Tell Us About Setting A Record

[ALMACK]

Originally Posted by DYER

national records died when they didnt put them in national dragster anymore that one page of paper most have been a big savings !!

Yep, they needed that one page so they could print a grainy black and white photo from a 1950's event.

I just don't understand why Nat. Dragster cannot publish the current records at least 4 times a year

[B Parker]

Part of the problem with setting records other than at an open is. Set the record on Sunday get HP on Monday. BP

[Dano]

Originally Posted by B Parker

Part of the problem with setting records other than at an open is. Set the record on Sunday get HP on Monday. BP

So, that being said, how do you set a national record without Lead on Monday? Can't be done?

[B Parker]

Originally Posted by Dano

So, that being said, how do you set a national record without Lead on Monday? Can't be done?

Set a record at an Open. Even if you don't go 1:20 under at a Divisional to set a record. And you end up going 1 under or more it will be added into your HP average. If you run a combo like mine that not a lot of others run. It can hurt your average. BP

[jimmyparker]

First record was at the very first Gainesville divisional in '69 in D/S. The last record was in '06 at SGMSP in D/FIA. Several in between but one of the most memorable was in '71, I set the O/S record at the Gainesville divisional at around 13.45 or so, tore down and was declared legal. Communication in those days was weak to say the least and little did I know that on the same day in BG Bruce Wilkinson was setting the O/S record at 13.40 or so. I received a record certificate but it never made ND which was a big deal back then.

Jimmy Parker

[Dano]

Originally Posted by B Parker

Set a record at an Open. Even if you don't go 1:20 under at a Divisional to set a record. And you end up going 1 under or more it will be added into your HP average. If you run a combo like mine that not a lot of others run. It can hurt your average. BP

Now days, you set a record, you're torn down? No matter where you achieve it?

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Dano

Now days, you set a record, you're torn down? No matter where you achieve it?

Yes. Now ,and always..

1972..We were headed to the World Finals at Amarillo (Joe Santangelo Sr. , and yours truly, as chief cook and bottle washer)
We took the drivetrain out of Bob Johnson's 68 Chevy II (SS/JA), and slammed together a 67 Camaro convertible for SS/KA, where there record looked better for qualifying.

When we got off I 40, the icicles on the street signs told us it was indeed the coldest spot in the lower 48 !
Back then, if you went under the record in qualifying, ET or MPH, you set the the record and went to tear down. Sure enough, we went over the MPH record.

Across town to the Brake-O store, we went , along with NHRA tech.
There was a guy in the stall next to us with a red CJ convertible. Can't remember his name..Bob something? Oh yeah..Bob Glidden. Of course a month later, Bob was at Ontario with his Pro Stock Pinto..You know the rest of the story there.
Dave Boertman was using the brake lathe while he was there, taking advantage of the situation LOL.

Many drag racing legends were in that garage that day, and also a couple of young guys from Connecticut, who left with a National Record in hand :-)

[GTX JOHN]

I just finished our N/SA Dodge 150 Truck a couple weeks before
the Winters. about 10 years ago. My good friend(Dave Whitnack) and chassis builder/Crew Chief had just lost his son in a motorcycle accident. We had him go to the open in Vegas with us a drive the new truck and set a National Record. My son and I have set them before and we thought it might help him to do it.

The next week at the Winters....I drove it for the first time and I guess my
foot was a bit heavier. I got about 20 or 30 ft. and broke all the right rear
wheel studs of the axle and destroyed the Tree(And the Truck) and shut down the Winters!

And now you know the rest of the story

[jimmyparker]

Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone

Yes. Now ,and always..

1972..We were headed to the World Finals at Amarillo (Joe Santangelo Sr. , and yours truly, as chief cook and bottle washer)
We took the drivetrain out of Bob Johnson's 68 Chevy II (SS/JA), and slammed together a 67 Camaro convertible for SS/KA, where there record looked better for qualifying.

When we got off I 40, the icicles on the street signs told us it was indeed the coldest spot in the lower 48 !
Back then, if you went under the record in qualifying, ET or MPH, you set the the record and went to tear down. Sure enough, we went over the MPH record.

Across town to the Brake-O store, we went , along with NHRA tech.
There was a guy in the stall next to us with a red CJ convertible. Can't remember his name..Bob something? Oh yeah..Bob Glidden. Of course a month later, Bob was at Ontario with his Pro Stock Pinto..You know the rest of the story there.
Dave Boertman was using the brake lathe while he was there, taking advantage of the situation LOL.

Many drag racing legends were in that garage that day, and also a couple of young guys from Connecticut, who left with a National Record in hand :-)

Mark, I remember that race well but wasn't there. Tommy Whitaker, a local racer, qualified for the finals with his SS/P car and he made the trip. Before he left here he ran 12.20's at Phenix City and was confident he could get in. If I remember correctly his altitude record was around 13.10, long story short he could not get the car to run that fast in the thin air and didn't get in.