Drag Racing season hots up

DRAG racing action returns to Donnybrook Raceway in Harare on Sunday for the third instalment of the hp lubes Castrol 2018 Drag Racing Series.

With only two events remaining in the 2018 Series and an impressive competitor turnout at the first two events of this popular motorsport event, competition remains intense, both across the Club Championship, comprising 14 vehicle classes, and in the recently introduced Nationals event.

The June event showcased some of the country’s fastest motorcars taking to the quarter mile drag strip in an attempt to shake up standings and achieve personal best times.

The Sables Dragpro Club’s prestigious current “Top Ten Lists” are testament to the progression in the sport of drag racing over the past six years, with three cars now running in the elite 10-second bracket and the “slowest” on the list running a time of 12.53 seconds.

Just three years ago when the list was first introduced, the fastest car was running a time of 11.893 seconds and the slowest on the list, 13.781 seconds.

The current fastest time to beat for the motorcars is 10.42 seconds posted by Terry Allberry in the Dragster Rail at the previous event in June.

The fastest motorcycle time, a pass of 9.966 seconds, set by Leslie Carlsson on his Suzuki GSXR1000, in July 2016, is yet to fall.

“Given the track surface we have available to us and the relative infancy of this discipline of motorsport in Zimbabwe, the top 10 fastest competitors are quite worthy of mention,” said Mano Zevgolis of the Sables Dragpro Club, who run drag racing events in this country.