Fast Friday was back for one night of the 2020/21 Perth Motorplex season and the rumours circling the pit area was that in 2021/22 it will be making a more permanent return. Here’s some photos from the Drag strip action at Perth Motorplex.
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A few weekends ago we headed down to Wanneroo Raceway for the Wanneroo Sporting Car Club Nightmaster Series where we caught up with the GHR Racing Team and Car Number 76.
The car is an EX V8 Supercar (VE Commodore) and is owned and driven by Garry Hills who travels all over the country competing.
This car makes ALL the right noises and just quietly we were majorly excited to be involved in this one, having grown up watching V8 supercars, to get up close an personal with one in this fashion is definitely an item ticked off the list.
This was the first time the car had been out in a little while so the GHR team are just shaking the car down and making sure they and the car are all good to head over East with to compete interstate. This car has previously competed in the Kumho Tyre Super3 Series and the Kumho Tyre Australian V8 Touring Car Series.
Mike (WA Racing Developments) who has worked on top tier V8 Supercar teams in his earlier years and is a part of the GHR Team was on hand to check over the data and was also on the intercom throughout the whole race.
We definitely are keen to get more of this car on camera, I mean really – who wouldn’t be!?
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Video Segments:
0:00 #BRC Intro
0:30 Warm Up Lap
3:59 Race Coverage
18:17 Car Montage
19:25 #BRC Outro
Specators who came down to check out all the action from Day Four Targawest 2020 at the Malaga Street Stage were treated to a few sessions of drifting by the D1WA Pro Drift Cars.
We managed to capture just a taste of what they had on offer between racing rounds!
Curb to curb, smoke pouring out, and all the right noises! Featuring the likes of Pro Drivers Mitch Larner and Adam Monck plus more!
Stick around for the race coverage of Day Four very shortly, and if you haven’t seen the first 2 days coverage of the Harrop Blown Lotus GT at Targawest 2020 make sure to check those out on our channel also!
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Day Three and the Lotus continued it’s campaign – making the drive to the East of Perth City and into the quaint country town of Toodyay.
Long loose surfaced roads at speed certainly made for some edge of the seat action, the temperature today was in the high 30’s so not only was the heat from the sun peaking, the heat in the race for the stage wins was also sky high!
Unfortunately there was one temperature that was high, and it ended the day early for the Lotus. Unfortunately the boys broke a drive belt in the later stages of Toodyay and had to retire the car to the service park for the afternoon to get it repaired to be able to drive it back to Perth. It was a massive shame as the car had overall lead for the last 3 days up until then… And even during the second half of the stage in which the car was at a significantly reduced power level (due to no drive to the Harrop Supercharger, and the coolant temp off the dial) the boys still managed to place second for that stage!
Precision driving by Peter Rullo and Navigated by Jimmy Marquet the boys pushed hard right until the end. Mike (WA Racing Developments) and the team from Lotus Perth were quick to get the car turned around in the Service Park (in a near 40 degree heat tarmac carpark) so that the car could be driven back to Perth and compete on the final day.
These have taken some time so I do apologise for such a long delay between these videos, but they are worth it 🙂
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Video Segments:
0:00 #BRC Intro
1:04 Special Stage Seventeen – Harvester 1
6:20 Special Stage Eighteen – Harvester 2
10:03 Special Stage Nineteen – Coondle West (Conostylis)
12:41 Special Stage Twenty – Timberden West
17:47 Special Stage Twenty One – Toodyay 1
21:59 Special Stage Twenty Three – Toodyay 2
26:25 Toodyay Service Park – Fixing the Shredded Belt
29:44 #BRC Outro
When we were approached by Michelle and asked if we would be interested in doing some video for them of the Beach Bomb in action I think we’d shouted YES before the question had even finished!
Watching Nitro cars since a kid and knowing how incredible everything about the experience is – the sight, the smell, the sound, the feeling…. To be standing right next to one holding a camera is a completely out of this world experience. Imagine all of those feelings and senses but times 1000!!
