The Central Coast Autohaus Flying Pig Racing team had nearly the full compliment of family at the ANRA Fall Nationals last weekend at Auto Club Famoso Raceway! What a crew! We had mine, ding master Woollybear's, and the Lgend Wayno's hot rods there. And we were joined by Chuck ("if you don't share your toys...") and his bride Cindy- with the Hook Nova.. Support crew included Barry aka Not Dan aka Weldo the Wingman; Dave The Wrench with his posse- Mrs. Biscuits and Gravy along with the girls; Autohaus Dan (crew chief extraordinaire); Kenny the Nuke; Frankster Gankster; J.C. the Wanderer; and of course Ai and Zena- Princess Warrior! Holy Cow!
Woollybear has decided to set his badass nova up to run 10.60s (after proving it could run 9s at the last summit race) so he was tweaking it to slow it down, and I think he did a pretty darn good job of getting to that magic number. Look out next year- this guy could be competitive in Dgas and Hot Rod!
Meanwhile, Surf Legend Wayne goes absolutely unconscious in Hot Rod- marching through the field of over 100 cars- all the way to the final!! The Vega was insanely consistent and with the help of tuner/crew chief/psychiatrist Autohaus Danny, Wayne leapfrogged a gaggle of heavy hitters to get himself up to 2nd in the season championship points! Rookie!! I am learning from this guy. Thanks Wayno! Round after round, after round, after round...ok, you get it.
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I came into this race 2 rounds behind then points leader Dale Thomas. As luck would have it I drew him in the first round. I call that opportunity! We had a super close race- .002 second separation at the start- I ran him down and blipped the throttle once, taking a close stripe and the win. So, with that I put myself in position to move up in points- only to lose 2nd round in a close race, but I just "took a little too much win light" breaking out by a couple hundredths. Luckily for me, a bunch of the heavy hitters also went out in early rounds, so when the dust settles I think I am about 3 rounds out of first. It ain't over yet!
More pics and video coming. Until then,
SLO Racer. Out.
