Since the change of props in Red Bluff, we have had some difficulties getting the boat to hook up (as most of you may have seen when the nose went under and the boat and subbed at the hit of the throttle in first round qualifying.)

After talking with Jarrett, he recalled, “I thought I was crashing, but it was so slow, it was a strange feeling.” Having gone underwater in his previous Pro-Mod days made it easy for him to concentrate and think about what he had to do in his fuel hydro. “I just looked up, saw the sponsons in the air and figured; ok, now I need to get out.”

For the second round of qualifying, we adjusted the props and the nose lifted more, but the boat did not go much farther.

We lost first round to Disorderly Conduct and were a bit late on the lights.

We were glad to see Greg Tedesco and the Loose Cannon team back out racing and making it to the semi-finals. We look forward to racing with them more and getting our boat back on track.

Thanks to everyone who came out to see us!!

The original plan to race Memorial Day Weekend ended in bad weather and a postponement until the following weekend.

During qualifying on Saturday, we ran our quickest recorded E.T. at 4.79. In addition, we were part of one of the fastest side-by-side passes along with Speed Sport's 4.78. We qualified in the second spot.

We tried new props the first round and the boat did not seem to like them; we ended up giving the win to Glen Wilson in the Toxic Rocket.

We brought our boat back to the pits only to find that the teeth of our w-drive had been sheered completely; it actually was NOT the props that caused a strange bite and first round loss.

Unfortunately, the Hot Licks team will not be present at the Supernationals in Chowchilla, CA, however, we look forward to putting on a show at the SDBA race in San Angelo, TX the same weekend where there are expected to be a total of seven Top Fuel Hydros.

Well folks, this weekend was indescribable. Though there were only a few Top Fuel boats there, Eddie's new hull looked amazing and Speed Sports ran a 4.68 making them 1 qualifier, but we did not let our 2nd place 4.93 qualifying slow us down.

First round was pretty windy, but Jarrett held it together and got the win over Problem Child setting us up for the final round against John Haas in the Speed Sports Special.

As the boats sat on the line, we were all waiting nervously, aware of the bad hot rod we've had the entire weekend. The ambers lit, capsule lids came down, and Jarrett ran a winning 4.98 E.T. to Haas's 5.06. The crew was ecstatic! Our first Top Fuel win of the season, and we can only get better. Jarrett's wife Stacy could hardly believe we had just won. "We just won a Top Fuel race," she kept saying. It was a perfect weekend, the boat ran the fastest it's ever gone at 242 MPH, and the crew did the quickest turn-around ever.

We definitely are getting things figured out. Watch out for us this season!

And a good job to Eddie Knox as well as the Speed Sports Special crew this weekend.

“We beat Loose Cannon 1st round with a 4.95 @ 228mph - 2.92 @ 207 mph at the half. In the semi’s things came undone literally. The blower came apart, it lifted, broke the pulley and crank, big boom and lots of fire. It burnt most of the wiring, air lines, new computer stuff, etc. Engine swap was no problem.”