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New Beginnings
By Emily | March 3, 2008
Well, it’s official: I have a race car! My dad drove down to California and I met him, Jack, Jenna, Cindy and Jason in Bakersfield at Famoso Raceways on Saturday morning. This is where the fun begins. Jack and Jenna spent all day teaching us every piece of Super Comp racing we could ever use.
Jack spent most of his time with my dad showing him the ins and outs of the car. And Jenna spent most of the day with me showing me everything from the calculations for tuning to the best hand position for the transbrake. After four years of college, you would think that I would be good at soaking up information quickly. However, the fast paced world of drag racing can only be explained through experience.
Jack and Jenna prepared us as well as they could and we headed to the staging lanes. I was a nervous wreck. After waiting hours for our chance at the strip, I pulled up to the line. Everything went well and I made my first pass in the car. We got two passes in on Saturday and two more on Sunday. The weekend was everything I could have hoped for and I got two good runs in the low 9’s. This is a good starting point for beginning to tune the car and I am starting to get very comfortable with the dragster.
From here on out, Dad and I are on our own. He is currently driving the car up to Washington to store it there. I’ll be heading to Seattle in two weeks to test and tune up there at Bremerton Raceways. Hopefully we can get in more than four runs at this test and tune.
The car is going in for a paint job once it makes it to Washington. We are painting the panels on the car white, while leaving the chassis red. Then we will put a vinyl design with an EMDUB Racing logo on the side. I’m excited for the paint job and to be able to make the car my own. As one would expect, the Beckman family is quite well known around the pits. And this proves to be quite confusing to their fans when I pull up in her car. Hopefully I will have fans one day too, but one step at a time ☺.
Stay tuned!
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