Luis de Leon representing Brazil in one of the biggest drag races in the world for cars with radial tires!
In today's episode I went to Alabama to accompany Luis de Leon and the BAR team at the FuelTech Radial Outlaws, a drag race that Luis races with a Camaro ProMod V8 blower in the Radial vs The World category with cars with radial tires of almost 4,000 hp and without being able to use a wheelie bar. The strongest category of the event, where cars can have blower, nitro, turbo, supercharger preparation and a world record with Stevie ''Fast'' Jackson who is a driver and tuner for Sidnei Frigo (Grandão) in Brazil.
At this event I was able to closely follow all the work of Luis' team, whose partner and team leader is our Ford guy Felipe Andreis, with a lot of experience in drag racing in Brazil, today he lives here in the USA working as a workshop leader but also lends his hand in the masses at the races. For this role, it requires a lot of experience to mainly solve the car's problems during passes, it is a car with almost 4,000 hp accelerating over 201m.
These behind-the-scenes moments that I managed to follow during the race to show you how a drag racing team works, it's great to be able to closely follow all this extreme effort from all the team members, the cool thing is also seeing the driver's involvement throughout the operation, so if you want to work or are curious about how a drag team operation works, watch this and this is the content!
Luis' second race with the blower car and then the challenge is even greater, the difficulties are not just with the car, but with the entire schedule, it's training, qualifying and then straight to the elimination race, a race against time literally to be the fastest on the track.
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Video timestamps:
00:00 What to expect from this episode!
02:11 Summary of the qualifiers with Felipe Andreis
08:17 How FuelTech Radial Outlaws work
10:55 FuelTech dominating the Radial vs The World category
16:00 FuelTech booth at Radial Outlaws
19:20 Not very good memories with the C8 on this track
21:05 How Luis de Leon became a drag racer in the USA
30:55 Details of Luis de Leon's car engine
41:00 Analyzing the qualifiers log
42:15 Luis' Camaro Screw Blower on the dyno
44:50 More details from the Radial vs The World category
49:20 Luis de Leon's car suspension secret
53:55 Charging the Tesla with diesel?
55:45 Last adjustments for the qualifiers
1:00:30 Scare in the first round of the Radial vs The World qualifiers
1:04:30 Radial vs The World qualifiers
1:06:15 Stevie Fast world record holder in the RVW category
1:07:30 Luis ready for the second round
1:14:35 End of race for several favorites
1:18:15 Ending the episode