The next year, in September, Big Red entered the Mojave Mile in the Gottlieb’s home state of California. Closer than that, really, as the Mojave Air and Space Port has a beautiful runway almost in their backyard. Big Red’s fastest run of the weekend was 210.4 mph. With technology leaping ever forward, RJ and the team knew that they would need some gains in power to keep racking up the wins in in this type of event.