It was a long day at VMP yesterday. The weather was in the 70's and for starters they didn't open the track to run until 1:00 pm, 1 hr. behind start time. Then it was open only to 1/8 mile runs due to moisture at the long end of the track, for supposedly 1 hr. Then 30 minutes into that a motorcycle oils down the track from the start to the 330' mark, that takes another 45 minutes to straighten out. They finally started 1/4 mile runs around 3:00 pm and the line was long as hell. My car's gremlin reared it's head and didn't want to start so I jumped it with my jump box and had to leave it running in the staging lanes, nothing like 25 min. of idling to heat soak the engine. I finally get up to the line and run an 11.533 @ 116.80 with a 1.62 60', I think not bad for warm air and a heat soaked engine. I let it cool off for an hr. and since I'm pitted near the staging lane entrance I can see it's only half full in the sportsman light lanes so I once again have to jump my car and leave it running. This time the wait was about 15 minutes, I ran an 11.513 @ 116.00 with a 1.61 60'. I pulled in the pits and straight onto the trailer, I figured that it wasn't going to run any faster on this day and I'm better off taking it home and getting it ready for the Whipple. I'm dissapointed that I wasn't able to run a 10 sec. time with the MPX/nitrous but I'm sure I'll have a smile on my face come spring.