Dave Newbern is confirmed out. Blew 3rd gear out of the trans, then his engine started making noises of distress and he called it quits rather than risk sending the rods out of it. He'll be back next year, potentially with a power adder of some kind
I don't think it's ever lasted more than 3 consecutive passes. Looks great when it launches. Not a gasser fan but love hit it gets down when it works.
He actually made the end of Drag Week 2018, but blew it to Narnia when trying to make one last quicker run attempting to win the class with the "party pulley" on the engine (smaller supercharger pulley for mo' boost) and the transmission hung on the 2-3 shift. This year he just left the party pulley on all week! The car makes north of a thousand horsepower at the rear tyres. Stuff breaks
As of 3:30am Eastern they hadn't quite made the second checkpoint yet due to the weather (straight axle gassers, trailers and a lot of rain don't sensibly mix) and needing to sleep. But they'll get there.
Day 4 results.
Looking interesting in places here. Three or four guys can still win Street Race small-block PA if they can nail that 8.50 bracket. SR big-block PA is tight as well, with three cars closely matched including the Aussie Chevelle with the turbos poking through the hood. George Dodworth's Tesla continues to be Mr Consistency having laid down a 10.4xx every day so far - not sure if you guys have seen just how much he's removed from inside that car, but the weight saving must have been considerable!
Unlimited is all but decided in Tom Bailey's favour, though the Supra can overtake the OG Ascona today for third place. Oh, and we might see Bailey turn the wick up here and try to beat his 6.18 from earlier in the week - what price a 5.9xx??? And in A/Gasser Finnegan's average ET is 8.872. Jarrad Scott in the Ranchero is at 9.035. What these two do rather depends on each other now - if Finnegan gets a reasonably good run then Jarrad needs to go deep into the 8's to win the class. And it's not as if the Ranchero has had bullet-proof reliability this week, if he starts chasing a time then he could well end up breaking down. ***edit*** Freiburger has crunched the numbers, if Finnegan runs a 9.145 or better then he can't be caught (because the cars aren't allowed to run quicker than 8.5 without a funny car cage, and gassers aren't allowed FC cages).
Like I say - it's looking interesting.
