The Pro Line Racing gang of Eric Dillard and Steve Petty and El Geenral/Q80 Racing’s Jose Gonzalez certainly weren’t playing around last season when they uncorked the fastest speed ever recorded by a door car in the eighth-mile with a 221.05 miles per hour blast in Rockingham, nor were they doing so on Tuesday wen they topped it  — yes, they topped it.

The team was down in the warm confines of the Palm Beach International Raceway earlier this week getting in some pre-season testing, with Gonzalez at the controls of the Q80 Racing Pro Extreme Camaro that Dillard has plunked into the 3.50’s for the first time in history a year ago and that Turky Al Zafiri piloted to the quickest quarter-mile run ever with a 5.47. On one particular pass, Gonzalez stormed to an incredible 3.626 at an all-time-fast 22.25 miles per hour — this after a 9.52 short time and a 2.49 330-footer.

Perhaps just as impressively, Gonzalez was out of the throttle shortly after the 1,000-foot mark (as evidenced by the very stout 4.650 1,000-foot clocking) and had the laundry out and STILL coasted across the quarter-mile timers to a 5.732 at 191.48 miles per hour, which is quicker than the vast majority of the world’s Pro Modified cars have ever gone, period.

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The trio of Gonzalez, Dillard, and Petty are of course looking to carry the momentum they gained with their turbo combo right out of the gate last spring into the new year to make even more waves in the Pro Extreme ranks, where they’ve already been into the mid-3.50 range with several runs in the high-210 mile per hour range and, of course, over 220 in occasion.