Las Vegas Motor Speedway: At an early season test session the torch was officially passed from father to son when Brett Harris successfully completed enough seat time to comfortably compete at the Goodguys 46th March Meet at Bakersfield (March 11-13).

With the steadfast Utah Posse on hand, Harris gets ready for his first run... a 900 foot pass.

Rayce backs Brett up from his burnout.

Jack Harris, in his new role as Crew Chief, is the starting line half of the backup team.
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Great shot of the track just as Brett hits the throttle.

Jack and Brett give their patented thumbs up after the run.

Some of "the Posse" kick back before the second test.
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Later in the afternoon they came back for Brett's first full pass.

In his new roll as Crew Chief, Jack moves Brett into the staging beams.

Even with a "soft" tune-up the car yanks the front end at the hit.

Right down the groove, Harris cards his first five second run and first over 250.
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Needless to say, the crew was happy with that one!

NHRA Top Fuel driver Andrew Cowin took some time from his testing to visit with Jack and check out the seat of Nitro Thunder. When all was said and done, Cowin he likes his engine behind him.

The third pass came after the sun went down - nitro at night.

Focused

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It was over 6 hours between sessions so after the car was ready, the crews did what they could to beat the heat and relax - like taking a nap.

The next day the team made one more run just to get Brett more seat time.

Jack gives the injector a whack telling Brett he's good to go. Rayce pulls the idle plug from the other side of the hat.

Check out the bite and wrap on the tires.

Sunday morning some friends of Gerry Steiner stopped by. Rudi and Wolfgang Schofer and Gittli Koller are form Germany. They have a Top Methanol Dragster and were the 2002 European Champions.