We Finally Got One In!

4/8/05

Jeff Burk Photo

ey gang, we did it! Another March Meet in the books and this 46th edition really more than met my expectations. After a little in-house restructuring, the kinder, gentler Goodguys Rod and Custom Association brought this one in by at least 5pm on Sunday. I believe when we were loading our sad selves (The Jeff Gaynor first-round runner F/C team) into the trailer, I heard the announcer say something about getting in line for time trials.

Anyway, the only major complaint I heard was a guy in the parking lot yelling at Goodguy Andy that the Goodguys were like the US government and the parking fee was part of a vast conspiracy against the little guy. He was up in arms about paying $50.00 for preferred parking - meaning he was complaining about having to actually use the free parking outside and having to walk that 100 extra feet. He was complaining about fifty dollars for three days of convenience. Last week I spent $78.00 on sushi for the family and it didn’t last anywhere near three days. Whatever

It’s good to see that my prediction that Top Fuel will die a slow death is not coming true. With 26 cars on the lot and 25 making it to the starting line, it was one of the best-attended

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races in years for the kings of the sport!

What did slightly frost my behind was commentary by some of the die-hard Top Fuel proponents calling the Funny Cars “leakers” and complaining about the “show”. There was down time from both fuel classes but nothing like the three-hour Top Fuel session at last years Vegas race. Another whatever.

Funny Car had ten entries this year up from six last year. Sixteen by Pomona was the word circulating the pits. Also encouraging, in a health-of-our-sport vein, was when we went to enter on Thursday afternoon, we were told all classes except Top Fuel and Funny Car were closed to additional entries. And this is with fuel prices well above the two and a half dollar mark here in California.