We came to the Pacific Northwest and Pacific Raceways in search of another Majors win to give us the national points title and a shot at the elusive "Super Sweep". The national points title is made up of your seven best races in Major's events and one more win would give us a perfect seven wins and 175 points. The track is a throwback to bygone days when safety mattered little. The entire backside is run through the forest with trees not far from the track's edge. If you think too much about it, you'd become paralyzed with fear so best to just act like they don't exist.

Rain threatened for much of the first 3 days, but in actuality never caused a problem. Our run group was very small with only 6 racers making up four different classes. However, I had one good competitor in P1 running a state of the art custom made Wolf chassis that was beautifully prepared. This racer, Miles Jackson, also finished 3rd at the Daytona Runoffs just behind us last year. We hadn't faced each other since then. For most of our on-track sessions prior to the 2nd qualifying run, I had a gap of just under 1 second over Miles most of the time. But Miles was able to up his game and get within .068 seconds of my time of 1:16.589 in the last qualifying run so it looked like a real close race was in the cards.

When race time came and we were ready to roll off pre-grid, I couldn't get my Norma going. As I was stuck on pre-grid, Miles and the others took off behind the pace car. Finally, we got my car going but I was forced to start from pit lane on really cold tires and couldn't go until the field had passed me by. This basically spotted Miles over a 10 second advantage and the full length of the enormous straight away. Check out the video to see how this turned out.

Jason, of Bulldog Motorsports, and Brian, of JFC Racing, had a good natured ribbing going on over whose lunch was going to get eaten ... Little Red Norma or the Big Bad Wolf. So in that spirit, enjoy our Wolf Hunt.

Jason and I take our hats off to Miles and Brian (JFC Racing) for being ultimate sportsmen and helping us get a severely cracked exhaust header welded up at their shop near the track. Without their assistance, we more than likely would have scratched out. Their facilities, haulers and race cars are always exquisitely prepared and neat to see up close...a true class act. They have made big strides in their development effort and should be a factor at the Runoffs.

Check out the post-race interview here.