We wanted to prove that we can adapt to all situations and that we were capable of delivering a high quality product no matter what was in front of the lens, this was no exception. Although we only spent a short amount of time with the Beach Bomb crew on the day, it has definitely created a massive desire to jump onboard the minute this car is back at the track! The learnings from filming the car at this round are massive and the next video we put together of this car will be even more impressive.
The creativity bar was definitely raised for the making of this video, really raised…. 😀
We hope it’s well received, it will be hard to trump this one for at least a little while!
A massive thankyou to Michelle, Andrew, the Katavatis Family and Beach Bomb Crew for having us onboard and we can’t wait to do it again next season!
Also a big thanks to the Perth Motorplex for providing some of the track footage included in this video!
We really hope you enjoy this one, we really are spoilt with such an awesome group of people in our Drag Racing Community.
Bring on the 21/22 Season!
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This video was special to us, we wanted to take the time to really portray the importance of this family in the sport of Drag Racing in Western Australia.
We really hope you enjoy this, and a big thankyou to the McClures for helping with the write up below.
Wayne and the whole Keys family are absolute stalwarts of W.A Drag Racing for 30 plus years.
His first real race car was his home built LX Torana Hatch that he had great success running in Supergas in W.A and around the country. He then spent some time crewing on the Boston Strangler Funny Car (Which still races to this day).. Before purchasing a Murray Anderson Doorslammer Chassis, fitting a BMW body to it and then campaigning it in the AA/AP class.
Some years later a Monaro body was fitted to this chassis and went on to set National Records many times, becoming the first AP car into the 5 sec zone. He also won the Australian Championship in 2013.
The Monaro finished with an awesome best ET of 5.83, which was faster than a lot of Doorslammers at the time. Wayne then decided he needed a new car and set about importing a Tim McAmis Promod Chassis kit. He proceeded to build an absolute work of art with his very talented crew and family and of which you will see as featured in this video. The Camaro won back to back WA Championships and Wayne reset his own National Record to a 5.86 – capping off a brillant career.
We hope you all enjoy this as much as we do, and we wish Wayne, Lisa and the Keys Family and Team a well earned retirement. But we do hope to see you all down the track for many more years!
We’ve mentioned it several times lately, but we really are spoilt with such an awesome group of people in our Drag Racing Community.
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WA Outlaw Radial Cars at Round 9 of the 2020 WA Drag Racing Championship Series, the Season Finale and wow did it deliver!!!
What an unbelieveable wrap up to a pretty spectacular season, I lost count of the amount of PB’s set tonight by the boys – both ET and MPH. Some absolutely crazy side by side passes and a special mention to Ben Pisconeri who reset the world ET Record for an Intech SOHC with a blistering 7.50.
Can’t thank everyone enough for the success of this season and for support Drag Racing in Western Australia. We are so excited for what next season will bring and we can’t wait to share it all with you again.
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Video Segments:
0:00 #BRC Intro
0:09 First Qualifier
2:03 Second Qualifier
3:42 Third Qualifier
5:31 First Race Round
7:29 Second Race Round
9:04 Third Race Round
10:45 Final Round
11:12 #BRC Outro
It really doesn’t get more “street” than Mat’s unassuming white VS Ute which he drives to and from the track with all of the gear loaded into the tray!
Mat from Pro Flow Injector Servicing has been campaigning this ute for a little while now and you may have seen it on our videos before, but it was about time we actually got up close and personal with this 8 second 850+ HP daily….
With Steve (Lundy Race Fab) and Jeff (Streetbuilt Racing) onboard to oversee proceedings, this ute really is looked after by the best.
Mat rolled up each round and was working away at those ET’s until the final pass where he rolled off an 8.760@159mph!!
At the end of the night the wheels were put back to street trim, the tray packed back up and the car driven home – What an absolute legend!
