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BULAWAYO Motoring Club (BMC) will hold their last public drag race for the 2014 season on their racing calendar on Saturday at the Victoria Falls road circuit.
The event is sponsored by OK Mart Bulawayo who will be promoting their launch of the 2014 Christmas line specials and they will hand out vouchers to new and old drag racing competitors.
BMC vice-chairman Zane Shah said that OK Mart is branching out their support to motor racing and this is a significant move by the corporate to support sport.
“BMC welcomes the coming on board of OK Mart and we encourage drivers that wish to compete to come and do so in a safe and controlled environment giving significance to our theme ‘Race Legal’”, he said.
Though this will be the last public drag race on their calendar, BMC will then hold their most prestigious racing event which is the 45th anniversary of the three Hour Endurance race on 6 December.
However, Bulawayo racer Tim Schultz who got injured in the Superbike race at the National Championships will not be taking part as he is still waiting to undergo fitness tests which might see him take part in the Endurance race if he passes.
Featured racers are Jimmy Zevgolis, Darren Pragji, Terry Allbery, Aiden White, Zane Shah, Hussain Rahman, Ian Gutherless, Dave Marsburg, Michael Macdonald and more will be lighting up the track for the 402-metre sprint.
Drag racing is over a distance of 402 metres from a standing start and the first one to cross the line when the lights go green is the winner of the race.
Each competitor sets a minimum of three qualifying times and these are placed in order from the slowest to the fastest for qualifying in the knock-out round.
Online Reporter