ANRA Season Opener a Success!

On April 10th and 11th the Central Coast Autohaus Flying Pig Racing team travelled to Bakersfield's Auto Club Famoso Raceway for the ANRA season opener. The travel team this week included Dave "the wrench" Lee, Autohaus Dan, Ken "the nuke" Wilson and yours truly.  I couldn't do it without this crew!  The "wrench" is my all around primary crew guy.  He handles the tire pressure adjustments in the lanes, manages the fuel, helps with the log book, not to mention the cooking!  Autohaus Dan provides the mechanical genius and wrenching duties not only at the track, but back home in the Central Coast Autohaus shop. And Ken "the nuke" brings his electrical expertise as well as photography skills to the track!  Oh yeah, Ken can also whip up a tasty linguica and egg breakfast! I can't say enough about how much work goes into getting to the track and making sure that everything goes according to plan.  These guys just make it happen race after race.

On the track, we had a couple of pretty good time runs on Saturday, posting a 10.390 (quickest ever) on the first pass of the day!  We followed that up with a 10.46 on the second pass.  I spun the tires a bit on that one and slowed by .06 second in the first 330 feet.  The rest of the run was fine.  So we felt pretty confident going into eliminations on Sunday. 

Sunday was a blast! There were 54 cars in my class.  That's a BUNCH! If you do the math, it takes 6 round wins to win the whole deal.  We went 4 rounds. In other words, only 4 cars went further.  The guy, Pete Chilbes III, who beat us in round 4 went on to win the event.  So after ANRA race number 1, we sit tied for 5th in season points. Below is a link to a bunch of video taken Saturday and Sunday by "the nuke".  You can also find it on my YouTube channel  http://www.youtube.com/user/flyingpigracing100?feature=mhum

SLOracer. Out.