After roughly four hundred miles on the road through the wide open fields of western Kansas, the roaming band of racers and gearheads that compose Rocky Mountain Race Week 2021 arrived in Pueblo, Colorado. After a good night's sleep for some and a long night of thrashing parts back together for others, Day Three allowed some time before the early afternoon signaled the start of racing, so while some drivers diverted off to have a good look at the natural beauty that the Front Range offers, others were performing repairs, preparing for the racing action, or triple-checking their machines to make sure that everything was still intact and good to go.

The geography of Pueblo isn't exactly friendly to the drag racer. The mean altitude already impacts how well an engine can breathe, but being as south as it is, Pueblo also gets hot. A long, hot day at a dry track for a normal, sane individual sounds like a hot time. A sane human would show up, make a pass, and as long as that number was good enough, would dip out to the nearest dining joint that had good food and air conditioning. Without question, there are very few "sane" people who participate in Rocky Mountain Race Week, because not only did they race in 100-degree heat with a density altitudes that were pushing very close to 10,000 feet until late in the evening, but they were having a party the whole time. Ask the guy in the fourth-gen F-body who was so happy about his run time that he used the big right-hand sweeper exit from the track as an impromptu drift corner, or anybody who lined up when Royce Payton's absolutely monstrous blown Mustang surged its way to the starting line.

Day Three is in the books. Next stop is Bandimere Speedway in Morrison, Colorado. Between there and Pueblo lie some of the most spectacular scenery you can drive by in the lower 48 states. Stay tuned for more from RMRW 2021!