thetexastyrant
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Last night at Houston Raceway Park we were particularly interested in seeing what kind of time a brand new 2011 5.0 Mustang that was in line was going to run. The car was 3 weeks old & still had un-faded paper plates on it.
When he got up to the starting line we realized that the driver was Richard Lelsz, the owner of Strictly Performance (which told me the car had to be heavily modified & would be very fast.)
He ran a very smooth, almost-slow-looking pass, but it wasn’t. He ran a 9.96 @ 137mph with a 1.4 60’ time.
It was the first 9-second pass ever made in a new 5.0 Mustang.
We went to congratulate him & look at the car. He had already phoned Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords magazine to tell them about the time. They made some kind of deal with him to not pop the hood or tell anyone what was done to it until the article in the magazine comes out.
(We also saw PSI's red Lightning do a 10.37et.)
YouTube - First 9 sec 2011 50.mov
When he got up to the starting line we realized that the driver was Richard Lelsz, the owner of Strictly Performance (which told me the car had to be heavily modified & would be very fast.)
He ran a very smooth, almost-slow-looking pass, but it wasn’t. He ran a 9.96 @ 137mph with a 1.4 60’ time.
It was the first 9-second pass ever made in a new 5.0 Mustang.
We went to congratulate him & look at the car. He had already phoned Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords magazine to tell them about the time. They made some kind of deal with him to not pop the hood or tell anyone what was done to it until the article in the magazine comes out.
(We also saw PSI's red Lightning do a 10.37et.)
YouTube - First 9 sec 2011 50.mov
