On another perfect Queensland Sunday, the drags and the muscle car shootout were held within 500 metres of each other. Dale and I gave our cars a run down the quarter, and Cameron turned up in his mindblowing twin turbo NSX. I had a couple of "toe in the water" runs to see how I'd go in street trim - exactly as it's driven on the street (no race tyres, race fuel, full exhaust etc). Cameron seemed to keep lining up for more runs, and Dale gave everyone the quad-Weber induction roar experience.
I'm sure Cameron will chime in with the results of his time slips, as I only had the chance to see one of his runs. 12.3 @ 118mph is very impressive in a car that is realistically more at home carving through the dips and curves of Targa Tasmania than doing the boring old 1/4 mile straight line stuff.
I also only had the chance to see one of Dale's runs, with a 13.1 @ 104mph seeing off the vast majority of the XR8s and SS Commodores up there.
I ran 11.2 @ 129mph first run and 11.1 @ 128mph the next. The datalogging showed that I held full throttle for the last 0.9 of a second on the last run.
Bigger balls or stickier tyres might improve on that time in the future......