Hot Rod Drag Week 2019 is ( kind of ) underway.

[thatdarncat]

Hot Rod Drag Week 2019 has started, however it has been raining all morning so far. Sounds like they may make the determination whether day 1 will be a rainout soon. Reports I saw on Facebook yesterday made it sound like registration day went well yesterday, and there was a test & tune session in the afternoon. It was also announced that everyone who was on the waitlist and showed up got registered. The unofficial count I saw yesterday was 351 competitors registered yesterday, so the event did not fill up, and if true that will be a lower count than the last few years. Hot Rod will probably announce the official count today. There is a live feed each day, you can access from the Motor Trend On Demand website, and people have said you can access from the Motor Trend channel on YouTube also. I have the website link below. So far it has just been Brian Lohnes & David Freiburger talking and filling time with some good car chat and racer in need announcements. Everyone feel free to add anything to this post you want. I saw a post today that Scott Miller is there with his FE powered ‘68 Cougar.

Here’s the link:

https://www.motortrendondemand.com/detail/5-45am-pt-hot-rod-drag-week-day-1-virginia-motorsports-park/0_2mi9uhuf

[thatdarncat]

Meanwhile, while it’s raining, here a YouTube video to meet some of the Aussies on Drag Week 2019, and their updates.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=qJP5xuSd7d4&fbclid=IwAR3NJC3y9aIx5BSE-wtHX6sfO4Vanynjmqhc5F8IHQ1uQqjB4D_C3rfy8ek

[thatdarncat]

As usual, a few people had troubles on registration day and the test & tune session. One of the more unfortunate I saw online yesterday was this VW. I don’t know what the cause was. Sounds like they may be out, and not trying to fix it.

[thatdarncat]

Sounds like they’ve dried the track and will be running soon. Due to the rain delay I heard only one pass per person today, and that assumes it doesn’t start raining again.

[thatdarncat]

Track is running!

There is a 1919 Franklin this year. They just turned a 30 second ET. If they finish the week that should set a new record for slowest Drag Week average ET. Like I say every year - don’t use the excuse that your car is too slow for Drag Week, I guarantee there will be someone slower lol.

[thatdarncat]

There’s also supposed to be a Tesla participating this year, the first all electric vehicle on Drag Week. There was debate before the event about which class he would have to run, since most classes specify gasoline, E85, or alcohol. Only unlimited allows any “fuel”. I’ll have watch on what was decided.

[Heo]

Track is running!

There is a 1919 Franklin this year. They just turned a 30 second ET. If they finish the week that should set a new record for slowest Drag Week average ET. Like I say every year - don’t use the excuse that your car is too slow for Drag Week, I guarantee there will be someone slower lol.

Thats what a 70s Mercedes 220 Diesel ETs

[AlanCasida]

I saw today's drive route. Right up through Richmond, DC and Baltimore. Yuck.

[thatdarncat]

There’s a ‘64 Ford on Drag Week, no idea which engine. Does anybody know the car?

[Stangman]

There’s a nova with a boss nine motor turboed. Thing is sweet, it didn’t come out of the hole right and still ran 9.20s

[TomP]

Also one of the many, many black 55 Chevy gassers has a 540" 460 type Ford.

The wheelie by the Toyota 4Runner was cool!

[Royce]

The Boss 9 in the scrub Nova is one of Kaase's employees.  I guess it makes about 2500 horse...Nice turnabout for all the LSs in Mustangs

[Stangman]

If he gets that car to hook properly should run 8.70 / 8.90. The engine compartment is sweet.

[Stangman]

They said the galaxies was a 352 2bl but I’m not sure if they were kidding or not.

[cjshaker]

Scott Miller ran a 9.64 @ 167. Had a 1.6 60" and broke traction just as the nose topped out. Probably hit the limit to hard, but he still ran about 2 mph faster than he averaged last year. Hope he can overcome that bad start, since there were no 2nd runs today.

You can watch him run here...
https://youtu.be/aOCkZsWutvM?t=19181