We’ve seen racers over the last several years arriving at events in ever-larger “stacker” type trailers with full-size hauler rigs, even down to the sportsman level. These rigs offer the ultimate in ease-of-service at the track, as the racer is able to bring all manner of spare parts along and have a lift in the trailer to raise the car for maintenance items, such as torque converter swaps and the like.

What we haven’t seen anytime in the near (or distant) past is a racer roll into a big-time event with a Pro Mod on a flatbed open trailer and expect to have any level of success – until David Hance did just that this past weekend at Maryland International Raceway. Hance, who normally rolls in one of those aforementioned haulers with “the works” on board, has suffered through a number of issues this year with his personal rig, forcing him to seek alternate forms of transportation from friends all season long.

Not only did he arrive at MIR with his gorgeous twin-turbo’d ’57 New York Motorsports Bel Air on the open trailer, he proceeded to run through a stout field of 14 cars on the fabled MIR track surface.

Hance had a first-round bye and a second-round matchup with Keith Fortney, Sr. where Hance took the win with a 6.75 traction-limited pass to Fortney’s shutdown 11-second pass. In the third round of competition, he ran into Jeff Miller in a battle of ’57 Chevy machines. There, he uncorked a stout 5.88 at 252 MPH to Miller’s 6.09/232 MPH blast to set up the final where number one qualifier Robert Patrick was the opponent.  Tough competition for sure, but Hance outdrove Patrick in a pedalfest and went 5.86 at a whopping 252-plus MPH in the process. Then, he and his crew proceeded to roll the car back up on the flatbed and haul back to New York.

Thanks Steven at TheRacingVids for the footage!