Lets Go Racing

Ok.... I know Its been a while but lets try to catch everything up since the pit party..... The first 2 pics are of my kids (Shea and Jimmy) at the Holyoke Mall for the Red Cross fundraiser we attended on saturday the fifteenth. And yes Jimmy is already trying to steal my spot on the crew...Verry Funny Kim... We saw alot of people and hopefully raised a bunch of money for them. Special thanks to Gary Rome for donating the fee for getting the cars in the mall. And kudos to Dave Capriati for organizing it. I still thought it was weird to have all stafford cars there with us,the pace car the 01 limited the 55 and 47 late modles. Hey Kev did it start yet?
Now on to the last picture...Thats pretty much how the day should have looked instead of pulling the car out for 1 run. Well... a third of a run at least. Its kind of hard to make a run and learn anything when its snowing/ sleeting/ raining on ya when your out there. But at least we got through tech got it on the track and had 10 cars out there (with 2 or 3 more in the pits)...ran pretty well ( second fastest without being able to push it according to Mike)..and didnt blow up or crash. All positives in my book. By the way Special Congrats to the team and Billy the Kid for getting a Wow from all 4 tech inspectors when George and I removed the hood. Great job guys...
Daves trailer is on the right of us and I decided to start the minor prank war for the year while we were waiting for the practice to be called. We bought 4 new tires and along with them got 4 Valve stem covers, ( you know the little black screw on caps ) Well racecars dont use those for easy access to check air pressures and to add or release airpressure in the tires. Well ...umm....most racecars dont....The 47 late model now sports 2 covers on her rear wheels. Still wonder if Kevin figured out what I was doing since he looked rite at me while I was doing it...Like I said its a minor prank war...Im sure dave will get me back...
Well cant wait till this weekend for the REAL racing to begin. Hope its not too cold and that the 4 letter R word stays away! Gonna be an interesting season. See ya at the track

The pit party...

Well another pit party has come and gone. As far as I could tell a GREAT time was had by all. Unfortunately our crew photographer( yours truely) had a little too much to drink and the pictures are .....umm....slightly blury. Sorry guys. But I do still have the picture of Danny kissing Cookies cheek. It may be blury but you can still tell who it is...hmmm can you say blackmail? Oh wait ....it was a pit party...lots of booze.....thats pretty much standard, isnt it?
It was great to see Greg Bonneau, Owner of Gregs Car care as well as one of our sponsors. Hope your feeling better Phil (shoptech)...we missed ya. Also thank you to all our fans and friends that were able to be at the beagle. Without you we would be hard pressed to make it.
I will try to clean up some pictures for ya and get them up soon.Till then...This buds for you!

P.S. up next for the team ....the 06 will be on display saturday the fifteenth at the Holyoke mall all day as part of the Red cross show. Come on down and say hi!

Ladies and Gentlemen....

Start your Bartenders?!? The DTR 2006 pit party is tonight at 7. The Beagle will be howling at about 8! Welcome all racefans (sorry 21 or over to enter) bring a sense of humor and be ready to have a good time! Pics and update will be up tomorrow....well by monday at the latest...depending on how bad I get tonight....
Till then....This buds for you!