Just thought this would be of interest to some of you guys. Drag Challenge is something we did recently and unashamedly based on Hot Rods highly successful Drag Week. And, while Australias road rules are significantly more restrictive than those in the US, we thought a Drag Week-style event could work in Oz.
We kept the rules as loose as possible, essentially opening it up to any street-registered car that could do the trip. The kicker that separates Drag Challenge from any other event in Australia is that each car has to complete the road course under its own steam no car trailers allowed! Any necessary gear has to be carried in the car, or in a trailer no more than 1.9m high.
The cars were divided up into simple classes: Radial Aspirated and Blown (for cars competing on radial tyres no bigger than 275) and Outlaw Aspirated and Blown (for cars running any other type of rubber, such as M/T streets or full slicks).
We had a blast. I don't think I can upload all the pics here, check out the website to see what we got up to. It actually mirrored the very first Drag Week in alot of ways; in that started and finished in very different places, small field and the quickest cars were in the mid 8sec zone. It's been pretty well received so we might go again bigger and better next year.
http://www.streetmachine.com.au/even...lenge-results/
We kept the rules as loose as possible, essentially opening it up to any street-registered car that could do the trip. The kicker that separates Drag Challenge from any other event in Australia is that each car has to complete the road course under its own steam no car trailers allowed! Any necessary gear has to be carried in the car, or in a trailer no more than 1.9m high.
The cars were divided up into simple classes: Radial Aspirated and Blown (for cars competing on radial tyres no bigger than 275) and Outlaw Aspirated and Blown (for cars running any other type of rubber, such as M/T streets or full slicks).
We had a blast. I don't think I can upload all the pics here, check out the website to see what we got up to. It actually mirrored the very first Drag Week in alot of ways; in that started and finished in very different places, small field and the quickest cars were in the mid 8sec zone. It's been pretty well received so we might go again bigger and better next year.
http://www.streetmachine.com.au/even...lenge-results/
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