The Art of Racing with Precision: A Conversation with Mr. 172

As we stepped into the world of racing, we were met with a flurry of activity and excitement. The stage was set for a thrilling competition, with drivers vying for the top spot in their respective classes. In the sedan class, one driver stood out from the rest - Mr. 172. With his trusty charger by his side, he was determined to take home the win.

"I'm just going to see what it'll do," our conversation began, as the driver explained his approach to racing. "A couple more degrees of timing and a little bit more boost, that's all I need." He had been experimenting with different settings, trying to fine-tune his car to perfection. With each pass, he was getting closer to his goal - a blistering 175.

As we talked, it became clear that this driver was no stranger to the world of racing. His experiences on the track were numerous, and his knowledge of his car's capabilities was impressive. "I've been working with my tuner, Jim Grey, for a while now," he explained. "He's done an amazing job with the charger - it's truly a beast." The driver's enthusiasm was palpable as he spoke about his car, and his passion for racing was evident in every word.

But despite his confidence, our conversation took an unexpected turn when the driver revealed that his clutch had given out on him during one of his passes. "I just said hammer down good run," he chuckled, "but it didn't quite work out as planned." The loss was a setback, but not one that deterred him from his goal.

In fact, the driver's willingness to take risks and push himself to the limit was exactly what made him so formidable on the track. As we spoke, it became clear that he was in the finals for stick shift, an incredible achievement considering the challenges he had faced earlier. And when asked about his strategy going forward, he was candid about his plans.

"I'm just gonna do what I did last time," he said matter-of-factly. "See if we can pull it out." Despite the loss of his clutch, he remained focused on his goal - a consistent 172 and a win in the finals. And with Jim Grey's guidance, he was confident that he could achieve it.

The competition was fierce, but our driver's skills shone through in the end. He crossed the finish line, taking home the win in the sedan class and cementing his place as Mr. 172. As we celebrated his victory, it became clear that this was just the beginning of an exciting journey for this talented driver.

The Power of Teamwork: A Tribute to Jim Grey

As we watched our driver take the win, we couldn't help but think about the incredible team behind him - Jim Grey, his tuner and mentor. "He did an awesome job," our driver raved about his tuner. "I couldn't thank him enough."

Jim Grey's impact on the competition was undeniable. His expertise and knowledge of the charger were unparalleled, and his ability to fine-tune it for optimal performance was truly impressive. As we spoke with Jim Grey after the race, it became clear that he was more than just a tuner - he was a mastermind behind the scenes.

"I've been working with these cars for years," he explained. "I know what makes them tick." His dedication to his craft was evident in every word, and his passion for racing was inspiring.

As we looked on at the charger, now perched proudly in first place, it was clear that Jim Grey's work had paid off. The car's performance was a testament to his skill and expertise, and our driver's success was a direct result of his guidance.

The Charger: A Beast on Wheels

As we gazed at the charger, now basking in the glory of its victory, it became clear just how impressive this machine truly was. With its powerful engine and agile handling, it was a force to be reckoned with on the track.

"it's like a rocket ship," our driver marveled. "I feel so connected to it." The charger's performance was undeniable, and its speed and agility made it a joy to drive.

But what truly set the charger apart was its reliability. Despite the challenges faced by our driver earlier, the car remained steadfast, performing flawlessly even in the face of adversity. It was a testament to Jim Grey's skill as a tuner, and a credit to the car itself.

