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The Redline Rumble this year at Santa Pod was a real
crowd puller thanks to the heat wave and the popularity
of the ‘Run What Ya Brung’ event, seeing
more modded and standard cars than ever before, giving
it large up the track. God of the Pods were out in force
to show everyone how its done and star of the day was
a super quick Tango coloured Toyota Supra which whipped
everyone’s arses with a ridiculous time of 10.07
seconds. Respect goes out to the guy who’s car
went home on the back of a tow-truck when he nearly
lost it up the strip because the bonnet flew up –
and what a professional he was by carrying on in a straight
line to the end driving blind!
Redline Mag kept the crowds entertained with
its legendary half-naked twister games on stage, wet
t-shirt competitions and plenty of super modded cars
on show with some serious I.C.E. Ripspeed’s Dark
Destroyer Corsa which has been recently featured here
on GR was on display in the Redline arena together with
even more shiny metal. The ones that caught my eye were
a nitroused Lupo GTi – now that must really shift
and yes I’m jealous as mine’s still standard
– and similarly a Clio V6 Sport with two ridiculously
huge nitrous tanks bolted either side of the rear windows.
And just in case you thought these tanks were fakes,
you could check out the connectors through the Perspex
engine cover in the rear.
A special drift track had been formed as a new edition
to Redline Rumble this year, where people could try
out drifting techniques (in front of a huge crowd mind
you) with help from the organisers of GT Battle. Most
brave people who had a go got it within the first corner,
but there were a few Sunday Afternoon Drivers not giving
it enough gas.
You couldn’t miss the mental jet drag car out
on top form again, smokin’ out the stands to the
surround sound of exploding ear drums. This beast is
crazy with a quarter mile from standing in 5.9 seconds
and a top speed of 240mph. Its power is so awesome that
the stand windows are visibly seen being sucked in.
It’s probably the closest you’ll ever get
to experiencing an atomic explosion and believe me,
the guy who drives it most certainly has a death wish,
or a lenient life insurance company.
Thanks goes to Halfords PR for the free ticket and
to its Ripspeed team (Pete and Kieran) for the lift
and entertainment, including ‘let’s see
how many ice creams you can eat before you throw up’
contest.
Next time I’ll try not to be so overdressed as
the ladies dress code seemed to generally be fishnets,
knee highs, thong or bikini, or if you’re part
of a rival girl modders club, walk about in tight pink
crop-tops, hot pants with huge aluminous pink furry
boots. Gaz, maybe this could be our new unisex dress
code for GR?! And could someone please inform my ‘non-car-scene’
mates that Santa Pod is not a holiday resort in Spain,
because they don’t believe me......... Sezza
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