A huge thanks to Mat for letting us cover the car even though he felt he would be camera shy! Mate you’re a natural haha…
Build specs below:
1999 HOLDEN VS UTE
Engine GM LS3 6.2 Litre
Heads Stock
Rotating Assembly Stock Bottom End
Valvetrain Stainless Valves
Camshaft Small VCM
Turbo Gen 1 GTX45
Fuel Type E85
Intake Stock, 95mm Holley Throttle Body
Fuel System Aftermarket Industry’s SPR 1200 3x 525 Walbro’s
Gearbox Paul Rodgers Std Case Powerglide, TCE Converter
Driveline Final Drive Engineering 2 Piece Shaft
Diff 9″ 3.25 Gears, 31 Spline Axles
Wheels and Tires 4″ Steel Fronts, M/T ET Front Runners
8″Steel Rears, M/T PRO 275 Radials
Suspension Strange Coilovers , Enemies Everywhere ARB kit
ECU Holley Dominator
Power Figure 890hp
Tuned by Jeff @ Streetbuilt Racing
Personal Best ET 8.760@159mph with a 1.40 60ft
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Video Segments:
0:00 #BRC Intro
1:56 First Qualifier
2:40 Second Qualifier
4:18 Third Qualifier
5:08 First Race Round
6:22 Second Race Round
7:50 Third Race Round
8:52 #BRC Outro
We’ve been meaning to start to venture out a little more and capture some of the other classes on race days, upon a conversation with FullBOOST’s Paul Broomy (who also runs the Broomy’s Garage Channel) he made a cracking suggestion to hook up with Matt Esplan and get his FD RX7 on camera. Well that’s exactly what we set out to do and we are kicking ourselves for not doing this sooner, better late than never though right!?
What an unreal car up close, the attention to detail inside and out is incredible – with the majority of the work carried out by Matt himself. The car has all the right bits in all the right places and the factory Mazda CX-7 Black Cherry Mica paint looks superb in the sun.
The RX7 was on a mission laying down PB’s right up until it lunched second gear in fairly unassuming fashion, but the damage resulted in the weekend’s racing coming to a close.
We are super keen to jump back onboard with Matt and the crew once the RX7 is ready to roll and grab some more footage, we definitely want to be there when he breaks into that 7 second zone for the first time!
Massive thanks to Matt, the crew and his family for letting us cover the car and to Broomy for hand picking this one – if he’s lucky he might score a regular gig on the channel selecting feature cars… (Only if he starts to comment on the videos though) 😀
Build specs below:
1997 MAZDA FD RX7
Engine -13B Rotary, S6 Plates, S4 Housings and Rotors,
RX8 Eshaft and Gears, CND’d and Balanced by Xtreme Rotaries
Port – Semi PP/Bridge
Seals – I-Rotary Apex Seal, Mazda Side Seals/Springs, Atkins Solid Corners
Turbo – Precision 8284mm
Fuel – Methanol
Fuel System – Ron’s 1.5 Mechanical Pump, 12x 1600cc Injectors
Gearbox – GForce 2000 Clutchless Trans, McLeod Drag Mag Clutch,
Browell Steel Bellhousing
Driveline – 3.5” Moly Driveshaft, Mark Williams Yoke
Diff – Moly Sheet Metal Housing, Mark Williams Center, Light Weight Spool,
5.1 Pro Gears, Strange Full Floaters, Mark Williams 40 Spline Gun Drilled Axles
Chassis – Moly Back Halved Car by Pete Cleary (Pro Racing Chassis)
Wheels and Tires – Rear Weld V Series 15×15 Double Bead Locks, 31×13 Slicks
– Front Weld V Series Spindle Mount
Suspension – Rear Strange Ultra Double Adjustable Shocks
– Front Strange Ultra Spindle Mount Struts
ECU – MicroTech LT16C, Racepak Data Logger, ams2000 Boost Controller
Power Figure – 800hp+ (30psi)
Weight – 2370lbs
Personal Best ET – 8.15@ 167mph with a 1.18 60ft
Built and Tuned by Matt Esplan
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The Zappia name is on yet another trophy in Western Australia with Brodie Zappia taking out the WA Junior Dragster Championship at the Perth Motorplex. The title fight came down to the very last meet of the season with bonus points on offer meaning Brodie could have potentially lost the