Doug Hegge Mission wrap up

Doug Hegge LODRS 6-2 wrap-up

The first home division event at Mission Raceway for Doug Hegge and the Certeon A/Fuel team did not go quite to plan, but for a new team with very few runs in a new class, and in a class with perhaps the narrowest window for a clean run in warm weather, the team walked away knowing they are very close to being in the hunt.

After a tough first qualifier Friday where the car only ran on four cylinders due to an ignition issue, they came back Saturday with very different (hot)
Conditions. They responded with a soft 5.89/256 and a #2 position in the eight-car field. The bump was a 5.60, and the team needed a career best lap by almost a tenth, if they had any hope for racing on Sunday. They did tune up the car and found almost 2/10ths from their earlier run, but wound up #10 with a 5.69/259 mph run.

It was not far from the team goal of a 5.50 run, but still a bit of a disappointment. “We hoped to improve from our prior best et., but losing the run on Friday really hurt our chances, and when the air temperature increased by 20 degrees and 25 degrees (120) in track temperature on Saturday we knew it would be tough”, Doug stated after the final run on Saturday.

Hopefully we will head into the next event at Seattle with more data and a closer handle on what the seas level like conditions will give us.

Doug thanks his crew including David, Ralph Fox, Casey, Kimberly Guidici, Jim Hegge and Molly Fox.
He also thanks his sponsors for their support. They include Radford Trucking, Total Impact wear, Certeon, Snap-on Tools and Spitzer Composites