Post your best racing related memory!

Mine was helping my buddy Mel get his sbc 287 cube motor in his front engine dragster to come up on the converter back in the eighties. This combo was a little beast; max power at about 9,000 rpm? Accelerator pumps were way too lean . We were in his garage, and i suggested we open the door in case the car jumped a bit. So Mel is sitting in the dragster, i drilled and reinstalled the shooters. Mel held the hand brake and cracked the throttle. COUGH, DIE! Second increase in size, i think it caught a couple cylinders, died. Redrill a third time. Mel held the brake, cracked the throttle and ended up almost in the street, thirty feet out!
I think we got it!!