Daniel “Pazzo” Nunziante etched his name into Australian Pro Street history once again with the first six second pass on radial tyres in the country. A private track hire at Sydney Dragway set the scene for a hectic test day, here is lowdown.
Twenty odd cars opted for the chance to test and the day started with some top shelf performances before a brief, but heavy rain shower ended the promising day. Testing did get under way again in the late afternoon but the cool temperature virtually made any chance of track adhesion impossible.
Pazzo’s record breaking run came at cost, a late chute pull saw the Cortina plough into the catch net causing some significant panel damage. The care factor though seemed to be non existent, it had been a rough road to the record at times and realisation had set in.
Emilio Spinozzi backed up his Winternationals form with a off the trailer 6.970 personal best, just need to translate performance into round wins now for the team.
6.14 244 mph has the Moits Outlaw 10.5 Mustang so consistent its almost mundane………no not really.
Frank Mamone was next with a 6.89 best run out of the blown Nova.
Newcomer Mick Duggan could not get his Nova hooked up past the sixty.
While not packing the power punch compared to the Outlaw 10.5 heavyweights, Michael Haimandos in a more street looking Mustang managed a 7.0 in the tricky cold evening conditions.
More 10.5 action came in the shape of PJ Todarello’s Cortina, though he could not hit the setup today.
There is a Mazda RX7 there somewhere, though there is no rotary aboard. This new ride for Lou Cosentino has a GAS Motorsport 2JZ between the rails, Cosentino only made some familiarisation passes.
New power plant bolted into Craig Davies’ FED, a slip sliding, wall hugging pass yielded his first seven second ET.
PAC Performance took only one shot at the track yielding a 6.46 at 210mph as that world record chase continues for the team.
Anthony Maatouk took a customers car into the sevens with a pedalling 7.71.
More photo action from the day of those who did not quite get a handle on it for the day.
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