Snowbird Outlaw National 2004

Bradenton Motorsports Park
December 5-7, 2004
Photos and Captions by Annie Lindstrom

Bradenton, Fla. – Clouds hovered over Bradenton as the three jet car drivers on hand prepared for their two passes on Saturday.  And  little sprinkle threatened to ruin everyone’s fun. Lucky for us all it lasted only a little while and never developed into more than a few drops.

Bradenton’s annual Snowbirds event featured Pepi Urban and his J-79 Xtreme Machine Freightliner Classic jet semi-truck.  

Pepi and crew pack his chutes before the first run. 

It’s a long way to the chute can!

Paul Miller and his US 1 jet dragster  

and jet racing’s newest female driver Elaine Larsen and her Miss Ta Fire jet dragster.

Also on hand was Richard Hutchins and his Chevy Rebellion wheelstander.  

Hutchins got the show off to a fiery start. He tore down the track at 134.4 mph and clocked a time of 9.78. 

He was followed by Elaine (l) and Paul (r). Paul took Elaine with a time of 5.382 running at 293.55 mph. Elaine put up a time of 5.95 at a speed of 266.9.  

Pepi threw down another rockin’ fire show as he always does at Bradenton. He ran a 204 in 7 seconds.