American Car - November 2015

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Normally the biggest challenges in Outlaw Street are trying to get

your car to run faster and to not ‘nod off’ on the start line and cut that

perfect reaction time. However, there was a new challenge at this

year’s Mopar Euronationals at the end of July: Mother Nature, who,

despite all the amazing efforts of the track staff and Euro Nats team,

was destined to win.

Due to the downpours on both Friday and Sunday, all three days’

racing had to be squeezed into one day when the sun finally decided

to give all the sodden petrolheads a break and let us go racing. Big

thanks to the track staff who worked tirelessly to dry and prep the

track so racing could go ahead on the Saturday. Outlaw Street had a

large turnout for the Mopars, with the pit area stretching as far as the

eye could see and, despite the damp start, spirits were high as the

‘bench racing’ banter had been in overdrive on the Friday.

With the track open until 8pm on the Saturday, several members

were squeezing every last drop of track time in they could, with one

member making 11 runs in a day! Not that folk are getting competitive

trying to win a trophy, of course... The top points scorer of the weekend

was Troy Attree in his late-model LS1 Camaro, which now packs a shot

of nitrous, who secured 221 points.

There were several ‘cherries’ over the weekend with members deep

staging and red lighting, trying to cut that extra millisecond off their

RT in the hope of securing a Joe & Co sponsored Reaction Time trophy.

The “Queen of RTs”, and last year’s RT champion OS-27 Trudy Slater

was back on form with a very impressive 0.0328 which secured her the

OS-4 RT win, although she was being fiercely chased.

Words: Mark Wallington Photography: Dave Smith

Outlaw Street

2015 Race Series: Rounds OS-4

Top points scorers of OS-4:

1 OS-10 Troy Attree in his LS1 Camaro 221 points

2 OS-47 Eric Humphreys, turbocharged Firebird 219

2 OS-56 Doug Harwood, supercharged Barracuda 219

4 OS-44 Linden Shepperson, MkII Escort 218

5 OS-9 Rob Leyman, turbocharged Monaro 217

6 OS-31 Nick Rose, supercharged Mustang 211

Top 6 RTs of OS-4:

1 OS-27 Trudy Slater in her Morris Minor 0.0328 RT

2 OS-10 Troy Attree, LS1 Camaro 0.128

3 OS-34 Tony Hayter, Tri-Chevy 0.1306

4 OS-44 Linden Shepperson, MkII Escort 0.1355

5 OS-56 Doug Harwood, supercharged Barracuda 0.1546

6 OS-14 Kline Demaine, SBC Capri 0.2055

With the main aim of Outlaw Street and drag racing of always

improving on your own PB (and beating the car in the other lane),

the WASP £25 parts vouchers awarded at each round to the member

with the best improvement are definitely proving popular. OS-4 was

clearly a good round for OS-10 Troy Attree, who secured the WASP £25

parts voucher with an improvement of -1.1421 seconds on his previous

round’s PB.

We’re now at the halfway point of this year’s series with four rounds

down and four left to go, and it’s clear that there’s everything to race

for with a number of members rapidly climbing the league table.

Remember the final points for the series are six rounds out of eight,

NOT all eight...

The next round of Outlaw Street, OS-5, was at Santa Pod’s August

9th Saturday Night Special. Stay tuned, or find out more at http://www.

outlawstreet.co.uk.

OS-4 2015 Biggest ET Improvements:

1 OS-10 Troy Attree -1.1421 seconds (100 points)

2 OS-9 Rob Leyman -0.8114 (99 points)

3 OS-30 Clive Bush -0.6482 (98 points)

4 OS-68 Debbie Taylor -0.2518 (97 points)

5 OS-44 Linden Shepperson -0.1881 (96 points)

6 OS-56 Doug Harwood -0.1727 (95 points)

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