2007 NHRA finals Pomona

Our trip to Pomona,
Sunday Finals

Well it's getting tougher to get out of bed everyday as the weekend goes along, but it's race day dammit! I don't want to be late for th opening of the gates, as it was we were five minutes early, whew! We got in to the pits and walked around. Can't start engines til 9:30am so at 9:27 all the drivers are in the cars in their respective pits and ready to warmup the cars as elimination rounds are just a couple hours away. The crew chiefs are watching their watches caefully,........9:30 am nitro alley comes to life and turns into nitro heaven. All up and down both sides of nitro alley the teams are readying their cars for round 1 and the air is one big haze of nitro fumes being inhaled bt nitro craving fans........awesome! What a rush to hear all those engines on either side of you.
11:00 am round 1 is on and the first pair of T/F dragsters go down the track at over 300mph, what a rush! 16000+ horsepower whipping by at 4.5 seconds. No wonder my hair is going grey. I got some awesome pics til my camera batteries ran which are all on my flickr page. The wife has a backup camera as a backup hope the pics I took with that turnout. There was some major upsets in the chase to the championship and some interesting twists but in the end Jeg Coughlin won the race and the championship in pro stock, Matt HInes won both the race and championship in pro stock bikes, in Funny Car Tony Pedregon won the championship, even though he got beat early in the day giving way to Robert Hight to win the race and Tony Shumacher won the race and championship in T/F dragster.

There was an awesome tribute to Wally Parks with 36 cars doing a cacklefest and that was totally cool man! Brought tears to everyone's eyes who knows how much history was actually at the track that day sitting in front of the grandstand, as well as the history of the track, it was all there in plain view. There is so much drag racing history in southern California it is unbelievable.
After the final rounds were run in the dark there was a fireworks display that was awesome. Then we got to go down onto the track and get some cool pics.

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Above is some pics of me and wife standing on a piece of history! Pretty cool I think. On the way out we met up with NHRA Vice President Graham Light who helped out with our wedding in 1998 and he still remembers us which we though was cool.

All pics on my Flickr site