides with us in the city where the sky’s the limit.
Dallas Summary
Q1: 4.704/182.18
Q2: pass
Q3: 4.053/308.78
Q4: 4.032/291.38
Qualified #14
E1: 4.070/308.64
For additional information, please visit John Hale Racing.
Q1 we had a cylinder go out on the right side at about 200 feet. The car pushed to the right and we got about 500 feet out and had to give up the run. By Q3 we were hitting our stride again and had a fantastic pass. This turned out to be our quickest pass of the weekend; clean, straight and right down the groove. Against Dave Richards in Q4, we had a great side-by-side and were nose to nose all the way through the run. Q3 and Q4 we improved enough to make the show for Sunday.
Round one of eliminations we were up against Tommy Johnson, Jr. We had yet another clean pass, right down the groove again, and ran a 4.070 at 308.64. Holeshot wins being what they are; TJ got the win light this time.
“People ask me what my favorite race track is. It's definitely the Texas Motorplex. That's where my dream began years ago. So any race that I'm driving there is a good race. This was a good one as well. We went into Q1 with a new fuel valve and progressed each run as we learned what it wanted from the car. Big Jim was happy with the results and when he's happy we are all happy. We think we have a good hotrod going into Vegas.”
We might not have attained that elusive Wally in Dallas, but we are confident we are headed in the right direction. The numbers show that we are having more consistent runs. Both our speed and ET are showing the improvement. Of course we still want to run in the 3’s consistently. Having these clean passes in Dallas has given us some solid data to carry forward to Vegas, and then to on Pomona.
Heading to The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, October 28-30, we hope Lady Luck rides with us in the city where the sky’s the limit.
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Q1: 4.704/182.18
Q2: pass
Q3: 4.053/308.78
Q4: 4.032/291.38
Qualified #14
E1: 4.070/308.64
For additional information, please visit John Hale Racing.
