As I write this I’m at the fire station
in the evening after we finished cleaning up from dinner. We live at the fire station 1/3 of our lives;
we cook, eat, exercise, train and fight fire together. It is my family away from home. In a lot of
ways it is similar to the crews in drag racing.
They always say there has to be chemistry on a drag racing team and it’s
no different here with my fire brothers.
I have been completely overwhelmed
preparing for the Seattle national and regional events. My dad, as usual is busy in the shop, and
Shark and I have been super busy servicing the Freightliner toter for our road
trip. We overhauled the wiring, serviced
the engine, cooling, A/C, bathroom, etc.
And you know I had to keep my wife happy while I’ll be gone so we
installed new granite counters this past week too. I really wanted to bring mama and the kids
with me, but the timing just didn’t work out.
We usually bring the motor home with the family to Sonoma and stay at
the track. It is my wife’s favorite
track to visit. The kids love to go to
Discovery Kingdom on Monday too! It’s a
bummer that there isn’t one regional race for an Alcohol car in the home state
of the NHRA! What’s up with that? When I started Alcohol dragster in 2004 we
attended Sacramento, Bakersfield, Fontana, and Sonoma.
We attended the Nitro Night of Fire in
Bakersfield as a test session and that place was packed! It was the maiden voyage for our newer truck
and trailer and we have been working on resolving some tire shake issues. Things went well, so I hope we can continue
progressing in Seattle. Well, look for us in Seattle. Come by and say hi! Check us out on instagram - ahtenracing, and Facebook,
Johnny Ahten Racing.
Johnny
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