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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
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
OUTLAW DRAG RADIAL ELIMINATOR QUICKEST DRIVERS( eighth-mile)
RANK
E. T.
DRIVER
SITE
STATE DATE
1
3.737
Steve Jackson
Cecil
GA
2 / 17 / 2017
2
3.738
Barry Mitchell
Cecil
GA
2 / 17 / 2017
3
3.739
Kyle Huettel
Denton
TX
2 / 3 / 2017
4
3.765
DeWayne Mills
Cecil
GA
10 / 9 / 2016
5
3.770
Jeff Sitton
Denton
TX
10 / 29 / 2016
6
3.781
Joe Albrecht
Cecil
GA
10 / 8 / 2016
7
3.791
Daniel Pharris
Cecil
GA
10 / 8 / 2016
8
3.800
Rob Valden
Denton
TX
4 / 24 / 2016
OUTLAW DRAG RADIAL ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS( eighth-mile)
RANK
M. P. H.
DRIVER
SITE
STATE DATE
1
212.69
Mark Woodruff
Cecil
GA
2 / 17 / 2017
2
212.29
Shawn Ayers
Tulsa
OK
4 / 2 / 2016
3
212.26
Rob Valden
Denton
TX
3 / 27 / 2016
4
212.16
Daniel Pharris
Cecil
GA
10 / 8 / 2016
5
211.96
Josh Klugger
Bowling Green
KY
5 / 15 / 2016
6
210.21
DeWayne Mills
Millington
TN
3 / 19 / 2016
7
207.43
Mark Micke
Millington
TN
3 / 24 / 2017
8
207.37
Tim Slavens
Millington
TN
3 / 23 / 2017
X275 ELIMINATOR QUICKEST DRIVERS( eighth-mile)
RANK
E. T.
DRIVER
SITE
STATE DATE
1
4.364
Rich Bruder
Millington
TN
3 / 24 / 2017
2
4.372
Jared Johnston
Harvest
AL
10 / 30 / 2015
3
4.377
Kenny Hubbard
Cecil
GA
2 / 19 / 2017
4
4.380
Rob Goss
Cecil
GA
2 / 17 / 2017
5
4.383
Jamie Stanton
Cecil
GA
2 / 17 / 2017
6
4.390
Dean Marinis
Cecil
GA
2 / 17 / 2017
7
4.399
Chris Groves
Tulsa
OK
4 / 1 / 2016
8
4.419
Ron Rhodes
Rising Sun
MD
8 / 5 / 2016
X275 ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS( eighth-mile)
RANK
M. P. H.
DRIVER
SITE
STATE DATE
1
169.57
Rob Goss
Millington
TN
3 / 24 / 2017
2
169.05
Jared Johnston
Holly Springs
MS
10 / 17 / 2015
3
168.48
Rich Bruder
Holly Springs
MS
10 / 17 / 2015
4
168.16
Shane Fisher
Cecil
GA
10 / 9 / 2016
5
168.16
Dean Marinis
Millington
TN
3 / 26 / 2017
6
167.91
Sean Lyon
Millington
TN
3 / 26 / 2017
7
166.68
Jacky McCarty
Las Vegas
NV
11 / 20 / 2016
8
166.23
Charles Hull
Cecil
GA
2 / 20 / 2016
PRO EXTREME ELIMINATOR QUICKEST DRIVERS( eighth-mile)
EXTREME TURBO ELIMINATOR QUICKEST DRIVERS( eighth-mile)
PRO NITROUS ELIMINATOR QUICKEST DRIVERS( eighth-mile)
EXTREME PRO STOCK ELIMINATOR QUICKEST & FASTEST DRIVERS( eighth-mile)
RANK
E. T.
DRIVER
SITE
STATE DATE
1
3.485
Frankie Taylor
Rockingham
NC
4 / 5 / 2014
2
3.486
Brandon Snider
Tulsa
OK
3 / 18 / 2016
3
3.492
Jason Scruggs
Tulsa
OK
3 / 18 / 2016
4
3.496
Terry Leggett
Dunn
NC
11 / 12 / 2016
5
3.510
Khalid al Refaei
Tulsa
OK
3 / 19 / 2016
6
3.512
Mustafa Buhumaid
Tulsa
OK
3 / 18 / 2016
7
3.513
Randell Reid
Martin
MI
6 / 27 / 2015
8
3.514
Bubba Stanton
Rockingham
NC
4 / 5 / 2014
RANK
E. T.
DRIVER
SITE
STATE DATE
1
3.527
Jose Gonzalez
Dinwiddie
VA
10 / 23 / 2015
2
3.540
Kevin Fiscus
Benson
NC
4 / 5 / 2016
3
3.561
Eric Dillard
Dinwiddie
VA
10 / 14 / 2015
4
3.566
Carl Stevens, Jr.
