Extreme Street Racing

[RangerJoe]

Last summer I dabled in the hard tire racing and starting spraying my car at the same time using a progressive controller. Over the winter I discovered that the nitrous was never actually activating, or at least not continously. I fixed that over the winter and attended an extreme street racing event in Steele Alabama Saturday night. I was disappointed to find that not only were they not using a clock, but the race started at the unprepped half track and was only an 1/8 mile race. It was also a flashlight start and was as much of a Street Outlaws wanna be race as any I had ever seen. But, it was fun none the less.

I got 1 practice run in and it went pretty well, just screeching the tires through 2nd. 1st round I drew the eventual winner and panicked shortly after the launch and jabbed 2nd gear. I was fighting tire spin all the way to the finish line, almost crossing into the other lane, and lost by a couple of car lengths. I was the only stick shift car in the field of 7 and think I could have beaten half of them easily if it was not for blowing the tires off.....but, that is the whole catch to the hard tire racing.


View: https://youtu.be/eOyHQbcETKU


Joe

 

[CarMichael Angelo]

I was thinking that if I ever got back into drag racing, that something like that might be of interest to me.


Then I remembered that I have a six cylinder, wont fall out of a tree, N/A, 28 spline axle'd, street tired boulevard cruiser.
And just as quickly decided against it.

 

[a91what]

Looks like alot of fun! I want to get back to the track something fierce.

 

[95BlueStallion]

That would be fun. Glad you enjoyed it, aside from the cheesy set up and short track.

 

[General karthief]

Looks like alot of fun! I want to get back to the track something fierce.

Where is that track in tampa? It's gotta be easier to get to than orlando

 

[a91what]

You mean sunshine? Yeah it's in st Pete, the guy that used to run Bradenton is managing it now so it's in good hands. I've been told it hooks really well.

 

[General karthief]

Been there but it's was too many years ago, thought there was one in tampa.

 

[RangerJoe]

I was thinking that if I ever got back into drag racing, that something like that might be of interest to me.


Then I remembered that I have a six cylinder, wont fall out of a tree, N/A, 28 spline axle'd, street tired boulevard cruiser.
And just as quickly decided against it.

I think having a turbo......
I see your point.

Joe