Squelch the rumor mill; there’s no hidden agenda behind Bill Miller and Alan Bradshaw’s absence from Bandimere Speedway this weekend. The Mopar Mile High Nationals never ranks high on the high-profile independent team’s preference list.     

“It has never been on Bill’s agenda to attend the Denver race,” said Bradshaw. “There are enough challenges as it is now to run a fuel car without having to go up on the mountain and try to figure that out. We just don’t go up there because it has never been a race Bill has wanted to attend.”

The BME team will join the western swing in Seattle and then Sonoma.

Squelch the rumor mill; there’s no hidden agenda behind Bill Miller and Alan Bradshaw’s absence from Bandimere Speedway this weekend. The Mopar Mile High Nationals never ranks high on the high-profile independent team’s preference list.     

“It has never been on Bill’s agenda to attend the Denver race,” said Bradshaw. “There are enough challenges as it is now to run a fuel car without having to go up on the mountain and try to figure that out. We just don’t go up there because it has never been a race Bill has wanted to attend.”

The BME team will join the western swing in Seattle and then Sonoma.

“That’s Bill’s way of keeping the perimeters in check,” Bradshaw said. “It’s a lot easier to race in Seattle than Denver. That’s nothing more and nothing less. No real news here.”

“We’re sorting out a bunch of new parts and with that you have the usual learning curves. We have better equipment but not the wisdom at this time on how to make it work better. All year long, we’ve challenged ourselves with a supercharger program that wasn’t working right and we have that fixed now.”

Bradshaw said the team learned the viciousness of chasing problems can have a domino effect.

“Then the belts started coming off of the car because of the new power the superchargers created. The belt was the weak link and then we switched belts and once we got that fixed then we discovered the fuel system would run lean and blow the burst panels out.

“It’s like a domino effect. Once you fix one problem then you see the next weakest link. As of Norwalk we were the closest we have been all year of getting it together, but we just missed the tune-up – period. That’s part of the game. Even Tim Richards can miss it once in a while. It’s the nature of the beast.”

In every dark cloud, there is a silver lining.

“I keep saying every weekend that we are smarter than when we showed up, so we ought to be smarter next time out,” Bradshaw said. “That’s my thought for the day.”