Lawrence drag racing, Saturday 14th April!

[Mustang-man]

Anyone heading along? SSE (www.southernslykines.com) is cruising along to the event and about four guys are racing i think (three turbo Nissan Cefiro's and on R32 GT-R).

http://southernskylines.com/forum/vie

[GravelBen]

14-15th April is the Otago rally - much more fun to watch than drag racing

[Mustang-man]

Piffft. Is there going to be a circuit sprint around the port area like last year? I work Sundays now so won't be able to go to it if it is on a Sunday.

[GravelBen]

Yep they having that again, starts around 4pm saturday

[collin_morrice]

Hello guys, from England and wanted to know if Drag Racings a big scene out there in New Zealand, have family there and want to know for the future

Cheers, Collin

[Kiwi XTR2]

collin_morrice said:

Hello guys, from England and wanted to know if Drag Racings a big scene out there in New Zealand, have family there and want to know for the future

Cheers, Collin

Yes it's big. The Japanese import turbo scene is much bigger than anything else.

Hopefully someone else can give you the "Good" site links . . . otherwise I can give you the rubbish ones

[collin_morrice]

Thats cool, do you have all the top fuel etc etc, we run in a sportsman class in England, in a class called Super Gas, we run a 1969 Chevy Camaro, runs the 1/4 in 8.81 @ 150+ mph, not sure what that is in KPH. Would love to come out and race!
Collin

[GravelBen]

Don't know if theres much in the way of Top-Fuel cars, plenty of funny cars, production based machines etc. One of the teams from here runs the quickest Skyline GTR in the world, 7.59 @ 190mph

More into rallying than drags myself, but heres a few websites I found:

www.nzdra.co.nz/ (New Zealand Drag Racing Association)

www.kiwidragracing.com/

www.dragwars.co.nz/classes.htm

www.dragpixs.co.nz/

http://championdragway.co.nz/

[flying toilet]

collin_morrice said:

Thats cool, do you have all the top fuel etc etc, we run in a sportsman class in England, in a class called Super Gas, we run a 1969 Chevy Camaro, runs the 1/4 in 8.81 @ 150+ mph, not sure what that is in KPH. Would love to come out and race!
Collin

Email me or message me Collin, i was in NZ last year and saw soem good racing, even missed the Thunderball last year.

There is a few Nitro FC's there and a couple of TF cars.

There is a stunning Nostalgia FC there too.

Graeme Allen with his SG Maverick now lives in New Zealand and races there.

[VENOM500]

GravelBen said:

14-15th April is the Otago rally - much more fun to watch than drag racing

Unless your a passenger in a Viper Venom!

The 2005 event was just great, even came away with a few prizes and 5th overall. All credit to the nuters in the T-Buckets....10.8 at 140 mph! I think Venom managed 12.1 at 126mph if my memory is correct. I still have fond memories of Lawrence Hope it stays dry for you guys.

Edited by VENOM500 on Saturday 28th April 22:07