Opportunity Missed

Today was a huge missed opportunity for us to get our first event win. In the first round we beat Mitch King when we ran a 5.23 (despite a couple dropped cylinders) and King broke at the line. In round 2 we faced Dale Creasy, Jr. We left the setup virtually identical to round one, except for bumping up the compression to fix the dropped cylinder issue. And we smoked the tires at the hit. Creasy had his tires break lose at about the 150 foot mark but I couldn't pedal the car quick enough to catch him. An opportunity lost to beat the Champ. Then in the Finals, Mike Smith couldn't stage, giving Creasy a solo run for the Ironman trophy. Oh so close for Kelley Motorsports!

But it was a great weekend. We qualified 2nd, won Last Man Standing on Saturday night, gained 29 points on Jack Wyatt who we are chasing for 3rd, and extended our lead over 5th place Bob Gilbertson by a few points. We are off next week and then it's off to Detroit's Milan Dragway.