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| 03/29/09
-Happy spring everyone! Last time we mentioned we *may* run at the 51st March Meet. First the good news, well, we did! The bad news, we didn’t qualify. Still it was a major accomplishment for our team to make the event. Jeff Burk over at Drag Racing Online wrote a nice comment on his daily blog about the lengths our team went through to make the event. And make it we did! Once again we were invited to display the car at Chuy’s restaurant for the Thursday night pre-race party. It’s always great to talk to the fans and mingle with other racers in a relaxed atmosphere. We are more than happy to be invited by the Bowsers of Famoso Auto Club Raceway, and will hope to be involved in the future. Friday at the racetrack we went through our pre-race routine/warm-up being *baby-sat* by our old friend Amos Satterlee. |
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| Amos is an icon in drag racing and Jeff drove for Amos and his partner Brian Bruhn in the past. After getting the thumbs up from Amos, we went to make our first attempt at what would become an epic event for nostalgia funny car. |
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The day was cold and had periods of rain so the weather really wasn’t cooperating. The Famoso crew do a great job of preparing the track so, we felt we could put a decent number up early. The car was set up *soft* to try and get a base line with our new heads and rear end gear ratio. When they are soft they tend to shake the tires so that was on the teams' minds. All was well until about the 1/8th mile mark tire shake caused Jeff to lift and end this attempt. At the turn-off the top end crew told Jeff something had come off of the car. Well, the tire shake had blown out the red plexi-glass rear window on the car. Thank goodness we had an aluminum spare in the trailer. |
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Saturday we *hopped her up* a bit to try and get through the tire shake we had on Friday. At the hit of the throttle the car went towards the centerline and Jeff stayed with it until just after half track when the car made a violent move away from the line and towards the wall. Jeff lifted and we returned to the pits to get ready for our last attempt at an increasingly tough field. When we returned to the pits we found that the wheelie bar was broken, thus solving the moving towards the centerline so quickly issue. We also discovered a couple of push rods that were bent. Nothing else in the motor was hurt. After talking to Amos we decided that it was best to not try and run the last session. This event went down as the quickest field ever for nostalgia funny car. All of us here at Pisano racing congratulate Bucky Austin, winner of the *A* show and Mike Halstead, winner of the *B* show at the 51st Bakersfield March Meet. |
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Some closing notes, the Pisano & Matsubara Hot Wheel debuted at the March Meet. It looks great and will be available soon here and at retailers nationwide. We are very impressed with the finished model! Also, NHRA invited the team to make exhibition runs at the Summit Racing.com NHRA Nationals at Las Vegas Motor Speedway the first weekend in April. We are always honored to be asked and try to make every attempt to attend when invited however, we had to decline because of conflicting family schedules.
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