{"id":13320,"date":"2017-06-23T14:51:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T04:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/news\/richie-crampton-interview-video"},"modified":"2023-08-15T00:34:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T14:34:25","slug":"richie-crampton-interview-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/tv\/richie-crampton-interview-video","title":{"rendered":"RICHIE CRAMPTON INTERVIEW \u2013 VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FROM humble beginnings punting an FC Holden wagon at Adelaide International Raceway to winning the 60th NHRA Nationals in his Rookie year, Richie Crampton has enjoyed a storied drag racing career, and it\u2019s far from over.<\/p>\n<p><span><img src='https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/richie-crampton-early.jpg' alt='Richie Crampton' loading='lazy'\/><\/span>Richie\u2019s gig wrenching for Graeme Cowin in Sydney is what first led him Stateside, and after getting a start on the tools with Morgan Lucas Racing, he bided his time until he was offered a seat in Top Fuel.<\/p>\n<p><span><img src='https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/crampton-drag-week-build.jpg' alt='Richie Crampton build for drag week' loading='lazy'\/><\/span>When Morgan Lucas closed their racing operations in 2016, Richie stayed on building race cars, and currently has an interesting passion project on the go \u2013 a crazy \u201957 Chevy wagon in which he plans to contest <em>Hot Rod <\/em>Drag Week later this year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore\"><span class=\"readmore__handle\">MORE<\/span><svg class=\"readmore__icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"currentColor\"><rect fill=\"none\" height=\"24\" width=\"24\"><\/rect><polygon points=\"15.5,5 11,5 16,12 11,19 15.5,19 20.5,12\"><\/polygon><polygon points=\"8.5,5 4,5 9,12 4,19 8.5,19 13.5,12\"><\/polygon><\/svg><a href=\"\/news\/richie-crampton-building-57-chev-wagon-for-drag-week-2017\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Richie Crampton building a &#8217;57 Chev wagon for Drag Week<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><img src='https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/richie-crampton.jpg' alt='Richie Crampton' loading='lazy'\/><\/span>But Richie has always harboured a desire to pilot a Fuel car on Aussie soil, so when good friend Phil Lamattina offered him a steer of the Fuchs Lubricants car at the Nitro Thunder event at Sydney Dragway, he jumped at it.<\/p>\n<p>We took the opportunity to corner Richie for a chat about his illustrious career, his kick-arse Chevy build, and how he\u2019s enjoying his time Down Under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aussie NHRA Top Fuel star returns to race on Aussie soil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":13321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[522,639,739,1294,2119,2673,2674,2675],"coauthors":[544],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/richie-crampton-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13320"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}