The tenth stage of the national championship NHRA Summernationals be a challenging test for the teams participating in the nitromethane divisions. Changeable weather to dictate the conditions, and setting cars before each individual became a stop for mechanics a real headache. At this time, the participants did not have to record, in the circumstances explanatory hitch at the start became almost absolute guarantee of a successful arrival and the time at five seconds would be sufficient for a confident victory. But in the Sportsman classes where dregster not overwhelmed by the crazy power, there was a place for hard struggle and a new record in the classroom Stock Eliminator.
David Barton during the qualifying session of the bonus race School of Automotive Machinists & Technology NHRA Factory Stock Showdown pushed the bar of pure time passage of a quarter mile, disposing of the record-distance driving a white Chevrolet Camaro for 8,256 seconds. This Barton decided not to be limited, and won the race for the second time in a row, repeatedly please the fans a series of extremely spectacular wheelies.
Impressed with the results the driver did not even think to stop there, this season he is planning to leave the eight seconds, which seems within the class is not just somewhat exaggerated ambition, and formless madness, because the first race within vosmisekundnoy area took just four years ago, when Don Fezell could catapult your Cobra Jet Mustang to the finish line 8.96 seconds behind. On the other hand, in the context of how fast and how much the old barriers fall this year, you can expect anything, especially since the fastest strips in NHRA calendar ahead.
«It was a great race, but now my car is prepared in accordance with the technical requirements of Factory Stock. If we perekvalifitsiruemsya under Regulation FS / AA, we can reduce the weight to 200 pounds. And it should have came close to semisekundnoy zone „- shared his plans Barton.
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