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After 40 years of riding, I finally raced at a Dragstrip:
Countyline Dragway in Dade County (eighth mile)
Paid a $25 racers fee.
I made 22 passes, more than anyone else today.
Impressed 'em with Steelheart's reliability.
My best time was an 8.33 seconds, best trap speed 79mph.
But THIS was the best part of the day:



I'm the one on the right.
On the left...a Suzuki Hayabusa!!!
I shi, er, poop you not.
He blew the start, I got the Holeshot, & Yeehaa!
I'm not sayin' it will ever happen again.
But I beat him Straight Up.
Hear the Blare of the Trumpet!!!





Reminds me of a friend who built a gas dragster with a Ferguson tractor engine. I forget his times, but he turned mid to high 90 MPH in a quarter mile, not bad with an engine built to run 15 MPH flat out!
He usually got the trophy for fastest in class (not many class GG dragsters around) and once, through a lucky series of blown tires clutches etc. he took top eliminator! He even beat an A Fuel dragster that blew a transmission coming off the line.

Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python