The Whanganui drag team of Rivers Speed and Spares has taken the lead in the NZ Drag Racing Championships as the father and daughter combination of Grant and Nicole Rivers were dominant in Nelson recently.
The Rivers team set a new track record at The Rock Dragway track in Nelson last weekend, on the shorter eighth of a mile airstrip, for the sixth round of nine in the summer series.
Father and daughter shared driving duties on the day, with Nicole qualifying their dragster at the head of the field after collecting a new best low elapse time (ET), as well as the quickest miles per hour (MPH) time in the competition class.
"We qualified first and won the meeting," Grant Rivers said.
"Setting a new national record at Nelson. We did a 4.41 second pass on the eighth of a mile track, clocking 160mph.