I signed up for the trophy class just to see how I'll do. There were seven of us.

The first round I also got my best 60 of 2.171 against an old nice looking Mercury, he dialed 15.75 and I dialed a 14.15, I didn't know you had to guess your time before hand.

They stagger the lights depending on the dial time so he had a good head start. I just looked at my lights and waited, it was hard holding back as he took off down the lane. He gets about 30 feet when my light goes green. I slowly inched towards him and when we crossed the line I couldn't tell who won. When I saw the light in my lane light up I gave myself a little fist pump. I've won the first bracket race I've ever been in. Looking at the time slip he missed his dial time by .046 sec. I missed by .052. I won off reaction time he was .107 and I hit .060, hole shot victory.

Second heat was with a dude on an old Kawasaki. He dailed 11.16 and went 12.048. I hit 14.346. His motor messed up and he lost power in second and couldn't make up the distance when power came back. Bad cylinder he said. I made the finals.

In the final I was against a Harley. I got to go first since he dialed 13.17. I see the third yellow and hit it. about a second later he's coming up fast at about the 1000 foot mark he's right next to me and by the time we cross the line it looked like I edged him out. When I looked for the light his side went on. Damn I lost. I look at the time slip and I went 14.105, too fast got the thumbs down from the tower . He ran a 13.22. Had I been perfect @ 14.15 I would have lost anyway on R/T .204 to .09

Oh well nothing to brag about since it was the trophy class but I had fun and I had to mention it somewhere.

I did manage a PB 14.06@102.31 with a 2.22 60' during the test and tune rounds.

 

good job :

 

thank you sir it was fun

 

very nice, bracket racing pwns all

 

bracket racing is definitely fun