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Ultimate Warrior Motorsports
- Thread starter Pete
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nitro
Nitro Member
Thanks Pete,
Mike Smith tunes and drivers the Ultimate Warrior Dodge Stratus, he has done a lot with very little and I am happy with the results.
It has taken me a lot longer than I dreamed, to get my car to the races becaused it's the second one I built. The first was a beautiful Firebird with a McKinney chassis and was for IHRA competition, I finish that car in November 2008 and soon learned the IHRA was dropping the nitro funny car class in 2009 and NHRA came out with a new 10.5 SFI spec in 2009, so my car was obsoleted before I could run it. I sold what I could and started over again. I got a Hadman chassis from Kenny Bernstein, it was the "Monster Energy Drink" car that Tommy Johnson Jr drove and got it ready for the 2010 season. However, in 2010, the rules changed in the nitro funny car class faster than the cars it seemed, so I was always behind the curve but got caught up over the winter on the rule changes.
Our first time out was at the 2011 NHRA Supernationals at Englishtown, NJ. We were still finishing the car in the pits Friday morning of the event and made our first full run Saturday and ran a 4.25 at 289. That run would have qualified us at most of the National Events this year, but we had to settle for being in 18 th spot for that race.
Our next event was Maple Grove's national event in Reading, PA this past weekend and without doing any testing between races, we came up a little short again, missing the field by 52 thousands of a second.
Mike and the crew did a great job this year and we are looking forward to our first race of 2012 at Gainesville, Florida in March
Paul Weiss
Mike Smith tunes and drivers the Ultimate Warrior Dodge Stratus, he has done a lot with very little and I am happy with the results.
It has taken me a lot longer than I dreamed, to get my car to the races becaused it's the second one I built. The first was a beautiful Firebird with a McKinney chassis and was for IHRA competition, I finish that car in November 2008 and soon learned the IHRA was dropping the nitro funny car class in 2009 and NHRA came out with a new 10.5 SFI spec in 2009, so my car was obsoleted before I could run it. I sold what I could and started over again. I got a Hadman chassis from Kenny Bernstein, it was the "Monster Energy Drink" car that Tommy Johnson Jr drove and got it ready for the 2010 season. However, in 2010, the rules changed in the nitro funny car class faster than the cars it seemed, so I was always behind the curve but got caught up over the winter on the rule changes.
Our first time out was at the 2011 NHRA Supernationals at Englishtown, NJ. We were still finishing the car in the pits Friday morning of the event and made our first full run Saturday and ran a 4.25 at 289. That run would have qualified us at most of the National Events this year, but we had to settle for being in 18 th spot for that race.
Our next event was Maple Grove's national event in Reading, PA this past weekend and without doing any testing between races, we came up a little short again, missing the field by 52 thousands of a second.
Mike and the crew did a great job this year and we are looking forward to our first race of 2012 at Gainesville, Florida in March
Paul Weiss
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Great story of perseverence Paul! I was at the Grove last weekend and you guys looked like you were having a blast! I look forward to seeing you guys on the track starting at Gainesville next year!
Pete
Horsepower & Heels
Nitro Member
Great story! Looking forward to watching you in Gainesville!
nitro
Nitro Member
Thanks Erica, You and all Maters are invited to stop by and introduce yourself at my pits anytime.
Paul
