{"id":5318,"date":"2022-11-12T23:47:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T23:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=5318"},"modified":"2024-05-25T06:48:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T06:48:12","slug":"inaugural-five-car-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=5318","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural Five Car Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A new era for drag racing was ushered into reality (Nov 4-5th) when Top Fuel Funny Car class racing made it\u2019s official debut for the 400 Thunder Aeroflow Drag Racing Series – during the East Coast Thunder event – hosted at Sydney Dragway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The headlining nitro cars featured five machines running at the groundbreaking event and they did produce both some quick and fast runs as well as a surprise event winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final round for the event, as anticipated did feature two of Graeme Cowin\u2019s machines with pre-race favourite Morice McMillin\u2019s Aeroflow Toyota paired again his teammate Brandon Gosbell, driver of the Rocket Industries Dodge Charger.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The winner for the first ever 400 Thunder Aeroflow Funny Car event was Brandon Gosbell driving the Rocket Industries Dodge Charger<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The win light for that pairing went to Gosbell who\u2019s run of 4.904 secs 328.78 outran McMillin\u2019s 5.042 secs at 326.16 mph.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event also did feature the first ever side by side 4-secs race pairing (1\/4 mile) with McMillin edging Justin Walsh in a rather historic 4.998 secs to 4.997 secs dash which occured Friday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first ever side-by-side 4-secs runs occurred with Morice McMillin edging out Justin Walsh in this pairing.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Low ET for the event did however go to Gosbell who\u2019s run of 4.892 secs was the quickest recorded for the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Australia fuel FC veteran Anthony Begley was piloting the Mopar Dodge Charger.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Driver Chis Stipanovich entered this Pontiac Firebird fuel burner.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

To view more images from the 400 Thunder Aeroflow Drag Racing Series East Coast Thunder event click: HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Post and photos by Bruce Biegler <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A new era for drag racing was ushered into reality (Nov 4-5th) when Top Fuel Funny Car class racing made it\u2019s official debut for the 400 Thunder Aeroflow Drag Racing Series – during the East Coast Thunder event – hosted at Sydney Dragway. The headlining nitro cars featured five machines running at the groundbreaking event […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[173,9],"tags":[178],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5322,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions\/5322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}