A cackle, a vision of front wheels dancing in the air, a driver exposed in his nitro chariot and fighting a butterfly steering wheel, fumes stinging the eyes and the ground shaking. Drag racing dreams are made of these – and fulfilled by the fuel altered.
Ex-pat Australian Mathew Leonard will be driving the NitroRat altered in Competition Eliminator this weekend in Las Vegas as part of the Denso Spark Plugs NHRA Nationals.
Cyclone Debbie has battered the hell out of Mackay’s Palmyra Dragway with the venue literally submerged in flood waters.
While Peter Xiberras is awaiting his new dragster to arrive from the U.S. following his Summer Thunder event crash, the team have been busy repairing another chassis to race in the mean time.
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