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Be sure to check us out on Netflix's Fastest Car season 2! We didn't have a good showing, but the odds were stacked against with the weather. It was like 38 degrees and started raining just before the race. They also would not let us test the 2-step that day... I pulled it back, but we still left with too much sauce, leaving 4 gears of stripes the entire length of the track.
 

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Be sure to check us out on Netflix's Fastest Car season 2! We didn't have a good showing, but the odds were stacked against with the weather. It was like 38 degrees and started raining just before the race. They also would not let us test the 2-step that day... I pulled it back, but we still left with too much sauce, leaving 4 gears of stripes the entire length of the track.

I saw that episode recently and was just about to ask on this thread if this SHO was the SHO that I saw on Fastest Car.
 

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Be sure to check us out on Netflix's Fastest Car season 2! We didn't have a good showing, but the odds were stacked against with the weather. It was like 38 degrees and started raining just before the race. They also would not let us test the 2-step that day... I pulled it back, but we still left with too much sauce, leaving 4 gears of stripes the entire length of the track.
I read elsewhere you're planning to rerun the 720S, correct?
 

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With the new, beta firmware from. AEM, we've done an event without cam errors! Now we get to start seeing what the car takes. We were out at Street Car Takeover Atlanta this past weekend and set another personal best at 9.3 @ 163 mph!



If you caught us on Netflix's Fastest Car, our showing was not particularly good. It was 35 degrees Fahrenheit, and when it started to rain, they rushed us into the cars. They would not let us test the 2-step... I pulled some, but it was still too much sauce. We left strips the entire way down the track.

That said, we wanted a little redemption... We set up a race with Justin in the McLaren and he accepted, but later realized he had something else on his schedule. So... We raced the car that nearly beat the McLaren (it would have if it had not lifted a head... Note fire under the wheel well right before the finish line). We certainly did not come in last, even after lifting as the car was walking to the center of the track pretty bad.








Our 9.3 run.








We are going for 8's now!
 

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I was definitely rooting for you guys on Fastest Car! After seeing your previous passes...I thought you were bringing a gun to a knife fight! I forgot that traction is the ultimate equalizer....
Unless you do a lot of no-prep/street racing, it had be hard to tune for those conditions straight off the trailer.

Been watching this build for a while and am still amazed at what you guys have done with this thing!
 

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Awesome, thank you! We knew FWD and the unprepped surface would not be in our favor, but we thought we'd have significantly better weather with a shot of running the other cars down on the top end.
 

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