Once we had set our pit area, Willowbank Raceway were putting on a Test n Tune on the Friday night before the event. They had put a new timing system in and they needed some race vehicles to test the new equipment out. Things weren't going to smoothly with new equipment at first and we would only get one pass in, but one pass is better than none. We ran 8.592 @ 155.29 with the dragster getting a little lose at around half track, but we were ready for quailifying which was up first thing in the morning.

Our first qualifier was at 9:10am. We ran 8.525 @ 155.44 mph. Our next qualifier was at 11:50am. Our 60ft time was a little off as the track had jaws on it on the starting line and it pulled the engine down. We ran 8.613 @ 154.56 mph. There is not much we can do, they throw alot of VHT on the track up here. Our final qualifier would be at 8:35pm and the track surface was killer. We ran 8.594 @ 154.00 mph. With our three qualifiers completed we were looking good for our first round the following morning.

With ANDRA introducing a revised seeding schedule, the field would be seeded now from 32 vehicles instead of 16. First round saw us up against Tony Bellert in his Chevy powered Rear Engine Dragster. I would dial in 8.52 while Tony would dial in 7.80. Tony got the start line advantage with a .015 light to my .034. The margin of victory was .016 which was the difference in the lights, with Tony running 7.840 on his 7.80 dial in, to my 8.557 on my 8.52 dial in. At least I left with a green light as the last few times in which we have raced at Willowbank, I have left gone out first round with a big red cherry.

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