Charlie Stewart Calls Out Gale Banks!!!!
#1
10-27-2007, 02:32 PM
Charlie Stewart Calls Out Gale Banks!!!!
Holy crap folks!!! It's finally going to happen!!! 
Charlie Stewart called out Gale Banks and Gale responded. Gonna be a shootout at the O.K. Coral. 
Congratulations to the Banks/Sidewinder Type D
I, along w/ the entire Dr. Performance Nitro Flash team would like to congratulate Gale Banks and his entire team on their impressive showing this weekend at the ACDelco Las Vegas NHRA Nationals. You have assembled a first class truck, and the performance speaks for itself.
We brought the Dr. Performance truck to Las Vegas with the intentions on showing it in the SEMA show, not to race it. We decided to enter the truck into competition to prove a point. This point was that Greg Hogue was a competent driver, and had the ability to race any vehicle at any time. His driving experience in a variety of cars, diesels powered ones being no exception, speaks for itself.
With that being said, the truck had a 3 speed in it w/ no overdrive, and a worn out motor that has been run all year long. Let me clarify I'm not saying this to take anything away from your 8.225 @ 164.67. That pass makes the Type D the fastest/quickest diesel powered truck, but unfortunately, Sportsman competitors can't set records at NHRA National events. Furthermore, the Dr. Performance Nitro Flash truck remains the current DHRA record holder with the 8.312 @ 163.04 pass set in Denver, CO @ 10,000+ feet density altitude.
As you stated earlier, the two trucks ran on the same track on the same day in Las Vegas. You showed up w/ a fresh/race-ready truck, and we had one prepared to show. It is for this reason that the Dr. Performance Nitro Flash truck would like to officially challenge the Banks/Sidewinder Type D truck to a Chicago style match race at the first DHRA race of 2008.
No smoke vs. Smoke
Duramax vs. Cummins
Chevy vs. Dodge
Sincerely,
Charlie Stewart and the entire Dr. Performance Nitro Flash Team
Originally Posted by PeterT
Gale called me from the track and asked me to post the following message from him:
“Hey Charlie,
This morning we went 8.21 at 165.50. These are the numbers to beat, you can’t escape from that. Stop making lame excuses and start making power. You got beat by our road race engine. The drag engine is on its way, so get ready for that mother. And by the way, we’re building a CR Cummins, too!
We’ve built a drag truck, if DHRA is there, we’ll be there too! Name the date. By the way, we’ve been racing diesels at Bonneville, in Baja, on road courses, and now in the NHRA. Now, we’re coming to DHRA but I’ve never seen you at Bonneville or in Baja, what gives? If you want me to bring it on at your races, then you need to come race me at mine.”
Charlie Stewart called out Gale Banks and Gale responded. Gonna be a shootout at the O.K. Coral. Congratulations to the Banks/Sidewinder Type D
I, along w/ the entire Dr. Performance Nitro Flash team would like to congratulate Gale Banks and his entire team on their impressive showing this weekend at the ACDelco Las Vegas NHRA Nationals. You have assembled a first class truck, and the performance speaks for itself.
We brought the Dr. Performance truck to Las Vegas with the intentions on showing it in the SEMA show, not to race it. We decided to enter the truck into competition to prove a point. This point was that Greg Hogue was a competent driver, and had the ability to race any vehicle at any time. His driving experience in a variety of cars, diesels powered ones being no exception, speaks for itself.
With that being said, the truck had a 3 speed in it w/ no overdrive, and a worn out motor that has been run all year long. Let me clarify I'm not saying this to take anything away from your 8.225 @ 164.67. That pass makes the Type D the fastest/quickest diesel powered truck, but unfortunately, Sportsman competitors can't set records at NHRA National events. Furthermore, the Dr. Performance Nitro Flash truck remains the current DHRA record holder with the 8.312 @ 163.04 pass set in Denver, CO @ 10,000+ feet density altitude.
As you stated earlier, the two trucks ran on the same track on the same day in Las Vegas. You showed up w/ a fresh/race-ready truck, and we had one prepared to show. It is for this reason that the Dr. Performance Nitro Flash truck would like to officially challenge the Banks/Sidewinder Type D truck to a Chicago style match race at the first DHRA race of 2008.
No smoke vs. Smoke
Duramax vs. Cummins
Chevy vs. Dodge
Sincerely,
Charlie Stewart and the entire Dr. Performance Nitro Flash Team
Originally Posted by PeterT
Gale called me from the track and asked me to post the following message from him:
“Hey Charlie,
This morning we went 8.21 at 165.50. These are the numbers to beat, you can’t escape from that. Stop making lame excuses and start making power. You got beat by our road race engine. The drag engine is on its way, so get ready for that mother. And by the way, we’re building a CR Cummins, too!
We’ve built a drag truck, if DHRA is there, we’ll be there too! Name the date. By the way, we’ve been racing diesels at Bonneville, in Baja, on road courses, and now in the NHRA. Now, we’re coming to DHRA but I’ve never seen you at Bonneville or in Baja, what gives? If you want me to bring it on at your races, then you need to come race me at mine.”
#5
10-27-2007, 03:28 PM
It's definitely Banks. He comes out and rips an 8.21 @ 165mph with the ROAD RACE motor. He was just priming the pump in front of everyone and will definitely become the first diesel truck in the 7's. You NEVER hear Banks talk smack and now he has which tells me he has already made passes with the drag motor and knows what it will do.
#7
10-27-2007, 06:20 PM
Diesel Bomber
He doesn't talk smack...what about him badmouthing every other diesel performance company out there? This is the first time he has backed up anything. And this is the first time he's gotten into a sport where everybody else is focusing on. Why didn't he do drag racing or sledpulling first? I think he was too scared to go into the water where everybody else was. If I'm the first one to run a mile backwards...of course I'm going to have the fastest time. It's the same theory with him...no wait...his money... going to Bonneville, Baja, and now road racing. If Gale Banks wanted to make a statement to everybody else why didn't he go straight into one of the big diesel sports?
#8
10-27-2007, 06:33 PM
#9
10-27-2007, 10:52 PM
Diesel Bomber
world records for what??? Land speed record...the only reason he still has the land speed record is because Keating has been focusing on drag racing. Like I said, Banks decides to focus on other divisions of racing that he can dominate because nobody wants to get into them with a diesel besides him. Yea he gets a flippin brownie badge for being a pioneer. But don't come to those who have busted their hump in mainstream diesel motor sports and try and start something. To correct your assumption that he holds the DHRA record for fastest diesel pickup, he does not. The record cannot be set at an NHRA event.
