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Post by Franko10 ™ on Nov 13, 2004 12:38:51 GMT -5
9/22/2004 : Arend and the CMKXtreme Machine team travel to Texas searching for dry weather
DALLAS, pre-race: CMKXtreme Machine Funny Car driver Jeff Arend will travel to Texas for this weekend's O'Reilly NHRA Fall Nationals hoping for much drier racing conditions than the team encountered one week ago on their visit to Reading, Penn. Arend and the crew of the CMKXtreme Machine Corvette plan on using the all-concrete quarter-mile at the infamous Texas Motorplex to extend Arend's current 11-race qualifying streak and continue their push toward a Top 15 finish in the season-ending POWERade point standings.
The CMKX team left soggy Pennsylvania after the rain from Hurricane Ivan postponed the Lucas Oil Nationals for three weeks. The CMKX team will return to Maple Grove Raceway to complete the event October 8-10. The postponement turns the current three-race swing into a month on the road and gives all of the teams one less weekend off to prepare for the crucial final two races of the season in Las Vegas and Pomona.
Arend has been on his game on the starting line this season. The Canadian native has owned the better reaction time .654-percent of the time during eliminations this year and is currently ranked fourth in that category among the top 16 Funny Car drivers on the POWERade Drag Racing Series tour.
"It's exciting now that the tour is returning to the tracks with better air because I know we have a solid 4.80 racecar," said Arend from his California home. "Paul Smith and the guys on the crew have been working relentlessly on the CMKXtreme Funny Car since April and they've provided me with a consistent ride all season. I want to thank Urban Casavant and everyone at CMKX for their continued support both on and off the track. I also want to send a special thank you out to Vinny and Debbie and Jimmy and Lila from V.F. Trucking Co. Inc. and to Ed Margaretich, who may join us in Dallas. Texas would be as good a place as anywhere for a well deserved victory."
The 19th annual O'Reilly NHRA Fall Nationals will mark Arend's 37th career start in Funny Car and his third appearance at the Texas Motorplex. Arend advanced to the quarterfinals in his first visit to the Motorplex during his rookie season in 1995, upsetting low qualifier Cruz Pedregon, and he returned to qualify 12th in 1996, losing in the first round to Al Hofmann.
DALLAS, pre-race: CMKXtreme Machine Funny Car driver Jeff Arend will travel to Texas for this weekend's O'Reilly NHRA Fall Nationals hoping for much drier racing conditions than the team encountered one week ago on their visit to Reading, Penn. Arend and the crew of the CMKXtreme Machine Corvette plan on using the all-concrete quarter-mile at the infamous Texas Motorplex to extend Arend's current 11-race qualifying streak and continue their push toward a Top 15 finish in the season-ending POWERade point standings.
The CMKX team left soggy Pennsylvania after the rain from Hurricane Ivan postponed the Lucas Oil Nationals for three weeks. The CMKX team will return to Maple Grove Raceway to complete the event October 8-10. The postponement turns the current three-race swing into a month on the road and gives all of the teams one less weekend off to prepare for the crucial final two races of the season in Las Vegas and Pomona.
Arend has been on his game on the starting line this season. The Canadian native has owned the better reaction time .654-percent of the time during eliminations this year and is currently ranked fourth in that category among the top 16 Funny Car drivers on the POWERade Drag Racing Series tour.
"It's exciting now that the tour is returning to the tracks with better air because I know we have a solid 4.80 racecar," said Arend from his California home. "Paul Smith and the guys on the crew have been working relentlessly on the CMKXtreme Funny Car since April and they've provided me with a consistent ride all season. I want to thank Urban Casavant and everyone at CMKX for their continued support both on and off the track. I also want to send a special thank you out to Vinny and Debbie and Jimmy and Lila from V.F. Trucking Co. Inc. and to Ed Margaretich, who may join us in Dallas. Texas would be as good a place as anywhere for a well deserved victory."
The 19th annual O'Reilly NHRA Fall Nationals will mark Arend's 37th career start in Funny Car and his third appearance at the Texas Motorplex. Arend advanced to the quarterfinals in his first visit to the Motorplex during his rookie season in 1995, upsetting low qualifier Cruz Pedregon, and he returned to qualify 12th in 1996, losing in the first round to Al Hofmann.
