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It was back to Warwickshire for Round 6 of this years championship where the Shakespeare County Raceway were hosting the Open Sport Nationals over the weekend of August 21st to 23rd, unusually a Friday to Saturday event.
Seven cars made up the B&H Automotive/LA Racing Parts Street Eliminator field which included SE rookie Paul Houston who with his ’67 twin turbo BBC-powered Pontiac Firebird, and the returning Jason Weir now packing a 2,100 hp Procharged 540 in the ’52 Suburban.
Through qualifying Colin Lazenby progressed from a ‘gentle’ 8.60 to a pole sitting 8.12. Jeff Meads had the number two spot with an 8.55 and Ian Hook made a strong return with a no-gas 8.95 on only his second full pass on the new 598 BBF.
Lazenby, Hook, Meads and Houston progressed from the first round, the latter running his first 8 with an 8.92 ET. In the semi finals Lazenby put Houston back on the trailer 8.03 to 9.04 whilst Hook & Meads swapped the lead a few times in a very exciting race that went to the driver of the yellow Pop 8.42 to 8.56.
It was all to play for in the final as the winner would retake the championship lead. It was Lazenby all the way as he not only took the event win and championship lead but also became the fourth and final entrant into the Webster Race Engineering Seven Second Club with a 7.95/187mph pass
The next and penultimate round for the B&H Automotive/LA Racing Parts Street Eliminator series is at the FIA European Finals, Santa Pod on September 10th-13th.
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