My Crazy Chronicles

The thrill of an NHRA Top Fuel Dragster or Funny Car going down the track at 300+mph in less then 4 seconds is quite amazing if you ask me.

I grew up around a race track, my dad raced, uncles raced, so we were always at the track. The only difference was that they went around in circles! Growing up I could walk to Lancaster Speedway from my house. It was 5 minutes by car to the track!

Friday nights was drags and Saturdays was roundy round! Fridays I could sit in my back yard and just listen to the drags it was pretty cool. I will never forget my senior graduation from high school me and one of my friends who shared our love for going fast, just kept turning around and looking at each other as we could hear the drag races going on from the football field of the school! We were like we should be there not here. But, I think our families would have disagreed with us this issue!

Lancaster would have special events, I got to meet Shirley Muldowney and few other great names of Drag Racing which to a 12 year old is amazing! Of course what little girl did not want to be like her? To have that experience of racing with the big boys!

But then I somehow got focused on the roundy rounds and modifieds. Modifieds became my life, I wanted to race one, but my mother who put her foot down once again and crushed my dreams of racing once again. I guess that's not what girls do, but I was not your average girl, other than being a gymnast that was about the only girly thing I did! I wanted to buy an old beat-up piece of junk and enter it into the demo-derby at the fair...once again my mother was like no way. I begged my dad...but he actually stood by mom on that one, which even burned me more. So, I was a spectator and then on a pit crew.

Then I met my husband, who was racing roundy rounds. He has raced everything from Mud Boggers to snowmobiles. Well, I really got that racing bug again when he and a few of his other buddies decided to drag race their snowmobiles on apshalt. And I started to love drag racing a little more. When we moved to Arizona, Jim became good friends with one of his co-workers who was HUGE into drag racing. Jim was so excited and I was excited for him because I knew how much he loved to be at the track. So Jim and Kim and the crew would head down to SIR in Tucson, AZ almost every weekend. I was so excited as well - because this meant that I might able to finally race. But then work & school would always get in the way...either I had to work late and wouldn't be able to make tech - which so sucked. So I would get there late and have to be a spectator once again.

Then we moved from Az to Las Vegas. Never have experiencing NHRA Drag Racing at it's best, Jim decided that we were going to to the The Strip @ LVMS. He took me to my very first finals - and I was just in awe. It was so different from watching it on tv to being there and watching all the action going on right in your face! From the smell of Nitro burning in the air, to them rebuilding engines and everyone running around like crazy was insane and so much fun.
From Vendor trailers selling drivers merchandise to the all the events the NHRA had set up to do and enjoy for the fans. I wonder why I ever enjoyed NASCAR??? They never put on a show like this for there fans, if you want to meet the drivers you have to pay extra for a meet & greet, if you want to go into the pits you have either know someone who can get you in for free or you have to pay to get in. Not with NHRA - your ticket is your ticket to fun, pit pass and you get to be up close and personal with your favorite drivers and pit crews. It doesn't get much better than that. And at least it is affordable to be able to take your family to the drag races and not get nickeled and dimed for everything.

I still want to own my own ProStock Motorcycle racing team - it's a dream of mine. I would love to to try racing a Top Fuel Car...but as far as the Funny Cars go...well I love them, but don't think that I could handle sitting inside the coffin. I am very chlostrophobic and have a panic attack in elevators, tanning beds, or any confined space for that matter - and if you have looked inside of a funny car...well it is literally like sitting in a coffin with a little hatch on the top!! But the sure a rush to watch!!

I suggest if you have never experienced Full Throttle Racing at it's Best...then you don't know what you are missing! Go and check it out you might just get hooked!