15/08/2026
What an eventful Mopar Nationals weekend that was! 😅🏁
Friday: Farmer Bill took an unexpected trip into the field after losing his brakes and suffering a chute failure 😯🤠 Along the way, he also managed to lose a wheelie bar wheel… which is probably still somewhere out there! 😂
Saturday: The team managed to source some new brake pads and a spare wheelie bar wheel first thing in the morning and got them fitted 🤘🏼
On his next run, the car launched that hard, it ripped the bead out of one of the slicks. We then switched to the radial tyres for his next run so he could still take part in the Mopar Cruise that evening 🛞
Sunday: Elimination day! 🔥
After popping back to Topspeed to get some new slicks, Bill ran an 8.53 at 163.69 mph in E1 and not only made it through to E2, but made it back to the pits without any issues! 🥳🎉
After a few small celebrations, some tweaks and a serious team hype-up, we added some more power to Big Yella’ and then blazed the tyres off the line 😭 He still gave it everything in an attempt to chase Arnie down, running a 9.29 at 163.06 mph. 💪🏁
It certainly wasn’t the smoothest weekend, but the team never gave up, and we’re incredibly proud of everyone for keeping the car going through all the highs, lows, breakdowns and rescues! Thank you to everyone who visited us throughout the weekend, and came to check out The Big Yella' back in action. Not a bad weekend considering this was the first time Big Yella’ has ran in 7 years, Shout out to John Webster for his help and advice, Joe Baxter for the help with the tyres 🛞 and Nic Williams for helping us qualify 2nd💛
The biggest of thank yous to the Santa Pod Raceway safety crew also, who were absolutely fantastic on Friday evening, we seriously cannot thank you enough 👏🏼
Please look out for our YouTube video that is coming soon, and we’ll see you with the BMF Bentley for the Euro Finals 😎🏁
