Category Archives: Drag Racing

13-01-26 Street 2 Strip

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A quiet day at the office today, not quite a packed house but some quality cars non the less. Almost off the bat a Golf (what else) dropped gearbox oil all over the right lane making it extremely slippery for the next few competitors, thankfully that was the only breakage on the line. Most of the cars running today where pretty fast all thing considered, that said I don’t recall anyone breaking the 13s barrier and getting sent home (except maybe the Pro-Fit “Gonda”). The stand out car for me had to be the black Golf 6 R, awesome car running awesome times. Anyway, onto the pics…



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12-11-10 GHFM Rev Life

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What a huge event on Saturday, with fast cars and awesome drifting drawing between twelve and fifteen thousand spectators… cars taking up every available spot around the track… the place was packed to capacity. I’ve been out of action for 4 months so it was good to be back at what feels like my second home and to be gifted with some of the fastest runs Killarney has seen in ages, at least 2 cars ran in the 9’s and I’m almost sure that I heard the No Sweat Pro Stock Skyline ran an 8.6s pass. If the beasts running on the drag strip weren’t enough for you then on the other side of the track surely didn’t leave you wanting with some awesome tandem drifting taking place with round 4 of the Shakedown Series.The standout car in the drifting for me was the Mad Max style Supra running a supercharged Corvette motor and for no other reason other than the sound of the supercharger, it still gives me chills just thinking about it. Let’s get onto the pics…


I’m almost sure I heard 8.6s for this Skyline


Fastest pass I heard was 9.4s


Fastest pass I heard was 9.6s (update: while I was covering the drifting it appears Ralph ran a 9.2 😯 )


Fastest pass I heard was 10 flat

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12-06-16 WPMC Drag Racing: Part 1

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Saturday morning at Killarney brought with it the promise of great racing with at least 5 cars there capable of running sub 10s passes. Unfortunately the day brought with it numerous breakages which sidelined a number of the big guns, including Tolla Daniels, Michael Kayser & Herman with his Rover-Tec bakkie. Undoubtedly the center of attention though was the matt black Chev Firenza of Ralph Kumbier with the twin turbos of the V8 powerplant poking out the bonnet. Unfortunately Ralph was sidelined with an injury so we didn’t see the full potential of the monster as Kevin of Executive Towing struggled to put the power down on his 1st run and when he just seemed to start to get the hang of it the Firenza was sidelined with a minor oil leak. I hope all those that suffered breakages on Saturday manage to get things sorted for the next event on the 14th of July and I hope those potential spectators that browse my website are inspired to come down to the track to take in the sights and sounds that is drag racing at Killarney 😉 Till next time, Robert




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12-06-01 Street 2 Strip

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Friday night was a relatively slow night by Street 2 Strip standards with at least one racer being able to get 9 runs in, that doesn’t mean the action wasn’t hot with M3’s, 335i’s, Skyline’s and one super hot Impreza hitting the strip. The Impreza in question being the Malcolm Royston Cool Banana’s Impreza that got sent packing with a best time of 12.6s (Sreet2Strip has a 13s limit, you go faster, you go home ;))




Malcolm getting told he’s been banned from S2S

One last glory run

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