I attended the Powercruise for the second time this weekend and was glad to see that there were a lot more Skylines competing this year than last year.
I wanted to enter my R34GTT this year but as usual the joys of modifying and upgrading an already good car meant that my car was still stuck in the workshop and I couldn't enter it this year, so it will have to wait till next year.
Anyway what I can not understand about Powercruise is how unfair this year’s street racing drags event was and how the promoters of Powercruise let it pass. For those who were not there, a quick run down of the happenings was there was a good line up of cars, even a Toyota Hiace van was surprising everyone. The cars were matched up well having V8 against V8 and Skylines against Skylines. It was what I considered very entertaining and fair event up until the final run between a LX Torana Hatch and a Autostyle R32 GTR. During the elimination stages you could see that both these cars were awesome and it was almost predictable that they would be the final two. On the final run between these two cars, the Torana jumped the GTR at the start line. The event commentator even made a comment on the desperate actions of the Torana driver.
When a Skyline jumped the line at last year event, it got disqualified and it was not even at the final run but this year when a V8 jumps a Skyline at the final run they let it pass.
I was looking forward to the final run as I have heard a quite a bit about GTRs from Autostyle being awesome cars and my money was on the GTR beating the Torana hands down, but instead I was greatly disappointed to learn that if you are V8 driver at Powercruise you can cheat and jump the line and get away with it but if you a Skyline driver you will get disqualified. Clearly I think the Skylines made their mark at the street drag event with how many Skylines made it to the final 10 cars but how can you prove to V8 drivers that Skylines are a better car if the organisers are biased in the way they run the event?
