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SA^ABOVE: Will Baker turned up
the wick for Day Five, running
a PB of 9.89@137mph to finish
fifth in Turbosmart Outlaw
Blown. Will has twin-turbo
7sec aspirations in play for
future DC dominance01: Mark Drew had a 0.159sec
margin to make up on Day
Five to claim the overall win,
but alas, Quentin Feast pulled
another two-tenths ahead to
seal the deal02: Dominic Pelle’s awesome
HK Holden Kingswood has a
turbocharged GM LS2 all-alloy
V8 buried under its big bluffbonnet. Dom had a couple of
problems during the week but
was cheering when he ran a
9.9 on Friday afternoon before
changing his tyres and driving
home. He was having beers
in Sydney by Saturday night.
True street!RIGHT: Josh Lopreiato was
having a great Drag Challenge
until the constabulary took an
interest in his VZ ClubSport
coming back into Adelaide.
“The defect said it was a race
car and didn’t comply to ADRs;
they ordered that it be driven
straight to the track and
nowhere else,” laughs JoshWITH such a massive drive from Portland back up to Adelaide,
racing was mercifully scheduled for the afternoon and evening,
starting at 2pm.
It rained on and off throughout the roughly 580km drive, which
didn’t bode well for a fine day of racing.
But the diligent AIR track staff only needed half a break in the
weather to mop those lanes into shape. And fair play to them – they’d
had a shocker on Monday in the oppressive heat, but went above
and beyond on Friday in the intermittent wet. They didn’t even bat an
eyelid when the VC Commodore of Dusty Benson shat its tailshaft
and a mess of shattered driveshaft componentry into the left lane.
What troopers.
With light rain falling here and there, the bulk of the racing was
done between 3 and 7pm, at which point the smattering of rain
we’d had throughout the day started to smatter too hard and too
often.
Some classes went right to the wire, including Dial Your Own,
where Blake Jefferys in the VK Commodore pipped Daniel Grima’s
Chev at the post. Daniel was next in line to make a pass when the
final rains came, so he never got a shot at redemption.
Paul Hamilton in the XA sedan ran an 8.967 to sensationally overhaul
Rodney Browitt in the HQ ute for a tight win in the TurbosmartDAY
AAAADE
LAID
E IN
TERN
ATION
AL RACEWVIRG
INIA,
SAWAY
ABOVE: Will Baker turned up
the wick for Day Five, running
a PB of 9.89@137mph to finish
fifth in Turbosmart Outlaw
Blown. Will has twin-turbo
7sec aspirations in play for
future DC dominance01:Mark Drew had a 0.15 9 sec
margin to make up on Day
Five to claim the overall win,
but alas, Quentin Feast pulled
another two-tenths ahead to
seal the deal02 : Dominic Pelle’s awesome
HK Holden Kingswood has a
turbocharged GM LS2 all-alloy
V8 buried under its big bluffbonnet. Dom had a couple of
problems during the week but
was cheering when he ran a
9.9 on Friday afternoon before
changing his tyres and driving
home. He was having beers
in Sydney by Saturday night.
True street!RIGHT:Josh Lopreiato was
having a great Drag Challenge
until the constabulary took an
interest in his VZ ClubSport
coming back into Adelaide.
“The defect said it was a race
car and didn’t comply to ADRs;
they ordered that it be driven
straight to the track and
nowhere else,” laughs JoshWITH such a massive drive from Portland back up to Adelaide,
racing was mercifully scheduled for the afternoon and evening,
starting at 2pm.
It rained on and off throughout the roughly 580km drive, which
didn’t bode well for a fine day of racing.
But the diligent AIR track staff only needed half a break in the
weather to mop those lanes into shape. And fair play to them – they’d
had a shocker on Monday in the oppressive heat, but went above
and beyond on Friday in the intermittent wet. They didn’t even bat an
eyelid when the VC Commodore of Dusty Benson shat its tailshaft
and a mess of shattered driveshaft componentry into the left lane.
What troopers.
With light rain falling here and there, the bulk of the racing was
done between 3 and 7pm, at which point the smattering of rain
we’d had throughout the day started to smatter too hard and too
often.
Some classes went right to the wire, including Dial Your Own,
where Blake Jefferys in the VK Commodore pipped Daniel Grima’s
Chev at the post. Daniel was next in line to make a pass when the
final rains came, so he never got a shot at redemption.
Paul Hamilton in the XA sedan ran an 8.967 to sensationally overhaul
Rodney Browitt in the HQ ute for a tight win in the Turbosmart