Oh, there is lots and lots of win happening here. If you want to skip the warm up laps you can jump to the 1:00 mark but we suggest watching the whole thing because it gives you the full sensation of how this thing acts and accelerates (on dirt) when the driver starts dipping his toe into the 600hp small block riding in the front of this wingless-wonder. According to some comments below the video, the machine is very similar or perhaps even a copy of what drivers would have raced in the 1960s and early 1970s during the glory days of USAC. Driving sprint cars was a rite of passage for open wheel racers of great accord. Guys like Foyt, Ward, Parnelli Jones, and a host of others were regular USAC pilots. This video gives you a small taste of what it was like and there are only two cars on the damned track! Imagine a full pack of these things running at once!
This is our kind of drifting! The car sounds fantastic, the driver is constantly working and the little short wheel base bastard doesn’t spend a whole lot of time working in a straight line. This video is shot on a short, flat track (in New Zealand!) and the speeds are still pretty intense. On a long track with banking, these cars must have been amazing to watch and it had to have taken a special type of individual to drive them as hard as they would go. We can see why guys like Foyt and Parnelli Jones excelled in sprint cars during their day because they’d man handle these machines and never let fear creep into the picture. That clanking noise you heard when they walked by helped, too.
PRESS PLAY TO SEE A 1960S VINTAGE SPRINT CAR TEAR AROUND A FLAT DIRT TRACK SIDEWAYS!
