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Pomona - Jeff Arend again felt the dreaded tire shake as his car left the starting line, and he once again slapped the throttle pedal with an ultra-quick step, but this time the move was 100 percent effective. The sudden back-pedal cleared the shake, and propelled him to a 4.849-second run in the blue Checker, Schuck's, Kragen / Erie Educational Systems Monte Carlo, leaving him in the No. 16 spot overnight.
"Hey, it might rain tomorrow, so I treated this one as if it was the fourth and final session, instead of session number two," Arend said. "It started shaking again, and this time it was not going to make it. I was off, and back on, the throttle as quickly as I could do it, and it cleared right up and just tore down there. The car is actually a pleasure to drive, once it's moving down track under power. It goes straight, it reacts to input, it's all good. We're going to come out here tomorrow convinced the weather will allow us to run, and our goal is to get it out of this shake mode it's in. Once we do that, we'll have a very quick running car. And if it does rain, we'll be in the show. Either way, we plan on being a part of things here, and we plan on getting better with every lap."
Arend's Quick Foot Saves 4.849 Run, Lands Him 16th
Pomona - Jeff Arend again felt the dreaded tire shake as his car left the starting line, and he once again slapped the throttle pedal with an ultra-quick step, but this time the move was 100 percent effective. The sudden back-pedal cleared the shake, and propelled him to a 4.849-second run in the blue Checker, Schuck's, Kragen / Erie Educational Systems Monte Carlo, leaving him in the No. 16 spot overnight.
"Hey, it might rain tomorrow, so I treated this one as if it was the fourth and final session, instead of session number two," Arend said. "It started shaking again, and this time it was not going to make it. I was off, and back on, the throttle as quickly as I could do it, and it cleared right up and just tore down there. The car is actually a pleasure to drive, once it's moving down track under power. It goes straight, it reacts to input, it's all good. We're going to come out here tomorrow convinced the weather will allow us to run, and our goal is to get it out of this shake mode it's in. Once we do that, we'll have a very quick running car. And if it does rain, we'll be in the show. Either way, we plan on being a part of things here, and we plan on getting better with every lap."
