Jordan Wood lights up the night with the gorgeous blue flames pouring out of the bullhorn-style headers on his Virginia Beach-based ‘ 14 Mustang . Aside from looking cool , the local Top Sportsman entry was running hot throughout the PDRA Firecracker Nationals , where Wood used a

4.047-second lap at 185.12 mph to qualify No . 8 in a field of 60 fast doorslammers . He raced through the first two rounds of eliminations before falling to eventual winner Derrick Brown in the semifinals . Wood jumped to the fourth spot in Elite Top

Sportsman points with the late-round finish at the Franklin family ’ s new-and-improved Virginia Motorsports Park .

Photograph by Tara Bowker Virginia Motorsports Park | Dinwiddie , Virginia | Saturday , June 30 , 2018

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