Peter Blake - Australian Drag Car Driver

The Broadbent / Blake team have gone through some significant changes since we last raced at the Australian Nationals September 08 at WSID which was ultimately rained out after two qualifying runs.
We have since changed our entire configuration, a move we think will see us have a lot quicker car to 330ft and a faster [...]

We raced in the 2008 Snap-On Nitro Champs last weekend on the 2nd & 3rd of May, in the Civenex Top Doorslammer category. All weekend we were the class of the field, with the exception of John Zappia in the Striker Monaro running yet another sub six.
Our new personal best of 6.208sec @224 mph saw [...]

Our last outing in the car was in December 2007 at the USA vs AUS Top Fuel Challenge. We were very happy with the performance of the car at this event. We ran a PB 6.35sec at 226mph as well as 4 consistent runs. Also, thanks to ‘Servin it up’ the Aussie Motorbike Stunt Crew, [...]

We were supposed to test the car on Sunday 19th August. It had rained all night but we went to the track anyway with an optimistic attitude. There was a meeting when we arrived in the scrutineering shed and the day was cancelled due to bad weather. Fortunately the event was postponed to the following [...]

The 2007/2008 Drag Racing Season is about to start. In the lead up to the new season we have been busy making changes and developments to our car.
We will be testing on Sunday 19th August at Western Sydney International Dragway (WSID) in preparation for the first round of the season, The East Coast Nationals [...]

Here is the 2007/2008 ANDRA Group One Championship calendar.
Aug 31–Sep 1 2007 - 2007 East Coast Nationals
WSID
Top Fuel Round 1
Top Alcohol Round 1
Top Doorslammer Round 1
Top Bike Round 1
Pro Stock Round 1
Pro Stock Motorcycle Round 1
Sep 14-16 2007 - 2007 Australian Nationals
Willowbank
Top Fuel Round 2
Top Alcohol Round 2
Top Doorslammer Round 2
Top Bike Round 2
Pro Stock [...]

The Snap-On Nitro Champs (4th and 5th May 2007) is not a championship round for Top Doorslammer. Instead WSID ran an invitational “Chicago Shootout” style round robin. Only 10 Sydney cars were invited. Friday saw 3 rounds of qualifying and Saturday was the top 8 get two runs, the first is for seeding and the [...]

The Summernationals 21 Top Doorslammer entries and only eight qualify. This is my debut Championship event. This is just another test for us.
Friday qualifying and our first run was at 4.30pm. We made some suspension changes from last week. We had something that worked and didn’t want to change but we had some unusual wear [...]

The Summernationals Test & Tune was predicted to be a massive testing day with over 200 cars. Leading up to the test we didn’t have high expectations we just wanted to work out why the car is not going straight and hopefully get some full passes down the track.
For the test day our entire crew [...]

Doorslammer Invitational at WSID’s Boxing Day Event

The past three months we have been building our second engine and preparing to race at the Doorslammer Invitational at WSID’s Boxing Day Event ( 26th & 27th December 2006). Dad, Katie and I have spent many weekends and late nights in the shed getting the car ready for [...]