If we talk about the racing circuit, the hours-long competition of endurance — a truly hardcore test pilots and technicians. It is hard to imagine, but in the world of the races on the quarter-mile is also a measure that is unparalleled in the industry — is an annual marathon of Hot Rod Magazine's Drag Week, consisting of five's Event on four strips, which are shared between them a total of more than a thousand miles on public roads use.
And all this a long way you have to do at the wheel of the same car, which is going to participate in the races, and any work on the car is permitted only to carry out on its own and through its partner by means of all that's small belongings that you can cram into the trunk or load in a small trailer.
Every year on Drag Week attracts riders from around the globe to test himself and his iron on religious strips and highways of America. Technical regulation of competition in comparison with the best dregovymi lots more loyal, but the division into classes, depending on the configuration of the power plant and the degree of changes in the design of the car is definitely present.
Most attention among fans riveted confrontation pilots in the fastest class Unlimited, in which participants compete on units that do not have anything to do with the civilian vehicles. The heroes of the past years have been Tom Bailey, who won the last Drag Week, and the owner of the current speed record (6.05 seconds) Jeff Lutz, who a year ago, despite the resounding success at the first event, because of the broken fuel pump was not able to get to the next stop.
This year Lutz not only took revenge, he swept all of his opponents in extremely categorical manner, setting a new record for average time of up to five stages (6.191 seconds with an average speed of 240.01 mph), sliding the bar immediately by 0.7 seconds. And it's worth noting, in the context of a real division of the abyss. And I think, for a better understanding of these figures is not superfluous to recall that it shestisekundny Chevrolet Camaro «Mad Max» Pro Mod «69 independently moved between stages and only once failed his owner.
This time is also not without drama, which only adds to the value of this victory. On the way to the third event in Michigan, wheel bearing right front wheel ordered to live a long time, which led to the fact that the knuckle went completely down, and spare parts with him as luck was not there.
However, Lutz is not the kind of guy who gives up without a fight.
New fist was found in the vicinity due to an old acquaintance who owns his own shop of accessories, and the car was brought to life in the literal sense of the word on the knee. Noteworthy is the fact that the item is Jeff brought his main rival Tom Bailey, was eliminated by the time of the fight. As he said later, Lutz, then haul it planned how to sleep, but instead was forced to hold a fourth consecutive sleepless night on the sidelines with a wrench in his hand. In U.S. 131 Motorsports Park pilot had arrived an hour before the start of the event, hastily prepared dregster to arrival and... set the record for the year, flying kvoter of 6.106 @ 243.51 mph. Truly an impressive example of the brotherhood of the road and the very race of heroism, which we are all so lacking in other motorsport disciplines.
After this momentous event, fans were waiting for the first in the history of the marathon departure of six seconds, but unfortunately this did not happen. In any case, Lutz on each of the five stages over and over again rode very steadily low six, which for all the long history of the event never happened.
Yes, progress is not in place, the speed grows from year to year, but hardly anyone else at all could recently imagined even in my wildest predictions that such a result is somehow can be combined with the reliability, without which on Drag Week do strongly there is nothing.
The second in the absolute Bryant became the Goldstone again acting in a slower class Ultimate Iron. Its average time in this year turned out to be half a second faster than the same period of 2015 winner Tom Bailey.
Speed is inexorably rising, power characteristics of cars in each class exceed all bounds in the context of complex marathon, well, he Drag Week has long ceased to be a contest among fans who just can not sit at home. And something tells me that in the next year stryasetsya breakthrough shestisekundnogo barrier. Another question: Will the five-second car seven days of intense struggle? After all, that will sustain the pilot, no doubt the example of the events described.
Photo: Hot Rod Magazine, NHRA
After this momentous event, fans were waiting for the first in the history of the marathon departure of six seconds, but unfortunately this did not happen. In any case, Lutz on each of the five stages over and over again rode very steadily low six, which for all the long history of the event never happened.
Yes, progress is not in place, the speed grows from year to year, but hardly anyone else at all could recently imagined even in my wildest predictions that such a result is somehow can be combined with the reliability, without which on Drag Week do strongly there is nothing.
The second in the absolute Bryant became the Goldstone again acting in a slower class Ultimate Iron. Its average time in this year turned out to be half a second faster than the same period of 2015 winner Tom Bailey.
Speed is inexorably rising, power characteristics of cars in each class exceed all bounds in the context of complex marathon, well, he Drag Week has long ceased to be a contest among fans who just can not sit at home. And something tells me that in the next year stryasetsya breakthrough shestisekundnogo barrier. Another question: Will the five-second car seven days of intense struggle? After all, that will sustain the pilot, no doubt the example of the events described.
Photo: Hot Rod Magazine, NHRA
