Drag Week 2018 is underway.

[turbohunter]

Lol

[cjshaker]

Scott ran a 9.29 just a bit ago to maintain his lead in Street Race Big Block NA. Not as fast as he's ran the prior 2 days, but enough to keep a decent lead. Good luck to him the rest of the week!

Doug What rear gear do you have ? i get around 15-16
average to, on my Galaxie  with 2.82 or 2.72 dont remember
exactly . 255-70 15 tires

Heo, I had to go check because I've never even looked. It has 3.00 gears and I have 215-75/15 tires. Probably could have gone a bit bigger, but it seems to be a decent combo for highway driving.

[thatdarncat]

Yes, good to see Scott Miller making nice clean passes.

Tuesday Joel ran a 10.43 first session in the Coupe, then came back for another pass in the all run session, but only ran 10.544, so no improvement.

This morning Joel ran 10.175 @ 137, closer to what he ran on his better test passes last weekend. He's still in 4th place in his class, the leaders are running well too, but Joel seems to have to highest mph.

The checkpoint today is Pat Musi's race shop, which is having an open house for the Drag Week participants. A pretty cool stop. Hot Rod waived having to follow the official route again after the first checkpoint, due to the hurricane. Participants had to follow the directions to the first stop. People are reporting random gas stations out of gas, but are still finding places with fuel.

Jonnie Lindberg ran his first 6 with the '57 today on his second exhibition pass.

[Drew Pojedinec]

The amazing thing with Scott’s engine is how tame it sounds.
A wild guess is that it has to be pushing 900hp.

[cjshaker]

Drew, you would be almost exactly right on the HP guess. And yes, you'd never guess just by listening to it. Blair has done an outstanding job on that engine and Scott and his dad and crew are very adept at getting it to hook. He's been making one pass and done, just like last year. That says a LOT about the car and their abilities!

Gas stations farther east are pretty much out of any fuel, so the DW guys are pretty lucky to find fuel at all.

Jonnie and Richie are still slowly ramping up the Top Fuel Wagon..lol  With his speed over 200 mph today, and still launching softly, that car would pretty much dominate the entire DW field if it were completely sorted out and the wick turned up!

Good luck to Joel, he's got some stiff competition in his class.

[driveamerican]

Jab B it sounds like David Freiburger really misses you he pretty much said his nose is probably most happy you skipped this year. All in good fun he said he likes to tease you about the dinosaurs we all love.

[jayb]

Yes, I hear that the "feud" between me and Freiburger got mentioned on the live feed LOL!  There is no feud of course, Freiburger is a really nice guy and I like talking to him.  He gives me a lot of crap, but I give it right back to him; I've known him since Drag Week 2005, where he told me that my Mach 1 was his all-time favorite car.  It's good to see him having success with RoadKill, because he is a REAL car guy, not just a writer or TV personality.  I sure hope he enters Drag Week with a car at some point; I would purely love to see him broken down on the side of the road 

[cjshaker]

He talked about you for about 20+ seconds when Scott ran, since he was running the "extinct" engine. He even called you an "FE expert". Obviously some respect there. He really liked my car last year and stopped to talk to me and look the car over, so I think he's a closet Ford fan..lol

[Heo]

Well i think he bought a 69 mustang at a junkyard in
a episode of roadkill

[jayb]

He told me back in 2005 that he had a good friend when he was growing up who had a 69 428CJ Mustang, and that "we went EVERYWHERE in that car".  Obviously the experience stuck with him...

[cjshaker]

Scott ran a 9.37 a little while ago. Just a guess, but I'm betting he'll call it a day and head back to Atlanta for the final day. That was good enough for him to maintain his lead by a couple tenths. He'll just need to make one decent pass in Atlanta to take home the trophy. Good luck to him!

[thatdarncat]

The live video feed went down for me a while ago, not sure what the issue is, or if it's just my device. I'll have to try and catch the replay. In the mean time here's some random pictures from the internet.

Dale Gebhart, Mopar Billy's brother and long time Drag Week participant with his brothers and family ran off the road last night in the mountains and hit a rock with his beautiful '70 Duster. He was sitting 7th in the Unlimited class with a 8.93 average and some solid passes. Sad to see. Road accidents are always a very real possibility on Drag Week and there have been a few this year.

[cjshaker]

Kevin, the Live Feed worked fine all day as far as I could see, must have been your device.

Sad to see that about Dales car. I was a little leery about the downhill curves on wet roads in the mountains, but it looks like his roads were dry. Several guys said they had problems with trailers, that had no brakes, wanting to push their cars. Some of those trailers are heavy, so I can easily see that happening. That very well may have been what happened here.

[thatdarncat]

Kevin, the Live Feed worked fine all day as far as I could see, must have been your device.

Yes, I think so. I think I got it fixed now for tomorrow.

Lea Ochs '78 Fairmont wagon ( I don't think it's Ford powered ), left lane, launched the fiberglass hood over the grandstands Tuesday on a 8.23 @ 151 pass. There was some other video that showed it even better.

[cjshaker]

Leas car was LS powered. I know that's a shocker, but it's true
Finnegan blew out his rear window on Monday, in the same fashion as Lea. He also ran a 9.00 yesterday, his quickest time ever. Watching him shift that thing is entertaining to say the least.