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Del Worsham put a pair of strong runs on the board, back-to-back, on Friday in Houston, and the entire atmosphere in the Checker, Schuck's, Kragen pit area was noticeably different because of it. In the first session, Worsham ended up 5th on the ladder with this 4.887, even though he was glad to admit he had lifted early. Under the lights, on Friday night, he improved to a clean and strong 4.830, and this time kept all eight cylinders lit right through the lights, taking top speed of the day by a solid 3 mph, running 318.24.
"It ran fine on the first lap, but it got down there and was spinning the tires, so I lifted a little early," Worsham said. "We came here still looking for a lot of answers, and you're not going to learn much spinning the tires at the top end, other than how to replace yet another motor after the run. I knew the track would come around for the second lap, and if it all felt okay I'd run it right through the lights. We weren't up there even trying to be No. 1 or anything, we just wanted to improve over the first run, come back to the pit with a motor all in one piece, and run it out the back door.
"The 4.83 is fine, we're in the top half of the field right now, and the car did pretty much exactly what we wanted it to do. To make it even better, everything in the motor looked just about perfect after the run, so we're finally eliminating some of the things that have been hurting us all year. To make two solid runs, and to leg it out and not hurt anything, that makes everyone feel better around here."
WORSHAM BEGINS TO GET HIS MOJO BACK
Del Worsham put a pair of strong runs on the board, back-to-back, on Friday in Houston, and the entire atmosphere in the Checker, Schuck's, Kragen pit area was noticeably different because of it. In the first session, Worsham ended up 5th on the ladder with this 4.887, even though he was glad to admit he had lifted early. Under the lights, on Friday night, he improved to a clean and strong 4.830, and this time kept all eight cylinders lit right through the lights, taking top speed of the day by a solid 3 mph, running 318.24.
"It ran fine on the first lap, but it got down there and was spinning the tires, so I lifted a little early," Worsham said. "We came here still looking for a lot of answers, and you're not going to learn much spinning the tires at the top end, other than how to replace yet another motor after the run. I knew the track would come around for the second lap, and if it all felt okay I'd run it right through the lights. We weren't up there even trying to be No. 1 or anything, we just wanted to improve over the first run, come back to the pit with a motor all in one piece, and run it out the back door.
"The 4.83 is fine, we're in the top half of the field right now, and the car did pretty much exactly what we wanted it to do. To make it even better, everything in the motor looked just about perfect after the run, so we're finally eliminating some of the things that have been hurting us all year. To make two solid runs, and to leg it out and not hurt anything, that makes everyone feel better around here."
