Street Machine Australia — January 2018

2: Ahmet Sehirligil may have been putting

Supernats on for 23 years, but he’s lost none of the

fire that has made him the face of the show. You

can always depend on him jumping in the old HD

and ripping one hell of a skid. He’s done it so many

times, he doesn’t even need to use his hands

1: Danny Younis has been coming to Supernats

since he was a kid and has been entering his

1000hp, 377ci Capri since he completed it three

years ago. Danny says for him, Supernats is about

cruising and having fun with his mates. And fun for

Danny means killing five sets of tyres and burning

through 120 litres of fuel

6: You could be forgiven for thinking this sort of

thing was impossible in a Sigma. But MRS-LS1, aka

Sharmaine McDonald, proved us all wrong with her

LS1-powered ’82 sedan

3: Given that Simon Mokdassi had only just picked

up his brand new Ferrari 488 a couple of days prior

to the event, he had some serious cojones piloting

the car in the street racing event. Simon says he

hadn’t even figured out how to use the launch

control function when he first arrived!

4: Craig Craft hauled his 477ci big-block HJ ute

(SM, Dec ’16) down from the Hunter Valley for the

burnout competition and put on a hell of a show.

Supernats was only the ute’s fourth skid comp, but

Craig took out second place. Craig puts this down

to feeling more confident. “At the previous events I

was a bit jittery and on-and-off with the throttle, but

this time I just decided to hold it,” he says

5: Graham Rowe and his ballistic ’83 Ford XE van

down to the rims and blowing flames. The 8/71-

blown 351ci-powered brick is huge, but Graham

throws it around like a man possessed. We thought

he was going to tip it over as he entered the pad at

full speed

Top Gun Pro Burnout competition – cited the cruise sessions
as their favourite element of Supernats. It’s a time when drivers
get to cut loose a little (sometimes a lot) with some impromptu
drifting around corners and rolling burnouts down SMP’s main
straight, past the spectators in the grandstands. For dyed-in-the-
wool car guys, the ability to do something like that can often be the
realisation of a childhood dream.
Sydney bloke Danny Younis has been attending Supernats since
he was young, and more recently entering with his mental gunmetal
grey Capri, FUKYEA. “This is my third Supernats since I finished
the Capri,” he says. “I actually debuted the car here three years ago.
But the cruising would definitely be my favourite part of the show –
cruising and drifting around the track with my mates.”
Danny’s mates include Adam Ursino with the matching-colour
Datto ute, FUKDAT. The pair entered the street racing event, but
instead ripped tandem powerskids down the straight.
“I was only getting about a lap and a half to two laps out of a set
of tyres. I went through about 120 litres of fuel over the course of
the day,” Danny says.
One thing that was universal among the owners of the big-power
cars and burnout competitors was the amount of preparation
involved for an event like this. Winner of this year’s Top Gun Pro
burnouts, Jake Myers with the S1CKO Mustang, says there’s a
significant lead-up to each skid comp. “Dad [Gary Myers, 2017
SMOTY winner with his AGROXA Falcon] builds the engines and
does most of the maintenance on both cars, but I fly home from
Melbourne every few weekends and help out,” Jake says.
Craig Craft, owner of the HJ Holden ute SIKEST, placed second
in the Pro category, which was a great effort considering it was