Since the first Drag Week in 2005 with forty cars, the event has grown into this year's 310 first day count. I was convinced in 2011 that two hundred would be unmanageable, but they have made the necessary adjustments in track personnel, event personnel, and procedures to keep up with the demand. Thursday at Great Bend was a shining example of this, when the call was made for Daily Driver. In the first forty-five minutes before the rain, they had been running cars all the way to the finish line before the next set even hit the water box, but now they went double time with one set staging and the next set in the water ready to start their burnout as soon as the first guys cleared 60ft., and they put a hundred cars down the track in just over forty minutes!
Most of the DD guys, knowing this was a one shot deal, then the class cars would finish up, and a clean up, open session would only be ran as weather permitted, made this one count and called it a day! The pits cleared out pretty quickly after 1:20PM.
Ken Metzinger's red 66 Barracuda(pictured in above post) ran 13.45-99, right in line with where he was at Topeka and Thunder Valley. Mr. Ogle blew the tires off his big gold Challenger at the launch and moved hard right out of the groove, but stayed with it, and wrestled the E-body back to the meat of the track with an 11.78-120.1. Robert's big black Ram R/T responded to the great air with a 14.70-91, while Rachael put down a disappointing 12.60-108.8, she was clearly back to her three runs a day routine!