2016 drag-racing season comes to an end
Drag racing enthusiasts on the West Rand can prepare themselves for an explosive day of action as the 2016 season ends with Round 6 at Tarlton International Raceway.
Sunday, 30 October will see the Final SA National Drag-racing championship, “Summer Fest” round unfold, with competitors battling it out for those last crucial points.
Drag-racing enthusiasts on the West Rand can prepare themselves for an explosive day of action as the 2016 season will end with Round 6 at the Tarlton International Raceway.
According to Nico van Heerden, “Dragside spectators will be guaranteed some awesome racing action with competition runs between some of the fastest drag car competitors in South Africa”.
The Top Eliminator Category showcases drivers like the A-Class Dragster pilot, Dalmain Hattingh along with the Top Alcohol Funny Car Pilot, Nico van Rensburg (Lethal Weapon) who will devour the asphalt with some spectacular racing on the day. These Top Eliminator beasts are known for posting monstrous times of 6 – 7 seconds at over 300 km/h over the quarter mile.
Bringing everything to the fight will be Gavin Wilkins in his twin turbocharged (TurboDirect/ SpeedPro/ SKF) V8 Mustang, in order to rack up some championship points to take the lead from the rest of the “SKF” Senior Eliminator contenders.
Fighting to keep the championship points lead will be multiple SA National Champion, Nico van Rensburg in his Supercharged Ford Thunderbird. Joining the force on the day will be Hannes Minnaar with the Turbo 2JZ Corolla, Sybie Coetzee with his “Nitro Performance” turbocharged nitrous-oxide-fed Datsun, Lionel Kruger with the supercharged “Czank Racing” Montecarlo and Kobus Kruger in his turbo rotary-powered RX8.
Topping the Super Competition leaderboard is Louwtjie van den Berg, piloting the 8,5 litre fuel-injected Corvette “Forever Young”.
Simon Slooten in the Super Clean Dodge Challenger, Reg Murray in his Chev Chevelle, Michael Ludick (BMW E30) and Wouter Havenga (Ford Escort) will be following in close pursuit. Turning up the heat to gain some points in the Competition Eliminator will be Bradley Slooten (Fox Mustang), Riaan Esterhuysen (Honda Civic) and MW Dercksen (Honda Civic). Hot on the leader’s tails will be drivers such as Satish Harrichand (Opel), Elise Havenga (BMW) and Jeroen Slooten (Mustang), along with many more.
Street Eliminator will have two brackets racing on the day, namely Super Street with a race bracket of 11.00 to 14.00 seconds while in Modified Street, which has a race bracket of 13.50 to 17.00 seconds, will see female racers such as Ester Cloete (VW Golf)and Nasjki van den Berg (BMW) fight it out alongside the male drivers such as JP Van den Berg, Rayno Bannink and Hannes van der Walt, to name but a few.
Biker fans will also be spoilt with most of the country’s quickest and fastest street- and drag-bikes with riders like Jerry Lombard (Suzuki), Zafar Hoosen (Suzuki) offering stiff competition in the SS-Bikes Class while in the SB-Bikes class, Peter de la Rey (BMW S1000RR), Jesaja Lombard (Suzuki), and Jacques Roberts (Suzuki) will battle it out in the bikers’ field to gain maximum points for the day.
Topping off the day will be exhibition runs by Nico van Rensburg in the famous Tarlton J34 Westinghouse Jet Dragster. This beast of a machine is capable of reaching speeds in excess of 400 km/h over a quarter mile, and you cannot afford to miss this sight. Joining in the exhibition fun will be Marius Coetzee in the Leyland Matador, 12 litre Twin Turbo V8 Drag truck alongside Jeroen and Mark Slooten in their turbocharged Ford Cargo V8 Drag trucks.
The gates will open at 7am and racing is set to start at about 8am. Should the event be rained out, it will be re-scheduled for Sunday, 6 November 2016.
• Details: Contact Nico on 011 762 5431 or 083 309 8461 or follow the event on www.facebook.com/tarltonraceway.
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