My First Drag Day

[XR6Gal]

On Sunday the XR Club was invited to the MTAQ Cannonball day, and it was at this event that I decided to give my car a go down the quarter mile!

I was so nervous as I had never done this before and was worried that I was going to stall it, or do something stupid. But I lined up, waited & came up against a Senator. Which kicked my ****.. heheh …and I did a 16.3, considering that was my very first time & the nerves, I don’t think it was all that bad.

I had so much fun I decided to give it another shot, coming up against a V8 Brock Commodore. On this run, I beat him and ran a 16.01.

So, I was hooked, going around for another time, at which I came up against the Brock Commodore again, which I beat him, again, and got 15.79 . As we were only able to have 3 test runs, that was it for me, I went & had a bite to eat & eagerly waited for the afternoon’s races to come around.

As my times were all over the place, I decided to put my dial in time as 15.7, thinking that I couldn’t do any better than that, surely.

Firstly I came up against an Escort, his dial in time was 15.5. It was a good race, and I won it, doing a 15.9.

Next race I came against a AU XR8 with a dial in time of 15.05. I REALLY wanted to win this race… which I did, but I broke out, with a time of 15.51 I was stoked at the time, but annoyed that I broke out.


So that was my racing over for the day, but I must say, that I’m really quite looking forward to my next drag day/night!!!! Hopefully I can improve my times, I seem to be getting gradually better with each run

Here's some pics of my third run.