Traction is good. Remember that. As sweet as it is to leave skidmarks from a clutch dump that look like the “slippery ahead” sign’s suggestions, that isn’t the fastest or safest way to make a run down the 1,320. You want the tires holding onto the pavement like a scared cat, because any spin, any slip, and you’re slower. Any side-to-side wiggling motion means that a good driver is fighting with the car and a bad driver is moments away from making it onto a crash footage special YouTube video. Nobody wants to be that guy. Nobody wants to wreck their junk in front of a crowd who will, ultimately, call them out for not getting out of the throttle while the whole ordeal was still recoverable. Nobody likes hearing a cacophony of “I told you so!” as they sweep up what’s left.

Keep all of that in mind as you watch Len Bacon’s twin-rotor Mazda RX-7 make passes at the Haltech World Cup Finals. Is the car fast? Oh, hell yes…anything over 170 MPH in the far end of the track is moving quite nicely. Is it straight and true? Hell no. Bacon has figured out how to tame this ride, and it’s a good thing he has, because the RX-7 skates around all over the lane. Watch the in-car camera…you can tell that Bacon understands what the Mazda is going to do and reacts nearly instantly to each slip and drift with precision while bashing around the G-Force transmission. Like your drag cars a little bit sketchy? Check this rotary screamer out!