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Rapisarda to race a Nitro Funny Car in Australia
Posted by: Rapisarda Racing, Tuesday, June 1, 2010. Photo by: NHRA  Multiple
championship-winning Rapisarda Racing drag racing team is set to
race a Nitro Funny Car in Australia after purchasing an ex-Don
Prudhomme Racing, 2008 Monte Carlo NHRA car.Rapisarda Racing US-based crew chief, Glenn Mikres, said the Funny Car was purchased earlier in the year and arrived in Australia mid-May. “The car is a former Don Prudhomme car. It is a McKinney chassis with a Monte Carlo body. One of the Skoal blue cars. It is lightly raced as it was used as a Prudhomme Racing backup car,” Mikes said. “It is a 2008 car, so it is a few years old, built just before the new big tube cars came out with all the updates. It is actually a very nice car. Read more The numbers stack up for Judd at Winternationals Posted by: Studebaker Racing Co, Tuesday, June 1, 2010. Photo by: Images by Daniel Ward.  Perth
Chartered Accountant, Robin Judd, does not have to do the sums
to know how the numbers stack up in the quest to win his first Australian
National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) Pro Series Top
Doorslammer championship.
Judd, who has won two events so far this season – Australian Nationals, Sydney and Goldenstates, Perth Motorplex – will go into the championship series-ending Winternationals at Willowbank Raceway, Ipswich, June 10-13, with a nine-point lead over arch-rival John Zappia. While in the $20,000 three-event – Westernationals, Perth, Nitro Champs, Sydney and Winternationals – Karcher Shootout, Judd is 20 points behind Zappia. However, Judd can take comfort in the knowledge that only once in the Top Doorslammer championship series’ 11-year history has the driver leading the series going into the Winternationals lost the championship. Read more |