Competition Hats Off To Craig Johnson!

[TDRadmin]

Hats off to Craig Johnson and his crew for putting on an awesome event at Willow Springs. They did an excellent job of making first time pullers such as myself feel at home and comfortable with competing in a form of racing that was new to many of the drivers.



Let's do it again with more pullers!!



Thanks,

Pat "McRat" McSwain



Posted for Pat "McRat" McSwain by

Robin

TDR Admin

 

[csutton7]

I'll 2nd that--sorry Craig that I didn't say adios, but I had to skeedaddle--chris

 

[cjohnson]

Thanks for the words guys, it was a heck of a day. Here are the results.



7500 Street



1st Nick D'Amico - 293. 4 - GM

2nd Craig Johnson - 290. 6 - Dodge

3rd Doug Lindsey - 288. 1 - GM

4th Patrick McSwain - 279. 0 - GM

5th Guy Tripp 247. 2 - GM

6th Mike Colony - 219. 8 GM

(I was a lonely Dodge guy)



8500 street

1st Doug Linsey 259. 3 GM

2nd Guy Tripp 258. 6 - GM

3rd John Stork 252. 9 GM

4th Craig Johnson 239. 10 Dodge

5th Patrick McSwain - 239. 3 GM

6th Nick D'Amico - 234. 7 GM

7th Mark Tarango - 191. 5 Ford

8th Mike Colony - 170 - Chevy

9th Johe Gheen - 159. 7 - Dodge

10th Sonny Van Santen 158. 7 - Dodge

11th Jeff Fandrick - 40. 5 - Ford



7500 Extreme

1st Scott Vorhees - 264. 10 - Dodge - $500

2nd Frank Puskarich - 263. 7 - Ford $300



8500 Extreme

1st Scott Vorhees - 296. 5 Dodge $500

2nd Frank Puskarich - 291. 10 Ford $300

3rd Bryan Kinney - 285. 4 Ford $200

4th Chris Sutton - 266. 7 Dodge



I think that covers it. I really want to thank everyone again for coming out, It was great getting to talk to everybody, and I apologize if I didn't get the chance - crazy day. I was litterally directing some staff members on the 2 way radio while hooking to the sled. The temp needle wasn't even off the cold stop when I started my first pull. I also want to thank everyone in the extreme class for coming out, all of them traveled a long distance to get there. Especially Frank and his crew who came from Pennsylvania to attend this pull, and one of his crew members (David Weller, who I now consider a friend) who ended up doing all the announcing for the pulls as I got totally consumed with other things. Thanks Bud. Frank you and your crew are A1 and I want to thank you and everyone that came out with you, its our pleasure having you guys pull with us out here. Then there is Scott Vorhees, this guy has supported this event before it was even a reality. Its guys like him who make sled pulling fun to watch. That truck is awesome and believe it or not its a daily driver. It only comes in on a trailer because its an 8 hour tow home if it breaks. Scott took home $1,000 dollars for winning both Ext . classes and he deserves every penny. He stripped that immaculate truck to the bone to make the 7500 class, nothing but a drivers seat in the cab and no rear bumper. Also thanks to Brian Kinney for coming out and Chris Sutton who practically drove through the night to make it. I hope all of you know how much I appreciate you coming out. Also a special thanks to High Roller Offroad and Super Diesel out of Huntington Beach for Title sponsoring the event, couldn't do it without all the help. Also Hunter Dodge, Antelope Valley Ford, and all the other vendors. The promotion help from the Turbo Diesel Register was priceless - Thank you.

The Dmax boys were tough in the Street class as I knew they would be, and they are a great bunch. I'm not letting them off the hook so easy next time though. My tired old truck has 120,000 miles on it and has to tow a 13,000 lb gooseneck horse trailer on a regular basis. I'm coming with a little something extra next year though - like a real healthy set of injectors just for pulling and a way to hook it up. That was my biggest problem, I think I had as much or more wheel speed as anyone in the class, just couldn't get it laid down. Pretty happy with my 2nd in the 7500 class, but couldn't hook it up in the 8500 for some reason. Got a bad line on the track or something. That won't happen again.



Thanks again everyone.



Craig

 

[dsherman]

Hats Off To Craig Johnson! ,

Nice job on your pull!!!!!!

And A great job on the event Oo. Oo.

We will be there next year

Thanks for the great time

David Sherman

 

[Russknh]

I was only there as a spectator since I am between trucks right now but I have to say the TDR guys sure had some nice trucks on display, after looking at some of the earlier Dodges I am wondering why I think I want a new one!!!