Australians do not play around with their drag racing. Between superchargers, turbochargers and enough nitrous to sedate a great white shark on a bloodlust, it doesn’t matter what vehicle they start with, when they wheel it onto the track it’s something to be very, very concerned about. And there is never, ever a shortage of horsepower available. The Tunnel Vision King of the Streets shootout at Heathcote Park Raceway brought out a ton of worthy rides, including the usual suspects from Ford and Holden, as well as one very nasty Valiant Charger and various others. Pedaling cars almost seemed to be the normal as the cars ran throughout the day until the evening, at which point the race turned into a “Chicago shootout” with a twin-turbo Holden Torana taking the final round against a single-turbo Hemi 6 Valiant.
Awesome how 90% of the cars were running turbo’s (i still remember when ‘experts’ used to bag turbos for quarter mile for not being suitable……..hmmmm, how times have changed) ok, ok, the other 7% were supercharged. But CHECK OUT THE FALCON BUMP STAGING AT 2.07!! Haha, insane 🙂