Dirt
Near-capacity crowd on hand to
witness small-tire racing’s finest
By Tyler Crossnoe
I
n the world of drag racing, the
small-tire craze has taken off in a wild
way over the past couple of seasons in both
performance levels and fan enthusiasm.
Huntsville Dragway, located in the middle of nu-
merous acres of farm land in the rapidly growing
town of Harvest, Alabama, has long been a staple
in the eighth-mile outlaw drag racing world. With
a stacked history of ORSCA races and the first
$50,000-to-win shootout for the Outlaw 10.5
category, the grandstands at Huntsville have seen
many of the top names in small-tire racing blast
down the 660 feet of concrete in front of them.
Radial Fest began on a cool Halloween week-
end in 2014 when Brad Edwards ran the first
three-second elapsed time in the final round of
Radial vs. The World when his Ford Mustang
clicked off a 3.99-second shot heard around the
world. This immediately put Huntsville Dragway
radial races on the map as do-not-miss events.
That momentum has continued all the way to
2017 as promoters Mike and Zach Jones ran their
first of two Radial Fest events this past weekend
in front of a near-capacity crowd and a pit area
full of competitive race car.
Barry Mitchell came out with his Roots-blown
1969 Chevrolet Camaro and stood tall on the pole
position with a 3.860-second shot to outlast De-
Wayne Mills’ 3.863 elapsed time that netted him
a second starting position in the fifteen-car field
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Radial Fest
Rocks Huntsville