Last night at South Georgia Motorsports Park, the bottom fell out of the performance barriers facing Radial vs The World competitors. Combining incredible weather with an incredible race track, and the greatest field of RvW cars ever assembled and you get magic. Dwayne Mills will go down in history as the first RvW racer to bust into the 3.60 time zone with a 3.696 blast in the famed Golden Gorilla Camaro. Once the door was kicked in, Stevie Fast drove the Shadow 2.0 to a 3.68-second clocking. The final bomb dropped was Mark Micke’s 3.677 in Jason Carter’s Malibu. The car was a rocket ship with a 1.14-second back half (330-660′) time. The insane 221-mph speed? Some are refuting it on the grounds that the math on the time slip does not support it. The car has been over 215mph before and was the fastest RvW car in the world coming into this race.

As so often happens in the sport of drag racing, when the stars align the best competitors take advantage. Others may have been trying to run 3.60s but these three racers did it. More may do it today as the track will still be insanely good and the weather is still great as well. Another thing that seems to happen in this sport is the fact that once a barrier is busted others pile on through the hole. The best part of last night is that it was a turbo cars and a blower car doing it. Jeff Naiser is knocking on the door with his nitrous car and it would not be a surprise to see it happening today.

The qualifying has been beyond all previous Radial vs The World history and it promises to improve with a half dozen qualifying sessions on tap for Friday. Right now the bump spot is 3.91 and once that car is knocked back, it tumbles deep into the 80s.

You will see, during the Micke run, that Frank Soldridge suffered a massive crash when his car crossed the track at 203mph and hammered the wall. Frank is banged up but OK. His car saved his life.

Press play below to watch the three quickest runs in radial drag racing history!