Dave Hirata Norwalk preview

Hirata Motorsports 2008 Thunder Nats Finish Line / Norwalk Starting Line.

I’m sure we have all had bad things that ended up good. That’s how we felt after the Thunder Nats this past weekend. The Thunder Nats. at Martin, MI is a fun race for us. We race hard for the bucks but we used it to test too. Martin, MI does a great job of filling the seats and it is a first class operation. We went over there with a test motor we have already tested this year. That motor has gone .46 and we thought it was worth thrashing again. An out of the box .53 was not what we were looking for. We were looking to go quicker. That did qualify us #1. For some reason we dropped a cylinder at the hit in round 1. That has not happened in a good long time. We took the rest of the evening to swap out engines and get ready for Norwalk. We found out that this was not the motor combo we wanted which is why things ended up being good . Norwalk has such tradition of putting on a drag race. Last year was their first div 3 race. It was fantastic to see 15000 plus fans come through that gate and we sure expect to see the same. The Bader Family has even put more improvements in their facility for this coming season. It is a great facility and we are so looking forward to racing there……..and their $1.00 ice cream.

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