A 3.97 at 194 mph would be stunning on any tire, but Jason Michalak’s Bad9er Racing blown Hemi Corvette did it on 315 drag radials, posting the quickest eighth-mile ever run in competition on that tire. It went down at the Outlaw Street Car Reunion at Memphis, against the fastest radial cars in the country. Huge power is easy; putting it down on a radial is the miracle. Watch the record fall.
Records at the drag strip usually fall by hundredths, inches, a little more boost, a little better air. Every so often a run lands that does not just beat the standard but seems to insult it, and that is what happened here. The number attached to this Corvette, a 3.97 at 194 miles per hour, would be jaw-dropping on any tire. The detail that makes grown drag racers shake their heads is what those slicks actually are: 315 drag radials, a street-legal-style tire that has no business posting a time like this.
A Number That Insults the Standard
The car doing the impossible is the Bad9er Racing blown Hemi Corvette, driven by Jason Michalak, and the combination is exactly as violent as it sounds. A supercharged Hemi stuffed into a Corvette body is a purpose-built projectile, but horsepower has never been the hard part in this class. The hard part is getting all of it to the ground through a radial tire instead of a full slick, and doing it in the eighth mile where every thousandth of a second is decided in the first few feet.
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Blown Hemi, Radial Tire, No Excuses
That is why this pass counts as the quickest ever in competition on a 315 drag radial in the eighth mile, a genuine milestone rather than a good weekend. It went down at the Outlaw Street Car Reunion at Memphis International Raceway, an event where the fastest radial cars in the country gather specifically to chase numbers like this one. Setting the mark against that level of competition is what turns a fast run into a record the whole class has to respect.
The Track Prep Nobody Sees
And none of it happens without the surface underneath. The team gave credit to the track prep crew for taming tricky conditions, which is the unsung truth of radial racing: a car this powerful is only as good as the grip it is given. Watch the launch and pay attention to how the tire loads and hooks, because that is where a 3.97 is actually earned. The horsepower writes the check, but the traction is what cashes it. Watch the full video and share your thoughts below.
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Awesome
Quick
Randy Graham
Donald A Fowler straight as an arrow.
Willie Matthew Corvin III , is this that better ?
Try and drive that to work
Ivan Price
Unreal
My jeep could take it.
Gotta be 1/8 mile john force runs 1/4 in 3s
Really…1/4 mile?
The Top fuel cars run in the 3’s
At over 500km/h…
well we know it can go for a quarter mile, but can it make it the grocery store and back?
Look out street outlaws Big Chief
1/8th mile for sure
That’s quick
There’s probably not one racer on Street Outlaws the can match nor beat that time lol
It’s blown too
1/8 mile drags do nothing for me. 1/4 mile drags show true withstanding horsepower
It looked like an 1/8th mile run .
Regardless , that f-ER is Rolling !
Patrick Alain
Wow Brian Getts arrow straight!
Very well setup car, but I think that was an 1/8 mile run. The time is impressive until you compare it to Jeff Lutz 5.87 second 1/4 mile run in a street driven car during Drag Week where he had to drive to multiple tracks covering over 1,000 miles!!! =O http://www.roadkill.com/video-jeff-lutz-runs-5-87-at-251-mph-worlds-fastest-street-legal-car/
Brian Getts yousa!
There no way 194 MPH it’s maybe kph but not mph
It’s MPH
Almost 200mph in 1/8th mile…seriously fast
Daniel Ortiz Craig Mccarty
Frankie Sosa