l.d. nation you want to have a good time, just spend about five minutes with that guy. >> boy, he is a hoot, and, you know, this is another guy who's got a lot of driving experience, not only with the lucas oil pro pulling league in truck and tractor pulling, but this is a guy who also ran alcohol dragsters, so he's been down the track at over 260 miles an hour and then comes out here and pilots almost 8,600 horsepower on these three t64 turbines on his machine he calls the indian outlaw. it's just amazing. you can see only three weights out there on the front -- 300 pounds out there on the nose. that's why he's getting such good lift. >> oh, and he's gonna get the lead by a half a foot! 296.96 was the previous leap. 296.41 is just enough to take over the mark. >> and look at that -- a great launch down the center of the track. he doesn't have to do a lot of steering with his brakes until he gets down these towards the end. imagine, ken, what his distance would be if he wasn't heading towards tha