Cayuga and our Match Race

Sorry I didn't get to update our blog after the Cayuga race. We were ready to go on Sunday afternoon, but wound up smoking the tires at the hit and lost to Mitch King. The motor wound up giving us more power than we had it tuned for, and poof! Bye bye Andy. We were worried about losing some of our cushion in the points standings over Bob Gilbertson (who is behind us in 5th), but Bob had issues too, and lost his first round matchup. So we remain in fourth place, behind Terry Haddock by 39 points, which is less than two "round wins". It sure would be nice to pass him and finish the season in third (or catch Jack Wyatt for second, he's 62 points up).

When we raced our Alcohol Funny Car, we would match race all over the Southeast. In fact, that's what we mostly did. Racing guys like Jimmy Rector at tracks in Alabama, Florida, Georgia was a great time. This weekend it's back to the Match Race circuit as we're taking on Bob Gilbertson at Carolina Dragway just outside Aiken, SC.

The match race is part of the "Thunder Jam" session put on by Live Nation (who runs IHRA). They called us a month ago to arrange this race to add some excitement to what is already a wild program, and we were thrilled to be invited. The neat thing is that it's close to home, so all the family and friends that usually don't get to see us race can come down and enjoy a day at the track.

Gilby said in his press release he "wanted to send Andy Kelley home with his tail between his legs". He should know better than to pick a fight with a bunch of boys from Piedmont!

Hope to see you all there! We race at 7PM and again at 10PM.