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Sitting sideways, or outboard, and then theyre hooked together, crank to crank, and then into a gearbox that goes down into the drive shaft, back into the rear end. just a little bit different way to set up your motors. >> of course...crank like that, if one of them goes dead, the other ones churn it into pieces. fortunately for him, that did not happen. 288.30 is a great effort, but not enough to take the lead. it is good enough for third place, though. >> hes got a nice, straight, narrow run g...

Stand at 8,600 maximum. he didnt want to go over that, and here we go -- hes off. oh, man, and hes on a ride! hang on, baby! thats like an 8-second ride right there, man. hes in the wrong business. he looked like a bull in this particular case. not what he wanted to do here, so a tough night for tim howell and the double down. >> kind of like he was on a pogo stick there on those rear tires, just bouncing, and a lot of drivers will try to drive through that rear bounce, and if you can get it goi...

We got to go. well, i felt good. i was worried. >> 297.41 pretty good. its a tough spot right now, but towards the end of the run, it seemed to dip to the left. >> yeah, it got going to the left a little bit there and i had to get on the brake, and i tell you what, theres a lot of good iron back there yet, so you know, nobody knows. i hope it holds out, but you never know in this game. >> when we come back, were gonna put some of that iron up to the sled. stay with us.

Three motors out there, hes got those big 1471 superchargers that he is allowed to run. interesting configuration here, how he has that injector hat mounted on the motor. as he takes off, a great shot. watch those red butterflies as they start to open up. full throttle here. all the fuel getting poured down into those cylinders. >> edmund, oklahoma, and the front of that one twisting and turning as he heads for the 300-foot mark. hell land real short, though, at 264.7. >> and he gets off to a gr...

>> welcome back to henry, illinois, and the lucas oil pro pulling league with e3 spark plugs prairie state challenge presented by k&n filters. we are watching the super-modified tractors out here tonight. justin gallion is coming up next, and the tractors called "lotta dirt." >> and you can see with only

>> those big 30.5s dancing on top of the dirt instead of those big, deep vs digging in and pushing that dirt in front of the pan back there. you can see this track really hardening up. a numbers game, maybe, tonight. >> as you quite imagine, theres a lot of things you have to have go right to get everything working on one of these tractors, pulling the safety belts down tight, just in case something were to go wrong. 8,000 horsepower up there. anythings possible. mr. twister. he is going for a r...

You can see only three weights out there on the front -- 300 pounds out there on the nose. thats why hes getting such good lift. >> oh, and hes 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 doesnt 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 wasnt heading towards that left ...

As you see, the whole front end lift off the ground. >> oh, and hes lost one of those motors right there. that right-front engine gave up on him, and it was a great go before. 238 will be the mark, but yeah, thats exactly right. with the counterrotating power plants, of course, it takes some of that torque out of that chassis. >> but you can see the blower belt goes down right there, the extra fuel being pushed out of that cylinder. thats what youre seeing the smoke coming out of that front righ...

>> and bam, just like that, that e3 spark plug transfer box smacks the front of the sled. you can see all the blow-by coming out of the bottom of the power plants. man, those things were working hard. as we continue on, another spectacular-looking tractor, and thats what the fans love about these things. they pull out, they look great. of course, we saw this guy before. he was inside of the turbine-powered machine, now out here in the dirtslinger. bill lieschner, who has won so many championship...