Doug Hegge and his Turned-up racing A/Fuel Dragster had a solid opening weekend in Divisional
competition this past weekend at Mission Raceway Park.
A couple goals they had in mind to start the weekend fell into place, including qualifying for the
event, and improving on not only their season's best marks but also their career bests.
They qualified solidly in the field with a 5.48@261. It put Doug #6 in the field. He would take on
Joey Severance in round one.
Doug was second off the line, and actually had to pedal the car as it started to rattle thiretires
and got loose are 180 feet. It hooked back up though, and started charging real hard from ? track
on. Doug got to the finish line second, but the timers came up with a solid 5.405@266 mph. Career
marks in both speed and mph.
"Running under the new rules makes it difficult for sure, and we did not know going into this event
if we could match our previous career marks of a 5.47. But great weather and a great track made our
job easier and it all fell into place. A win would have been nice, but many of our objectives were
met.
Doug would like to thank the sponsors, BrightSign (a Ruku company) a next generation digital sign
controller. Check out their web site www.brightsign.biz. Also, Radford Trucking, Total Impact Wear,
Spitzer Composites and Goodson.
Special thanks go out to the Reichert family for all their assistance and guidance.
The crew including Randy, Casey, Tim, Kym, Rhett and Dad all worked their butts off all weekend
long.
Next up for the team are back to back Divisionals at Spokane and Seattle in the middle of June.
Spokane is higher in altitude and Seattle is similar to Mission, so it will be challenge to adapt
to the different conditions. They are really look forward to both events in their home state.
