{"id":12278,"date":"2019-09-25T00:31:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T14:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/news\/optima-ultimate-street-car-invitational-comes-to-australia"},"modified":"2023-08-14T23:57:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T13:57:53","slug":"optima-ultimate-street-car-invitational-comes-to-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/events\/optima-ultimate-street-car-invitational-comes-to-australia","title":{"rendered":"Optima Search For The Ultimate Street Car comes to Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"
GET your corner-carving, go-fast tinware ready Australia, as an Aussie version of the USA\u2019s Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational (OUSCI) comes to Melbourne\u2019s Calder Park Raceway on 16-17 November.<\/p>\n
<\/span>While Hot Rod<\/em> Drag Week<\/a> features the quickest road-registered straight-line machinery, OUSCI, held each year in Las Vegas immediately after the SEMA Show<\/a>, aims to discover the best all \u2019round street car in terms of performance, fit and finish, engineering and comfort. Entrants in OUSCI build their cars with corner-carving semi-slick tyres, forged three-piece wheels, exotic suspension, wild aero, and injected powerplants stuffed into everything from first-gen Camaros, aero-laden Corvettes, off-tap Mitsubishi Evos, Dodge Vipers, BMW M5s, ground-hugging pick-up trucks and more.<\/p>\n The inaugural Optima Search For The Ultimate Street Car (OSUSC) event, organised by the Ultimate Street Car Association Australia, is modelled directly off OUSCI, with competition broken into several disciplines. Aussie competitors will face off in a motorkhana, a time trial on the race circuit, drag racing, and a go-to-whoa-style competition called Speed Stop.<\/p>\n <\/span>James Mackie is one of those combatants, entering his highly controversial LS-swapped XY Falcon drift car<\/a>. Although a classic, James isn\u2019t afraid of swinging his chrome-bumper menace around on track, and will be one to keep a close eye on.<\/p>\n