THUNDER ALLEY March 2nd, 2003 - Beautiful Day for Racing! The turnout was pretty good. There were a few regulars missing - like Woolfolk, Matt Smith and Hunt.

Eddie Chacon, of Dell City, brought out his new rear engine dragster. Eddie has been running his 12 Second Chevelle in Modified for many years and although he usually went a couple rounds, he never could pick up a first place. Well, things change - Eddie picked up a rear engine dragster last year and spent the winter redoing it to fit his specs. It paid off big time! Eddie won the very first race out in the new dragster. He met up with his brother David Chacon in his extremely detailed Chevelle in the Finals. It was a Chacon Brother vs. Brother Final! Technically he won this race in both cars since he won the first 3 rounds in his 12 second Chevelle last month. Eddie Chacon gets all the points and the win for rescheduled Febuary race.

Joe Alvardo (El Paso) broke his 57 Chevy on the Saturday Test and Tune before the race. Well, it just so happens that Joe has a cousin with an extra car - you might know him, his name is Ernie Mijares! Joe talked Ernie into lettting him run the Camaro so he could pick up his points and finish off the Febuary race.

Well, I'm sure Ernie was not expecting Joe to put his son JR out in thier own car! Drag Racing is Unpredictable!

Billy Graham has announced his new Contingency Program. If you run his Hot Rod Connection Decal on the front fender of your car he will pay $100 if you win Pro or $50 if you win Modified. Joe Alvarado had the decal - so he got the 100 Bucks! Billy offered me the decal, but since we use the Buck as a dailly driver declined. I also thought "What are the chances I'll win anyway?"

The bright yellow West Texas Trucking Nova of Ray Villereal picked up the win for the rescheduled Febuary race. Ray always has one of the biggest crews out at the races. It's a family affair.

Yep, MARTIN RACING KICKED ASS! (Man, I've always wanted to put that on the web site!)

It was Father/Son Modified Final, my dad and I made it through the 4 rounds without losing and without racing eachother! It turned out to be my very first win in Mod. ROBERT MARTIN WINS MODIFEID! (doesn't that sound nice?!)

George Martin (aka dad to yours truly) Has not raced in almost 2 years now. Well he finally decided to try out his street toy - a 91 GT Mustang. This was the first time out in the car. My dad has a record of winning in his first time out with a new car - including the old Fairlane and my Mustang.

He was having problems with it taking a long time to start and in the finals it didn't look like it was going to fire up. It did, but ran 3 tenths off the dial.

The Motorcycle guys had 8 bikes out their and ran their own class. Let me know who won so I can the results up here.

Traction was good... well maybe too good.

Sorry for the lack of pictures, this was a different camera I borrowed (thanks Geno Leyba!) and I filled the memory card up before the finals and had to quickly delete pics I took to make room. I missed some good cars.. including John Walls new Camaro which was very wicked looking by the way.

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