(Photos by Charles Wickam) – It was a great weekend of drag racing in Texas just a couple days back as the NHRA tour swung though Royal Purple Raceway and fans flooded in from all over the Houston area to watch the show and cheer on their favorite drivers. Racers were also not in short supply with lots of cars filling the stock and super stock ranks, which people love because of their direct connection to traditional muscle cars. Stock eliminator cars are the original small tire race cars. They have been limited to a nine inch wide slick since the dawn of time and yet there are still racers really hauling the mail all over the country.
This Charles Wickam gallery is centered around those stock and super stock machines which were pulling majestic wheelies on every run…which was most of them. The track was prepped to within an inch of its life and these cars were hooking hard. While we know that a wheelie is largely waster motion, we don’t care because they look freaking awesome, especially when the driver can hang with it for a while and still leg the car out. It is always cool to see a couple of pro drivers standing off the the side and watching these cars. Who loves stockers? EVERYONE!
To see all the photos, please hit the link and get ready for some altitude shots as the front ends of all these cars reach for the moon. Some wheelies are larger than other but this is pretty, flipping, wild!
Lots of empty seats. Alarming. I see more people on a test and tune, day or night! NHRA better get this deal figured out soon. Free admission, discounts for products, something. Where is the promotion? No one cares. Then we here the rants about I can’t get sponsored. Who would spend money on this? Lots of dead money here. Sad.
Paul, I guess you missed the part where the track sold every seat that they had on Saturday and the fire marshall had them close the gates. Most of these photos were taken literally first thing on Friday morning.
first pair of cars were on the line at 8:00.001 am NHRA doesnt play around and I believe the gates opened at 7:30 or 8am so yea the seats are empty
Are Camaros/Firebirds the only cars that fit these classes