The charger may have started life as just another car on the track, but through the tireless efforts of Jim Grey and our driver, it had become something truly special - a beast on wheels, capable of reaching incredible speeds and performing feats that seemed almost impossible.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enit's a little different from the chargers we're used to seeing mainly what you got manual are you serious all right let me show people this real quick you did that on purpose didn't you like 13 20 is coming we got to put the turbo right here so they'll see it right up front okay real quick give me a run down on the charger here what are we looking is it a 6'4 it is a 6'4 but it's stroked out to a 428 cubic inch okay running on e85 makes about 1100 1100 and i said it's a stick it's manually is that just like the regular one that comes with the challengers swapped over swapped out from the challenger really how only had it built i've had it built for a couple years now and just uh put the bigger turbo on now now it's got the 88 millimeter on it but what's the rest of the build on it is it i'm getting fully built motor and all that fully built motor yeah pretty much got all the bells and whistles on pretty much anything and everything have you ever done a half mile for them no it's the first time what are you what are you thinking i'm hoping the first couple runs 170 and hoping to get 180 but i don't got cage in it so we'll see what happens i got you how much power would you say i made 1100 last night on the night last night very very recently yeah about four o'clock i pulled it off the diner gotcha i'm gonna start heading this way i had to come talking because the turbo on the grill literally different i saw i saw it driving through the fence i was like i gotta talk to that guy i think it was crazy i appreciate it man good luck today uh hopefully one seventies if not maybe one eighties i'm hoping fingers crossed yeah okay fingers crossed i've never seen a charger turbo right there in the grill oh that sounds good too i've never seen a charger with the turbo in the grill like i've seen very few cars with the turbo in the girl like that like popping out very cool we'll see what that car could do he said he wants to do 170s maybe 180 he's never taken to a half mile and he just got off the dyno four o'clock in the morning which was five hours so we'll see what he'll do so flying four-door bananas who made good use of almost all 154 for the charter 154 not bad for a first pass yeah i missed fifth gear so oh that was kind of weird to hear because chargers don't normally have that option yeah yeah i missed second then i missed bit and i was just in the higher rpm i didn't want to get back in it well you missed two gear you still did 154 yeah not bad not bad all right next pass don't miss any gears oh you see a 170. deal deal all right good luck thanks man oh yeah see what he did 168 he's almost a 170. all right 168 168. not bad it's a clean pass so it's time to turn it up so you didn't miss any gears that time how many pounds is that right now right it's on about 20. okay what do you think a couple more pounds or probably we're only on probably 12 degrees of timing so it's time to turn the timing on you got a lot more room there so 170 next pass oh yeah okay and then 180 by the end of the day right i hope so well he wanted to do 170 180 this is our first time out with the car since he finished it he just did 168. he's right there at that 170 mark and he really wants to get behind this guy goal 180 by the end of the weekend if they turn it up and he keeps having clean passes i think he'd probably do it come on get 170. 172 for the charger he's going to be stoked on that and they're just starting to turn it up they got a lot more in that thing not quite all right almost there so you know what you did huh you know what you did no 172. really 72. yeah yeah all your boys are lying to you over here 169. gary i just roll fourth out but it completely stopped about 65 100 pm so i do need to shift into piss but just trying different things see what i can do but hey once you hit your goal of 170s right there yeah now let's go for 180s yep all right cool man oh yeah congrats man um for kyle 169 for the charger you got a new driver mod here you come back tomorrow yep okay just double checking got the tune all right tomorrow 175. tomorrow 1 75 all right buddy we'll see you tomorrow i appreciate you good morning how are we doing today not bad 172 yesterday twice any changes to it today you're just going to see what it'll do a couple more degrees of timing and a little bit more boost so see what happened what are you hoping for that 175 number were you talking about yes okay okay well you're heading up there right now yep oh see what he did 172 he cannot break the 172 mark uh 161 for aaron 172 for the charger 172. you are mr 172 today what are you thinking for next pass that 175 baby we gonna make any changes or shifts were good and all that it's just all right yeah i just spun one in the second first second by the way we realized yesterday that your car is kind of a dad joke yeah because uh kyle was