Last month we traveled 4600 miles for a big car event in the center of Australia, had a blast camping and sight seeing there and back. The event is the Red Centre Nats that has a huge car show, burnout comp, drag racing, street parade, dyno and more, over 800 entries!!
I entered the drag racing and finished up with runner up, been a while since I last raced but my reactions were sweet, .003, .04, .02 and another .02 in the final but the converter done the mech diode and the car slowed 2 tenths.
Cant wait for next year..

video of the last two runs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5PBanwAKfM&t=2s

Also was lucky to get a nice pic in the Street Machine mag

i thought that was more of "who can catch fire whilst watching type event "?

congratulations Al


Tex

Congrats! Cool magazine pic, too! It looks like the scoreboards are showing the reaction times when you're going down the track? Doesn't that take some of the mystery out of driving the finish line?

Well yes it does but some tracks still show them in eliminations

Tex

That's amazing! 800 entries is a blast, no doubt. Reaction times in elims???? Now that's interesting.

Very nice. You went rounds aND got some ink. Doubled up.
Doug

Great on both counts.........rounds and ink and a beautiful car to boot..........

congratulations, I know it always makes me feel good when I manage to win some rounds. I checked out the event and it looks like a lot of younger people participate. Seems like the races I go to anymore here in the USA have a lot of gray hair, not as many younger people having fun burning rubber, cruising, etc. And usually few people in the stands, looks like a good time was had by all.

Good job!!!

Yeah if they actually show reaction times during eliminations that would be a game changer for sure here!!

Congrats on the result for sure!

Nice!

I followed some of SM Mag's youtube coverage and got a kick out of the motorkhana on the grass! You guys know how to have a good time!

Sorry, runner up is first loser. Gongrats I guess.
Big fxxning deal.
have a grate day.

Congrats on a job well done. And its always nice to get ink. Ron

What's the deal with this?

Actually in drag racing the runner-up is the LAST loser, but a guy that can't spell probably couldn't figure that out either.

Congrats on the Runner-up. That reaction time thing has me scratching my head...lol

Hahahahahahaha..

Thanks everyone.

Funny I did not notice the reaction time was showing during racing, they do not usually do that ???

Ooops that will leave a mark

https://youtu.be/md7dU8O4u4M

Tex

That was not good Tex, my son was right near it, he ended up holding a picnic blanket up to shade the guy that was the worst burnt, at the same time people were poring water bottles over him.
It will not happen again, all burnout venues will have a solid wall and crowds will be kept back a bit in future.

Good to hear Al . This stuff was/is a accident waiting to happen .Kind of suprised this is first big issue, what with blowing tyres engines etc

Tex