Well inexperience bit my buddy in the butt with last years class winning Mustang. His 8.44 pass on Monday did some transmission damage that showed its ugly face today. Tuesdays 7.65 was a nice 2nd day but now I guess it will be trailered home. Bummer.

Thanks for the pics Jyrki!

The Mountain was not kind to a couple competitors last night...

THey just mentioned on the live feed that something happened to a Duster last night. On the road? Anyone know what happened?

very good pics jyrki ! thanks for sharing !

Day 4 Bristol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-UUPBWnIBI

been watching last few days, pretty sweet power plants crossing the lines this year.

Dale Gebhart had a wreck into the side of the mountain with the Duster he entered this year.He and his co pilot are OK. Front of the car not so much.Havent heard alot of details.

Yeah, they crunched it good from the pics I saw.

Billy Just had a spin in the rain, he is good and probably back on the road by now. Today's route was pretty nuts, not long but CURVY with lots of grade changes. My car has a 4.10 rear gear and I spent a lot of time in 2nd gear for climbing and engine braking.

Is this spinning out a regular problem? It seems to be mentioned a lot. Why not have an inexpensive set of wheels and a set of regular old street radials with tread for the street portion?
Glad to hear everyone is alright of course.

Big issue this year mountain driving in the rain.Alot of switchbacks and Grades of more than 8%.Alot of people dont want to use a trailer or mount 4 tires and wheels to their car.Best thing to do if you have DragRadials is to air them up to around 50PSI to narrow the tires contact are and funnel the water away.Hope this gives you some insight.

Some people just don't have the room for them. I have room so I swap on my pro bracket radials at the track and run my Cooper Cobras on the road sections. Its a pain to put tires on and off twice a day but when we have heavy rain like we had monday its well worth it.

I have never heard that trick with the drag radials and the narrowing the contact patch. Makes sense in a way but drag radials are still mostly slicks. Of course we live up a dirt road that would destroy a set of drag radials or slicks well before I got home so always change tires at the track.
I get the space issue, but I bring my slicks to the track and switch them out for the track, which is no different than Drag Week in that regard in terms of switching tires. I do not change front tires though, which admittedly is a big difference with one less pair of tires to deal with. Of course, I am not bringing a week's worth of spare parts and tools either, which from what I can tell is the real challenge.

Anyone know about this green RR?

BAD340Fish can probly get more info than what I know.Belongs to one of the Castiglone(sp?) brothers from Pennsylvania.Former drag car that I beleive used to be owned by a friend who had passed away.Dont quote me though.

Total bummer.

Cant wait for Billys DW 18 recap.

Ugh. That did some serious damage. Glad everyone is ok.

That hurts to look at. Glad everyone is okay!