This weekend saw sensational dashing at the second Annual Outlaw Armageddon No Prep Invitational at Thunder Valley Raceway Park only south of Oklahoma City. This occasion stopped people in their tracks bigly the previous summer, setting the bar for the world's biggest no prep occasion in history this year. More than 200 autos were on the property this year prepared to fight for tremendous payouts and boasting rights including $30,000 to win huge tire and $20,000 to win little tire with an aggregate payout of over $80,000 in real money! This is a genuine no prep issue with totally zero footing compound connected to the dashing surface. All created elastic on the strip had been scratched off preceding the begin of the race, and autos were just permitted to do burnouts utilizing their favored blend of "pimp juice" which is normally a mix of footing compound and liquor. This blend is utilized to accomplish tire turn on the start of burnout while applying the footing compound to the beginning line amid the burnout procedure. Autos were arranged by the official starter, who lined them up to a painted imprint on the track surface. At that point, an electric lamp sends the autos off the line. Video replay was utilized as a part of near disasters both on the beginning line and complete line, to guarantee the right champs were picked.
Names like Shawn Ellington in "Homicide Nova", "Daddy Dave" Comstock, Kye Kelley, Chuck Seitsinger, Jeff Lutz, Larry Larson and "Birdman" James Finney were naturally in the 32 auto shootout on Saturday by welcome, yet a solid field of Big Tire sections were in real life Friday night attempting to "race their way in" to the Saturday highlight in a Friday night all run eliminator. "Supported GT" Chris Hamilton, John Andrade Sr., "Kamikazi Chris" Day and numerous more make up the main events in the little tire unforeseen comprising of more than 50 sections from the nation over.
Hustling began on Friday with True Street racers coming back from their obligatory 35 mile journey, then making a beeline for the paths for the first round pairings. Genuine Street rounds dwindled down to the last match, Stefan Slisz and Blake Hughes, however rain put off all residual hustling to Saturday.
Slisz and Hughes squared off under shady skies and cool temperatures early Saturday evening in a stunning True Street last. Both autos were off the line clean yet started turning the tires close half-track. Slisz had the best handle on the track and controlled his way to the $5,000 pay day bringing home yet another huge cash no prep win to add to his great aggregates this year as of now.
Enormous Tire "race your way in" drivers put on an exciting arrangement of rounds Friday night before downpour finished the activity in the semi-finals with three drivers remaining, including Gaylen Smith's screw blown "Texas Bounty Hunter" Pro Mod, Butch Demoss' "Texas Twister" blown Pro Mod from Oklahoma, and Brent Austin's insidious 1969 Camaro from Virginia. Austin took out Demoss in the main pair down the track on Saturday to move to the last round against Smith. Smith profited from the bye keep running in the odd numbered step to breeze into the last.
The victor here not just scored a spot in the component 32-auto Invitational field, additionally cushioned their pocket with $10,000 in real money! At the hit of the electric lamp the autos were off the line together and Smith took a slight lead, winning by a thin, a large portion of an auto edge gaining his way into the Invitational, and gathering the $10K all the while.
In Outlaw Street, Casey Rance and his turbo LSX-controlled 240SX, met Steve Sicking's "Blue Nightmare" blown 1926 Ford car in the last round. Rance took the dispatch, and never thought back, taking Outlaw Street respects by a few auto lengths, and gathering the $5,000 tote.
In Small Tire, it came down to Joey Rabiola, in the "Boost12" Ford Mustang from Chicago, and Sergio "Flaco" Gonzales in his Chevy S-10 from Pasadena, Texas. At the hit, Gonzales spun. A solid mid-track charge got him close, however it wasn't sufficient to hold off the Mustang at the stripe, and the edge of triumph was only a couple of feet. The Small Tire crown went to Chicago as Rabiola counted another great no prep triumph to his resume.
There were numerous miracles in opening round of the 32-auto Invitational field. Shawn Ellington's "Homicide Nova", John Andrade's "The Cutty", Jerry Johnston's "Evil Split Bumper" and Joe "Dominator" Woods all endured first round misfortunes. Top choices including Kye Kelley's "Stunner", Mike Murillo's "Lafawnda", David Jones "Terrible Bird", Ryan Taggart's "Marsh Thing", Brent Austin's "Megalodon", Jermaine "Boddie" and Korey Peters' "Hellanor" all additionally bowed out in the opening round. "Daddy Dave" Comstock, James "Birdman" Finney, James "Doc" Love, Larry Larsen, James Goad's "Harvester SS" and Chuck Peters "55" among others all met their destruction in the second and quarterfinal rounds.
Heading into the semi-finals, three of the four autos remaining were "race your way in" sections that had wiped out the Invitational field. Mike Henson's Oklahoma based turbocharged 2002 Corvette, Plan B, matched up with Gaylen Smith's screw-blown "Texas Bounty Hunter" Pro Mod. In a nearby one, Smith's 1957 Chevy took the win by an auto and a half to secure his spot in the last round. The second semi-last combine saw Steve Wiley going head to head against Jerry Bird's nitrous helped Ford Probe. Feathered creature had dashed his way in Friday night, as well as took out an amazing heap of Invitational racers on his way to the semis. Wiley, who had likewise dashed his way in on Friday night, was the hands down most loved in view of torque alone and took the win by a few auto lengths finishing a strong keep running for Jerry Bird.
A couple of Texas-based, screw-blown Outlaw Pro Mods were set for the finale of the Big Tire Invitational, which unquestionably wasn't what the neighborhood Street Outlaws fans anticipated before in the day. At the electric lamp, Wiley had a little beginning line advantage that he stretched out to take the win by an auto and-a-half.
Wiley's group had put ten hard laps on the auto in a little more than 24 hours and those rounds weren't simple as the team had whipped to supplant a cylinder, sleeve, and a chamber head between cycle two and three on Saturday in under a 45 minutes. Wiley headed back home to Burleson, Texas $30,000 wealthier as their hard word had paid off well.
"It's truly cool to win at an occasion as gigantic as Armageddon and it positively wasn't simple. There's a full field of truly speedy autos and extraordinary drivers here so for us to take the win today evening time truly feels great. Many individuals think this is simple, yet without an incredible team like mine, it simply doesn't
Very quickly, smack talk ejected amongst racers and fans alike about whether Pro Mods ought to be allowed to contend in occasions this way, a firestorm Wiley himself kicked begin after his $50,000 win in March at San Antonio. Contentions from one side demand the Pro Mod style autos ought not be permitted to contend with the more conventional road style backhalf autos, while the other side supports a genuine bandit style methodology of run-what-you-brung.
At the point when asked his sentiment, Wiley said, "I believe it's for the most part the folks who don't have racecars and have never hustled in their life that whine the most. The drivers and groups contending here are all great persevering people, and we needed to beat firm rivalry and various other Pro Mod style autos here today to gain the win. The genuine sportsmen here don't have an issue with who they need to race in light of the fact that to be the best, you need to beat the best, and that is the mentality I jump at the chance to convey to race day. There might be promoters who will begin constraining the blowers or including weight, however we will do whatever we are approached to do and be prepared for the following one."
The level headed discussion over Pro Mods in no prep and little tire hustling is will just get louder before it's at last determined. There's probably Pro Mods absolutely commanded Outlaw Armageddon 2016, be that as it may. Congrats to every one of the victors and a major thumbs up to the promoters and staff at Thunder Valley Raceway Park on a fruitful weekend.
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