AFTER almost a year of COVID-related lockdowns, travel bans and shuttered tracks, championship drag racing made its triumphant return in Victoria in late January, with Portland’s South Coast Raceway hosting the South Coast 660.
The Street Machine team just had to be there, so we brought a big crew with us to cover the event – and to race our Carnage Volvo for the first time. Portland is a five-hour haul from the home base of Carnage’s Scott Taylor, but like a lot of folks, we’d drive just about any distance to race at the moment! And besides, Portland’s eighth-mile is one of the prettiest tracks in the country, with outstanding facilities and awesome track staff.
The meet formed round 10 of the extended 2019/20/21 Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series,…