Enjoy this behind the scenes look at the NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle category and what proved to be a controversial race at the NHRA Virginia Nationals. Watch as Pro Stock Bike racers disagree when the final qualifying session is canceled due to track condition, in an attempt to avoid crashes and motorcycle drag racing fails. Watch as bitter rivals collide when Suzuki racers Steve Johnson and defending NHRA champion Matt Smith battle in the final round. We also see some strong performances out of the women of NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle.
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At the speeds the motorcycles run now in NHRA and that they don't have roll cages ans Seatbelts is why NHRA said no to the passes due to dew
thank you brother
You are so far ahead in life as compared to where you would be if you crashed its not even close. Live yo race another day.
The NHRA has track driers. It's another example of the NHRA treating the bike classes as a afterthought.
Pro stock bike guys need stop complaining,
sincerely, Promod
Little Joey Gladstone needs to grow up. Little boy syndrome.
Bostick needs to remember,….its not street racing. If someone gets killed,…??,…..its not him who is on the hook for it.
My rain delay story thankfully was at a track that was well maintained and had excellent track crew personal and it wound up working out.
I was a struggling Pro ET racer who did everything myself, built everything but the torque converter and transmission out of my garage at home.
I had been out of drag racing for a lot of years when I decided to try it again. Had a steep learning curve but finally after 2 years of hard work in the first couple of months of my 3rd year back I happened to hit on a combo my car really liked, it seemed no matter what the weather conditions were the car just kept getting better and better with each pass and so predictable. Anyway at an early season bigger race on the schedule we were on a roll I was cutting great lights and car was responding as usual, the longer we ran it the faster it got. I was starting to take little bits out of it to keep it's consistent behaviour. I finally broke the curse and made it to the finals and it was getting late on a Sunday and the sky's opened up and it poured rain right before our final ! They tried talking us all into just splitting the pot and going home but the Super Pro guys and myself said no..
We want to try and run it off. I was very confident in my car and ability so we waited and the track crew prepped and dried the track and they let us inspect the track and shut down area before we ran. Us Pro ET guys went first and my opponent who had been the guy to beat every week was all of a sudden putting up a number that was significantly lower than mine when all day he had been slower than me but not by this much so was he hurt or was he playing games.?..then i remembered what Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins had said once at Bandamiere in Colorado when several of us young guys were talking to him between classes he told us all "don't worry about the other guy, race the track and run your car and you will win way more than you loose!"
So we didn't worry about it and I put all my tune back in the car and put up the number I was confident it would run and lined up and let the big dog eat….my opponent by virtue of a lot slower number got to leave first and out of the outside edge of my focus on the tree I noticed he looked like he only made it about 30' and obviously broke something ….well I didn't flinch and cut a .007 light and dropped the hammer, the car squatted and I was gone like a launching rocket….ran almost dead on my number so my opponent would of had to be perfect to have beat me anyway and I won my first race in nearly 20 years. I have gone on and won many more since then but never forgot the longest day It ever took me to win a race. Turned out my opponent had hurt his car in his last round to get to the finals and it was terminal and couldn't be fixed without tearing it clear down (I think he hurt a lifter, cam lobe and rocker arm/Push rod. They replaced what they could and put up a slower number so he might could get me to jump and go red trying to run him down with such a big advantage….he was hoping it would hold together long enough to make the 1/4 mile stripe and maybe beat me but I called his bluff and ran my race) thank God for Bill Jenkins words of wisdom
I've ridden that track, if its just mist I'd run it…..there is such a long shutdown area you can roll off the throttle and coast to a stop with little to no brake
iT'S for sure global warming. We need ''Sleepy-Joe Biden to make a ruling !
Safety is paramount in ANY racing. It doesn't matter if it's on a bike or in a car. I've made too many evening passes when the dew was settling at 160+ on two wheels.
Do not like the call of how the NHRA wussed out on the bikes
They will give anybody a YouTube channel even a poser.
The CONTROVERSEY in pro stock motorcycle is the 160 cid twin vs the 113 cid inline 4. Bullshit advantage to the twins but nobody talks about that.
Jack will you be in Laconia for bike week
Too many Suzukis.
Well that's obvious it's got to be that John Force safety Safari again of totally safety conscience national Hot rod association ..everyone grow a spine get some of the new and improved rain slicks designed with octopus suction cups all the way around the tires..front and rear same ideas like the Ducati MotoGP grass track slicks when straightening out the dog legs and go from asphalt to Grass back to asphalt to grass ..with the new octopus rain slicks almost eliminate the need for wheelie bars should be a favorite for the outlaw Pro Street who love to brag they can do it faster on street tires and no wheelie bars at all… They would love the new lineup of the latest octopus rain slicks for top fuel and pro street Pro Stock racing every type of weather but a snowy blizzard and we're working on that with built in self ejecting ice spikes .. coming soon so stay tuned..
Now back to cycle drag of reality as we venture on to interview those who wish to drag race at 200 mph in the rain or those who have some brains and wish to keep the shiny side up have a beautiful day
Safety first!
Crashing a Pro-Stock motorcycle is a bit more sketchy than a car with a full cage.. A car breaking loose from a moist track is also a little easier to handle.
When is this guy going to get a wireless mic set up. I get so tired of hearing yelling and screaming to be heard over whatever is covering. Is he just cheap or is he just plain stupid.
I'd rather watch paint dry than watch P/S Motorcycles. Bring back Pro Stock Truck or televise Pro Mod.
No Harleys. Not worth watching anymore.
cycledrag dude ! awsome stuff, great contient, thank you !
I love drag racing! Cant wait till the nhra comes back to seattle this summer!
5:11, normally they let the riders make that call i thought?
12:10 look at the qualifying ladder though. everyone advocating the decision except for one were already top qualifiers. the decision was in their favor points wise.
15:16 Nurse Amy!!
Better safe than sorry. LeMans 57 crash probably led to fewer road courses forever. Lot of public backlash. Safety improvements resulted but open road racing started to be banned. And once you are gone, you can’t come back.
Cut and dry, every competitor and team agrees to run knowing that NHRA is the sanctioning body….. they agree to run under their rules and they agree that the NHRA has the final say in any discrepancy…. Including weather…..
They have a valid issue, BUT what they should really be pissed off about, is that the V’s STILL have a 770 c.c. advantage, and are not the same weight as the inlines
A lot of the riders wanted to run the only ones that really didn’t wanna run at all were the women almost all the men wanted to run but they were just being nice and putting on that good racer NHRA persona if it’s unsafe for bikes why can the fuel cars run with a wet shutdown area the whole thing shoulda been canceled IMO, back in the day when I raced we had a notebook with tracks and carburetor adjustments etc that had to be made to run at that track back in the analog days data logging was way different like we data logged with Camcorder and would watch the run back in slow motion, and then the good ole pen and paper in 60’s-80’s we had no ideal what a laptop was and never ran ECU’s of any kind, no sensors
Someday I'm gonna get to a race and get a sticicker so I don't have to watch on my two
Tablet but I aa always watch Cycledrag!!!!!
Black leather racer is pissed,,, seems like a majority rule type situation here. Good decision in my opinion