http://www.competitionplus.com/comp...ideo-recap-of-radial-vs-the-world-competition
Alex is doing pretty good in Pro Mod. He was on radial slicks for this race.
Alex is doing pretty good in Pro Mod. He was on radial slicks for this race.
Only 1/8 mile wth lolPretty impressive win. That field was stacked with really fast cars. It's crazy to think you need to run 3.6's now to have a chance, and we came >< that close to having a 3.59.
Only 1/8 mile wth lol
I race 1/8 all the time esp when im doing the 1/4 lol. I can see no preps doing 8th thoThose that put down 1/8 mile racing, most likely never raced an 1/8 mile.
These races were never meant to be, or advertised other than anything else.
I would like a count on how many shoes/socks were pulled off over the weekend.![]()
Wreckhttp://www.competitionplus.com/drag-racing/news/in-drag-radial-one-tire-gets-the-job-done
Interesting article on drag radials. Would be interesting to see what these guys could do 1/4 mile on radials.
Brian obviously there is spectator demand, why sell only 500?Oh yeah, forgot that next month we'll be right back down there for the Sweet 16 which pays $101,000 to win in RvW and $50,000 in x275. There are 140 x275 cars entered and I think 60-70 RvW cars on the list so far.
That's the race that Duck only sells 500 spectator tickets to at a few hundred bucks a piece. They sold out in less than a day.
because that's all the room there is to stand on the starting line...Brian obviously there is spectator demand, why sell only 500?
Guys have run over 250mph on radials in the quarter. They have run 5.80s in that distance as well.
That is some pretty sketchy stuff on many levels as the tires were never designed to see those types of speeds and the reality is that the extra couple of seconds up and down in terms of acceleration and deceleration put huge strains on them.
Radial vs The World is unlike anything else in drag racing. Alex's car is about as far afield from a pro mod as you can get. That car started life as a stock Corvette. It is a real Corvette body and it still rolls on the stock Corvette wheelbase. Yes, it is filled with steel tubing but it is not at all like a pro mod either on top or bottom. The whole class is basically regulated with weight. You get to be lighter with stock wheelbase, you get to be lighter if you take the wheelie bars off, you get to be lighter if you run a small block, etc.
In that class we have ProCharger hemi engines, roots hemi engines, screw blown hemi engines, turbocharged hemi engines, turbocharged, roots, and screw blown big block Wedge engines, small block engines with turbos on them, massive nitrous engines with 4-5 kits on them, and the list goes on and on and on. It's unreal.
Brian
Brian obviously there is spectator demand, why sell only 500?