23rd May, 2008

HIGH FIVE FOR BRETT STEVENS

With the largest Drag Racing event in the southern hemisphere and season finale for ANDRA Championship Drag Racing series nearly upon us, Queensland’s Willowbank Raceway has been a hive of activity both on and off the race track in preparation for it’s iconic Winternationals.

One of the big names taking advantage of some track time prior to the big event is Brett Stevens, who was out at Willowbank as apart of his teams research and development schedule.

The time testing achieved some huge results for the team’s Ford Falcon Top Doorslammers with Stevens recording a string low 6.0 second quarter mile passes at over 240 mph in his 3000 horsepower Jack Daniel’s Racing machine, before reeling off his first ever ‘5’ with a fantastic 5.99 second pass at 244.04 mph.

“It has been a personal goal of mine for a couple of years now to get that ‘5’ after being so close for so long so I am over the moon,” Stevens said.

“But what is even more exciting coming into the Winternationals is the consistency we now have in our setups to run these types of numbers in full race trim without any issues with the car.”

“I can’t wait to get back out to Willowbank in a couple of weeks and try to replicate what we have done over the last few days, the whole team is buzzing with excitement.”

“Depending on conditions, we now also have the data and hardware that could potentially put me as well as my teams other Doorslammer entries of Kath (Stevens) and Steve (Packman) in the 5 second zone all at the same event.”

Stevens has become just the fifth person in Australia to run a 5 second pass in a Top Doorslammer, with his wife Kath Stevens the fourth in the club after her incredible 5.96 run at the 2008 Summernationals earlier this year.

As well as Brett and Kath Stevens, the Brett Stevens Racing team will also have it’s SP Racing Ford Falcon driven by Steve Packman taking to the track at the Winternationals with the goal of having all three of it’s Top Doorslammers running ‘5’s’ in competition.

WINTERNATIONALS DETAILS

Location:

Willowbank Raceway

Champions Way

Willowbank QLD

Schedule:

Thursday 5th June

Qualifying: 1:30pm - 7:00pm

Friday 6th June

Qualifying: 8:00am - 8:00pm (Including Group One from 5:00pm)

Saturday 7th June

Qualifying: 8:00am - 8:00pm (Including Group One from 11:30am)