After mother nature spoiled the first date for this event, we had to shuffle around plans and get the kids a sitter so the wife and I could make this one. That being said, we still had a 40% chance of rain on the forecast and decided we were going to show up regardless of the weather. You know, cant waste a sitter!
Once the boys were set I snuck to the car wash for a quick no touch wash. With all that could've went wrong this morning going wrong(picking up 1st grader I caught him during a fire drill, on way to get the 6th grader I was stuck behind a dump truck that was breaking down and couldn't muster more than 20 mph for the 4 miles I followed him as he gave up the driveway before the school), we were an hour behind schedule and finally off. Just as we leave the house it starts to sprinkle(obviously because I had to wash the car) and that quickly turns into a 5 minute downpour. Living an hour from Milan Dragway I still had hopes of it not raining there. But when we hit another set of showers about half way there I thought we weren't racing for sure but we had come to far to turn around.
Plus we were meeting Bamsho(Brian) there after his long drive in from PA. No way I could let a little rain stop a relatively short hour drive at this point. As we got off the e-way a few miles out, the side roads were puddled pretty bad and thought for sure we wouldn't be racing. Turned out to be pretty nice.
SIDE NOTE: Some of the worst side roads in the state to get there once of the e-way.
As we pulled into Milan there was a roar of large blowers drying the track. I guess they actually had hail pelting them for awhile with some good rain as they were trying to setup. So we hung out with Bamsho and others for about an hour while they finished drying the track. Bunch of great people to talk to there and when we heard the PA come to life we all got that excited look and parted ways to get the cars in line for inspections! Turned out to be a pretty nice day.
