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Photo Competition Launched At Winternationals |
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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
The second installment of the Wallace Bishop Jewellers Photographic competition is under way with drag racing fans encouraged to enter all their images from Willowbank Raceway’s recently completed Castrol EDGE Winternationals.
All 20 finalists, including the four inaugural category winners are currently being displayed at the Ipswich Art Gallery in a public exhibition which runs through until July 29.
Wallace Bishop Jewellers Chief Executive officer and Group One drag racing competitor Stuart Bishop was busy plotting his Top Doorslammer campaign at the Winternationals, but still had the chance to speak to numerous fans about next season’s competition.
Any photograph taken at the Winternationals is eligible to be entered
and Bishop is hoping after a highly successful inaugural competition,
momentum picks up among all drag racing fans throughout Australia.
“The feedback I’ve received has been all positive regarding the
competition and we really want to grow things during the 2008 version,”
said Bishop.
“It’s all about the fans and giving them the opportunity to assist with
the progression of Australian drag racing and also allows our team to
give back to the sport that has provided all of us so much joy.
“To everyone who came up for a chat over the Winternationals weekend I
hope you continue to support Stuart Bishop Racing and I look forward to
catching up again during the start of the new season at the Australian
Nationals on September 14-16.
“I’ll keep everyone posted but there’s a strong chance we’ll be looking
at doing some store visits at Wallace Bishop Jewellers over coming
months and this will also provide an opportunity to get some happy
snaps of the Diamond Doorslammer for the photo competition.”
The 40th Castrol EDGE Winternationals weekend at Willowbank Raceway
again lived up to all expectations as the biggest drag racing show
outside of North America.
With healthy crowds across all three days of the tournament and
countless photos taken of all the action and atmosphere associated with
such a great occasion, Bishop has extended the invitation to all and
sundry to enter into the second installment of the Wallace Bishop
Jewellers Photographic competition.
The finalists’ images from this year’s competition are currently being
displayed at the Ipswich Art Gallery and will be on show until July 29.
A visit to the gallery will prove a great day out for the entire family
with the exhibition coinciding with another major exhibition, ‘Eaten
Alive – The World of Predators,’ which will dominate the Ipswich Art
Gallery during this period.
Drag racing fans young and old are encouraged to involve themselves in
the second installment of the Wallace Bishop Jewellers National
Photographic competition and be in the running to win some great cash
and prizes.
Opportunities abound Australia-wide to shoot images at your local race
track and forward them through the website
www.stuartbishopracing.com.au to enter.
Simply by taking photos of all the drag racing action on and off the
track, then submitting images into the competition, individuals will go
in the running to win cash and prizes worth more than $20 000, courtesy
of Wallace Bishop Jewellers.
The length and breadth of the country will play host to a vast array of
quarter mile drag racing action, coordinated at the three major venues
in Ipswich, Sydney and Perth, plus plenty of smaller hotspots in
between.
It’s not just the major venues that will be pumping with quarter mile
drag racing action in the 2007/08 season, as some of the smaller
quarter and eighth mile facilities get in on the act.
Stretching along the East Coast of Australia, Victoria’s South Coast
Raceway at Portland has regularly scheduled race meetings and it’s a
similar story at Tasmania’s Motors-ACDelco strip.
Mildura’s Sunset Strip in Victoria, Darwin’s Hidden Valley Drag Strip
and Queensland’s Palmyra Dragway (Mackay), Benaraby Raceway (Gladstone)
and Warwick Dragway are also bound to have plenty of high speed thrills
in store during the year.
Full details of the Wallace Bishop photographic competition are
available at www.stuartbishopracing.com.au as is all the new up to date
information relevant to the SBR team and the ’67 Camaro Diamond
Doorslammer.
Website: www.stuartbishopracing.com.au
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