Left Ennis about 11 am Pacific time on Sunday after watching some of the mud drags. Got home about 11pm last night. 2000 miles in 32 hours of driving and 4 hours of sleep, butt is dragging a bit.
The World Finals were great. Lots of quick trucks and great competitors. There were only a couple of delays due to oil downs, Darren Morrison scatter the engine in the Black Mamba on the line big time, and Brian Spooner broke a front drive line and put a hole in the T-case. Were a couple of other smaller issues, but the event ran well.
Had almost half of the large Prostreet class go out first round due to breakage in the qualifying rounds. Phillip Palmer ended up winning the title when the H&S truck couldn't make the call. Both Team Green and Seth Sullivan made passes that would have set a new record. Both in the 9.10 and 9.11 range, but Seth couldn't back it up before he was eliminated and Team Green didn't get another chance due to the rain.
Max'd Out never made a good pass all days, had an electrical gremlin that caused no throttle response one pass and potentially a TC going bad so it wouldn't launch. Was cutting 1.8 and 1.9 60' which won't cut it in that class.
Super Diesel was a great class. I've never seen so many trucks running right on the number and I mean right on the number. Came down to a total Reaction Time race. I went out third round due to getting treed had a .19 to a .16 on the 4/10 protree. Ran a 11.93 but lost too much on the tree. Didn't beat myself so I'm happy. Verlon went out in the second round so I still had a chance to win it all if I won out. Alas not to be. Had a great time anyway.
Verlon hurt his truck, was smoking white like a bitch. He was burning over a quart of oil every 150 miles on the way home. Hard to say what it is, most likely the bottom oil ring/s or a oil leak in one of the turbos most of the guys who know were saying.
He did manage to hang in and win the Sportsman event.
Congratulations to all the winners and to NHRDA for putting on a great event.
I tried to find everyone and shake hands. :thumb:
