The Drag Races at Orlando Speedworld was a blast!
I got there late... as usual. But that's going to stop happening from here on out.
There were 9 VMaxers (I think) there plus a few others (brothers wifes and so ons), plus A guy that came with one VMaxer on a Triumpth, and Randy's friend on the V-Rod. So yeah... it was a great turn out.
When I got there 4 of the guys had already run down the track twice and were sitting in the staging lane waiting on the 3rd run. I was going to watch and take pictures of the 3rd run and then get in on the forth run. But they had shut down to clean up oil off the track for 45 minutes and by the time they started back up again and let a bunch of the kids in their street cars run down the track it was 10 o-clock and the staging was closed. Then they let some pro stock cars run and one truck lost it and crashed about 1/3 down the track. So again the track was closed for over an hour. Randy's friend with the V-Rod got tired of waiting and left for his long ride back to Jaxs, Walt and Milly and the guy that came with them left, then Bill and Jerry decided to pack up thier bikes on the trailer but not leave yet. Just as soon they did that the track reopened and after few sets of cars ran down the track they ran the last run of bikes that stayed, so the last 3 Vmaxes ran down the track. We got all packed up and out of there around Midnight. And the last 6 of us went down to Steak & Shake.
I had a great time even though I didn't run down the track. It was a lil bit on the cool side for me, but all in all it was a great night. Can't wait to do it again. There was a consensus that there were way two many street cars that were just piloted by a bunch of kids who just wanted to run down the track eating up track time. There were about 30 or so bikes there, but about 200+ or so cars. Most every one agreed it would probably be better to go on a Wednesday night when all the kiddies and thier non hot rods weren't there. But then someone mentioned the Bradenton Street Drags would be alot better on a Saturday. So the next one I believe, will be in Bradenton. I plan on going. Mark Hayward ran his VMax for the first time and you could tell he has been bitten by the drag bug. He wants to go again next week already. I do too, but the below 60 temps puts a little kink in the fun factor for me.
I have just bumped a raptor shift light to the top of my wish list. And will be ordering one this weekend. LOL!
I definately put in my vote for doing this at least once a month. I'm thinking alternate between Orlando and Bradenton and even Gainesville (if they have a street drag night).
For those that missed it or weren't close enough. Sorry you couldn't make it! It definately was worth going to in my opinion.
