The Fourth Racing Day at Rocky Mountain Race Week

It's the fourth racing day here on Rocky Mountain race week, and we're at Great Bend, Kansas SRC drag way. All these cars you see behind me have been driven over 800 miles making passes at three different drag strips, and this is about to be the fourth today, with temperatures expected to reach their hottest point but not as hot as the drive yesterday, when temperatures reached upwards of 105 degrees. The drivers had to endure that for over 350 miles, and we're here to show you some of the highlights from the roads and the struggle people went through to get here.

Rocket Mount Race Week on Wednesday

This is Wednesday Rocket Mount race week, and we've got a good six or seven hour drive ahead of us. Many people left early in the morning, slept a little, and were running into a few along the side of the road doing some repairs probably I mean this old Phillips 66 remake gas station nice cars out front well timing throat that's that little bit of weird vibration going to make sure it's not too crazy any one of those cooler air conditioners by some I think water is going to get all over Vanishes hot water after a little while first day not having the methyl transmission the drill tastic windmill oh yeah the big windmill part over there oh my god 20 miles per hour be good to get ahead on now oh my god the hell to run away diesel I'll oh ho ho holy crap holy the thing almost ran away yep we got going on Sonique we have a vapor lock issue we had vapor lot going on two or three days ago and I thought we had it sorted but it's a jillion degrees oh and common for these trips fuels Thank You hot yeah and I had honestly - we were driving along and the tune is changing dramatically about and I look down and this thing was running really lean which obviously will make it run hotter too so so we made a couple tweaks but I think I'm going to put the Carney tune back in the thing because Carney do is hotter - yeah or about two-thirds of the way through our 100 degree day drive session and work the last checkpoint for the day that's cool old Texaco somewhere in the middle of Kansas western Kansas who knows a lot of cars over here I'll hang out in the shades both of them have air conditioning so they're stopping to enjoy a little a little bit of cooldown time for the cars in themselves are you pee on the grass yeah with which might get a big mess in our own suitcase do you know how to go oh we forgot to get it to where it's not so by it I go in for a shot good yeah did you leave at 4:30 like you said yeah thank God for Larry I got here I hope it's an act we were back to 30 miles an hour whatever a school you look at the thanks guy good morning morning sir he is done all right are you guys done early morning yesterday I've heard early for you yeah no I went to sleep of 5:30 a very good a thing though what time you guys roll in here 1:15 yeah we stopped for gas that was it Wow it's good to see is here hip-high a nice quick one off off the bat here and roll up the Kearney head north this you look I thank you holy crap the assessment almost always Bell tinkling okay you're in a ten eleven the puzzle been seven ten seven field will try to turn it up here today also my issues are worked out going on eleven El Paso click perfect a lot start play leather no they're not we're bats kickoff racing for the fourth day of Rocky Mountain race week the elevation here is lower than every track by Kearney by about 4,000 feet it's going to be hot but everyone is excited for the good track conditions and the low DA so let's see if we can see another six from Larry Larsen low seven from Doug Klein and somewhere in the sevens from Tom and maybe we'll see some personal bests from some the other racers here let's get to the action 7:17 784 all right time to do some dig and other pulleys got in the trunk no actually that pulley I think was blowing the flame out because it was part in the popping oh yeah I heard they went ten or seven with a piece and sixty foot plate huh small full he's coming back up and back he's done though he ran nice who didn't like it how is it what number you looking for all right 99 yeah 11:53 right there alright I'll get

