Queensland racers Daniel Case and Daniel Düll put on their first three-day Allstars Drag & Drive event last year and were back for more this year, supported by VPW Australia.

Dan Case is a Drag Challenge regular, and the rules of his event are similar to ours, with a few tweaks. These include a quarantine for the top three cars in every class – meaning only the drivers and crew of the quarantined car can swing spanners on it, but with the bonus of a preferential lane. Allstars also runs a one-second staging rule, adding to the pressure on the startline for the drivers.

Last year’s event was won outright by Brendon de Ruyter and Dan Smith in Brendon’s epic, K24-powered Celica.

This year, however, the announcement that Drag Challenge 2024 winner Adam Rogash was taking on Allstars set the cat amongst the pigeons. With a stonking PB of 6.57@217mph under his belt, Adam was bringing a gun to a knife fight. But as it always goes with drag-and-drive events, to finish first, you have to first finish!

Adam and his crewmate Austin had their work cut out for them both on the road legs and in the pits. The Capri requires a stack of work to convert it from twin-turbo methanol power in race spec to its normally aspirated, pump-fuel street set-up.

And on the road, the big-block Capri continued its habit of eating rockers and lifters. Adam had a few spares, but the specific rockers the Capri’s engine needs are unobtanium, and it was looking like he might run out before making it to Willowbank for Day Three.

Adam put the call out for any spares on Facebook, and Drag Challenge legend Mark Whitla answered the call, driving down from his home on the Sunshine Coast to deliver the rockers to Warwick.

The super-cool part of the story is that Adam helped Mark get his SHTSHO Capri back in contention with some parts at Drag Challenge 2023, allowing Mark to set the first-ever six-second pass and first-ever 200mph pass in Drag Challenge history, as well as the win in Outlaw Blown.

Today at Willowbank, Adam has just run a 6.64-second pass at 219mph, which looks like it will claim him the first six-second average in Aussie drag-and-drive history and – pending the official results – the event and Unlimited class win.

Adam ran a 6.731 on Day One and a 4.501 over the eighth-mile at Warwick, giving him an average of 6.856 seconds so far. He’s now preparing to go back out and swing for the fences!

We’ll bring you more results as they come, and if you can’t get to the track, you can watch the action live on the Overtaking Lane YouTube channel.