Drag Week Day 3 2021: Photos and coverage from Lucas Oil Raceway

09/22/2021
10 min read

Drag Week Day 3 2021: Photos and coverage from Lucas Oil Raceway

09/22/2021
10 min read

It's day 3 of HOT ROD Drag Week Day and the self-inflicted torture that is a 1,000mi-plus road trip full of racing, road miles, and wrecked parts continues. The bulk of the field weathered the trip to Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis in one piece, ready to throw down passes. Dave Schroeder is again in the 6-second zone maintaining his lead on the Unlimited class and the pile of broken parts from racers in all classes continues to grow in size. Here are a few highlights from today's racing action.


HOT ROD DRAG WEEK DAY 3 Results


Jamie Jarvis unintentionally seems to be going for biggest wheel stand of the event with his B/Gas '55 Chevy after making a few passes hanging the hoops way out.


Jeff Oppenheim's El Camino avenged itself 5 years after nearly burning to the ground on Drag Week 2016 and getting rebuilt outside of the gate of Indy. He has been running pretty consistent 9.00s this week with the help of a single turbo LS.


Rick Russell brought his record-setting, twin-turbo, hemi-powered, Lil Red Express to drag week in hopes of running 9.00s all week and possibly dip in the 8.00s. He has been consistent so far in making several solid mid-9-second passes.


Dustin Trance's turbo, LS-swapped Mustang has been battling for 1st place in its class all week with the "Honk If Parts Fall Off" Chevelle. It's going to come down to the wire between these two, tough competitors for the top spot.


A massive 1400 lb-ft of torque from the turbo Cummins swap has the 1980 square body C10 of Jesse Harris getting things all twisted up.


John Puckett went for a little ride when his blown Capri twisted the end of the axle clean off at the shift, unsettling the car and lifting the driver's side rear wheel off the ground.


Ed Ensor had some issues on Monday when the mandrel broke off his motor at the end of an 8.39 pass, taking out his vacuum pump. That hasn't slowed the car down much as he posted a few 8.4x-8.5xs.


John Chmura had a rod exit the block of his turbo Beretta on day 1, but that didn't stop him from still trying to finish the week. He found a junkyard motor for it, slapped it back together, and made it to Indy to make some passes for fun.


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