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4 SECOND FOR REAL

’ve said it many times and I’ll say it again - all II ever wanted to do in my lifetime was run a 6-second pass at 200mph. Well, like any drag racer, once we did that it was … well, let’s see if we can run low 6-second passes, and once you have run low 6-second passes, well suddenly that drive to run a 5 at 250mph (400km/h) becomes the new goal. I was lucky enough to get the chance to drive an Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro funny car and run that 5, then it was just going quicker and quicker until we ended up running 5.3s at 277mph (450km/h) - and then there I was sitting in a car that had the capability of running a 4-second pass

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