Birdieman4

Just finished our final event for the 2005 IHRA season in Rockingham. Man, this season flew by. My teammate Doug Foley and I finished #'s 2 and 4 in points. Here are a couple pics from the weekend.

OneGearhead

very nice Birdie. congrats on the placement in points. how do you see you and your teammmate doing next year ?? hopefully as good if not better. good luck. congrats again.

Birdieman4

I will bet that one of us wins the IHRA championship next year.

OneGearhead

good luck to you on that one..........I LOVE DRAG RACING......i hate you. no, really. i do. [8D](not really)

LS2_GTO

CONGRATS on the season!!

Looks like you have a strong team. I saw they put you and Foley head to head in round one. That sucks.

jpc

Good job Rick, hell of a year for you guys, I see that there bringing back Nitro Funny back to the IHRA, What your thoughts on that? Hopefully they can get an 8 car field, I think Knoll is starting to make the NHRA nervous, This guy is throwing some serious money around, he could possibly get enough defections from the lower funded NHRA teams, to commit to a full time IHRA schedule that NHRA could end up with some short fields, ( altough the schedules don't confict to much) Good luck next year!!

Birdieman4

I think it is sweet! It's a really big deal to add aa/fc to the IHRA gameplan. They probably will 'steal' some NHRA cars and have a pretty good year. Simply put, it is good for the IHRA. This may close the IHRA-NHRA gap some in the near future. Evan Knoll is the man, and it's nice to be driving for his company. I'll bet at the first event in Texas quite a few nitro funny cars show up.

ZW99GT

Congrats man, thats a pretty big feat for the team. 2 and 4 wow, someones doing smoething right. How much psi are those blowers making and how much hp do they run?

Birdieman4

We typically run around 40-45 psi on our setups.

Sidewayz6.0

Rick, I don't follow IHRA very often....But is Steve Spiess still around? His kid is a couple years older than me, but we went to High School together. He used to blast this Nova with a 454 in it around town.