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>> 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 tractor's called "lotta dirt." >> and you can see with only
>> those big 30.5's dancing on top of the dirt instead of those big, deep v's 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, there's 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. anything's possible. mr. twister. he is going for a ride. it pulled that motor down right at the very end, too. never really got that momentum going ...
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 that left sideline over there and didn't really have to get after those brakes. just amazing. >> well, we...
As you see, the whole front end lift off the ground. >> oh, and he's 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, that's 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. that's what you're seeing the smoke coming out of that front right motor -- just pure, raw fuel. >> only one plate on the front of that, too, as he was trying to...
>> 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 that's 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 championships in this category, with his tractor. >> and it's a unique configuration, as well. most of the othe...