Pro Street Drag Series

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With kind permission of RishiGTiR

With the first Pro Street Drag series title awarded to season racer Richard Batty with the NR Autosport tuned 11 second Mitsubishi FTO sports racer, attention is now turning to this year’s title race in five rounds of timed competition to be held at Shakespeare County Raceway. In a move to make the series even more accessible for the average Japanese and European car enthusiast to enter the timing brackets have been amended in the street classes:

9.30 to 10.99 seconds
11.00 to 11.99 seconds
12.00 to 12.99 seconds
13.00 to 13.99 seconds
14.00 or slower

The Professional classes continue to cater for Pro 4wd/RWD (currently chasing 7 sec runs) and Pro FWD. The main objective of the series is to run affordable timed bracket classes for Japanese and European manufactured road legal vehicles with current MOT, full working dashboard and lights but on radial tyres. Wrinkle wall DOT tyres and full racing slicks can be used but only in the Pro classes. Any vehicle running quicker than 9.3 will automatically move into the Pro class and must be fitted with an approved roll cage.

The series will take place during five of the published quarter mile Public Track Day weekends on Sundays, with practice days on Saturday. Admission is £12 per person per day or £22 for a weekend pass. RWYB Track Fee is £20 per person or £35 for a weekend of unlimited drag strip fun!

To enter all you need is a vehicle, seatbelts, suitable clothing, full drivers licence, crash helmet (always recommended) if you’re vehicle is an open or soft top, runs quicker than 11 seconds or faster than 100 mph over the quarter mile. After each run you will be issued with a Certificate of Speed showing important run data.

Since the release of the series official forum www.prostreetdragseries.co.uk the series has gained attention from drivers and sponsors all over the country including Adrenaline Race & Performance, Opie Oils & VP Racing Fuels and Japanese Performance Magazine.

To compete all you need to do is register for free on the Pro Street Drag Racing forum www.prostreetdragseries.co.uk and then post up in the "Enter Here" Section to be assigned a race number. Existing race numbers are carried over from 2008 to 2009. We look forward to seeing you there.

Photos Courtesy of Peter Donaldson

 

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Pro Street Drag Series Preview - Round 1
With only a matter of days to go drivers are getting geared up for the first round of the 2009 Pro Street Drag Series, on the 18th/19th of April at Shakespeare County Raceway, near Stratford-Upon-Avon. I’m sure Richard Batty in his blisteringly quick Mitsubishi FTO will be keen to repeat his overall Series win again in 2009, although many other drivers will be planning to knock him off the top spot this year, writes PSDS spokes person Robin Greaves.


With over thirty five new competitors having signed up for 2009, record numbers of PSDS drivers are expected to attend this year.
Many of the drivers who competed last year have been busy over the winter period making improvements to their drag machines. In the Street Class Tony Walters is planning to break in to the 9’s with his revamped Nissan 200SX, John Moreby has been negotiating a new turbo in to his already very quick 10 second Impreza wagon, and Mike Smith has added NOS to his twin engined Mini Estate.

Also will we see a magical seven second run this year in our Pro Class? Mick Begley seems to think so with his ex Duke drag R33 GTR, currently holding the 4wd European record of 8.21/176 mph that he achieved in the 2008 Pro Street Drag Series. Mick’s car has recently been dyno’d at 1346hp and he has added a 175 shot of NOS in an attempt to smash his own European record hopefully with a seven second run. Keith Cowie also believes his car is capable of a seven second run this year but may struggle to make the first round due to head gasket problems causing the coolant system to become pressured up. This happened on Keith’s last run of the 2008 season when the motor blew 2 core plugs, dropping water under the wheels, causing the back end to come round right at the top of the track doing about 160 mph!

Whatever happens there’s sure to be plenty of action in the first round of the 2009 Pro Street Drag Series so make sure you don’t miss out. To compete sign-up at www.prostreetdragseries.co.uk, or to spectate just turn up and pay on the gate!