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enit's the fourth racing day here on Rocky Mountain race week we're at Great Bend Kansas SRC drag way all these cars you see behind me to driven over 800 miles making passes at three different drag strips and this is about to be the fourth today to be the hottest day of racing but not as hot as the drive yesterday we saw temperatures upwards of 105 degrees and all these cars you see here had to drive through that for over 350 miles so let's show you some of the highlights on the roads and the struggle that people went through to get here today this is Wednesday rocket mount race week and we've got a good six or seven hour drive and nice heat a lot of people left early in the morning we slept in a little bit we're running into a few along the side of the road and doing some repairs probably I mean this old Phillips 66 remake gas station nice cars out front well timing throat that's that little bit of weird vibration going to make sure it's not too crazy any one of those cooler air conditioners by some I think water is going to get all over Vanishes hot water after a little while first day not having the methyl transmission the drill tastic windmill oh yeah the big windmill part over there oh my god 20 miles per hour be good to get ahead on now oh my god the hell to run away diesel I'll oh ho ho holy crap holy the thing almost ran away yep we got going on Sonique we have a vapor lock issue we had vapor lot going on two or three days ago and I thought we had it sorted but it's a jillion degrees oh and common for these trips fuels Thank You hot yeah and I had honestly - we were driving along and the tune is changing dramatically about and I I look down and this thing was running really lean which obviously will make it run hotter too so so we made a couple tweaks but I think I'm going to put the Carney tune back in the thing because Carney do is hotter - yeah or about two-thirds of the way through our 100 degree day drive session and work the last checkpoint for the day that's cool old Texaco somewhere in the middle of Kansas western Kansas who knows a lot of cars over here I'll hang out in the shades both of them have air conditioning so they're stopping to enjoy a little a little bit of cooldown time for the cars in themselves are you pee on the grass yeah with which might get a big mess in our own suitcase do you know how to go oh we forgot to get it to where it's not so by it I go in for a shot good yeah did you leave at 4:30 like you said yeah thank God for Larry I got here I hope it's an act we were back to 30 miles an hour whatever a school you look at the thanks guy good morning morning sir he is done all right are you guys done early morning yesterday I've heard early for you yeah no I went to sleep of 5:30 a very good a thing though what time you guys roll in here 1:15 yeah we stopped for gas that was it Wow it's good to see is here hip-high a nice quick one off off the bat here and roll up the Kearney head north this you look I thank you holy crap the assessment almost always Bell tinkling okay you're in a ten eleven the puzzle been seven ten seven field will try to turn it up here today also my issues are worked out going on eleven El Paso click perfect a lot start play leather no they're not we're bats kickoff racing for the fourth day of Rocky Mountain race week the elevation here is lower than every track by Kearney by about 4,000 feet it's going to be hot but everyone is excited for the good track conditions and the low DA so let's see if we can see another six from Larry Larsen low seven from Doug Klein and somewhere in the sevens from Tom and maybe we'll see some personal bests from some the other racers here let's get to the action 7:17 784 all right time to do some dig and other pulleys got in the trunk no actually that pulley I think was blowing the flame out because it was part in the popping oh yeah I heard they went ten or seven with a piece and sixty foot plate huh small full he's coming back up and back he's done though he ran nice who didn't like it how is it what number you looking for all right 99 yeah 11:53 right there alright I'll get 50 not a 93it's the fourth racing day here on Rocky Mountain race week we're at Great Bend Kansas SRC drag way all these cars you see behind me to driven over 800 miles making passes at three different drag strips and this is about to be the fourth today to be the hottest day of racing but not as hot as the drive yesterday we saw temperatures upwards of 105 degrees and all these cars you see here had to drive through that for over 350 miles so let's show you some of the highlights on the roads and the struggle that people went through to get here today this is Wednesday rocket mount race week and we've got a good six or seven hour drive and nice heat a lot of people left early in the morning we slept in a little bit we're running into a few along the side of the road and doing some repairs probably I mean this old Phillips 66 remake gas station nice cars out front well timing throat that's that little bit of weird vibration going to make sure it's not too crazy any one of those cooler air conditioners by some I think water is going to get all over Vanishes hot water after a little while first day not having the methyl transmission the drill tastic windmill oh yeah the big windmill part over there oh my god 20 miles per hour be good to get ahead on now oh my god the hell to run away diesel I'll oh ho ho holy crap holy the thing almost ran away yep we got going on Sonique we have a vapor lock issue we had vapor lot going on two or three days ago and I thought we had it sorted but it's a jillion degrees oh and common for these trips fuels Thank You hot yeah and I had honestly - we were driving along and the tune is changing dramatically about and I I look down and this thing was running really lean which obviously will make it run hotter too so so we made a couple tweaks but I think I'm going to put the Carney tune back in the thing because Carney do is hotter - yeah or about two-thirds of the way through our 100 degree day drive session and work the last checkpoint for the day that's cool old Texaco somewhere in the middle of Kansas western Kansas who knows a lot of cars over here I'll hang out in the shades both of them have air conditioning so they're stopping to enjoy a little a little bit of cooldown time for the cars in themselves are you pee on the grass yeah with which might get a big mess in our own suitcase do you know how to go oh we forgot to get it to where it's not so by it I go in for a shot good yeah did you leave at 4:30 like you said yeah thank God for Larry I got here I hope it's an act we were back to 30 miles an hour whatever a school you look at the thanks guy good morning morning sir he is done all right are you guys done early morning yesterday I've heard early for you yeah no I went to sleep of 5:30 a very good a thing though what time you guys roll in here 1:15 yeah we stopped for gas that was it Wow it's good to see is here hip-high a nice quick one off off the bat here and roll up the Kearney head north this you look I thank you holy crap the assessment almost always Bell tinkling okay you're in a ten eleven the puzzle been seven ten seven field will try to turn it up here today also my issues are worked out going on eleven El Paso click perfect a lot start play leather no they're not we're bats kickoff racing for the fourth day of Rocky Mountain race week the elevation here is lower than every track by Kearney by about 4,000 feet it's going to be hot but everyone is excited for the good track conditions and the low DA so let's see if we can see another six from Larry Larsen low seven from Doug Klein and somewhere in the sevens from Tom and maybe we'll see some personal bests from some the other racers here let's get to the action 7:17 784 all right time to do some dig and other pulleys got in the trunk no actually that pulley I think was blowing the flame out because it was part in the popping oh yeah I heard they went ten or seven with a piece and sixty foot plate huh small full he's coming back up and back he's done though he ran nice who didn't like it how is it what number you looking for all right 99 yeah 11:53 right there alright I'll get 50 not a 93\n"