{"id":29653,"date":"2016-08-24T14:23:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T21:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=29653"},"modified":"2016-08-24T14:23:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T21:23:06","slug":"outlaw-armageddon-offers-high-powered-excitement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/outlaw-armageddon-offers-high-powered-excitement\/","title":{"rendered":"Outlaw Armageddon Offers High Powered Excitement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"29654\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/outlaw-armageddon-offers-high-powered-excitement\/2016-08-18_18-10-25-640x354\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016-08-18_18-10-25-640x354-e1472073760600.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,359\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Nick Duty&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2016-08-18_18-10-25-640&amp;#215;354\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016-08-18_18-10-25-640x354-300x169.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016-08-18_18-10-25-640x354-1024x575.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-29654 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016-08-18_18-10-25-640x354-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"2016-08-18_18-10-25-640x354\" width=\"638\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many race fans were buzzing this weekend about what they were hoping would be the return of old school NASCAR Cup racing at Bristol Motor Speedway. While many of these hopes were dashed in ongoing downpours, drag racing fans had all of the thrills this weekend at the second annual Outlaw Armageddon No Prep Invitational at Thunder Valley Raceway Park.<\/p>\n<p>Starring many well-known names from Discovery Channel\u2019s reality show Street Outlaws like Shawn Ellington in \u201cMurder Nova\u201d, \u201cDaddy Dave\u201d Comstock, Kye Kelley, Chuck Seitsinger in \u201cDeath Trap\u201d, Jeff Lutz, Larry Larson and \u201cBirdman\u201d James Finney, this event featured over 200 cars all ready to battle for huge payouts and bragging rights including $30,000 to win big tire and $20,000 to win small tire with a total payout of over $80,000 in cash.<\/p>\n<p>This no preparation street racing type of event even had its own racing surface story to tell as absolutely zero traction compound was applied to the racing surface. All of the developed rubber on the strip was scraped off prior to the start of the race, and the competitors were only allowed to do burnouts using their preferred mixture of \u201cpimp juice\u201d &#8211; a blend of traction compound and alcohol.<br \/>\nThis event kicked off Friday night with True Street racers returning from their mandatory 35 mile cruise, then heading to the lanes for the first round pairings.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L-hRzcStH5I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>True Street rounds dwindled down to the final pair, Stefan Slisz and Blake Hughes, but rain postponed all remaining racing to Saturday.<br \/>\nAs things got started back up on Saturday, the semi-finals resulted in Mike Henson\u2019s Oklahoma based turbocharged 2002 Corvette, Plan B, being paired up with Gaylen Smith\u2019s screw-blown \u201cTexas Bounty Hunter\u201d Pro Mod. In a close one, Smith\u2019s 1957 Chevy took the win by a car and a half to secure his spot in the final round.<\/p>\n<p>The second semi-final pair saw Steve Wiley facing off against Jerry Bird\u2019s nitrous assisted Ford Probe with Bird going to the finals. A pair of Texas-based, screw-blown Outlaw Pro Mods were set for the finale of the Big Tire Invitational.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day Wiley would take home the ultimate $30,000 Big Tire Invitational win.<br \/>\nStay tuned to RacingJunk.com for details from more exciting events like this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Many race fans were buzzing this weekend about what they were hoping would be the return of old school NASCAR Cup racing at Bristol Motor Speedway. <\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":29654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,3470],"tags":[3197,1619,127,4822,1666,2013],"class_list":["post-29653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest-column","category-news","tag-bristol-motor-speedway","tag-ellen-richardson","tag-nascar","tag-outlaw-armageddon","tag-pro-mod","tag-street-outlaws"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016-08-18_18-10-25-640x354-e1472073760600.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-7Ih","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29655,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29653\/revisions\/29655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}