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Non-FE Discussion Forum / Arkansas mile
« on: May 20, 2021, 02:34:10 PM »
My best friend bought an ex bad car cup car to do land speed racing with. It’s an early2000’s Ford Taurus & he bought it 8-9 yr ago. He had intentions of letting all his gearhead buddies run it. It’s not got the latest FR9 cup motor but the previous generation of what they used. It was built by one of the guys at Roush-Yates and has a sheeetal intake with 2 4500’s.
So a few weeks ago at the event it was gonna be my turn in the seat. I owned & drove 410” wing sprint cars for many years but had never ran anything like this.
They restrict rookies to a 1/2 mile the first run, 3/4 the second and the full mile the third. I went a pretty easy 154 the first run and the car running after me crashed causing a 1/2 hr delay. I went 194.8 the second run still running fairly easy. In line to make the third run and someone a few cars ahead of me broke something and oiled the track and they ended up canceling the rest of the day. We had to go home. He’s registered for bonneville in august and I’ll have to find out if I’m on the driver rooster! LOL!!
So a few weeks ago at the event it was gonna be my turn in the seat. I owned & drove 410” wing sprint cars for many years but had never ran anything like this.
They restrict rookies to a 1/2 mile the first run, 3/4 the second and the full mile the third. I went a pretty easy 154 the first run and the car running after me crashed causing a 1/2 hr delay. I went 194.8 the second run still running fairly easy. In line to make the third run and someone a few cars ahead of me broke something and oiled the track and they ended up canceling the rest of the day. We had to go home. He’s registered for bonneville in august and I’ll have to find out if I’m on the driver rooster! LOL!!