Oct 9, 2026 · 36 min · 10 segments
Fred, Witty, and Reece are back at the table to break down everything that went down at the recent Stick Shift race at Great Lakes Dragaway in Wisconsin. Some of the fastest stick shift cars in the…
Uh, where should we kick things off? Testing wasn't too exciting.
We had testing on Thursday, a little bit of testing on Friday.
Then once we got into qualifying, it seemed to set off everybody going super, super fast.
Yeah.
The track tightened up, track got a lot better.
I know the first day we got there, like testing, they were talking about how it was...
People were spinning a little bit.
I was like, "Ah, God, I'm worried." But they moved this event a month later.
So last year, if you remember, it was hot.
It was hot, hot.
Oh, yeah.
So basically, no traction, and they moved it now, and man, we were seeing some cars fly.
Absolutely.
Like, even the, some of the classes not stick shift, we saw, like, the outlaw cars.
There's this little orange Gremlin doing 380s consistently the whole weekend.
Off the trailer, I think he did, what, 384?
That car is really impressive because it's-
Was that a-
... probably the shortest car there
...
Was that 100, you said 101 inches?
Yeah.
101-
I said 101
... 101 inch...
Uh, where should we kick things off? Testing wasn't too exciting.
We had testing on Thursday, a little bit of testing on Friday.
Then once we got into qualifying, it seemed to set off everybody going super, super fast.
Yeah.
The track tightened up, track got a lot better.
I know the first day we got there, like testing, they were talking about how it was...
People were spinning a little bit.
I was like, "Ah, God, I'm worried." But they moved this event a month later.
So last year, if you remember, it was hot.
It was hot, hot.
Oh, yeah.
So basically, no traction, and they moved it now, and man, we were seeing some cars fly.
Absolutely.
Like, even the, some of the classes not stick shift, we saw, like, the outlaw cars.
There's this little orange Gremlin doing 380s consistently the whole weekend.
Off the trailer, I think he did, what, 384?
That car is really impressive because it's-
Was that a-
... probably the shortest car there
...
Was that 100, you said 101 inches?
Yeah.
101-
I said 101
... 101 inch...
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