[Brian] We are here in the pits at the legendary Derby Drag
with our two combatants that will be racing on this show
Jeremy Teasley, the guy in the leather pants.
He's clearly riding the motorcycle,
because if he wasn't it'd be weird.
And Tom Bailey, the guy with the beard.
Because he drives the Camaro on Drag Week.
You handled the Street Car Super Nationals.
Really, this car has been around a while.
You've owned it for how many years now Tom?
- Since 2011.
- 2011, now give people a little bit of a stat rundown
on the thing.
What's the motor combination?
What does it weight?
What's the transmission?
- [Tom] 615 Steve Morris engine.
Big Block Chevy.
Twin 94 millimeter turbos.
It's got a Rossler Turbo 400.
Right now it's at 3,400 pounds so 3,500 horsepower,
30 pounds a boost.
- There you go.
Now let's go over to Jeremy which the numbers here,
are going to be a lot smaller but so is this.
- Exactly.
- I want to lead off with this verY simple question.
How much does it weigh?
What's the wheel base?
What's the transmission,
and what kind of horsepower does it make?
[Jeremy] It's 75 inches from axle to axle.
It weighs, with me on it, about 650 pounds
and makes 700 horsepower.
- And really, a guess,
how quick are no wheelie bar bikes?
- This one actually holds the record for the fastest
in the wheelie bar bikes at 646.
- [Brian] And the speed?
- [Jeremy] 225.
- Crazy, you're a young guy.
My understanding is you came up fast on these motorcycles.
You started off when you were a teenager right?
Tell me a little bit about your career progression
because it wasn't started on a 50CC bike.
- No no, I started on a 600.
Really we're not supposed to. Underage.
But as soon as I turned 16 I was all in.
Never looked back.
Keeps on passing faster every year.
- Clearly if you jumped on one these things as a teenager,
you picked it up fast .
So what makes you good on one of these tough-to-ride bikes?
- I've been around them my whole life.
Some people ... Don't know.
They think I'm a machine somehow,
I don't know but I just do it.
It's just natural.
- And Tom your story with this car is pretty neat.
Drag Week it was the first car to run a six second run
at every track each day.
This particular one won the event one time,
but talk to me about your career invested in 80 mile an hour
in this particular car.
- This car, the fastest it's been 645.
So like 217 miles an hour.
That was in 2014.
It actually hasn't been a quarter mile since 2015.
- Yeah, you've gotten like no preparation
with this car much.
- [Tom] So generally, this is the car that sits in my garage
at home that we take to dinner.
- [Brian] Yeah, you do drive
a 3,500 horsepower car to dinner.
Why am I even standing here speaking to you about it?
I don't know.
So I guess the last question for both you guys.
Prep on the racetrack?
Normally what we do here is we alternate lanes.
But Jimmy Bradshaw, the Track Manager.
Well known prep guy has set up one lane
to be specifically good for a radial tire
like you run.
And one lane to be really good for the big slick tires
that you run in the back of the Camaro.
Are you guys cool with kind of locking into a specific lane
for the race?
- Yeah. I'm hanging.
- Yeah that's fine.
- Okay it's going to be a best two out of three deal.
Some big direct sunlight off of the racetrack now.
It's getting cooler by the minute
so it should be getting faster by the minute.
I appreciate both of you guys coming out
and having some fun.
Let's get them rolled around the corner and make some noise.
- [Tom] Cool, good luck.
- [Jeremy] Yeah, you too.
- [Tom] Be safe.
- All right so as you can see it has moved into the evening.
This is our first round.
Why did it take us so long?
Well Tom Bailey has had a problem trying to get the thing
to build boost in the Camaro.
What he figured out was the inter-cooler was cracked.
We gave him time to try to fix it.
Not sure if he did or not.
(loud engines roar)
One of the fascinating things is going to be how the race
resumes in these conditions.
It was a very hot day today at Darlington
but the reality is it's cooled way off.
The racetrack is nice and cool
and as we talked about it in the introduction,
Jimmy Bradshaw's one of the best track prep guys
in the country and he's prepped these lanes
to specifically suit the types of vehicles
that are going to be in them.
So the bike lane has a ton of glue on it
because that little narrow radial tire
wants to be stuck to the race track.
On the slick side of the race track
he loosened the surface up a little bit
so hopefully Tom Bailey can get a little wheel speed going.
Jeremy on the bike,
remember this number.
646, that's the world record.
(engines growl)
The conditions are such tonight
that they may be able to shoot for it.
And also remember this number.
30, that's the amount of boost Tom Bailey wants to be making
but right now isn't.
(engines roaring)
(deep dark heavy music)
(engines roar)