As Phil stated in his blog, it has been raining out here at the track, but it has however stopped now and the scrubbers are out on the track, and I'm sure it won't be too long and we'll probably hear the jet dryer zooming up and down as well. We just had a look at the weather radar, and it looks like it was just a passing front, so hopefully things will stay cleared up from here, and we can get to the real business of racing.

It was a shame to see Phil struggle to get a decent lap in this weekend, and as is always the case with racing Top Fuel, there are always curve balls that come out of nowhere to throw a challenge at the team. Hopefully today may prove different, but time will tell. First round match ups see Martin racing Terry Sainty, and as Phil said, he is racing Phil Lamattina.

Over in the Stamatis camp, the guys were busy this morning checking out a few things on the car to try and find out why it isn't revving up off the start-line like it should, and there was a bit of head scratching going on as to what could be causing that. With these cars, they heavily rely on instant engine RPM to get the primary fingers on the first stage of the clutch to rocket them off the line, so if blower boost is down, or the fuel system isn't doing what it should be, they won't rev up like they are designed to do. But with all systems OK in that department, that only left the car's electrics that could be causing the lower RPM "on the hit" that the data showed from Martin's runs this weekend. So the guys replaced the coils, leads and magnetos to try and rectify the problem, so we'll see what happens this round of racing and whether the car gets its revs back again.

Well more reports soon after the first round of eliminations...