Discover Ipswich Magazine 2021

ADVENTURE

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Can you handle BEING STRAPPED INTO 500HP?

By Dave Reid Motorsport Photographer @dragphotos

“Best Gift EVER”

Review of V8 Experience by a Tripadvisor Traveler 12 August 2020

With the dominance of the new Ford Mustang in the V8 Supercar series, the taste to get behind the wheel of one of these monsters is stronger than ever. And now anyone can, with the team at V8 Experience now offering the chance to drive the latest generation 500hp Mustang. The full chassis, purpose built 2020 spec Mustangs are as close as it gets to driving a real V8 Supercar. You get the full experience, from the Haltech dash up front, to the floating rear end at the back.

Running on Dunlop supersoft slicks and then pulling up from over 200kph down the back straight on Supercar brakes is an experience like no other. “The cars just stick to the race track no matter how hard you push the car, and the driving instructor is motivating you to push even harder to get that extra tenth in your lap times,” Julie a V8 Experience customer said “It’s not all about going fast. Getting hard on the brakes into the corners really shows what these race cars are capable of.”

Next door to Queensland Raceway, Willowbank Raceway is in full swing. Whilst there are a few changes, action-packed events have been running each month ranging from your average Test N Tune, where you can race your own street car or your weekend sports car down the infamous Willowbank Drag Strip, to checking out some of Queensland’s best teams going head to head in the Queensland Drag Racing Championships. There is nothing like the sound of a massive supercharged engine on full noise at over 300kph. And if you’re lucky enough to get to one of the bigger meets, such as the New Year’s Thunder, Santos Super Thunder or the biggest drag racing event outside of North America, the Winternationals, the Top Fuel / Top Alcohol categories are traveling in excess of 500kph in just 4 seconds! That’s nearly five times the speed limit on the highway and you feel every bit of it shaking through your whole body in the grandstands of the venue. So if going fast is your thing we Fresh from Mt Panorama in Bathurst the Ford Mustang is now home at Queensland Raceway’s iconic paper clip shaped track and ready to have you, a loved one, dad, or even your race fan nan jump in the hot seat from only $199 for three hot laps driven by a professional race instructor. For the full race package it costs $369 to pilot the beast yourself. It is a perfect gift for the adrenalin junkie in your life. ■

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