(Photo credit: Bailey Racing FB Page) – While Larry Larson has been running at seemingly every event in the country this summer in the now legendary 5-second S-10 truck, Tom Bailey and Steve Morris have been putting the final touches on Sick Seconds 2.0, the Camaro from hell that they will being on Drag Week 2015. This car will be powered by a monstrous Steve Morris engine, the chassis was done by Skinny Kid Race Cars, and up until recently it was all nice on paper but there were no numbers to gauge its performance. Now there are and the early returns are stout!

Last week the car appeared at Milan Dragway in Michigan for its first runs to be made in anger. How did they do in their first outing? They laid some numbers down. The car recorded a .967 sixty foot time and on its best eighth mile effort went a pedaling 4.09. Remember, this is the first time it has turned a wheel under its own power on the track. These are strong numbers and we think that the sixty is the most impressive of them all. That is a VERY stout number when compared to virtually anything. It is impossible to really line this car up against a legal pro mod because they are mechanically very different but that number is STRONG for whatever you are trying to hustle down the strip.

In the video you will see Bailey wrestle the car down to a 4.09 eighth mile time which is also strong. The has to pedal it and the car is moving around but that 4.09 in a car that will pull as hard as his on the back half is damned near a five second pass and when they start recording three second eighth mile rips, fives are a nearly foregone conclusion. You have to remember how hard these turbo cars half the race track. When Mike Moran ran his first five second quarter mile (the first achieved by a turbo car) he front halved the track in 3.99 seconds. Mike car was awesome but the advancements made on the chassis and power side here mean that a 3.99 would likely put Bailey much deeper into the fives than that.  We cannot wait to see the progress that these guys make going forward.

The race to the 5s at Hot Rod Drag Week 2015 may begin with a race to the staging lanes on day one. Seriously. Whoever is there first may get the job done first.

Check out this time slip with the .967 60 and then scroll down for video –