Imagine a drag race where car launch from the top end area and speed up the track, using the starting line of the strip as their shut down area. This is footage from such a race, called King of the Concrete, held at Thunder Valley Raceway in Noble, Oklahoma. Run like a street race with a flashlight start, the point of the event is to have the cars launch on the unprepared surface at the end of the track to best simulate the conditions of racing on the street.
Troy Scott, the engine builder and brother of 2005 Drag Week champion Carl Scott was racing at the event in his totally insane Opel GT. In this video, he becomes the unintentional stunt driver of the week by barely avoiding a catastrophic wreck a couple of times in mere seconds.
The premise of the event is awesome, the idea of keeping street racing off the roads is great, but we still think that you need to have a couple screws loose to do this, especially in a car as shag nasty as Troy’s Opel. Hell, we had to clean out our shorts after seeing this. Troy Scott has nerves of steel and driving skills to match!
