Import NHRA - Englishtown

Street VIII
Last year, this class was a battle between the RX-7s and the all-wheel-drive Mitsubishis. At this race it was a battle between Toyota and Mitsubishi. It's not a secret that Supras can make loads of power on a stock bottom end, but it's getting the power to the ground that's been the difficult part. We wouldn't see Ari Yallon's 9-sec. Mazda at this race, but we would see John Sheperd's 9-sec. Eclipse. In the final round, the high-powered Supra couldn't get the power to the ground and John Sheperd's Mitsubishi sprinted to victory.

All Motor VIII
Making horsepower with a turbocharger has always been easy. Turn up the boost and tune. Making power on a normally aspirated engine is much more difficult because there is no dial to crank for more power. It's all about displacement and working the engine's dynamics. In this race, controversy reared its ugly head when a three-rotor, all-motor RX-7 showed up. It wasn't the fact that it was running a three rotor Wankel; it was the fact that it's running a three rotor in the back-half RX-7 with the weight penalty of a normal rear-drive car.

A notable performance by Tony Shagday in the Skunk2 Integra turned a personal best time of 10.67 sec. at 125 mph. There were only two 10-sec. cars in the field and the Skunk2 Integra was one of them. What was destined to be a battle between the two cars never came through though, due to a faulty third gear on Shagday's car. This allowed Jeremy Allen to graduate to the finals, but he eventually lost to the RX-7 by a full second. We're pretty sure we'l see a weight penalty taxed on the three-rotor RX-7 soon, considering it went 10.43 in the finals, while still letting off early.