There have been some great seasons put together by racers in the drag radial world over the last decade but it will be very difficult to best the effort put forth by DeWayne Mills and his entire crew on the car affectionately known as the golden gorilla. He won the NMCA Mickey Thompson Radial Wars championship, has cleaned house at other big races and he won the daddy of them all a couple of weeks back at South Georgia Motorsports Park, No Mercy 7. This video shows not only how they did it in a cool round by round fashion but also the incredible and crushing consistency the car had through the weekend. It was living in the 3.80s and high 70s all the time.
Normally when a race tells us that they still have a bunch more in their tune up or that the car wasn’t set up for kill, they are lying. That’s the truth. Having been around this junk long enough I can tell you that with confidence. In this case, Mills was not kidding when he told the camera that Jamie Miller and the ProLine guys had turned the wick up on the car and in the finals it was insane. They put up a 3.76, a mere one hundredth of a second off of the quickest radial pass ever made and they did it with a very tough competitor in a blown car on the other side of the track.
People can complain about eighth mile racing all they want but when you see the in-car video of this drag race, it is awesome. The blower car did what blower cars do and got off the starting line blocks better than the turbo machine. When Mills got his 102mm turbos spooled, he motored by the blower car. Awesome action in the length of two football fields.
Yes and it only cost him $200K to win the $60