Las Vegas - May 03-04, 2008: Jack Harris wasn't planning to run the inaugural Las Vegas Speed Spectacular at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway but in spite of the fact the car had never turned a tire he accepted the invitation to compete.

Using the same basic tune-up and tires as he used on the Crown Victoria funny car last year, the outing answered two questions. One, this new car is a completely different animal and two, when they get it to hook-up it is going to fly.

On all three of his qualifying attempts Jack smoked the tires early in the run. He did get back in it and the car really wanted to run on the top end with speeds of 230+. After qualifying #6 Harris smoked the tires in a first round loss to Jeff Utterback in the Pisano & Matsubara tribute car.

Harris hopes to get in another test session before his next event, the NHRA Funny Car Fever race at Rocky Mountain Raceway June 14th.

Here are some photos from the race - the first of this beauty in action.

 

Taken during his Saturday match up with Mendy Fry, these photos show what plagued Harris all weekend. The car would leave hard then go into tire smoke by the Christmas tree.

 

 

 

Different run - same results.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harris coasted through after blazing the tires in round one.

 

Photos by Tim Hanaseth

 

The official Nitro Thunder back-up girl, Lauren Tyrrell (daughter of crew member Don) backs Jack up from his burnout.