Updated June 2013

 

THE JIM READ STORY

A new book released 1st June 2013

 

The commentator shouts, “Jim Read is in trouble, it’s an horrific crash he is upside down and on fire and has taken out a concrete pole, the fire truck and ambulance are rushing to him”.

Catapulting upside down at over 250mph and thinking to myself, this is going to hurt. My instincts take over as I take my hands off the steering wheel and brace for a big impact. In what seems like hours but must be only a few minutes and in total darkness I assume is death, I consider my life. Visions of my family come racing to me, my children, my friends, places I have seen and the things I have done. Visions of a future I wanted for them, for myself and for the sport I love, drag racing.
 

 

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Jim Read Racing – Team Valvoline

Willowbank Raceway Winternationals Event

7th – 10th June 2013

A crowd in excess of 12,000 attended the Winternationals at Willowbank Raceway in Ipswich Queensland. With a planned four days of fast and furious drag racing action the Valvoline campaigned Top Fuel dragster driven by three times Australian Top Fuel Champion Phil Read qualified into the field with a best ET over the quarter mile drag track of 4.877.

On another qualifier Phil ran the fastest sixty foot time of the event with a .849, a great effort for Team Valvoline against the stellar Top Fuel field.
The event was weather affected and the event promoter abandoned Day 4.

The valuable race date that Crew Chief Bruce Read had captured from the previous Sydney event proved the difference with the performance of the newly rebuilt ‘Black Mamba’ dragster getting back to their previous best.

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NITRO CHAMPS 2013 EVENT REPORT

A massive crowd was on hand at Sydney Dragway over the weekend of May 4 & 5 to witness the much anticipated return of Jim Read Racing and the Valvoline campaigned Top Fuel dragster driven by three times Australian Top Fuel Champion Phil Read.

Six of the very best performing nitro methane burning Top Fuel dragsters entered the event including USA champion driver Tommy Johnson Jnr and head crew chief Lee Beard in the Santo Rapisarda entry arriving direct from Indianapolis USA this week.

Crew chief Bruce Read captured and evaluated the valuable race data during the three qualifying passes from the newly rebuilt ‘Black Mamba’ dragster and after eleven months out of the driver’s seat Phil Read prepared to contest this stellar six car field.

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List of current events for Jim Read Racing

7-10 June 2013 - Winternationals

Willowbank Raceway

Top Fuel

19-20 October 2013

Calder Park, Melbourne

Top Fuel

1-3 November 2013 - Australian Nationals

Sydney Dragway

Top Fuel

 

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MARKETING OPPORTUNITY

Jim Read Racing would like in hearing from anybody that is interested in promoting their products or services with an icon in Australian motor sport (Jim Read).

We have 4 remaining events this season, Perth, Queensland and Sydney, it would be a good opportunity for somebody to test the promotional qualities of the sport with the team with the view to maybe a bigger investment from September.

info@jimreadracing.com.au

 

Jim Read captured the 1976 Nations Top Fuel and Funny Car crowns in record times at Adelaide International Raceway. Read's double coupe was the first in Australian racing history and makes him the single most significant racer in the country today.

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