Diesel Power Challenge Week: Quarter Mile Heads-Up Drag Racing At Bandimere


Diesel Power Challenge Week: Quarter Mile Heads-Up Drag Racing At Bandimere

Last week I went on a bit of a rant when internet keyboard jockeys everywhere started calling out the Challenge Hellcat for running 12s at Bandimere when it had run in the low 11s on street tires at sea level. I’m over that, but I reference it because it is a cool point to pay attention to when watching today’s episode of the 2014 Diesel Power Challenge. Why? Basically because several of these 7,000lb trucks with diesel engines would have eaten that Hellcat up and spit it out by the time they got to the finish line. We’re not knocking the Hellcat as much as we are celebrating the utter nuttiness of the power that these pickup trucks make. You’ll see them clawing for traction in four wheel drive, running too fast and getting warned by the track, and in one case, blowing the cooling system apart at the top end on the fastest (130-mph!) run in the decade long history of the Diesel Power Challenge.

I have a lot of respect for the guys who show up with their trucks at this event because they come from all over, it is a huge effort just to show up, and each one of them pushes their stuff to the absolute limits. The car guys have the Power Tour and Drag Week, the off roading guys have the Top Truck Challege and The Ultimate Adventure, and these diesel dudes have the Diesel Power Challenge held a mile in the sky at Bandimere and around Denver, Colorado. These guys give it their all and it is really fun to be in the thick of it each year.

So, who has the suds to best them all at the drag strip? Who will blow their stuff up trying? Who leaves with the points? Remember, the first two events on this day had different winners where last year the same guy won all three. How will it turn out?

PRESS PLAY BELOW TO SEE THE DIESEL POWER CHALLENGE 2014 HEADS-UP DRAG RACE COMPETITION –


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