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Weekend On The Edge - Diesel Drag Racing

Torque Wars Rage On In Utah

By Stephen Clark
photographer: Stephen Clark

 Weekend On The Edge Diesel Drag Racing Starting Line Launch

For the fourth consecutive year Edge Products hosted its annual horsepower-fest, Weekend on the Edge. The two-day event kicked off on a Friday afternoon at Rocky Mountain Raceway's dragstrip in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Trucks were split into three separate classes: Stock/Single Turbo, Modified, and Unlimited. After five hours of racing, the winners were announced. Collin Lloyd made a pass of 13.273 seconds in his '05 Duramax to top the Stock/Single Turbo class, Lucas Olson took the Modified class win with a time of 12.500 seconds in his '96 Cummins, and Clint Cannon powered his '02 Duramax down the strip in 11.820 seconds to take the Unlimited class win.

 24 Hour Truck Stop Track Official
Rocky Mountain Raceway hosted the drag races at Weekend on the Edge.

A dyno competition followed the next day at Edge headquarters in Ogden, Utah. Two dynos were used to record the horsepower and torque of 75 different trucks. They say good things come to those who wait, and the last truck to run was Richard "Mad Dog" Madsen's Cummins powered Ford, which spun the rollers to the tune of 940 hp and 1,519 lb-ft of torque.




 24 Hour Truck Stop Powerstroke Vs Duramax
The bracket-style drag racing format staggered the starts according to the drivers' estimated elapsed time. Here, a Power Stoke launches off the line while Jerome Hansmann waits for the green light in his lane.
 24 Hour Truck Stop Custom Powerstroke
Power Play Performance brought its monstrous Super Duty out to the dyno competition for some eye candy. This beast is lifted 54 inches, rolls on 49-inch Interco Super Swamper Iroks, and is powered by a 7.3L.
 24 Hour Truck Stop Custom Powerstroke
Dalen Whitmore's '96 Cummins runs a fully built twin-turbo engine from PDI. His best run on the dyno was 518 hp and 1,152 lb-ft.

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