The Performance Street Car Shoot-Out 2001
This event is held each year at Willowbank Raceway, Queensland, and is becoming one of the largest annual events on the Queensland drag racing calendar. This one-day event features a show'n'shine and qualifying racing during the day, with eliminators and 'dial-your-own' drag racing towards the evening.
The racing is divided into classes, including 4-cyinder, rotary, 6-cylinder, kit cars, and about six V8 classes as they outnumber the other types of cars by so many. The fastest pass on the day was a 7.06 @ 200 mph by some V8 thing with a huge supercharger sticking out the bonnet (I guess it's obvious I don't know much about V8's! :) ).
There were a few fours, sixes and rotaries there though so it did break the monotony of those rumbling 8's. Here are a few pics from the day...
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Found this piece of grafitti while we were there. It kinda speaks for itself, don't you think?! A fitting end to the day... ;) |
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This was a pretty good race between Jim Whitehurst's
VL Calais 'BOOSTN' and a very quick Skyline
GT-R. Both cars ran in the 10's.
Samantha Kilroe-Smith's Toyota 20-valve turbo
powered Corolla impressed everyone with a very
speedy 11.9 second @ 121 mph pass, moving her
up to second in the FWD Australian records.
A beautifully-presented TX3 spotted in the show'n'shine
event, it had some great custom bodywork without
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