Ken Trough reported a quick summary of today's NEDRA event in Woodburn, Oregon. In terms of raw power, it sounds like John Wayland’s White Zombie stole this year's show. The Zombie did five 100+ mph runs. The fastest was reportedly 104.14 mph, and the quickest time that Ken noted was 12.63 seconds. At one point the ‘Zombie threw “fireballs and zortching sparks.”
Ken added, "Victor [Tikhonov] did an electric burnout with no batteries. His car runs on AC and uses ultra-caps for electron storage. It was a real treat to see."
Driver Tim Brehm summarized the experience on the EVDL...
"I made my way through the staging lanes, teched in and made my way to the lights. The Light turned green and I mashed my foot to the floor! the tires screamed and the car shot off the line. The little Datsun slammed my back into the seat and pulled hard all the way down the track. Not knowing were the end of the track was I might have slowed down too early(I still don't know were the end is). My first run wasn't bad 13.07 @ 96.47. Pretty good for cold batteries and no experience. My nervousness quickly turned into a huge EV grin. My second run was better, with warmer batteries and turning the parallel amp in the Zilla from 1800 to 2000 amps I ran 12.87@100.00. I returned to the pits, still wearing a giant EV grin John decided it was time to turn the Zilla up to 1700 series amps from 1500 and leaving the parallel amp maxed out. With the series amps turned up I had major traction issues, spinning the tires and going a little sideways off the line. the tires hooked up after about twenty feet and slammed me into the seat again 12.63@102.43 . The car got faster each run with run four 12.70@103.53 run five 12.59@103.92 and finally vaporizing a brush spring during the burnout before run six and still running 12.65@104.14!! Check out that run at www.Plasmaboyracing.com. It was a pretty good day of racing with no major damage and only minor bruising on my back from the 3.3G take offs and that lump in the seat."
UPDATE: John Wayland has posted a very cool video of the fastest run to his website, where his video page features the killer sparking burnout complete with molten brushes, a hard launch and a 104 mph (166 kph) ELECTRIC CAR flyby. You must see it to believe it!
You can also find pictures of the event on the VisforVoltage website link below.

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