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2004mercuryman
09-11-2005, 12:13 PM
Well this weekend i finally got to go to the track. I was pump up all the way there. I got my new tires a few days earlier so i could pass the tech. I get there and the tech guy didnt even look at anything on my car just ask me if it was stock. So i get the tech done and park and let it cool off and watch the other cars for about a hour till i just couldnt stand itanymore. It was time for me and my baby to go to battle. So i start it up Make sure my seat belt is on. I check that off the list. Turn off the traction contol and the o/d. Put it in gear and stoped. Got out of the car to put my XM Radio Antenna down cause it could cause some air drag. LOL! Get back in the car and head for the light. I turn off the radio and double check to make sure everything was off. So im waiting to make my pass. And there was a mustang about a 96 model with a girl in it. And im like great im going to lose to a girl with my buddy watching. So it was our turn and i go around the burnout box and do a little burn out and pull up to the staging beams. And i thought i was never going to find that beam. By now im nervous and my left leg is shaking on the brake and my right is doing the same. But i got it stage and im waiting for the tree and all of a sudden a feeling came over me and goose bumps raise on my arms. And i thought to my self i can do this I have a CDL driver license and i can 18 wheeler around town weighing 90,000 i can do this. So the light starts to go down YELLOW, YELLOW, YELLOW,GREEN! GO!!!!!!!!! The mustang take me on the light but im hanging with girl im at her rear fender and holding then about 50mph. IM pulling her and pulling her fast were half way down the track and im out in FRONT. Im so happy that im not losing in front of my buddy. IM about 4 or 5 car lenghts ahead of her when we finish im like yeah that was a 14 sec pass i was like John Force. I know that was a high 14 sec pass i smoke that mustang. So i pull to the little shed where they give you your timeslip. Im like thank you sir and drive off and park real quick cause it was night and i couldnt see what my timp slip said. But i knew it was high to mid 14. So i turn on the dome light and I said WTF 15.5 no way i even look to make sure this one was my SOB, it is. So there you have it folks my first trip to the track and it wont be my last. It time for the MODS!

dwasson
09-11-2005, 01:05 PM
That's how it starts.

HwyCruiser
09-11-2005, 02:00 PM
Great story. The excitement just doesn't wear off either.

grampaws
09-11-2005, 02:04 PM
Geez! I haven't evengone yet! You mean it gets worse??!!:D
Or is that better!??:rolleyes:

jgc61sr2002
09-11-2005, 03:41 PM
Congrats :D :up: :trophy:

Smokie
09-11-2005, 05:31 PM
That was a great story, reminds me of my first pass on an official race track...my heart was beating so fast...I think it ran faster than my car did. Congratulations, glad you had great time.

Nitrous Al
09-11-2005, 05:42 PM
Sweet, can you post all the numbers from the timeslip?

Bluerauder
09-11-2005, 05:45 PM
By now im nervous and my left leg is shaking on the brake and my right is doing the same. .... So the light starts to go down YELLOW, YELLOW, YELLOW,GREEN! GO!!!!!!!!! ... So i turn on the dome light and I said WTF 15.5 no way !
Sounds exactly like my first pass down the track. :rolleyes: I ran a 15.557 with 3/4 tank of gas and a full trunk. :rofl: Was so nervous on the 1st run that the tree was a hard "green" before the right foot was moving. ;) To top it off, I came off the gas at the 1/8 mile marker so my trap speed was only 81+ MPH. :rofl: I estimate that it was really a 15.329 @ 92.94 MPH; but that ain't what the slip says !! :burnout:

LVMarauder
09-11-2005, 06:32 PM
Im cool calm and collected right until I get to that christmas tree then the heart rate sky rockets , your palms sweat, and your on edge..... Then you get to go flying down the track, nothing quite like it, sounds like you got the bug.