Why take a chance at finishing fourth in 2.8 when you can finish first or second in 2.6, and still play by all of the rules the Scheid crew laid out?
Nothing major has changed on Dan's truck since we built it from the frame up 5 years ago, its just dialed in now and he can drive the sh!t out of it. The engine is also 5 years old, and has never been opened up since it was built.
He isn't sponsored at all. If I pulled 2.6, would I be happy about the Scheid crew's decision to let the 2.8 trucks pull in 2.6? NO. But those were the rules that they laid out, and those are the rules that were followed.
I fail to see what is funny about it? Nothing on that truck came directly from Scheid, if that is what you are insinuating...
After Dan made his first hook and went 292.xx, the Lowry team changed the sled around and never told Scheid they did until the end of the pull. That would explain why the announcer was already giving the standings as Dan was pulling up to the line to hook.
As previously stated, the track always gets better after more hooks are made on it. Dan has hooked in front of the Lowry sled many times, and after he went 292 the first hook, they changed the setting to let everyone else run further with the sled. His truck was already back at the trailer and he was sitting with us in the stands when they called his name over the loudspeaker to rehook.