 Lori and Pat Goodale where just one of several couples that both race. While we were talking to this pair, Lori was insisting that her brand-new husband turn the screws on her engine as she just didn’t feel she was going fast enough. Now that is a real racer/wife. |
CONCLUSION
“Sand drag racing,” whether it is on sand or dirt, is just a trip back to the roots of drag racing. It is certainly an "Outlaw" brand of drag racing. There are no tech officials at these races prodding, probing or sending racers home. The atmosphere is laid back but the competition is deadly serious. There is no "official" tech of the cars. A walk around showed that most of the cars looked very safe, very much like the "Outlaw" Pro Mod and Ten-wide drag cars that run eighth-mile tracks in the South.
We did notice that the first hint of bracket racing seems to be showing up; at least it appeared that way at Grain Valley. I sincerely hope that is not a trend. Better to have classes based on weight or cubic inch or both, but please don’t let racing where the quickest car can lose invade this part of the sport too.
We are going to devote more time, effort, and coverage in the magazine to this sport. DRO’s Jeff Leonard is going back to the "Valley" do to an article devoted just to the ultra-trick four wheelers we saw at our first visit there. We apologize in advance for the very basic coverage here but we will do better in the future. We are seriously thinking of at trip to Silver Lake, MI, in July or to Primm, NV, later in the year where the fuel burners run.
PHOTO EXTRA
We just forgot to get this team's name or the drivers but these guys said they had the only supercharger set-up like this on the sand drag scene. They told us they had spent two straight days putting this combination together after changing over from a Roots-style supercharger. The car ran a respectable 3.12 on it first pass. We think. Sorry guys, email us the names and we’ll make it good.
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