Englishtown, pre-race: With just a few days between races, the teams don't have much time to prepare for this weekend's 35th Annual K&N Filters Supernationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park. But the time constraints are not an issue for Springfield, Ill. native, Tim Wilkerson. Wilkerson has been readying the Levi, Ray & Shoup Chevrolet Monte Carlo for the upcoming group of races as he was competing in the past few races.

Wilkerson has been using the last few races to prepare the Levi, Ray & Shoup Funny Car for the hot weather events that are yet to come. The hot, humid summer weather is a concern to the teams, because it produces different racing conditions than what they have been used to so far this season.

"We've been trying to learn the new set-up we've put in the car, during the last couple of races," explained Wilkerson. "We really think that this set-up is going to be the secret for what's ahead of us. We've already looked at the data from our Sunday run in Columbus and we think we've learned what we needed to learn for the upcoming races. Since Sunday was the only day the sun was out, we learned what we need to do when the track is hot. Englishtown is historically a good track, but now that it's the middle of June, it could be hot. Then it won't be worth a darn. But that's okay because it's what we've been preparing for the last few weeks."

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