Rickie Smith in a Top Fuel Dragster?

[mikebcurve]

Seen this posted over at Drag Illustrated. Crazy!

 

[Cliff]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[mikebcurve]

HE’S FOUGHT A MONKEY; SURVIVED THE SUMMERDUCK; NOW RICKIE SMITH TACKLES A TOP FUELER | Competition Plus

As Rickie Smith shuffled over to the airplane wing, he knew there was no turning back. At the time, Smith, the winningest IHRA Mountain Motor Pro Stock racer, was doing stuff that NHRA 500-inch Pro Stockers did, like jumping out of a perfect airplane during a Winston promo in the 1990s days...

www.competitionplus.com

 

[aakar]

Lyle Barnett and Stevie Fast have talked about getting into T/F, imagine those 3 mixing it up in T/F!

 

[4onthefl4]

Catch the statement “I had helped Scott this winter on his old Corvette to go run that $1,000,000 race" in the article? Looks like that PRO race is in the works.

 

[stoppro]

I thought he retired.

 

[PJ]

Lyle Barnett and Stevie Fast have talked about getting into T/F, imagine those 3 mixing it up in T/F!

Imagine the burndowns, they'll be coasting races as they'll run out of fuel (or blwo up)

 

[Sparky]

Catch the statement “I had helped Scott this winter on his old Corvette to go run that $1,000,000 race" in the article? Looks like that PRO race is in the works.

That race he is talking about is the Pro Mod Invitational that Drag Illustrated puts on it used to be a Bandimere but they moved it to Florida this last year.

 

[JRW]

I thought he retired.

Only a few times

 

[Luke Nieuwhof]

Catch the statement “I had helped Scott this winter on his old Corvette to go run that $1,000,000 race" in the article? Looks like that PRO race is in the works.

I think that's a reference to the $100,000 World Series of Pro Mod where Scott raced earlier this year. They just added an extra zero.

 

[r2]

#badass

 

[J. S.]

#badass

I'm surprised they had him do his first ever Top Fuel pass at night. It's hard enough to drive one during the day.

 

[z28]

now put him in a funny car

 

[Butch]

now put him in a funny car

Been there done that.

 

[Nunz]

Been there done that.

Well it was an alky car many years ago, but having said that, with all of the seat time Rickie has in Pro mod cars I'm pretty sure he could drive anything, including a Fuel FC if he chose to.