Sheldon Bissesar - 6.18sec in USA -PICS

Duane 3NE 2NR

Sheldon Bissessar broke his personal record this weekend in the US.
Having sold his rail car engine and vitals to Rishi Kanick and is now the Llumar Rail in T&T, Sheldon now pilots a 526 Hemi rail car with a 1471 blower putting out over 3000HP. He hopes to bring this same engine setup to his now empty T&T chassis eventually.

At Mountain Park Dragway, Clay City, Kentucky, the local Mopar Southern Classic ran off this weekend. Sheldon went up to Kentucky from Trinidad on Wednesday last to get the car ready at his crew chief's shop "IronMan Chassis" & "Aaron Sipple Engineering".

The car is being prepped for 1/4mile racing at Rockingham Raceway to be held next weekend. Even though most of the top racing at Clay City is 1/8mile, Sheldon took the opportunity this weekend to practice with 1/4mile runs at the event.

Sheldon's four 1/8mile runs were as follows:
1/8mile
4.18 @ 176mph - 1/4 7.2 @121mph <-even after shutting down at the 1/8
4.12 @ 176mph
3.98 @ 185mph
3.96 @ 184mph

His 1/4mile run:
60ft 1.01sec
1/8mile 3.99 @ 182mph
1/4mile 6.18 @ 214mph <- shut down 200ft before the finish

Sheldon said that he had to shut the car down early for safety reasons so the parachutes were actually already opened when he crossed the 1/4mile finish line which is why is trap speed is considerably slower than a usual low 6sec run.

Congrats to Sheldon and we look forward to seeing more record breaking times from him when he goes to race in Rockingham, North Carolina this coming weekend.

[thanks to Zaxxon1 for corrections]

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snowman · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:07 am Post subject:

WELL DONE SHELDON...

SMc · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:13 am Post subject:

wayyyy sah Shocked

Duane 3NE 2NR · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:13 am Post subject:

you can check out www.aaronsipple.com
they are featuring Sheldon's car on the homepage with a welcome to him.

Sinister_Audio · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:17 am Post subject:

*OMFG*

*CHEERS*

Maserati · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:34 am Post subject:

well done

bOOsTmaN · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:48 pm Post subject:

Wow well done!!

QG · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:54 pm Post subject:

Just look at how them little railway cars does put down 3000hp and thing nah Very Happy

...impressive!

Btw, I like how the page was done in the link. Nice to see our locals doing GREAT in foriegn countries...God Bless him.

zaxxon1 · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 1:50 pm Post subject:

We hope to break some new records at Rockingham.

BlueIce · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:17 pm Post subject:

WELL DONE WELL DONE! GLAD TO SEE TRINIS STILL FIGHTING STRONG FOR MOTORSPORT SPIRIT

i posted in caps to freak duane out Laughing

Zeriam · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 4:57 pm Post subject:

jed 6 seconds....wow congrats, i admire these guys who can go that fast and hold it down.

(...Rovin...) · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:45 pm Post subject:

thats just insane .... Surprised

STUD · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 7:06 am Post subject:

very well done!
thankd for the info!

SmokeyGTi · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:30 pm Post subject:

6 secs!

wow...

zaxxon1 · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 4:26 pm Post subject:

Some teaser pics. This is the Hat (intake for the blower) pic#1 closed (idle) and where it reaches when a burnout is being done pic#2. Imagine the power involved in the run!

zaxxon1 · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:29 pm Post subject:

There are a couple of vids of the weekend on our facebook page. I think Duane has the links for you tube but if you check out Partytime Racing Team on face book you can see them also.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=26418492832&ref=mf

Duane 3NE 2NR · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 9:23 am Post subject:

here are the vids - 4th is uploading still

Zh@ne · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:31 am Post subject:

I luv the sound Twisted Evil

Duane 3NE 2NR · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 1:25 pm Post subject:

^ for that event in Clay City, SHeldon ran the fastest 1/8 mile time, the fastest 1/8 trap speed, the fastest 1/4mile time and the fastest 1/4mile trap speed - this also meant that he qualified 1st place for that event which was just a test for them before Rockingham NC on the 17th-18th October.

You can hear the announcer say "Sheldon Bissessar from Marabella, Trinidad" over the PA system.

QG · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:50 pm Post subject: