Cannon No. 16 Fri. night in Houston

DON SCHUMACHER RACING
NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series
Round 5 of 23
O'Reilly Spring Nationals presented by Pennzoil
HOUSTON RACEWAY PARK
Race Date: April 11-13, 2003
Friday, April 11, 2003

Contact: Judy Stropus, 203-438-0501; cell, 203-243-2438

SCOTTY CANNON NO. 16 FRIDAY NIGHT IN HOUSTON

Scotty Cannon, driving the Oakley  "Sleep Tight...Oakley Design is Awake"
Funny Car, was No. 10 after the first round, with a 7.855/105.46
tire-smoking, pedaling pass, in a round where only three cars could claim
getting down the track in any decent fashion. In the evening session, he
again lost traction right at the starting line, posting a 12.652/79.36 pass.
His earlier pass kept him in the field, in No. 16 spot.

CANNON: "We just got behind the 8-ball. We smoked the tires; we think we had
too much power in the first run, and we're pretty sure had too much clutch,
or maybe too much power that time (in the second round). What you run into
when you come from Gainesville, from a tune-up standpoint, is it's hard to
make power in Vegas so you get all jacked up, (put in) a lot of overdrive, a
lot of clutch, a lot of things, to make the cars run good. When you come
here you have to really, really get back to the other side of things on
power. You have a lot less blower, a lot less timing, just a lot of less of
everything. And sometimes it just don't want to take it. In a drag racer's
vocabulary -- mine -- taking something out ain't usually the way I like to
do it. What I do is try to make it run as hard as I can make it run.
Tomorrow our game plan is we're going to back it down a little bit, take a
little clutch off of it, try to go out there and run high .80s, depending on
what the weather is going to be. But we just want to calm it down a little
bit; it's just way too aggressive."

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