on the walk he's like hey that turbo charger is coming up i was like the turbo charger's coming over yeah the turbo the turbo charger i was like it's kind of funny that's what we call either the turbo charger the spool bus one of the two spool bus i like that but turbo charger sounds it just works good turbo charger turbo yeah whatever perfect anyway we'll see you next time look at that uh look at that cargo and he's got good ships oh i think he let out early not sure yeah 135 you let out early good shifts first through fourth it sounded like all right all right she sounded good first through fourth what happened when you got the fifth there clutch went out no all the way out uh it's slipping on the top end pretty good gotcha well that kind of sucks yeah well i'll come back check in with you a little bit oh oh dang wrong lane oh no he did 172. he's in the 170s 172.9 just a couple mile an hour off his goal 175. damn that's fine in a stick shift almost i think it's 5 000 some pounds stick shift car that is impressive have you looked yeah 172.9 really yeah i was slipping and pouring here real bad i just said hammer down good run you're in the finals for stick shift it's always good yeah that's and it's uh the charger that blows my mind that's so freaking off that's pretty neat all right so you're mr 172 right now i know what do you what are you doing what changes you make just gonna dude i i can't make any changes with the clutch the way it is the clutch is gone gotcha i'm just gonna do what i did last time see if we can pull it out okay well at least you can take home this time yeah there you go i'll come back and get the 175 all right dude can do another consistent 172 and you should be able to take over that winner all right buddy sounds good man oh yeah here we go two qualifiers but it's a mile an hour is what's going to win a race derek downing with all the power in it looked like 172.2 sector you're happy it's whoever is not the quickest finish line like a drag race so the charger is going to take home the sedan class on that one he just won a stick shift class and a car that never came with a stick shoe that's pretty awesome that's right i forgot about that i mean mr 172 but it took home a win right yeah it took home a little matter oh yeah oh yeah well congrats first time out with a car yeah yeah not bad yeah turboed it's got a stick shift in it all that stuff and it performed really freaking well yeah that's because of jim grey man that's he's the tuner man and he did an awesome job i couldn't thank him enough congrats i appreciate it uh next time we see you hopefully 175 or faster i'll be at the next one all right buddy we'll see you then sounds good dude i appreciate it absolutely that was scariest oh my godit's a little different from the chargers we're used to seeing mainly what you got manual are you serious all right let me show people this real quick you did that on purpose didn't you like 13 20 is coming we got to put the turbo right here so they'll see it right up front okay real quick give me a run down on the charger here what are we looking is it a 6'4 it is a 6'4 but it's stroked out to a 428 cubic inch okay running on e85 makes about 1100 1100 and i said it's a stick it's manually is that just like the regular one that comes with the challengers swapped over swapped out from the challenger really how only had it built i've had it built for a couple years now and just uh put the bigger turbo on now now it's got the 88 millimeter on it but what's the rest of the build on it is it i'm getting fully built motor and all that fully built motor yeah pretty much got all the bells and whistles on pretty much anything and everything have you ever done a half mile for them no it's the first time what are you what are you thinking i'm hoping the first couple runs 170 and hoping to get 180 but i don't got cage in it so we'll see what happens i got you how much power would you say i made 1100 last night on the night last night very very recently yeah about four o'clock i pulled it off the diner gotcha i'm gonna start heading this way i had to come talking because the turbo on the grill literally different i saw i saw it driving through the fence i was like i gotta talk to that guy i think it was crazy i appreciate it man good luck today uh hopefully one seventies if not maybe one eighties i'm hoping fingers crossed yeah okay fingers crossed i've never seen a charger turbo right there in the grill oh that sounds good too i've never seen a charger with the turbo in the grill like i've seen very few cars with the turbo in the girl like that like popping out very cool we'll see what that car could do he said he wants to do 170s maybe 180 he's never taken to a half mile and he just got off the dyno four o'clock in the morning which was five hours so we'll see what he'll do so flying four-door bananas who made good use of almost all 154 for the charter 154 not bad for a first pass yeah i missed fifth gear so oh that was kind of weird to hear because chargers don't normally have that option yeah yeah i missed second then i missed bit and i was just in the higher rpm i didn't want to get back in it well