Temple Academy Dragway

[dameeks]

Greg,
I take no offense to your response. In fact, i fully expected it. You have a business to run, and you have to do what it takes to make it successful. Just understand who reads the posts in this forum. It's mostly guys in the south/central Texas region that own Cobras. Not guys that run 8 second quarter miles.

My post was aimed at the people that post to this forum, who I believe are mostly like me. We work on our cars; drive them around town a lot; beef up the motors, and talk about going to the drag strip. Few people that I have run into have ever taken their Cobras to the drag strip, let alone call themselves "expert" drivers at the drag strip. If a guy has been racing for 20 years and runs 8 second quarter miles, he's not gonna care what I have to say, because he truly is an expert driver and knows what he can and can't handle.

My vast experience in drag racing amounts to a grand total of 2 times down the strip. One of those was 20 years ago, as an 18 year old kid. The other was Friday night. I don't have any delusions that I'm an expert driver. Just the opposite. I want to go to the track to learn about my car; see what it will do when I really get on it, in a legal and controlled environment. An expert will know exactly how to handle himself when he starts getting sideways at 100 mph, because he's probably done it a bunch of times. That guy will feel confident running on a tight track, because he knows his car and he has a general knowledge of what happens to cars in that situation. I, and probably 99% of the people who will read this post, aren't that good.

I wish you luck, and hope that things improve enough to get the guys like me back out there. I just don't plan on it being anytime soon. If anyone reads this thread that has run some really fast times at the Temple strip, feel free to chime in.

Darren