Street Outlaw Qualifying Continues.

        Street Outlaw Qualifying Continues.

By Mark Humphrey

Calder Park, Vic, Aus. 9^th September 2014. Qualifying continued for Calder Park Drag Racing’s Street Outlaw Series with round 4 completed last Friday night. Although the Outlaw series was somewhat disappointing with only a handful of cars running, the night as a whole was entertaining with plenty of guys and gals lining up in the open staging lanes to put their machines down the ¼. Plenty of regulars on deck as well as returning racers with some fresh outfits scattered among the entries.

Out for his first visit to the track in sometime was Carl in his stock looking Mazda RX5. An engineer by trade, Carl drove the car to work then managed to fit in a business meeting on his way to the track. Pushing out a tidy 580HP at the wheels, Carl was looking to put down a couple of half passes before launching the RX5 for a full pass. Expecting to drop into the 10’s Carl managed to put the car into the high 9’s by the end of the night which was a good effort considering the car is a Sunday cruiser. A Mazda fanatic with several RX2’s, 3’s and 5’s waiting for a facelift Carl was happy with the night’s work as is looking to come back in the near future.Above: Carl gets the RX5 ready for a launch. Below: The RX5 power plant.

Another racer returning to Calder was Peter from Gasolineimports.com. Peter rolled out his daily driven clean looking 66 Mustang. Running a 302 cubed small block stroked out to a 347 version Peter was hoping to put the pony into the mid 11’s. Having put down a 10.6 on the juice at an earlier meet Peter was expecting to run somewhere around the 11.80’s on regular fuel.Pete's mint 66 Mustang lights up the bags

Operating an importing business out of Mill Park, the 66 Mustang was one of a recent shipment of vehicles from the U.S. With just a minor clean-up of the mechanicals the 66 was basically delivered as she stood. Having been in the importing business for 8 years Peter says it’s hard to remember every vehicle he has brought in. “I’m not sure of the exact number of vehicles I have brought into Australia over the 8 years but I do know that in the last 2 years I have shipped 189 cars over made up of both my own vehicles and customer vehicles” he said. Peter has contacts on the ground in the U.S which assist him to source vehicles for his customers. Traveling up to 6 times a year to the U.S. Peter can source that special car in the U.S., ship the car and also arrange compliance in Australia if required. “Yeah I like to offer the complete package for the customer who just wants to take possession of the vehicle and drive away” he said. Peter added “it’s not only cars, I also ship motorbikes namely Harley’s, jet skis, boats and just about anything with a motor” he said.

Peter is currently putting together a shipping itinerary to ship Radial Outlaw king Daniel Nunziante’s mind blowing 600 cubed Ford Cortina to the USA. Currently rated as the 2^nd fastest Radial Outlaw car in the world, Gasolineimports.com has the job of shipping Daniel’s car to the states for a series of meetings in February, April and May of 2015. For more information on the shipping services provided by Gasoline Imports, phone Peter on 0402 116969.

The next round of qualifying for the Street Outlaw series is a daytime meet on Sunday 21^st of September. Expect to see plenty of race cars out for the test n tune session.

IMAGES FROM QUALIFYING 4

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