Greetings blog faithful, and welcome to another installment of “As The World Turns” or as I like to call it, “Bob’s Blog.” Let’s get right to the big stuff first. Tomorrow, the 4-Wide race in Charlotte kicks off its pro qualifying. I am not there. That’s not huge news, because I didn’t go to Houston either. What’s important is that Del Worsham and the Worsham & Fink team aren’t there either. It was a tough decision, but I support it 100 percent and I know Del made the right call.

The first annual MOWER event is in the books, even if the books are slightly tattered and worn after all the fun. Yes, the Men Of Woodbury Epic Retreat, at Larsmont on the North Shore of Lake Superior, was a roaring success, even if Mother Nature threw all she had at us. For hosts Joe Gillis and Scott Meehan, and for Terry Blake, David Jacobsen, Mitch Martin, and my own self, it was every bit the “Epic” indicated by the “E” in the acronym title.

We started to see it in Gainesville. After rough outings at both Pomona and Phoenix, and after a very useful test session on the Monday after the Phoenix race, Del Worsham’s Funny Car began its progression to the sort of ultra-consistency one would expect out of a sportsman car with a dial-in written on the window with shoe polish. In Gainesville, it was uncanny. This past weekend in Las Vegas, it was even more so. Run after run.