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Stevie Jackson
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tevie “Fast” Jackson headed south
from his home in Evans, Georgia, to
the Radial Tire Racing Association’s
second event of the 2016 season with
winning on his mind, but also hell-bent on
demonstrating that his state-of-the-art, ReherMorrison 959ci-powered PDRA Pro Nitrous ’69
Camaro would behave every bit as well on a set
of 315-series drag radials as it does on a set of
monster slicks. It didn’t take him long to prove
his point. Within 24 hours of bolting radials on
the Bickel-built first-gen Jackson clicked off the
quickest run ever made on D.O.T.-approved
rubber – a 3.751-second run at 201.97mph in
the final round of competition against fellow
frontrunner Rob Valden. It was also the firstever in the 3.7-second range and came on the
heels of an incredible .989-second sixty-foot
clocking. “It was just one of those weekends,”
said Jackson. “You have weekends where everything comes together, and weekends where everything falls apart. Nitrous cars are the hardest
cars to race – I think – but when they run good,
they run good. You couple 380 runs with that
engine combination in that car, which is what
I have, and 3,000-plus runs on 315 drag radials
we’re going to go fast. It was perfect nitrous conditions, though, too, and North Star Dragway
is just on another level when it comes to track
prep. Not to mention it was just under 1,000feet, 60 [water] grains, which makes it where
we can run the motor hard and not burn it up.
It was a perfect nitrous weekend, and those are
the results.” Though the run sparked a massive
firestorm of controversy regarding the rule set
for Radial vs. World competition, Jackson is
adamant that both the big-block/twin-turbo
and screw-type supercharged Hemi-headed engine combinations are most assuredly capable
of similar performances, and will in short order.
“We have a bad to the bone hotrod, and the more
crying and moaning that I hear, well, the harder
I’m going to work,” concludes Jackson. “For all
the people and companies that have suck with
me this year – like SEI Oil Fields, Reher-Morrison, Holley, Speedwire, CSR, Mickey Thompson, Jerry Bickel and Switzer Dynamics, especially my crew guy Jack Barbee – my goal for
the rest of the season is to make the guys in the
other lane want to give up; throw their hats on
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