Forecast didn't look good this AM but a half dozen of us still showed up at the Airport Maintenance Garage to discuss the weather. Since all of us had seen the forecasts and weather maps we made a decision to cancel tonight's Test and Tune session.
Fast forward to this coming weekend's Noonan Nationals at MDP. As usual the forecast sucks big time. Friday to Saturday afternoon it looks clear but it's rain for Sunday. Miramichi Dragway Park has had the absolute WORST luck with rain this season. There's some ugly rumours going around concerning the future of MDP lately - I certainly hope they're not true.
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Raceway Park PEI's Labour Day race had been turned into a "Sport Compact" weekend for 2008. Since our reservations were already made "Team Cape Breton" elected to join in for some testing and tuning. Since there was a very low car count the guys got a ton of passes. 
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The reason nothing has appeared in here lately is because the Message Board has been so busy. There were tons of pics posted and lots of discussion about the rain so I won't bore you all with more soggy details. All the fastest street cars in the world trying to get down a wet track is an experience I'll never forget. Some of those Outlaw 10.5 cars are scary to watch!!
Cape Breton Dragway's test and tune session on Saturday July 12 had perfect weather, great traction and almost 60 entries. The field was split about 1/3 Tuners, 1/3 bracket cars and the last 1/3 was Bikes and sleds. Next event will be a Wednesday night Test and Tune session on July 23 then July 25-26-27 will be an ADRA Points Meet. The weekend after that it will be the Extreme Drag Race event at Miramichi. I've got so much going on lately it looks like it may be awhile before my next entry - check the Maritime Drag Racers Message Board for what's happening on the Drag Racing front. 
Marie's Windows XP crashed a couple of days ago so Ross and I recovered some stuff with a Linux disk, formatted the drive then reinstalled XP and it worked just fine. Fast forward through two days of reloading documents and installing programs and other stuff to lunchtime today. All of a sudden there was the "blue screen of death" back again. 
Not much news on the Drag Racing front until we get the reports from Greenfield Dragway. Looks like they finally got some good weather so they may get a good car count. HUGE amount of discussion everywhere on NHRA's decision to shorten the track from 1/4 mile to 1000 feet so I won't bother to say any more on that subject. Personally I prefer 1/8 mile - it's safer, easier on parts and a whole lot better for the spectators.
It's raining here, Miramichi Dragway Park just lost another weekend due to rain and even the NASCAR race in New Hampshire was called after 284 of 301 laps. Went out to visit my brother Spencer today and on the way home the skies opened up and the wind got even higher. It's more like mid May than a Canada Day weekend and the forecast doesn't look much better for the holiday on Tuesday.
Wednesday June 18 was setup day for a Test and Tune session at Cape Breton Dragway. Thursday and half of Friday we spent working on Ross' shed getting the roof ready for shingles. Friday afternoon it was back out to the track to work on the gold dust and traction compound. Saturday and Sunday back to Cape Breton Dragway at 8:00 AM for both days of the season opener and first points meet. The traction was good, it was sunny and warm(hot at times)and there was some pretty close racing when eliminations started on Sunday. Full report with winners photos on MaritimeDragRacing.com results page.
For me the worst part of the weekend was learning of the death of Funny Car driver Scott Kalitta in a horrific qualifying accident. It was a big shock for those of us who followed his career from the time he was a kid guiding dad Connie back from a burnout to his world championship. Since there's so much information about the crash on every drag racing message board on the planet we won't go into any details.
Spent the morning cruising the boneyards looking for one of these VW Jetta cast aluminum 14 inch wheels and two center caps. They're usually found on the upscale VW Jettas from 1986-1992 and some Golf GTIs. Didn't have any luck at the parts places I visited but I saw lots of them in parking lots and people's yards. Need a minimum of one wheel and two center caps but I'll take a whole set if necessary. Also I'm still on the hunt for any 84-92 GTI parts or even a rusty GTI parts car. Anyone has any of this stuff please let me know. A little tip too - If you're a VW owner you absolutely have to check out: