The Bruder Brothers, one of the most well known and feared duos in drag radial racing, dropped an atomic bomb on the rest of the X275 category on Saturday evening in Maryland, making the quickest pass in class history and the first pass in the 4.30s with a stunning 4.389 at 167.53 mph.

They did with a 1.074 60-foot and a 2.890 330-foot clocking.

The numbers say it all. Rich, Nick and ‘Pops’ Bruder took their DiSomma Racing Engines-powered, Precision turbocharged, FuelTech-equipped Ford Mustang to the mindshaft Maryland International Raceway for the Ford Fever Classic as a part of the Fun Ford Series. As the cars rolled to the staging lanes for the initial round of qualifying for X275, the weather conditions were prime and the MDIR track crew, led by Jason Miller, had the surface on-point. The possibility of huge numbers were there.

Rich Bruder was the leading car out of the gate, and with all eyes on the blue Racecraft, Inc.-equipped Ford Mustang, tuned by the dynamic duo of brothers, they definitely did not disappoint. Right off the trailer, Rich rocketed to the top of the leaderboard by clicking off the quickest pass in X275 competition with a 4.40-second blast at 166 miles per hour, setting the pace and exploding social media websites seconds after the scoreboards lit up.

With the first leg of a new record in their hands, the Bruder Brothers went back to the trailer and analyzed the data and weather conditions prior to the second round of qualifying for X275. In the second round of qualifying, the record-holding Ford Mustang, which has held that very title many times over in the past, rocketed to the quickest pass ever recorded, once again, in X275 and the first into the once-unthinkable 4.30s.

Dragzine wants to send out a huge congratulations to the entire Bruder family, their sponsors and supporters and all involved with their program. X275 was put on notice on this cool Saturday afternoon in Budds Creek, Maryland and the scariest thing of all…there’s still another day of racing. Can the bar be lowered again?