WINNER’S CIRCLE

“I HAVE to say a huge thanks to all the guys who helped get me to Drag Challenge, because the real story with this car has been the amazing effort people put in to help me out,” Quentin says. “I had my pistons coated for the first rebuild before Drag Challenge. After that first race meeting at Calder the oil filter was full of not only metal but a blue coating. We knew the blue was Teflon off my pistons. Thankfully Ryan from Race Coatings rectified someone else’s work, sand-blasting the old coating off and recoating them. He’s done all the ceramic coating on my pipework, and I’ve had the exhaust manifolds and turbines glowing red at 1000°C and they’ve gone straight back to black. I’m very impressed with his work! “I had to call Lou from Dandy Engines and ask him to machine my block and crank for the Torrington bearing conversion, and he did it in two days the week before Drag Challenge – legend! “Everyone pitched in to help us get to that event, and it’s a credit to guys like Joe Sammut from JC Engines who did my engine machining; Clink Dalton from Dalton Racing for the engine assembly; Mark and Phil from MoTec; Pete and Mick from Demak Timber; Tony and the team from Bob Jane; Lee from TCE Converters; Nathan Higgins from HRD for the head porting; Lou from Dandy Engines; Shannon and the team at Tankard Panel Service who prepped and painted the engine bay; Luke from Modern Visual; Pete from Casey Automotive for the late-night dyno sessions; Penrite Oil, Kav Auto; Speed Pro; Coxy; Jacob; Burko; and Grant.

"I also have to thank my good mates Mark McCoy, Paul Rogers and Michael Trewin, who crewed on the car for the event."