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Night of Fire AERO Racing presented the Outlaw RX-7 for racing last weekend at the Night of Fire local National Open Meeting at the Perth Motorplex. There were 12 racers in the Supercharged Outlaws bracket, with some fierce cometition in the top half a dozen positions in the Championship. "After sorting out our gearbox problems" said Paul Carey, "the crew spent time servicing the standard heads ready for this meeting, and I put a new fuel system on the car with a bigger pump to handle the future power up program. So we were really just looking for consistent trouble free racing this weekend. Well we almost pulled it off!" First pass of the day at 1.20 netted a solid 7.449 @ 187.89mph, and the mid afternoon run was another good straight pass with a 7.407 @ 188.67mph. Third pass and compulsory qualifier was 7.406 @ 187.11mph giving good consistency in times. "At about 1000 feet I notice out my right eye the drivers door just dissapear! No dramas - I held it flat to finish the run as the car behaves so well. The new lightweight composite door appeared to have failed structurally at the bonded joint - would never have picked that to happen. I raced back to the AERO Group workshop in Bayswater and picked up the original steel door, and got it back on in time for the semi finals". "The 7.406 had qualified us eigth in the field, and came up against Kevin Lyle in the Funny Car 37 Chev Coup who ran a stout best of 6.984. We dialed in a 7.37 and got the start on Kevin with a 0.025 reaction time and ran it out the back to a winning 7.523 @ 186.72mph, despite the Chev flying past me before the finish line on a massive breakout 6.768 on a 6.90 dial in". "Our package netted us fifth place just missing out on the B Final, but gaining enough points to stay fifth in the Championship. The car needs little work now for the next meeting - Top Fuel". |
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