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What Can Go Wrong Will Go Wrong…

By Camp Stanley / Photos By Axle Weiss
 
Our friend, that fickle woman Ms Lady Luck appears to have deserted us. We survived the first races of the 2010 season with a lot of her magic. And after St Louis with the rained out Topeka race included we knew she was off and gone to help some other wayward soul. With our spare motor planted between the frame rails on the off weekend between Houston and St Louis we were ready once again to give our fellow ADRL warriors a run for their money. Or so we thought!

On our first qualifier John informed me that he had no oil pressure at the end of the burnout. So for the first time in our short ADRL career we pushed the car off to the side after John backed up through the water box. Strike ONE!

On our second attempt John had to pedal the Camaro when it started to light the tires at the top of low gear. Strike TWO!

But on our third qualifier we thought we were finally able to see the light at the end of the tunnel! When we rolled out from under the tunnel at Gateway, we were the slowest non qualified car in the field. That night session was nothing short of astounding for the ADRL crowd! They saw the ADRL’s second quickest ever Pro Extreme field created! And it was done in August racing next to the Mississippi river! In the Missouri night time on that Friday night an amazing, unheard of FIVE Pro Extreme racers recorded times of 3.78! We were one of them when John piloted the Appalachia on Steroids Camaro to nearly an all time best run of a 3.78 with a ONE! The only sad thing about it is that it left us qualified in the SEVENTH spot! That meant that were 3.70 cars in the bottom half of the field! But we had now qualified again amongst the Big Boys with our little team that could! We had become yet again the quickest non-hemi car in the field. No strikes, no balls, just a good old qualifying run!

But on Saturday morning before the last qualifier that witch woman deserted us yet again! Scott realized that our brand spanking new oil pump had a seal leaking and oil was dripping out the front of it! Oh boy, joy of joys, an oil pump seal was needed in Missouri before lunchtime on a Saturday! How was that going to work we had to wonder. Then magically down out of the clouds our lady friend appeared to tempt us yet again that she still had a place in her heart for us.

Our newfound friends, the Rister clan that we met at the Martin race were from within 20 minutes of the race track and operated an automotive repair shop. Mrs. Candy Rister, being the parts procurer for the family run business spent a lot of time on her cell phone till she found us a seal at a local Carquest parts store! You really have to love Carquest! If you need it, invariably they will have it! So off Mr. Axle Weiss and I went to find this place and find it we did without getting lost ONCE!

With the car fixed and the team ready to race, to the staging lanes we went for our first round matchup with the venerable one, Quain Stott. This time it was our turn to have lane choice, so again we did what we did in Houston, we raced in the lane Quain was not in! And this time he got the win light when that fickle woman got to us yet again! The two cars left the line welded together but it was over right after that. The throwout bearing collar broke, turned in the bellhousing which never left the clutch release!

We are planning on a really nice seance session with this Lady Luck female person in the not so distant future before Rockingham. We plan on lots of candles, lots of incense and anything else it may take to get her back in our corner yet again! We have even thought of calling Stan Allen or one of them other creole area boys to recommend a good voodoo lady to help us out!

But we shall persevere! We shall not give up the fight! Never! Ever! We are in this till the bitter end!

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