Since its inception, Outlaw 10.5 has been the world’s quickest and fastest small tire class, and despite some stiff competition from the radial tire crowd in the performance department, they proved once again over the weekend that they aren’t going to take the battle lying down. At the 2014 Shakedown At The Summit  in Norwalk, Mike Decker Jr. became the quickest of the quick in his blown Camaro when he mdd the quickest eighth-mile pass by an Outlaw 10.5 car ever on American soil.

There has been a real battle in the small tire world to be the first to the three’s on a “small” tire between the racers in Outlaw 10.5 and Radial vs The World. DeWayne Mills put the radial tire racers closer to the three-second zone this summer when he ripped off a blistering 4.08 at almost 195 mph at Tulsa Motorsports Park. At Lights Out V in Georgia, several racers got into the four-teen range, but nobody cracked into the three-second zone.

Decker Jr.’s Camaro sums up Outlaw 10.5 with its blown powerplant and big performance at every race it shows up at. The cold Ohio temperatures and mineshaft-level air mixed with ideal track conditions allowed the Decker team to let the Camaro eat. During qualifying, Decker Jr. was able to take advantage of the conditions and ran a 4.006 at 192 mph, putting the class on the brink of the magical three-second zone it’s been chasing for he better part of a decade and a half. Check out the video from Hans at Free Life Films that shows just how brutal Decker Jr.’s car is as it roars down the track. And now, all that’s left to question is…who will be the first to break into the three’s?