eighth-mile records for turbocharged entries,( 3.52 seconds at 231.44 mph), which indicates 5.2-second, 290 mph passes are not only possible but downright probable from these cars. Moreover, the five quickest quarter-mile passenger car drivers hail from the Dominican Republic, Bahrain, Kuwait, Australia and the United States. Since all utilize the power of a Steve Petty-built ProLine Racing Engine, there has already been talk of a possible World Record Shootout in the 2017 season. This isn’ t the first time the Pro Mod performance records have been volleyed between two countries,( the Australians dominated the“ door car” records in the 1990s), but it may turn out to be the fight which earns the most attention.
Six-Cylinder World Record Lasts Twelve Hours!
At the same time the EKanoo team was resetting the World ET Record for Pro Modifieds, they were involved in an international street brawl for the hotly-contested global standard for Import machines or, more accurately in this case, vehicles powered by six-cylinder engines. In December, 2016, American Gary White wheeled EKanoo’ s turbocharged 195-inch 2015 Lexus GT 86 past the 5.757 mark set by Victor Flores in the Puerto Rico-based Team Zoian / New Century 297-inch turbo’ d Camry by a mere four thousandths of a second. However, only one day after Khalid Mohammed clocked a 5.44 in the team’ s V8 racer, the EKanoo gang lost the record to Team Zoian and driver Jesus Melendez when the Toyota arrived at Orlando( FL) SpeedWorld for a test session and wrecked White’ s 5.753 mark with an offthe-trailer 5.739 pass.
Ebrahim was incensed and made an
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immediate priority of the regaining of the record. Exactly twelve hours and fifty-two minutes after Melendez pulled the‘ chute on his record pass, Gary White crossed the finish line at Bahrain International Circuit seven thousand five hundred miles away with a 5.732 while increasing his own six-cylinder speed record to 253.47 mph. It should be noted White’ s December, 2016, eighth-mile marks for six-bangers,( 3.79 / 203.90), were untouched by either team.
NHRA Pro Stock DI Top 8 Lists Wiped Clean!
The 48th annual NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, Florida, presented a previously unseen occurrence in the Drag Illustrated Top 8 Listings. In both the ET and MPH categories for NHRA Pro Stock Eliminator, every single position was revised due to a plethora of fantastic performances based on both technical advances and phenomenal weather.
When the race ended, only one Elapsed Time from the previous twenty-six NHRA National events, Jason Line’ s 6.519-second pass from Englishtown in 2016, would’ ve made the ET Top 8. Absolutely no speeds would have remained listed since the major rules changes adopted for the 2016 season.
Most importantly, the NHRA Pro Stock contingent is now within twenty-one thousandths of a second and less than one mile per hour of the best clocking of the Carbureted Era and, with a little bit of luck from Mother Nature, the new cars may actually break the 6.45 / 215 mph standards of the previous reign before the halfway point of only the second season under the new rules.
- BRET KEPNER
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