New Records Set for RMRW 2024!

Rocky Mountain Race Week saw its 10th running last week! That alone is reason for celebration as drag and drive promotion is hard to say the least. Over the years, the event has raced at many different facilities in many different states.

For the 2024 event, Tulsa Raceway Park in Oklahoma was selected as the host track. Other tracks for the week included Texas Motorplex, Thunder Valley and Mo-Kan Dragway. This meant participants would cover more than 1000 street miles in some of the worst heat we have seen on an event in several years.

This meant that only the strong would survive. To survive, and also break records is amazing!

As we began the week, we found that there were four possible opportunities for Records to be Reset. You can read more about those HERE. As the heat set in for the week, those opportunities began to wain and racers worked to simply continue.

As racers left Mo-Kan on Day Four, there were only a few records within reach.

New Records

Crossing the beam in Tulsa, the following few racers took home a trophy and the bragging rights that go along with their record setting class Average!

Sean Stanford would reset the Naturally Aspirated Small Block Record in his 2020 Chevrolet Camaro with a 9.6165 Average! This would best Matt Koetting’s Record from 2023 of 10.254.

Lastly, the 9.00 Index Record would fall this year as well! This class had the widest opportunity to be reset within the Index classes at a 9.087 set by Luna Tran in 2023. Shawn Slaubaugh would drop the Average ET by more than five hundredths with his 9.033 Average! Shawn’s on a roll this year, with his second drag and drive win after winning the True Radial Class at The Circuit testing for this event. Shawn’s ETs throughout the week are downright impressive for a car this quick. Sunday he submitted a 9.022 timeslip. Tuesday’s ET was a bit better at a 9.018, his best of the week. Wednesday’s pass at Thunder Valley would begin his slowest so far at 9.032, providing a 9.024 average. He would need to submit a 9.273 or better to lock in the Record. But, with Jeremy Wilson breathing down his neck at 9.046 Average, to win the class he needed to run a 9.0625 or better to lock in First Place (even if Jeremy ran a perfect 9.000 ET). At this level of drag and drive index racing, it’s a good thing people have calculators in their pockets……. Shawn locked on both the Class Win AND Record with his submission of a 9.0612!


As RMRW continues, these index classes become increasingly difficult for records to be reset, does that mean racers will begin to look at other classes to compete in? Or will Matt and the team add more classes? We don’t know the answer to those questions, but we’ll be here covering all of the event and nerding out on stats for you!

Article and photos by Michael Narx. Photos edited by Eric White.


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