New Record in Drag Racing History
 

Saturday night drag racing history was made at about 8:30 pm when four (4) American horsepower drag cars came out of the burnout box at the same time at Z-Max in Charlotte. The stands, both sides were at capacity, standing room section had long since been at capacity and the four cars pulled up to stage, turning on one set of bulbs at a time and as it all started years ago a flag starter (arm drop) started a four car race down the quarter mile. The roar of the crowd as those cars went down the track was something to see and hear. For those who are interested go to www.moparts.com., racing section and there are some videos from youtube.

I believe the second group of four has a station wagon in that group and a camaro when this group left the starting line the wagon and the camaro are wheels up and I mean wheels up.

This wagon had lifted the wheels in his earlier race and carried them way down track and as the old saying goes, "the crowd went wild".

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Stockers and Super Stockers are an untapped and unsold valuable resource. If it is never sold, no one will buy it. Sell it to the public and they will come.

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Word is that they had 32,000 spectators!!

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Lynn,
What you say is so true.... and it's a shame that a circus-act like Pinks has to be the one doing it, with NHRA and IHRA sitting quiely in the wings with ther blindfolds on and their hands folded quietly in their collective laps.

Where are the $700,000.00-a-year visionaries that collect a kings ransom for running things when this is going on under their noses? You'd think that that money would buy some imagination or innovative thinking at some time....

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It was like the old days of super stock drag racing. The stands were jammed both days. Z-Max announced that seating and standing was sold out over 50,000 on Satuday and I think there was close to that many on Friday, but there was a lot of specators in the pits. One of the ticket gates is right near the staging lanes and each time we ran during the day there was always a line of people coming through the entrance.

You went in to tech, they put a class letter on your window and you went racing. It was a 500 car event. Television camera crews and spectators. The spectators were able to walk up to the cars, between runs talk to the racers, take pictures of the cars. In the pits on Friday night there were motorhomes, tents, everyone cooking out and the ones that did sleep some were on the ground with sleeping bags and sleeping in the tow trailer. This was the most fun I personally have had in a long time. There are racers who are following this as a curcuit. As I had mention before we were back in the pit area during part of the racing and the sound of the roar of the spectator there and as a racer you knew there was no John Force or Warren Johnson out there going down the track.

Now the sad part about this, since a lot of racers have a problem with Pink All Out, we entered this race for two days, we drove from Raleigh to Charlotte. pulling a 55 foot trailer. Family and friend made the crew, 6 crew passes, paid for tickets for two other family members for Saturday. Food, snacks, drinks, fuel, diesel and racing the whole week-end of family fun and racing was less than $600.

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Its promoted the way stock and S/S SHOULD be. TV, media, PLUS its HEADS UP and no XYZ BWD (backwards wheel drive) slow cars involved. THATS what draws spectators.

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A first in organized racing maybe but Ive seen old pictures of 4 cars racing at once on old abandoned WW2 airfields in the 50's

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Not the first time.National Speedway on Long Island ran 4 cars accross on more than one occasion.
SSers,funnys and I think jets one time.I think other tracks did it also.
Just a little ancient history.
Ed F.

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You are correct Ed, I was at, now long defunct, Connecticut Dragway in 1965 for a 4 car best 3 ot of 5 A/FX match race between the Tasca Ford, Ronnie Sox, Bill Flynn, and Malcolm Durham. They ran them 4 at a time and it was simply great; by the way Tasca Ford beat Ronnie Sox for the overall win.
Bill Seabrooks - superfan1
Bridgeport, Ct.

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Google "National Speedway" and you'll find a ton of pics.There's a slew of pics.The 4 across has a R/W/B AMX,early (70-72) Mopar,and 2 GMs.There's also a 3 across.

Ed