At first glance, the 1978 Malibu Mark Micke drives isn't overly intimidating. Those who know this car and driver understand fully that looks can be deceiving.

Jason Carter owns the Radial vs. The World Car and Micke drives it.

Earlier this year, Micke drove the boxy looking vehicle to the victory at the most prestigious event in Drag Radial competition by winning the $101,000-to-win Sweet Sixteen developed and promoted by Donald "Duck" Long, the Pied Piper of small tire racing. Micke stopped the timers with an outstanding 3.62-second pass at 214.79 mph that lowered the previous elapsed time record by nearly a full tenth.

As Micke sees it, the team didn't get all worked up over the victory, instead, they just took it in stride.

"Here’s my deal, I expect to do good," Micke said. "So we come out and we did all that at Sweet 16, you know that was awesome and it was a lifetime achievement for us, but we expect to do that. We weren’t just overly crazy excited and high fiving crazy because that’s what we expect to do. We expect to come out and the car haul ass like that. It is nice.

"After we won that race, I mean I got so many calls from so many people that I didn’t even know, and NHRA guys. Just, we got a lot of notoriety out of it. We just take a lot of pride in that from the respect from the other racers."

Micke said that's not being cocky, it's confidence. Just weeks earlier, Micke drove his way to victory at the U.S. Street Nationals in Bradenton, Fla.

So much for flying under the radar.

"For the past year or so, we were kind of struggling and getting our legs under us," Micke explained.

Anyone who does their research knows there's no flying under the radar with a team which has won NMCA and ADRL championships.