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The Brett Stevens
Racing team showed why they are a dominating force in the ANDRA Championship
Drag Racing series with an incredible display of record setting performances
over the weekend at the Western Sydney International
Dragway.
Completing at the Summernationals, the
team treated the big crowd that attended the event with numerous benchmark
performances with the highlight being Kath Stevens World Record setting
performance in her 3000 horsepower Jack Daniel’s Racing Ford Falcon Top
Doorslammer
Kath created history on Saturday
(16th February), which was also her 31st birthday, by becoming
the first ever women to run a 5 second quarter mile pass in a ‘doored’ car when
she laid down a stunning 5.96 Elapsed Time.
“This is amazing! We have been working
and developing our Brett Stevens Racing built Ford Falcon Top Doorslammers now
for around 18 months and it has all finally paid off,” Kath Stevens
said.
 “This is the ultimate birthday present
as well; we will be celebrating hard tonight!”
“I would like to thank my husband Brett
for giving me this chance, my friends and family, and to all of my sponsors that
have supported and shown faith in me over the
years.”
“There were a lot of them here tonight
as well so it was great to be able to put on a show like this for
them.”
Other stand out performances from the
team included Brett Stevens running the fastest Top Alcohol Funny Car pass in
the Southern Hemisphere in the Kitten Car Care Products Funny Car at 263.15 mph
(423.50 kph), as well as the second quickest Elapsed Time at 5.55
seconds.
Adding to this was Brett Stevens
personal best mph in his Jack Daniel’s Racing Top Doorslammer (243.90 mph),
Steve Packman running a personal best ET and mph in the SP Racing Falcon Top
Doorslammer (6.19 seconds at 239.91 mph), and Pete Cochrane on the S&S
Powered Pro Stock Buell also running a personal best pass (7.13
seconds).
“This weekend has just been awesome for
the team with some incredible individual performances all around,” Brett Stevens
said.
“We had all of out cars and bikes
running on song most of the event and were able to maintain our position on top
of three Group 1 Championship ladders in the ANDRA Championship series (Top
Alcohol – Brett Stevens, Top Bike – Troy McLean and Pro Stock Bike – Pete
Cochrane).”
“But the night really belonged to Kath
and I couldn’t be happier for her, as hard as it may be to believe I think it is
even better her running a 5 than me.”
“It has topped off a fantastic weekend
for the team and I would also like to pay a special mention to my fantastic crew
for their efforts in helping make all this possible, we couldn’t have done it
without you.”
Kath Stevens is in illustrious drag
racing company. In addition to being the world’s first woman to break the five
second barrier, she is also just the eighth driver worldwide to have done so,
with only three other Australians in the elite
club.
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