Dinwiddie
VA
10 / 24 / 2015
5
3.644
Khalid Mohammed
Doha
QAT
3 / 3 / 2017
6
3.654
Turki al Zafiri
Tulsa
OK
8 / 16 / 2014
7
3.727
Rick Hord
Dinwiddie
VA
10 / 23 / 2016
8
3.732
Anthony DiSomma
Bradenton
FL
1 / 26 / 2014
RANK
E. T.
DRIVER
SITE
STATE DATE
1
3.643
Mahana al Naemi
Doha
QAT
2 / 7 / 2017
2
3.661
Lizzy Musi
Benson
NC
3 / 4 / 2017
3
3.677
Tommy Franklin
Dinwiddie
VA
10 / 23 / 2016
4
3.678
Khalil al Ansari
Sakhir
BAH
3 / 2 / 2017
5
3.679
Jay Cox
Cecil
GA
3 / 10 / 2017
6
3.694
Pat Stoken
Martin
MI
6 / 26 / 2015
7
3.694
Chris Rini
Dinwiddie
VA
10 / 23 / 2016
8
3.694
Khalid al Balooshi
Sakhir
BAH
2 / 24 / 2017
RANK
PERF
DRIVER
SITE
STATE DATE
1
4.009
Cary Goforth
Baytown
TX
10 / 19 / 2013
1
180.81
John Montecalvo
Rockingham
NC
4 / 5 / 2014
OUTLAW 275 ELIMINATOR QUICKEST & FASTEST DRIVERS( eighth-mile)
RANK
PERF
DRIVER
SITE
STATE DATE
1
4.006
Ziff Hudson
Bithlo
FL
1 / 25 / 2017
1
196.42
Mark Moore
Cecil
GA
2 / 17 / 2017
PRO EXTREME ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS( eighth-mile)
EXTREME TURBO ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS( eighth-mile)
PRO NITROUS ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS( eighth-mile)
OUTLAW 10.5 ELIMINATOR QUICKEST & FASTEST DRIVERS( quarter-mile)
RANK
M. P. H.
DRIVER
SITE
STATE DATE
1
231.24
Jose Gonzalez
Rockingham
NC
4 / 10 / 2016
2
230.10
Carl Stevens, Jr.
Dinwiddie
VA
10 / 24 / 2015
3
225.33
Turki al Zafiri
Gilliam
LA
5 / 1 / 2015
4
224.92
Eric Dillard
Dinwiddie
VA
10 / 14 / 2015
5
223.54
Jason Scruggs
Tulsa
OK
3 / 19 / 2016
6
221.56
Brandon Snider
Tulsa
OK
3 / 19 / 2016
7
220.58
Khalid Mohammed
Sakhir
BAH
1 / 12 / 2017
8
218.94
Bubba Stanton
Rockingham
NC
4 / 5 / 2014
RANK
M. P. H.
DRIVER
SITE
STATE DATE
1
231.44
Kevin Fiscus
Benson
NC
4 / 5 / 2016
2
231.24
Jose Gonzalez
Rockingham
NC
4 / 10 / 2016
3
230.10
Carl Stevens, Jr.
Dinwiddie
VA
10 / 24 / 2015
4
225.33
Turki al Zafiri
Gilliam
LA
5 / 1 / 2015
5
224.92
Eric Dillard
Dinwiddie
VA
10 / 14 / 2015
6
220.58
Khalid Mohammed
Sakhir
BAH
1 / 12 / 2017
7
217.88
Paul Mouhayet
Las Vegas
NV
11 / 21 / 2015
8
216.86
Todd Tutterow
Farmington
NC
6 / 13 / 2012
RANK
M. P. H.
DRIVER
SITE
STATE DATE
1
205.41
Lizzy Musi
Benson
NC
3 / 11 / 2017
2
204.82
Mahana al Naemi
Doha
QAT
2 / 7 / 2017
3
204.82
Tommy Franklin
Benson
NC
3 / 4 / 2017
4
204.54
Khalil al Ansari
Sakhir
BAH
1 / 12 / 2017
5
204.29
Jason Harris
Benson
NC
3 / 4 / 2017
6
203.83
Steve Jackson
Tulsa
OK
3 / 18 / 2016
7
203.69
Khalid al Balooshi
Sakhir
BAH
2 / 24 / 2017
8
203.19
Jim Laurita
Benson
NC
11 / 12 / 2016
RANK
PERF
DRIVER
SITE
STATE DATE
1
6.081
Richard Sexton
Budds Creek
MD
11 / 7 / 2014
1
241.50
David Hance
Commerce
GA
4 / 13 / 2013
OUTLAW 10.5 ELIMINATOR QUICKEST & FASTEST DRIVERS( eighth-mile)
RANK
PERF
DRIVER
SITE
STATE DATE
1
3.853
Mustafa Atat
Doha
QAT
2 / 9 / 2017
1
204.82
Nick Agostino
Dinwiddie
VA
10 / 24 / 2015
“ SMALL TIRE” CLASS LEGEND Outlaw 10.5 Eliminator: 10.5W rear tires; 3000 pound weight minimum. Outlaw Drag Radial Eliminator: Any Drag Radial tires; no other rules. Outlaw 275 Eliminator: 275 mm rear tires; no other rules.
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