Watch Mustang Mike’s Unpredictable SN-95 Live Up to Its Name

Big nitrous hit plus truly no-prep track equals big spin for Mustang Mike.

We suspect you won’t find a more rustic drag strip in the world than Speedy’s Newport Dragstrip. The dragstrip in Newport, Arkansas seems carved from what may once have been a short runway. When they hold a No Prep event, they really mean “no preparation.” That makes for exciting passes, like “Mustang Mike” Gage making a lurid slide at the track’s top end during a pass in his nitrous-fed “Unpredictable” SN-95, as captured by Urban Hillbilly Videos.

Mustang Mike manages not to clock anything, thanks in no small part to Speedy’s total lack of things to hit, at least near the race track. Guard rails don’t exist there, nor do any other safety measures. Fans pack the starting line and even more fans stand near the top end of the strip, without any walls between them and some badass no-prep cars.

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We could bag on that more, but this event, the “Arm Drop” hosted by JJ Da Boss from Memphis’ group of the Street Outlaws, seeks to recreate the conditions of street racing. With worn pavement that hosts grass patches in some sections, any notion of a prepared racetrack goes out the window. Finding traction becomes the goal in these instances, and more often than not, it seems, traction exists nowhere.

Even if the racetrack conditions look like those you’d find in Namibia—for real, they do—the races are at least taking place off the streets and in a place that, we assume at least, has emergency personnel on site. That’s some small step up, and we applaud anyone who takes it to the track to throw down. The busted-up old pavement makes this at least as much of a challenge as any section of public street.