There was a large gathering of 2.3T powered drag racing cars in St Louis this past weekend. Four of the five quickest currently existing 2.3T cars in the country were in attendance. Here are videos of every pass of the weekend:
There was a large gathering of 2.3T powered drag racing cars in St Louis this past weekend. Four of the five quickest currently existing 2.3T cars in the country were in attendance. Here are videos of every pass of the weekend:
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Stinger: Who were the top 4-5? Who won it all?
Enough of that, it was giving me a headache.
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Fastest passes for each person for the day:
JD Laramee 9.26@129
Dave Flanders 9.599@140
Brian Fennell (Stangman93) 9.601@145
Jon Huber 9.70@140
Matt Culpepper 10.363@131
Dale Knapke 10.94@125
Neal Gierach 10.55@120
Curtis Hensley 11.40@118 (Turbotoy, on 11.40 dial)
Micheal Dunn 12.109@114
Marty Buth 12.16 (winner)
Tom Smith 12.50 (runner-up)
Steve Brangnyn 20.83@112
The fastest of the top 5 that didn't make the trip was Fred House who's been 7.80's.
It was a bracket race so the quickest cars were at a disadvantage (hard to be consistent when you're running at the absolute limit of traction and such). 12 time NHRA record holder Marty Buth won.
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Stinger was traction so bad or what? I know these guys have all run far better times than this! Buy the way thanks for the vidios!
The race was in conjunction with an "Import Faceoff" event and it seemed like every other race one of the imports oiled down the track. It wasn't bad off the line but down track many of the fast guys had trouble keeping it going straight and had to lift (which is evident by the low mph compared to normal).
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"radar detectors are illegal in the Commonwealth of Virgina" "i bet cloaking devices are illegal too! good-bye!"
They made sure to oil it down all the way down the return road, even when the safety crew after the finish line were waving them down (they must have thought they were just waving because they wanted to be "bro's" with them). They had to announce several times over the PA to get to the side of the track and stop ASAP if they get waved down but it didn't matter, they had the "rules are for breaking" mentality. It appeared that about 15 of the 100+ import racers had a clue what they were doing. If they didn't oil down the track, they either didn't know how to prestage/stage, would bog and kill at at launch, or would miss a shift (or two) trying to make it down the track.
Fortunately, us Ford guys had our own "class" so we didn't have to deal with them directly. The only exception was JD who was racing in one of the premier import classes and grenaded $7500 in engine and trans parts on the first pass when the eclipse in the other lane couldn't manage to get staged. Took him 19 seconds to light the second beam which destroyed JD's engine/trans while he was at 8000 rpm the whole time waiting for him. Cracked the brand new aftermarket block, bent the billet crank, bent a titanium rod, etc.
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