Last weekend, at the ADRL’s SGMP race, the Titan Motorsports Extreme 10.5 team and driver Gary White accomplished a goal that had been a long time coming and was once thought impossible.  The Titan team races with the smallest engine in the Extreme 10.5 class with a inline-6 2JZGTE, and traversed the eighth mile in under four seconds. The feat could well be described as one of the greatest single performances we’ve seen in the sport in years.  With the run – a 3.99 at 182.45 MPH – White became the fourth member of Mickey Thompson’s exclusive 3-Second Club for Extreme 10.5 cars, joining Chuck Ulsch, Spiro Pappas, and Todd Moyer.

Team Titan’s Scion tC is powered by a factory-based 190 cubic-inch inline  inline-6 with a single turbocharger, competing along side massive cubic inch V8’s with screw superchargers, single and twin turbochargers and nitrous oxide.  The very same Rick Jones-built car was campaigned on the now defunct NHRA Sport Compact Series and was once piloted by current Pro Modified racer Brad Personett.  After the sport compact/import well ran dry, Team Titan bolted the 10.5W’s onto their ride and joined the ADRL fray.  The team has steadily shaved away the numbers on the scoreboards since entering the class in 2008, holding the national record on occasion while battling with Billy Glidden for XTF supremacy nearly week in and week out.  White and crew had tickled the 3-second mark prior, laying down an oh-so-close 4.009 at Rockingham last fall and a 4.005 during testing.

The Titan Racing Scion is said to weigh in the 2,200-pound region, down from the 2,450 they were required to run at in the NHRA Sport Compact Series.  Much like Glidden, they’ve taken full advantage of the no minimum weight rule, allowing both to be competitive with much smaller, less powerful engines than their counterparts. White and crew have become familiar faces and an integral part of the ADRL tour and Extreme 10.5 and their once joked-about “buzzin’ half dozen” Toyota combination has earned the respect of everyone in the sport, and a big congratulations goes out to them for their feat.