(Video Credit: Drag Strip Riot YouTube Channel) – This is a video that is teaming with win. So much win that some may actually leak off the screen and onto your keyboard. If that happens we sincerely apologize but the reality is that when we see a track full of people, tons of awesome cars, and exciting video we know that everyone is coming out ahead here. For starters there’s the track. US131 Motorsports Park in Martin, Michigan is a bad ass place that has always been fast. Back in the day when we traveled there with the IHRA tour, the place was constantly jammed with fans, cars, and great action. When the IHRA closed their national event series up, many tracks panicked and did nothing. 131 was not one of those tracks. Instead they knuckled down and created their own event which by any measure is better than the old event anyway. The fans filled every inch of the place and they got one hell of a show. The US131 Nationals was a major league success.
We’re talking fuel altereds, we’re talking QUARTER MILE top fuel cars, nostalgia nitro funny cars, and a whole lot more. Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian was at the track with all of her video gear, including some killer new sunglass cameras and she used it all in making this bad ass film that concentrates on the AA/FA contingent that was at the track. This was the all-star team of nitro-burning short wheelbase action with the Rat Trap, Nanook, the Bradford’s AA/FA, and even the Havoc AA/FA from England among others.
Your job is to soak in all the great nitro footage and stick around until the end where you will take a very wild ride with Ron Hope in the Rat Trap. You’ll head into the sand trap with him and you’ll do it with his perspective as shown through the sunglass camera he was wearing. If you think coming up on the sand fast isn’t scary, you’ve got another thing coming here!
Drop Pro Stock and bring back AA/FA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hell yes!!!!!!!!