Unfortunately, doing their first pass at about 8 p.m. the motor decided not to cooperate. Pulling the truck in to the overhang area of the concession stand, the team thrashed on the engine. Their goal was to do a complete motor swap. They got it completely pulled out, disassembled and the back-up engine that they brought with them back into the truck by 5 a.m. the next morning (using only hand tools). Still at the track, they lined back up and were making passes until 6 a.m., when the track finally closed.
During the three day event in Ennis, they managed to get licensed and make multiple low 8-second passes, but were unable to achieve their goal of reaching a 7-second pass. This was an extremely hard working and dedicated team. As if taking the 15,000-mile journey wasn’t hard enough, they actually put the truck together in 30 days, in order to be able to ship the truck here and make the race (international freight can take 30 to 60 days to arrive via ocean liner).