NEW DRAG CHALLENGE DATES ANNOUNCED!
> AFTER ANOTHER WEATHER-INDUCED DELAY, DRAG CHALLENGE 2022 IS FINALLY GOING AHEAD EARLY NEXT YEAR!
GET excited! After two postponements, we’re delighted to announce that our five-day Drag Challenge marathon will now take place between 30 January and 4 February next year!
The unrelenting rain in Victoria forced us to postpone the 2022 edition of the drag-and-drive event, which was meant to take place 25-29 October, as neither the tracks, pits nor public roads could have coped with 300 cars and crew after the mass flooding events and threats of further precipitation. That followed the rescheduling of the 2021 event due to spicy cough restrictions.
Happily, the move to the new dates allows us to bring Portland’s awesome eighth-mile track back into the schedule. It all kicks off on Monday 30 January with a registration day at Heathcote Park Raceway, before the first day of racing gets underway on Tuesday at the same venue. Wednesday sees the circus move to Por tla nd fo r
Day Two’s racing, while Mildura’s Sunset Strip will play host to the event on Thursday. We’ll return to Heathcote Park on Friday for some night racing, before the final day’s racing, also at Heathcote, brings the event to a close on Saturday 4 February.
“The decision to postpone it again wasn’t an easy one, but we really had no choice,” says Scotty Taylor, the main man behind our DC events. “Both Heathcote and Mildura copped it bad just weeks out from the event, and with the forecast not looking any better for the dates and all the roads washed out, it wouldn’t have been safe or feasible to try and run it then.”
Although having to postpone the event sucked, the flipside was that it brought out the awesome community spirit within drag racing. “Everyone was pretty understanding of the need to cancel, and I can’t thank our awesome sponsors enough for sticking by us and making it possible to put on gryeat aygs.
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Entrants have already been contacted to inform them of their automatic rollover from the postponed October dates. With a packed field of 300-plus cars contesting a whopping nine classes, it’ll be the biggest DC yet. For starters, there’ll be a stack of six-and seven second belters lining up, including theSzabo li cs marc he se Racing HQ M on aro,F rank Marchese in the 2018 Dc-winning FAIRXW, and Luke Foley’s VH Commodore.
The tracks will be open on all days (except registration day) for spectators to come along and watch, and we’ll have a limited supply of our smoking-hot, one-off Drag Challenge merch for sale at all the tracks as well.
And don’t worry, this rescheduled 2022 running of DC won’t replace the 2023 version; we have every intention of running that in spring next year. So despite all the delays, 2023 is looking set to
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