Team Canidae at Primm Spring NationalsHello Everyone!
We had another successful weekend of racing at the Spring Nationals in Primm. Hope those who drove home in the wind on Sunday night made it without incident. Thanks to all of our team and friends who helped make it an excellent weekend of racing. Thanks to our guys that were there early to set up our massive pit and Dave and Shorty with the Hospitality trailer, you guys are awesome! We all had a great time despite the wind, but hey, it’s Primm!
Qualifying was tough in our classes as the track was there, but not. We had a fierce competitor, Dan Allen, crash in qualifying which woke us all up just after Charlie Brown took the finish line jump at the BITD race behind Buffalo Bill’s! What a sight to see; a trophy truck and then a Top Fuel dragster off the same jump. Dan and the team are all doing fine and we hope to see the Lucas Oil T/A dragster back at the track soon. We are glad that all incidents ended without too much injury and that no spectators were involved.
Team CANIDAE was sporting some additional new sponsor colors that just came aboard. NOS energy drink has joined our team and as anyone who was there saw; the fans were drinking NOS all over the pits. Red Devil Pizza in La Verne, CA joined us this year too. He keeps us well fed at the shop and donates a lot to the team for the races… gotta love ‘em! Another addition to our Sponsor list this year is LAVA propane. He has given us patio heaters to keep us warm and all the propane we need for all the events. A big Thank You to all of our sponsors!
Scott and I both ended up #1 qualifiers in our class. It would have been great for Team Canidae to sweep the Spring Nationals two years in a row but I think I had a few too many NOS energy drinks and was a little too quick on the tree… -.021! I’m looking forward to lining up against Shane again. Whenever we meet it's guaranteed to be an excellent race!
On the T/F side, Scott and the team started off with a 2.401 out of the trailer but found it difficult to improve while Dennis and Team Hammerdown were making runs in the 2.30’s. Fortunately, Team CANIDAE pulled it together in the finals to take our third event win of the season blasting off a scorching 2.335 in the finals to take home the trophy! Way to go T/F Team!
It was great to see Rick Cameron out with his new car and posting what I think is his best time ever, and Pete and Gary got a handle on the Turtles Toy / Canidae T/F dragster. 2.41!!! Way to go guys! Big thanks to all the Michigan folks, and all for that matter, that take the time to travel half way across the U.S. to come drag racing! Especially at 4.15 a gallon for diesel! CONGRATULATIONS to Nephew who finally went rounds in Jr. dragster class too! Way to go Mikie!!! Oh, and his crew chief Uncle Tony went a few in his jeep too! All in all a great weekend!
Sorry it took a while to finish this, but it took a few weeks to pick up all the pit flooring from Primm! (lol) We have a lot of work to do this week to prepare for Soboba. Put the motors in the cars and packing takes a lot of time. Not like the old days when we just washed it and drove it in the trailer. So we’ll be packing and prepping all week to make our outrageously long drive of 45 minutes to get to the track! We hope everyone can come out for the last race before the river, I mean summer break! It should be another awesome weekend of racing with the NSDA. Bring your sun block and bikinis… PLEASE! SEE YOU AT SOBOBA!
See you at the Races!
Mike DeNunzio
Team CANIDAE Racing
