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.
// < 
