Drag Drive Repeat Show EP 160 presented by Summit Racing - Aussie Invasion

Welcome to Episode 160 of the Drag Drive Repeat Show presented by Summit Racing

Its the Aussie Invasion with Adam Rogash (the Quickest drag and drive racer in Australia) and the All Stars Drag and Drive event team. We’ll talk all things All Stars, but also Aussie drag and drive culture. 

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Before the Aussie talk, Eric recapped Fuel Fest in Chicago, the drift/car show/concert hybrid from Tyrese and Cody Walker (Paul Walker's brother) benefiting Reach Out Worldwide — he came home with 1,300 more photos for an already massive backlog. His Fox Body rotating assembly is together, though it still needs a timing chain cover gasket. Short Circuit sold out at 100 spots. Bigger news: Jeremy Howell's flat-six stick shift car, long the fastest stick shift in drag-and-drive, sold as a roller with no word on what's next. Fast Lane Racing and JayWire Solutions teased a huge announcement, two-plus years in the making. Dan Casease, on keeping Allstars tight: "We don't want to water it down. We don't want to cut any corners."

Talk turned to Adam's 1969 Ford Capri, "the Mac 1," which ran flawlessly at Allstars — zero aborted passes across four days, capping off with a 6.50 at 3,200 pounds. Adam explained how strict Australian road law makes true street-legal builds: real glass windows, full steel bodies, ADR-compliant seats and harnesses, no SFI cages, no Lexan. His workaround is a bolt-on V-band exhaust that lets him pull the turbo J-pipes and legally "de-turbo" the car for street driving in about six hours. He broke down the brutal fuel math — roughly $10/gallon for pump gas versus methanol at a comparatively cheap $3/liter — and how stacking import taxes can balloon a $4,000 US part once GST and fees hit. He's already building his next car, a right-hand-drive chassis with Matt from Moore Race Chassis and input from Steve Morris, aimed at eventually racing Sick Week stateside. On the Capri's week: "Every time we let go of that button, there was not a single aborted pass."

Dan and Deli explained how Allstars built its reputation for a tighter ship than other Aussie drag-and-drives, born from wanting better track prep and less of a "social hangout" vibe. The first event drew around 120 entries; the second sold out 200 spots in under two hours. Their "quarantine" system gives top qualifiers extra passes and priority lane access — which let Adam's two-man crew prove they could turn around a six-second car solo, including surviving a mid-event rocker failure thanks to fellow racer Mark Whitler, who drove four hours to deliver spare parts. Their bump-in format ties reaction time directly to ET, with no sitting on a green light building boost. Best moment of the night: Adam daily-drives the Capri for school pickups and bottle shop runs for his wife. Line of the night, on a fellow racer's tiny 13B turbo rotary: "Don't worry, what that car lacks in size, he makes up in personality."