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Larry
“Spiderman” McBride to chase speed with TV coverage
 Team
Spiderman will run the 2004 eight race events for the AMA Prostar
Series starting with MRE Nationals at Gainesville Raceway at
Gainesville, Fla., on March 6-7. EPSN2 and The Outdoor Channel will
be there to record race results throughout the season and Larry
“Spiderman” McBride’s enthusiasm is sure to be in the camera focus.
“I think it’s a major step in the right direction,” McBride said. “I
feel really good about it. It’s the first time we have a definite
TV deal in my whole career.”
The five-time AMA Prostar champion was upbeat when
asked about the new season. “My plans are to run the AMA Prostar
Series and we’re going to concentrate on that and try to put
together another championship, I hope,” McBride said. “I’m looking
forward to a great 2004. We’ve got some Europeans coming over for a
few races and one has run a 6.04. That’s going to be interesting.
Ron Webb and Chris Hand are running well. The big guns are coming
after me.”
Crew
chief Steve McBride shares his brother’s enthusiasm. “The
competition level is going to be there and we gotta be ready,” Steve
McBride said. “I’m just buried in work trying to get ready. I’m
making some clutch flow management pieces for a couple of guys and
some fuel management stuff. The whole field this year is going to
perk everybody up. “
The
Spiderman has the length and the strength to muscle this champion
bike. The Spider team is determined to take this bike with its own
attitude for virgin speed to the next horizon. “I’m rollin’,” Larry
“Spiderman” McBride said.
The quickest and
fastest motorcycle man on the planet Team Spiderman’s blistering
world motorcycle record set in Virginia.
5.895 @
238.22 mph backed up by a 5.923 @ 243.59 mph
McBride
thanks Pingel Enterprise, Trim-Tex, Drag Specialties-Parts
Unlimited, Redline Oil, and Triton Corporation and all his
SPONSORS:
Pingel
Enterprise, Trim-Tex Drywall Products, Drag Specialties Parts
Unlimited, RedLine Synthetic Oil Corp., Triton Corp ( Kool-Bak),
Muzzys Proformance Web Cam, Kibblewhite Precision Machine, Vanson
Leathers, Performance Machine, Kawasaki USA, Belt Drive Ltd, Street
Competition, Dayco Belts, Trac Dynamics, Simpson Race Products,
Nitrous Express, APE, EK Chain, Arias, R/D Spring Corp., Autolite,
MSD, Protect All, Whipple Industries, Cometic Gaskets, B&J
Transmission, Carolina Cycle, L.A. Sleeve, Nology Engineering,
Mickey Thompson Tires, and Corbin Seats.
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Larry “Spiderman” McBride and team earn a
perfect season in 2003. |
- Thanks to Leigh Simmons for the photo above.
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Here is a
burnout movie and a movie of the run.
Larry
(Spiderman) McBride finds yet another victim in this top fuel
motorcycle run at the 2000 AMA/Prostar Finals.
Burnout
The Run
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Check out the Spiderman pics at Atlanta
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Actually the E.T. above is not Larry Spiderman
McBride's best. Enjoy the photos here and visit
http://www.larrymcbride.com for
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- Photos below by Crazy Dave.
- I don't know who he found willing to
take this one of him.
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Larry 'Spiderman' McBride…Team effort, Team wins
Four-time champion Larry "Spiderman" McBride and team didn't have to
travel far to collect wins recently at the AMA Prostar event at Virginia
Motorsports Park. McBride, the Newport News, Va., resident packed up
his team for a short trip to Richmond, and produced even shorter trips
down the track to add wins for the championship aboard their Top Fuel
Kawasaki motorcycle. The Spiderman team won the inclusive Atlanta event
and the VMP event as well. The speedy team has added a new brain to
their smart squad.
Keith Adams, Top Fuel dragster technician, is now consulting with the
Spiderman team on fuel system, clutch, and timing management. "Keith is
an all-out drag racer," crew chief Steve McBride said. "He's made a lot
of laps down the track with Bernstein and Alan Johnson. Keith is
interpreting the computer and showing me stuff I didn't know. We all
learned bunch this race, all three of us. We found stuff and that's
exciting."
First qualifying pass… 6.04 @ 197 mph
"It was a shut off pass," Larry McBride said. "I've got the belt marks
to prove it. My arm was every color of purple you can image, but for a
second year in a row we had a phenomenal weekend…absolutely phenomenal."
Second qualifying pass … 5.98 @ 243.37 mph
First elimination pass… 5.880 @218 mp (Fastest ET ever, sadly no
back up)
Second elimination pass…5.98 @ 243 mph
Third elimination pass… 6.58 @ 154 mph
"The bike went crooked and I had to shut it off," McBride said. "It's
always better to come back the next race and make another run."
"Great products get great results." McBride said." Pingel, Drag
Specialties, Trim-Tex, Red Line Oil. We expect parts breakage. When
you run that hard, you're going to break parts. Ron Webb was right
there, the weather cool, the track good, a great weekend. I couldn't do
it without everybody and I appreciate them. We look forward to St.Louis."
The quickest and fastest motorcycle man on the planet
5.895 @ 238.22 mph backed up by a 5.923 @ 243.59 mph
SPONSORS:
Pingel Enterprise, Trim-Tex Drywall Products, Drag Specialties Parts
Unlimited, RedLine Synthetic Oil Corp., Muzzys Proformance, Triton Corp
( Kool-Bak), Web Cam, Kibblewhite Precision Machine, Vanson Leathers,
Performance Machine, Kawasaki USA, Belt Drive Ltd, Street Competition,
Dayco Belts, Trac Dynamics, Simpson Race Products, Nitrous Express, APE,
EK Chain, Arias, R&D Springs, Autolite, MSD, Protect All, Whipple
Industries, Cometic Gaskets, B&J Transmission, Carolina Cycle, L.A.
Sleeve, Nology Engineering, Mickey Thompson Tires, and Corbin Seats.
StripBike.com, Zoomster.com, and RaceBizz.com supports Team Spiderman.
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