After the fall of barriers in the NHRA and PDRA was time to another very specific, but it is very popular in certain circles RTRA Association (Radial Tire Racing Association), specializing in racing cars whose tires must necessarily have a groove, in contrast to the commonly used slicks. At the first event of the championship, held in Denton, Texas native Kyle Hyuttel twice moved the time bar in the fastest class Pro Drag Radial, eventually flying a distance of 1/8 mile in 3.870 seconds with shocking speed output 202.79 mph.
Chevrolet Corvette C6 Kyle is a class dregster Pro Mod, built on a tubular frame, and as a power plant using big-block with hemispherical combustion chambers, equipped with a mechanical supercharger. The only difference is that a crazy motor torque, devouring methanol buckets is implemented via a bus width of 315 millimeters from the grooves. The result impressed many, because 3.87 seconds — this is a very decent rate even in the context of similar cars in technical terms, clad in baggy slicks, which are almost one hundred percent guarantee of toe thanks to a massive contact patch.
After the first stage of the series hung in the air is only one question: how soon stryasetsya first 3.86-second race in the history of RTRA?
And for some reason it seems to us that this event is just around the corner.
A month ago Hyuttel marked very entertaining clash with Dave Bowman in the Lights Out 7. In the event the night qualifying session, his Corvette was thrown through the center line of the strip to the adjacent track on which the twin-turbo Ford Mustang his opponent picked up speed steadily. As a result: Sea sparks destroyed fiberglass body dregster and the end of the weekend for both riders who in the incident suffered only morally and financially.
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