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Personal Best Times
1/8 Mile Time
.02 R/T
. 981 60 Foot
2.64 330 Foot
4.02 1/8 E.T.
176.30 1/8 MPH
1/4 Mile Time
.01 R/T
.975 60 Foot
2.64 330 Foot
187.30 1/8 MPH
6.273 1/4 E.T.
218.18 1/4 MPH
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Welcome to RapidRandy.com
 Welcome to the site. If you like long smokey burnouts, header flames, wheels-up launches, and never lift wild drag racing, you must be a Nitromethane junkie like myself. Just the crackle out the pipes while it is at idle tells you this is something special. When the throttle is whacked, your knees buckle, it pounds your chest, suddenly it is hard to breathe, yeah baby it’s CH3NO2. I am lucky enough to be able to drive these Nitro burning beasts, and there is nothing else on earth that compares.
Please look around and enjoy your time here. There are photos you can download, videos to watch. The site also has links to the companies that support us. I hope you enjoy your visit.
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Posted by RapidRandy on Sat Oct 11, 2008 7:59 am
2008 DRO FUNNYCAR FALL INVITATIONAL AT KCIR
What a great weekend at the races. The weather was perfect; the place was packed with people. There were Nitro Funnycars, Top Fuelers, along with just about any style of race car to suit your taste. Troy Coker brought out his NPCA group and they put on a fantastic show as always. Big Daddy and Roland were there as well.
Sean Belt's business, Spanky's Hair Salon, sponsored a huge party with a live DJ on Saturday night. Greg Green our resident chef cooked up a bunch of BBQ for everyone to enjoy. Greg also brought out his Scout Troop to do the flag presentation for the event. We had them hang around our pit as we serviced the car; the look on the boy’s faces when we fired it off was so cool.
For those who hate to read a long post. 1st round on Friday night the car left decent, and made it to around 7-800 feet and got out of the groove. It was moving left and even with pedaling, it wouldn't come back to the groove. I coasted through for a 7-second time-slip. No way was I going to let the headers scrape the wall again. They guys just got them looking nice again. Jake was in the other lane and made a nice run which ended up being low for the evening. That put him into the finals on Saturday.
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Posted by RapidRandy on Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:12 am
2008 Good Guys
Norwalk, Ohio
Yeah, this is a bit late but I didn't really think I had anything to report from our teams race weekend. Then the more I thought about it and read about everyone else's weekend, I remembered it isn't always about the race winning, but hanging out with good friends and getting to play with our hot rods.
I got to go to dinner with the Speed Merchants Top Fuel team on Thursday night, and again on Sunday. When I went back to the motel, I met some really cools guys from Canada. We all ended up staying up late just talking. They brought a twin turbo street rod down to race along with a neat little Chevy II street car.
We put a new combination in the car and had high hopes on how it would run. The plan was to run it on Friday, and if it didn't do as expected we would have all night to change it back before the runs on Saturday. How does that saying go,,,,the best laid plans----. Anyway it rained all day Friday and no runs were made in any of the classes. The wildest deal was the track crew was out there all day staying ahead of the water. They were sweeping and drying the track all day long. Since we weren't racing it gave a bunch of time to visit with the other racers and fans. Friday night dinner was with Kenny from John Dunn's “dunn and gone” funnycar team. I had to go out to eat where I could order something I knew what it was. Danny and the other guys on the team are hunters. They brought along some “Deer meatloaf” for dinner. It probably isn't a big shock I wasn't going to be eating any of that. We were pitted with Justin and the gang right beside us and all the other funnycars right in the same area. It made it easy to check in on everybody. Well everybody but Kyle of course. His group is always the last to arrive, but never misses a qualifying session, I don't get it. They unload the car and it hauls, pretty neat deal for him, not so much for the rest of us. Congrats to the whole team, yeah even you Mr. Minick, that pass was a very cool run.
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Posted by RapidRandy on Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:40 pm
EDDYVILLE NIGHT OF FIRE JULY 5TH 2008
The Plastic Fantastic Nitro Funnycar had a match race with Justin Grant's Wonder Wagon Nitro funnycar this past weekend at Eddyville Raceway Park in Southern Iowa. The event is called the Night of Fire. It has become one of the main-stays for fans to get their Nitro fix here in the Midwest for as long as I can remember. A few of the other cars that were booked in were Jack Wyatt and Tim Wilkerson with their Funnycars. The Orange Crate and Nitemare TFD, Nitro Madness and Black Reign altereds, Ozark Mountain Super Shifters, along with jets and wheelie trucks were also adding to the show. The program was rounded out with a ton of bracket racers. I don't recall ever seeing so many cars at this track.
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Posted by RapidRandy on Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:25 am
2008 CORDOVA HERITAGE RACE
I am not sure it is even possible to do a weekend story on the Cordova race. There were so many things going on I don't even have a good handle on all of it.
I guess the best way to describe it is just to combine the driving of both cars and merge it all together. Friday morning we went out the track early. We got there before the Houghs, so to kill some time we went down and looked over the new walls on the race track. We also tried to pick out a spot to leave the rental car to be able to get me back to the starting line. I drove the Nanook AA/FA and Danny Miller's Funnycar at this race. I was kinda worried about being able to race one, and then get back to the line in time to drive the other car. Ron Colson came by and put me at ease. He said, "We are running the Rapid schedule this weekend. You will race the Nanook first. Then while we are getting you back to the line we will run some of the bracket cars for a break. Then finish off with the Top Fuelers and Funnycars. You will have time to make it back that way." I am not too sure I am buying the "Rapid's Schedule" part, but the order sounded good to me.
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Posted by RapidRandy on Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:58 am
2008 NHHR AT BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY
Well, after waiting what seems like forever it finally happened. I was able to drive one of the most famous of all the Fuel Altereds in the world. I have no way to tell you how honored I was when Dave choose me to take the seat of his hot rod. Before I go into how the weekend went I just want to go on record and thank Dave, Linda, Rick and Gloria for allowing Laura and I to become a part of their family race team. Our 1st weekend together went just as I believed it would and we all had a great time. I can see a lot of good times coming as we race together from now on. I also want to take a minute to say how much fun it is to hang around with Ron and Brian Hope who run the Rat Trap AA/FA. To have a large group like this and all enjoy each others company so well is simply amazing. We have become friends with the whole group over the past few years, so it was an easy fit to join them.
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