Nothing new for Oddy - when he came back to drag racing with the black - solid axle - stretched "legal" Top Sportsman Beretta at the Norwalk Halloween Classic in the late 80's - he ripped off several high six second passes well over 200 MPH was way ahead of any other top sportsman entries in top gun. Come Monday the car was deemed illegal and banned - then came the Black Mariah corvette it eventually got banned. The fact is Jim Oddy was and is still an innovator and was way ahead of everybody with the blown motor combo from his years of building offshore power boat motors.