you missed two gear you still did 154 yeah not bad not bad all right next pass don't miss any gears oh you see a 170. deal deal all right good luck thanks man oh yeah see what he did 168 he's almost a 170. all right 168 168. not bad it's a clean pass so it's time to turn it up so you didn't miss any gears that time how many pounds is that right now right it's on about 20. okay what do you think a couple more pounds or probably we're only on probably 12 degrees of timing so it's time to turn the timing on you got a lot more room there so 170 next pass oh yeah okay and then 180 by the end of the day right i hope so well he wanted to do 170 180 this is our first time out with the car since he finished it he just did 168. he's right there at that 170 mark and he really wants to get behind this guy goal 180 by the end of the weekend if they turn it up and he keeps having clean passes i think he'd probably do it come on get 170. 172 for the charger he's going to be stoked on that and they're just starting to turn it up they got a lot more in that thing not quite all right almost there so you know what you did huh you know what you did no 172. really 72. yeah yeah all your boys are lying to you over here 169. gary i just roll fourth out but it completely stopped about 65 100 pm so i do need to shift into piss but just trying different things see what i can do but hey once you hit your goal of 170s right there yeah now let's go for 180s yep all right cool man oh yeah congrats man um for kyle 169 for the charger you got a new driver mod here you come back tomorrow yep okay just double checking got the tune all right tomorrow 175. tomorrow 1 75 all right buddy we'll see you tomorrow i appreciate you good morning how are we doing today not bad 172 yesterday twice any changes to it today you're just going to see what it'll do a couple more degrees of timing and a little bit more boost so see what happened what are you hoping for that 175 number were you talking about yes okay okay well you're heading up there right now yep oh see what he did 172 he cannot break the 172 mark uh 161 for aaron 172 for the charger 172. you are mr 172 today what are you thinking for next pass that 175 baby we gonna make any changes or shifts were good and all that it's just all right yeah i just spun one in the second first second by the way we realized yesterday that your car is kind of a dad joke yeah because uh kyle was on the walk he's like hey that turbo charger is coming up i was like the turbo charger's coming over yeah the turbo the turbo charger i was like it's kind of funny that's what we call either the turbo charger the spool bus one of the two spool bus i like that but turbo charger sounds it just works good turbo charger turbo yeah whatever perfect anyway we'll see you next time look at that uh look at that cargo and he's got good ships oh i think he let out early not sure yeah 135 you let out early good shifts first through fourth it sounded like all right all right she sounded good first through fourth what happened when you got the fifth there clutch went out no all the way out uh it's slipping on the top end pretty good gotcha well that kind of sucks yeah well i'll come back check in with you a little bit oh oh dang wrong lane oh no he did 172. he's in the 170s 172.9 just a couple mile an hour off his goal 175. damn that's fine in a stick shift almost i think it's 5 000 some pounds stick shift car that is impressive have you looked yeah 172.9 really yeah i was slipping and pouring here real bad i just said hammer down good run you're in the finals for stick shift it's always good yeah that's and it's uh the charger that blows my mind that's so freaking off that's pretty neat all right so you're mr 172 right now i know what do you what are you doing what changes you make just gonna dude i i can't make any changes with the clutch the way it is the clutch is gone gotcha i'm just gonna do what i did last time see if we can pull it out okay well at least you can take home this time yeah there you go i'll come back and get the 175 all right dude can do another consistent 172 and you should be able to take over that winner all right buddy sounds good man oh yeah here we go two qualifiers but it's a mile an hour is what's going to win a race derek downing with all the power in it looked like 172.2 sector you're happy it's whoever is not the quickest finish line like a drag race so the charger is going to take home the sedan class on that one he just won a stick shift class and a car that never came with a stick shoe that's pretty awesome that's right i forgot about that i mean mr 172 but it took home a win right yeah it took home a little matter oh yeah oh yeah well congrats first time out with a car yeah yeah not bad yeah turboed it's got a stick shift in it all that stuff and it performed really freaking well yeah that's because of jim grey man that's he's the tuner man and he did an awesome job i couldn't thank him enough congrats i appreciate it uh next time we see you hopefully 175 or faster i'll be at the next one all right buddy we'll see you then sounds good dude i appreciate it absolutely that was scariest oh my god\n"