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Yes, ridiculously close! And great to catch on video. I had no idea who'd won it - only that the Torino did seem to be out of the blocks a fraction better. Iain's TQ curse returns.

We had a very close finish in round one of the match racing too...

   

Not this one. Alan's white Corvette got a horrible start and was left with too much ground to make up. Bill's red 'Vette won by 0.045 - their ETs 0.458 and 0.494 - but Alan was extremely rapid through the line at 12.238 mph.

   

This was the close one. And Iain was on the receiving end of a 0.006 second defeat. Clive's Henry J also got a 0.005 holeshot - his ET 0.466 and the Ford's 0.467.

   

Rebecca crushed Andy by 0.128 seconds in the third race, her candy red Mercury Coupe clocking 0.476 to Andy's Escort's 0.599. Tyre rub on the Ford...

I'll squeeze in round 2 later.

   

Before that, it's an opportunity for Noah and Dylan to show off the two Aurora dragsters. Aurora produced four dragsters between 1973 and 1976, originally on the non-magnatraction AFX Speciality (4-gear) chassis and then on the AFX magnatraction Speciality version. The difference is the motor magnets were dropped nearer the track rails for a little more downforce... The "Dodge Fever" and "Aztec" were closed-cockpit dragsters, both in white with an airbrushed yellow nose and a sticker sheet.

   

The two cars on the track are the non-magnatraction versions of the open-cockpit "Furious Fueler" (white and yellow) and the "Dyno-Mite" (light blue and white), neither with the stickers attached. These are a great piece of HO drag racing history. The motors are going to need a lot of work to get them down the strip - but that's my plan for next month.

A big thanks to Team Chesterfield for sending them down to the strip