Round six of the Atura Blacktown NSW Championships at Sydney Dragway was washed away just after eliminations had commenced. It was the third time this season Mother Nature had intervened prematurely ending a round of the series, so Drag News has put together ten points of interest from round six.
1.Moits mayhem.
We can not go past Paul Mouhayet’s dice with the sand trap when the parachutes failed to deploy on the World’s Fastest 10.5 race car at 243mph, insane in car footage provided by the team shows the violent impact. Mouhayet suffered a severely bruised foot, but was still on a plane to the U.S to compete at the Street Car Supernationals only a couple days later, unfortunately the car is a real mess however.
2. Make a wish.
Mark Mariani has recently donated primary signage of his Top Fuel dragster to the Make-A-Wish foundation, while the new wrap is not ready Mariani did come out for a testing hit under the guidance of Ben Patterson. Before the rain came the team managed one hit dropping cylinders off the line for a 4.99 at 265mph.
3. Turbos to the front……
The headlining feature for the event was a run what ya’ brung turbo threeway between rotaries, six bangers and V8s featuring the likes of PAC Performance, Gas Motorsports and Rob Campisi. It was the Moits Mustang out in front in qualifying on that faithful run with a 6.20, but the story was Troy Papadopoulos with another giant leap in performance for the BK Racing Mustang with their own 6.20 at 233mph. The team have steadily been stepping up the car owned by Joseph Somma going quicker at each outing and soon will be giving the heavy hitters a shake at this rate.
4. Screaming small block.
Norm McCormack is on a tear with his small block FED, after running the digger’s first six second ET (6.92) in testing, the FED which is proving to be a handful was back in the sixes again with a 6.97 at 192mph. There is just that 200mph carrot now hey Norm!
5. The return.
A couple of Super Compact cars have made a return to the track following a lay off for different reasons. Once the world’s fastest RX3, Nick Tsoltoudis has refurbished the “Superman” coupe (nicknamed as such for carrying the front wheels in the air across the finish line), and now is squarely re-fixated on that record with a 7.43 at at 170mph first full pass. Meanwhile Phillip Karpathios is back in his tidy little Scion after taking on the wall sometime ago, the 3SGTE four cylinder has a load of potential.
6. H.T.F.O
Will let you work out the anagram, but that is exactly what Simon Kryger was doing in returning the big block nitrous fed Pro Street Torana to the track.
7. And the award for best reaction by a crew member goes to…
Matt Grubisa’s crewguy Kieran. The Bumble Bee Camaro of Grubisa was running in Outlaw 10.5 which saw a number of stout runs, Frank Mamone muscled his Nova to 6.41 at 230mph, Michelle Davies following some violent launches carded a 6.73 at 214mph and Michael Haimandos pushed his Mustang to a 6.88 at 204mph.
8. Every which way but straight.
Keegan Ferns demonstrates his Harley drifting skills in Street Bike
9. Rain rain rain.
Rain, a far to familiar site at this year’s NSW Championship events, third time in fact.
10. Juniors on show.
As Natalie Bishop contemplates her last run, round seven of the NSW Championship will see Junior Dragster take centre stage as the feature class of the event on September 13.
