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I was invited as a guest participate in a Police Athletic League Charity event where numerous contributors put up big contributions (100K plus!!) to watch a single elimination run of "hot" street cars at Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ.
Being far from an experienced "dragger",but having the basics from many years of on and off street "confrontations" I agreed to use my stock 00 Viper ACR as a proxy entry for a contributor who did not have a car to compete. The "field" was composed of maybe 15 cars including: three Ferrari 360 Spyders , a Porsche 911 Turbo 67 427 Tripower Vette (02-04 vintage), 55 Chevy (with full race package,huge slick,drag suspension,HUGE race engine with giant superchager sticking about 1 foot out of the front hood, couple of stock vettes,three new Mercedes AMG SL55s, , a 90's vintage Cobra Mustang with supercharger and track set up (inclusive of the bag of ice on the supercharger right before staging!!) and I believe a couple of other competitors in the group. Other relevent facts: Only the Mustang and Chevy driver claimed(or by virtue of attire,trailor having lot of stickers etc, or general attitude) signifacant dragrace experience; Temp was warm mid 80's with mild humidity. One driver complained "...the track is not clean, there is even a puddle of water right where I am supposed to drive through to get to those little lights..." (I wasn't really worried about him); With the exception of the 55 Chevy and the Mustang, all cars ran on street tires and drove up to the race on their own power.
The results, you may ask?? Not so fast, Lets see what all you car guys think about the potential race outcome and I will post the top three finishers to see if you guessed right. Mean Huh??
Hint; the outcome was not as I thought it would be ,but I was still very happy for our Viper Nation.
Good Luck
Bob Carroll
I was invited as a guest participate in a Police Athletic League Charity event where numerous contributors put up big contributions (100K plus!!) to watch a single elimination run of "hot" street cars at Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ.
Being far from an experienced "dragger",but having the basics from many years of on and off street "confrontations" I agreed to use my stock 00 Viper ACR as a proxy entry for a contributor who did not have a car to compete. The "field" was composed of maybe 15 cars including: three Ferrari 360 Spyders , a Porsche 911 Turbo 67 427 Tripower Vette (02-04 vintage), 55 Chevy (with full race package,huge slick,drag suspension,HUGE race engine with giant superchager sticking about 1 foot out of the front hood, couple of stock vettes,three new Mercedes AMG SL55s, , a 90's vintage Cobra Mustang with supercharger and track set up (inclusive of the bag of ice on the supercharger right before staging!!) and I believe a couple of other competitors in the group. Other relevent facts: Only the Mustang and Chevy driver claimed(or by virtue of attire,trailor having lot of stickers etc, or general attitude) signifacant dragrace experience; Temp was warm mid 80's with mild humidity. One driver complained "...the track is not clean, there is even a puddle of water right where I am supposed to drive through to get to those little lights..." (I wasn't really worried about him); With the exception of the 55 Chevy and the Mustang, all cars ran on street tires and drove up to the race on their own power.
The results, you may ask?? Not so fast, Lets see what all you car guys think about the potential race outcome and I will post the top three finishers to see if you guessed right. Mean Huh??
Hint; the outcome was not as I thought it would be ,but I was still very happy for our Viper Nation.
Good Luck
Bob Carroll
