Parker 425 Car 1131

Once again i was fortunate enough to be asked by the burgins (red and Susie) to assist in the driving of their score-lite, or class 1100 at the b.i.t.d "parker 425", red started and ran

The first lap, had really good luck getting by the front runners, and getting out front, staying out of trouble, co-driver Kenny said everything went smooth, passed a lot of cars in the rough stuff

, The new fat engine really ran well, different than the collotype-4, you shift at 6500 rpm and got to keep it there to go forward, not used to that...(my ears are still ringing!!!!!!!), as red was coming

Into the "python" with a front flat, he ran out of fuel?..........luckily there was a team close by and splashed 2 gallons to help get us thru the 9 mile sand trap and that only cost us about 5 min.

Standard scene in the pits, change tire, add fuel, driver change...get out of town as fast as we can, ...lots of talent in parker in class 1100. Cant give up an inch, they will take it from you,

Ran clean, no mistakes, had to do a little bumping and shoving to keep the pace but nothing to out of hand, as we dropped into mineral wash the alternator light came on, we quickly pulled over

And assessed the situation, .........the belt was still on!!!!!!!!!! Good and bad, .we were close enough to muster in on battery power if needed to, but after 5 min light went out, gps unit was grounding

Out and finally quit, light went out and we wicked it back to race speed, probably loosing only 5-6min. or so, ...took final fuel and headed back out on lap three, kept a blistering pace, not to many issues

Usual slower classes to get around, out in the wash to grahams well a small bottle neck that we had to wait for, but got that worked out and steamed ahead, again loosing a few min. there also,

Clean run to midway, not getting the top end speed we would like to have had, we knew 1120 1120 Rodney Smithwas coming, he clearly had mph on us bad, they caught us passed midway, said hello in the usual

racing manner, and we kept them in sight as we dropped off the c.a.p. Into the rough stuff, we kept pace and closed the gap to about 10 seconds trying to real them back in, we both battled lots of

Traffic as we headed to the goat trail, as we went thru the old Shea pits, and dropped into Osborne, we were plagued with a sticky throttle cable for about 1 mile or so, most likely the rock shower

of abc we were unable to avoid from the pro-truck back in Osborne, probably added 100 lbs to the car, never the less, we un-wedged the un-welcome demon, only to break a front right lower trailing

arm off the car, @#%&*#^%$.............7 miles or so to go, had no choice but to idle in on first gear, she was a toughy to turn, .......took some doing to keep it on course, but better to get 2nd than DNF that

close to the finish, congrats to 1120 1120 Rodney Smith they ran hard all day, and never gave up, that’s what this sport is all about.