My most embarrasing moment was when I was 18 years old and the track was running a pro lite tree. Duh me sitting there.... track tech comes up and asks me what the problem is. I tell him my tree didnt work,, he explains the pro lite tree to me, I might as well been Homer Simpson that nite. DOH! Dan
Hmmm.....One moment that stands out. I did a burnout and stalled.... The part that sticks out is the track official leans over on my car(I never hooked up the Neutral saftey switch) and motioned for my attention. I started it in drive and took off. He fell over and I had to stop racing that night
I was racing my 64 pick up one night,did a little tuning,set the timing,adjusted the carb,my buddy yelled let go make a pass,i shut the hood pulled up did my burnout,the lights came down,i heard a strange noise but only for a second everthing seemed ok.When i got back to the pit here were my friends holding my 1/2 inch wrench and my straight screw driver.I was in such a rush i left them under the hood and apparently on the starting line too.
I guess I would have to say stripping the teeth from the ring gear while doing a bunrout at Raleigh County Dragway
I want to thank everyone that has posted on this thread for giving me other awful things to think about as I am about to throw up in the staging lanes.
I raced Friday and today. My knee is finally healed so me and the Maverick are getting as many passes in as possible in before the season ends. Today I am getting used to the car, so not as bad, but Friday I actually had the thought process of throwing up in the passenger drag seat since the carpet is brand new.....
Just today I was sittin in the lanes waiting on them to pull a few cars. I had to "GO" something bad. Just as I started walking toward the outhouse the wheel stops and they pulled me out of the back of the line. #2 was going to have to wait
The worst was when I went from a normal valve body to a reverse manual. I get the car in the burn pit, get the tires hot, pre-stage, pop it up in netrual, clean out the carb, drop it back in 1st, stage, the lights come down and I cut a 5.10 light, shift light comes on and I push the shifter up into netural again and hit the rev limiter (7000), Yank it back into 1st, then 2nd. All I could do is go back to the pits and buy back in. Then one of my "FRIENDS" puts a note on my dash that reads "PULL DUMBA$$" Arnt friends suppost to comfort you when you have something like that happen? Yea right!!!!!!!
I've managed to pull a couple of more boners since I started this thread..did a Terry Gates and pulled out of the pits with my charger hooked up...the very next run I pull out of the pits and the passenger door comes flyin open almost smackin this gal in the arse...it ws just one of those days...and I'm sure there will be many more.
