Dragway drama for Carl!

Carl Cox doesn’t go looking for drama but it often comes to find him, this time at over 200mph!

After months of start-stop lockdown in Melbourne, Carl and his crew were excited to be back on the strip for the Atura Championships at Sydney Dragway with their fire breathing Pro Mod Mustang and head turning ‘Coxy Capri’.

Carl has been on a learning curve on the strip for the last few years, going from 10 second cars to mind-bending sub 6 runs, learning the techniques and refining his start time reactions (he now regularly gets the drop at the lights for the holeshot, surprising many a younger competitor!)

This particular run, Carl had been making great headway and logged up a PB, tripped the beam at 251mph, and then….. well, best we let Carl take up the story!

“It was a great event and everything was running sweet, I had a good run, broke the beam and hit the parachutes. Unfortunately, only one deployed and it veered to the side and wasn’t decelerating enough. Things start happening real quick at 250mph but I was fighting the thing like I could, hitting the safety wall at 180mph and causing a bit of a mess to the car. Luckily it’s an amazingly built car and is being put back to tip top condition by Jerry Bickel, THE race chassis builder.

It shook me up for sure but its just one of those things, no lasting harm, to me anyway! Also the safety protocols worked spot on and the Sydney Dragway rescue service was there in an instant, respect to them. The next time out we fired up the Coxy Capri and concentrated on the 275 Radial tyre class, getting a Top Qualifier slot into the finals.

I’m looking forward to getting the Pro Mod fixed, the team are already ‘on it’, and seeing how fast we can go!”