Street cars welcome for No Prep Kaos at drags
NO Prep Kaos racing is for all types of dragsters, street cars and bikes and will be held on a dragway in Queensland for the first time tomorrow.
Organiser Matt Loy expects more than 50 nominations for a form of racing that has proved popular in America.
"This could be the first No Prep Kaos meeting on any dragway in Australia,” he said.
"With no prep racing, there is no preparation of the drag strip. The drivers and riders have to manage their power-to-ground ratio on an unprepared surface.”
At regular meetings at Warwick Dragway, the club tractor is used to tow a machine that places rubber on the track. The rubber is then sprayed with a sticky compound which makes the surface sticky and allows for the best possible traction.
There will still be water sprayed tomorrow for the burnouts but as for the track, it will be racing on the track as it is.
Gates open at 10am and qualifying and racing runs from 2.30pm to around 9pm.
Loy said the action was always exciting at night.
"When it is a bit cooler, the cars tend to go a bit faster,” he said.
Racing will be in five classes, pro big tyre, pro open, outlaw small tyre, true street radial and the bike bracket.
There are Warwick-based drivers in most brackets and more are expected to nominate.
John Loy will fly the Warwick flag in pro big tyre in his super charged Torana while Dennis Glanville will be in pro open in his dragster.
Ross Costello will drive his EJ Holden ute with a big block Chev motor in outlaw small tyre.
John Taylor and Barry Ross will be in Ford utes and Ray Balderstone in a Holden Monaro in the true street radial class.
Shell Harbour (NSW) driver Royden Hardcastle will drive from the South Coast of New South Wales to Warwick to compete in a 1928 Dodge with street tyres.
Matt said anyone with a street registered car could go in the true street class.
"I expect more smoke from the No Prep Kaos drag racing that at a regular meeting,” he said.
Admission $10 adults, children under 13 free.
Nominations on Warwick Dragway website or the day. Information on 0419175504.
