With Gene Fulton-built power under the hood, Jack Barfield’s Year One-backed 1969 Camaro has shown promise since its debut last summer, but has not yet been to an ORSCA winner’s circle, something the 2004 champ hopes to change soon.
Given your start to the season, are you still pleased about racing in a two-car team?
Barfield: Well, we’ve had some things bite us and you can’t stand to be second fiddle—with neither one of those cars. You want both of them to do well and when one of
them doesn’t, it just bugs you to death. And I just can’t stand it.We’ve actually been fighting the ’68 a lot. We’ve been fighting a lot of gremlins in that car and really we’ve been chasing all around it trying to figure it out. Really, what got us was our Bruno. We had bent the pump and had low pump pressure and didn’t figure it out until this morning.
This is a problem we’ve been chasing for a month; that car has not run a number for us in over a month. So it’s had us struggling with it and you know, when one car has you struggling real bad it hurts the other car because all your attention is on it. We actually had a couple of people come by this morning and comment, ‘You guys have been working on the ’68 for hours and haven’t even cranked the ’69 up,’ and that’s not good.
So it’s tough for you and Randy (Conner) to split your attention like that?
Barfield: Sure, it’s a little tougher, it’s a challenge, but it’s all about how you step up to it, I think, more than anything.
But you’re not at the point of regretting the change yet?
Barfield: No, no I’m not. We had a lot higher hopes for the team than what we’ve done so far, especially since the first weekend we came out racing that car (Birt’s ride) we went a 4.49 with it. So we had real high expectations and we set our goals real high and we just haven’t achieved them. It’s just real aggravating, that’s all.