In the final Zappia would face Victor Bray in his Castrol ’57 Chev. Bray had done a similar thing to “Zap” at the Winternationals by running nothing but six zeros on the way to a stirring win, however on this day nothing could stop John Zappia and his flying Monaro.
Bray grabbed a couple of hundredths off the line (.053 to .074) but by the eighth mile “Zap” had grabbed it back (3.984 to 4.191) and just steam rolled to the finish-line with a bracket like 6.013/242.28 to a second best 6.29 for Bray. “I’d really like to thank all of my sponsors – Striker Crushing, Rentco, Trustek, Fuchs, everyone,” he said.
“After we ran the five last year Rentco got an enormous response from people everywhere. Even though they were only an Australian company they were fielding requests from as far away as America for their services. If I can keep up the momentum and give my sponsors the coverage they deserve then I will be very happy,” he admitted. Certainly after last year’s race the affable racer only had one spare crank in reserve now he has a total of three spare engines.
I must admit that the popularity of Pro Modified/Top Doorslammer bracket is a world wide phenomenon at the moment with record fields in Australia, America and Europe so I have spent most of this report covering same. Last time when I typed out a 3,000 word opus I came foul of “Burk’s Law of Verbosity” so I just keep to the Pro highlights for the rest of the meet.
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