DRAG Challenge 2018 was not only a challenge for competitors, but it tested the fortitude of organisers as well; over 200 entrants, more than 1300km, seven days (including set-up), five tracks, five classes and three different track lengths made for a near-impossible task. So when people asked where they came overall, in most cases the answer was: “We don’t know!” Until now.

To get an overall result for all classes meant inputting the same track data for all 150-odd finishers over the five days of competition, and nobody was putting their hand up to do the job. But then young Raf Heriot, our latest work experience whipping boy, wandered into the office and asked for something to do. So we set him up with an Excel spreadsheet and put him to work inputting enough numbers to give Pythagoras an aneurysm.

With the blown classes running over 1000ft at Calder Park, we elected to convert the quarter-mile Calder times for the aspirated and DYO classes into 1000ft times as well, in order to bring everyone into parity, and now we know exactly where everyone finished.

We can say with absolute certainly that the Top 10 didn’t change; Alon Vella came 11th. Guys like Daniel Cassar in his ’32 Ford coupe have snuck into the Top 30, along with Peter Haravitsidis and Nathan Ghosn. From there on down it’s a mix of the quicker aspirated cars and the slower blown machines, with the DYO guys and girls filling out the lower sections of the chart.

So look on ye works and rejoice – or lament, as the case may be. Here are the overall results for Drag Challenge 2018.