[Paul Gillespie]

I came out from Arizona with Hershal. Hershal place 3rd in Autocross in his class(street small block, the largest class), 5th or 6th on the road couse and broke 1st gear on his second run on the dragstrip. Also Hershal tried a new proto-type air brake on the road course practice on Friday, he forgot to fasten the rear clip and at about 110mph the rear clip open, broke the safety cable. All and all the car faired very well, it bent up some backets, bent the hooks on the safety cable, and did some minor fiberglass and paint damage. We had it together the next morning. The blue GT-40 ran in the small-block prepared class and got Top Dog in the prepared class and 1st place sm. block perparedcal, in the road course it didn't run in the autocross or in thr drags. There where a couple Cobra the ran in the 10's and one of them was running a V-6.

The Dragonsnakes didn't do jack, Autocross was embarrasing missed cones, missed turns, real problems. They did a little better on the roadcourse but not much. On the dragstrip I don't think any of them made it into the quick 8, and during the bracket race I was helping Hersh load the GT-40. The cars where a bunch of hot air, but at least they showed up to run. Maybe next year.

GT-40's did well 3rd in the autocross, 1st in the roadcourse and 1 car made it to the quick 8 , Factory Five did very well overall, Shell Valley won some and Backdraft a Pro-class car the did well.

I'm sure as people get home they will post more stuff, I'll try to post some pics when I get home, I'm still in St.Louis.

I highly recommend this event, it was at alot of fun, I hope to be able to make it next yaer.