{"id":90040,"date":"2023-10-17T22:18:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T22:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/going-f-a-s-t-a-look-at-the-cars-of-the-factory-appearing-stock-tire-class\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T22:18:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T22:18:27","slug":"going-f-a-s-t-a-look-at-the-cars-of-the-factory-appearing-stock-tire-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/going-f-a-s-t-a-look-at-the-cars-of-the-factory-appearing-stock-tire-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Going F.A.S.T.: A Look at the Cars of the Factory Appearing Stock Tire Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>The increasingly popular FAST (Factory Appearing Stock Tire) Racing Series rolled into New York\u2019s Empire Dragway on May 27-28 for the FAST Auto Service of Old Saybrook Nationals. With muscle cars from the 1960s and 1970s racing on narrow stock tires, the goal of the series is to maximize factory parts on factory tires on factory-appearing cars. The group that competed at Empire certainly achieved that goal, with some drivers racing deep into the 10-second zone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>[Editor\u2019s Note: This story originally appeared in DI #183, the Sportsman Special Issue, in July\/August of 2023.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>In the FAST Quick 8 Shootout, Bill Atwood Sr. qualified No. 1 in his Hemi-powered \u201969 Road Runner with a 10.19. He carried that performance through to the final round, where he defeated No. 3 qualifier Ed Cook in his \u201963 Savoy. Other qualifiers included Don Giannone in his \u201966 Chevelle, Bryan Doyle in his \u201971 Challenger, Bill Atwood Jr. in his \u201973 GTX, Bill Dicicco in his \u201968 Road Runner, Andrew Colling in his \u201967 Firebird, and Rhett Moody in his \u201968 Barracuda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The weekend also included the Factory Stock Quick 8 Shootout, where No. 1 qualifier Eric Simpson emerged victorious in his \u201969 Camaro ZL1. His final-round opponent was Owen Simpson in his \u201969 Camaro. Jeff Wilkins in his \u201970 Torino Cobra joined the Simpsons in the top 3 in qualifying. Additional entrants included Tom Cannon in his \u201968 Dodge 330, Alana Beltrame in her \u201969 Camaro SS, Frank Heofling in his \u201968 Road Runner, and Steve Oliver in his \u201971 GTX.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The FAST series has five races left on its 2023 schedule, including three stops on the NMCA tour. For more info on the FAST rules and schedule, check out www.FASTDrags.com.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/dragillustrated.com\/going-f-a-s-t-a-look-at-the-cars-of-the-factory-appearing-stock-tire-class\/\">Going F.A.S.T.: A Look at the Cars of the Factory Appearing Stock Tire Class<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/dragillustrated.com\/\">Drag Illustrated | Drag Racing News, Opinion, Interviews, Photos, Videos and More<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The increasingly popular FAST (Factory Appearing Stock Tire) Racing Series rolled into New York\u2019s Empire Dragway on May 27-28 for the FAST Auto Service of Old Saybrook Nationals. With muscle cars from the 1960s and 1970s racing on narrow stock tires, the goal of the series is to maximize factory parts on factory tires on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}