Chevy vs. Chevy Drag Battle Falls Over Itself in Texas
One Chevy pickup gets away with a win. The Camaro goes home with a repair bill due to too much sauce on the rear wheel.
One of the most fun things anyone can do with their Chevy of choice is to hit the drag strip. Some do it off the showroom floor (especially if it’s a new Corvette or Camaro ZL1). Others spend some time in the lab to squeeze every ounce of performance they can out of their Bow Ties. Win or lose (preferably win, though, especially over Fords and the rest), a weekend night on the quarter-mile means a ton of memories to be made.
Some memories, though, shouldn’t come with an embarrassing repair bill. NXGonzo Video recently caught the final of the Small Tire at The Park After Dark 3 at Wichita Raceway Park in Wichita Falls, Texas. It would’ve been an all-Chevy battle for the ages. Instead, it wound up being a big, red, unfortunate L for the right lane.
In the left lane, the ICT Billet LLC LSSS Chevy pickup from Wichita, Kansas (ICT, by the way, is the airport code for Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower Airport, formerly Wichita Mid-Continent Airport). Once a 454 SS, the company made an LS-swap kit for 1988-98 Chevys like their street-fighting rig. This one, though, packs two turbos on the shop truck to smoke the Hoosiers like Texas brisket.
Over in the right lane, a first-gen Camaro whose power source is a mystery, though definitely enough to bring it face-to-face with the LSSS in the final match of the small-tire category. Maybe too much power.
The LSSS Chevy roars off the line, speeding away with the win. The Camaro, though, winds up in a scary moment upon launch. As NXGonzo Video says, the car “hooked hard and sheered the axle.” This causes the Chevy to roll up on top of its left rear tire behind the starter, then land back to earth as the tire rolled down the left lane to catch up with the pickup.
Everyone rushed over to check on the driver, Leonard Richie, to see if he was okay. He might’ve been, but his Camaro’s gonna need a ton of help to get back on track.
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