For Saturday's race, we pulled up to the grid around the third call. Grid at the Pre-Historics is a little different than most. When and where you pull up is where you start. They don't keep or post times. I started 30th out of 34. This was a 10-lap exhibition race and by the end I had sliced my way up to third. Second was only a turn away, but I just ran out of time and I had been a bit cautious about getting to know the car.

For Sunday's race, we figured the grid thing out and showed up early, way early, so we started from the pole. Over the weekend one of the Lister drivers was complaining about the car since we had Goodyear tires on instead of the Dunlops that everyone else was running. The Chaparral is a '62 while most of the other cars in the group were pre-1960. Steve Earle, the promoter, came over Sunday and told us that we had to change for the following weekend for the Historics and run the Dunlop tires. "So Tom, what do you want me to do in the race? Run a pace or run with a couple of the other cars?" I asked him before we started. "No, the heck with it, go win." So on that note, the Lister and I started side by side on the front row.

Green Flag...I was short shifting the car, so it didn't look so bad at the start. I still got a good jump and led the field into Turn 2 on the first lap. With the Lister right on my tail, I started to lean into the car. Still short shifting at 5000 rpm (Tom said the engine's good to 6500-7000 rpm if we need it... didn't need it) I just worked on my line and at being smooth, very smooth. Nice gentle turn-ins, progressive on the throttle, easy on the Brakes. I was concentrating on saving the car and kept telling myself to just be easy. At the end of the first lap I had a three second lead and just kept stretching it from there. I finished first with a 15-second lead over the second and third Listers who had battled for position the entire race.