Piketon & Xenia

Chad
Aug 9, 2016
2 min read

Last week was a very busy week for our team. We got home from Tiffin and had to finish getting the Baby Blue Knight running after the engine change. Plus getting ready for a busy weekend of pulling with the other 2 trucks as well. The Baby Blue Knight got fired up and tuned on Tuesday night to be ready for Thursdays pull. As well as the mantance to the Blue Knight and Knight Delivery. Both were due for an oil change and new spark plugs. Clutch mantance and the general nut and bolt checks were completed so the trucks could be loaded by wedneday. With the double duty weekend of Piketon and Xenia on hand the trucks headed south for what we hoped would be a relaxing night of pulling.

Knight Delivery drew hook number one and the Baby Blue Knight was number two. Blue Knight was 9th hook out of the tough class of ten trucks. Coming off the line Knight Delivery had a fuel line come loose causing Danny to back out of the throttle and dropping to the end of the class. Carl took the Baby Blue Knight good wheel standing 292' pass with the new motor on board setting the mark to beat. Chad had trouble getting the Blue Knight to hook up and then breaking a belt late in his run for a disapointing finish. Danny came back last in the class putting up a strop 305' pass to finish in 3rd behind the williams trucks.

The team headed home from piketon excited to come back with the 3rd place finish but knowing some worked needed to be down to the other 2 trucks. With a short turn around the team decided to focus on the Blue Knight knowing the Baby Blue Knight ahd taken off last weekend and was already down in points. With only a few hours sleep the Blue Knight was started up around noon and ready to reload the trailer with 2 trucks for Xenia that night.

The night at xenia was plagued with a bad track. It had one little lane that the trucks could get a grip on. Danny was 1st hook again with Knight Delivery and Chad was last hook with Blue Knight (14). After dropping to 3rd after a short 250' pass Danny came back to go 279'. As the night went on the track did finally start to produce more grip in that single lane. creating 5 full pulls. Chad put down a pass of 308' finishing in 8th place.

With a crazy weekend the team tried to get soem rest before heading into this week. Chad will be taking the Blue Knight to Croton Ohio for the OSTPA Mid-Season Championship tonight. It will be a heavy heart night knowing the Bill Bolen and Shawn Williams wont be with us at there hometown fair. Also this is the week that we lost Jeff McPherson 13 years ago. The Blue Knight will carry their names boldly tongiht as we compete for the championship.