A long and mostly frustrating day at Cecil yesterday. Largest car count I've ever seen, along with short staff, made for hours sitting in the staging lanes. I just don't have the patience for that shit anymore. Only got 2 tnt passes all day. First car didn't go down the track until after 10, supposed to start at 9, I didn't get my first pass until 11.30, second pass not until 2.30.. The NSS race guys only got 1 time trial, then they only made 2 elimination rounds, before the rain came about 3:30, ending everyones day.
Cecil has become the most popular dragstrip in the area, cars there yesterday from all over the East Coast, hundreds of tnt'rs.
Cecil apparently is lot like most other businesses now, can't get help. There old tech guy didn't show up til around 10, just a huge cluster.
Hats off to Jim Halsey, he was everywhere. He was doing staging lane control madness, teching cars in, including mine, doing track prep, running the tree, towing broken cars off the track. etc. Busier than a one legged man in a shit kicking contest.
Enough bitching, the track is truly beautiful now, everybody hooks. The good part, clutch seems to doing good, shifted great, but will need way more than 2 runs to get it tuned to where I want it. Bad part, my old caruck is not running right, just not pulling like it used too. My 2 runs, were a 10.71, and 10.81, should be running 10.50 easily, as good as it was shifting. Will be working on that this week, trying to figure out wth's going on there.
Always sumpin'.
