NEWS
	Race Recap Chula Sept 29 - 2007 Hello friends. – I have had several requests for updates on how we are doing, so I am going to start doing a race recap after each event starting with this past weekends event at Chula Vista - September 29th and 30th. Saturday’s race was a tough race as I was black flagged, which I felt was not my fault. The beginning of the race went well as I passed Douglas and Huseman without incident. Greaves was running strong and my position in second was secure, so I decided to wait for the mandatory caution. On the restart, I turned up the wick and was looking inside on every corner. On the third corner I went inside and had light contact with Greaves. Unfortunately it was tire to tire, so the tire ends up catapulting whatever it touches and so it looked like heavy contact. I expected to be going side by side through that corner but instead I saw Greaves go up and over. I thought to myself, there goes the race, because in general if you have contact with the leader while passing and the leader flips, then you are going to get flagged. Upon serving the black flag, the hot pit flagman kept me in the penalty box for over one minute which was ridiculous, so the race was lost. Sunday in the morning was the highlight of my weekend. The truck felt great, and we were able to be top qualifier without really pushing the truck. For the race the truck was a different animal. Although there were no changes to the truck, the throttle was sticking badly and the carburetor was bogging down consistently in the corners. On the straights it was no problem, it would run hard, but I could not get any exit speed out of the corners. I drove like a madman to try and hang with Greaves and Huseman, I was trying inside lines in the corners so as to have the shortest distance to cover which seemed to be a better solution than carrying no exit speed and taking the corners wider. The crash came about, because I felt the throttle stick on the approach to the ski jump. I hit the brakes to counteract the sticking throttle, and it was too much braking, the truck seemed to take off normally, but it just kept rotating until the nose hit and then it was crunch time. I was awake through the whole crash and it hurt like hell. I am normally knocked out during a heavy wreck, but this is my first wreck with the neck restraint device. The feeling of going through the wreck, I can describe it as being a crumpled up piece of paper that is being kicked by a giant. Each time the truck hits the ground is akin to being kicked into a smaller and smaller ball that could just disappear. The smallness is probably connected to the air being forced out of my body by the impacts. There is no air replacing the lost air, and each hit forced more air out of me. When the impacts stopped, it took about 10 seconds to recompose and then try to take a breath. I have done heavy squats and leg presses in the past, and the feeling of trying to take a breath is similar to pushing a heavy, heavy weight. I started moaning or grunting to overcome the pain and try and force air in. It took a while, but it slowly started working again, and then the life force returned. Of particular interest to me is the steering wheel. In a wreck it is important to me to hold onto the steering wheel, no matter what. I get the old death grip on that wheel and the g forces on it usually rip the metal steering wheel like paper. There was in car video during the crash which may or may not be on the NBC show on October 14th. I am interested to see if you can see the steering wheel change shape during impacts. The race truck was totaled, and the new truck which was 80% complete is now the focus to complete so that we can get to the next event. It looks like we will not make Texas as the there is not enough time to complete the new truck. The crew chief Case Gunderson (who builds a very sturdy truck as can be seen by how it was able to withstand such a horrific crash, with only one tube torn, and not at the weld unlike my last big crash in 2001 where almost every weld on the truck failed) and the crew in Wisconsin are going to have to work hard to get the new truck ready to win in Vegas. To everyone out there who is concerned- thanks, but do not be concerned – I am fine and will be back in the front hopefully at the Vegas race. I feel the momentum building as we are getting faster and faster as a team, and soon there will be fewer and fewer reasons holding us back from taking many victories on the CORR circuit.   2007 Plans 3-9-07 Cenniracing will race in both the CORR and SWORR race series   Los Angeles 3-7-07 Cenniracing will be in Los Angeles from March 16th -19th testing its winter developments at the Antelope Valley Race Track