Top Doorslammer 2006/2007 Championship Runner-up John Zappia and his Zappia Racing Team are in Sydney, Australia well prepared for the new season opening round of Top Doorslammer at the AC Delco East Coast Nationals, hosted at Western Sydney International Raceway.
Nestled inside the Zappia Racing pit area is the most potent sedan car in the country - the Striker Top Doorslammer Monaro. World record holding, and still the quickest doorslammer in the land of Oz with the ANDRA National Record certificate proudly hanging on Zap's wall at home, the Striker Monaro now has the potential to go even quicker.
"With Striker Crushing and Screening increasing their naming rights sponsorship, and ordering a second Top Doorslammer to be built for Striker Director Craig Pedley to drive, we are pretty excited and well prepared for the next few seasons at the top of the sport." said an animated Zappia in Sydney this week, "We have a number of new sponsors finalising their packages with us, and we welcome Major Sponsors Pigdon Portable Restorations, AGI Insulation who join Rentco, Fuchs, Trustek, Mickey Thompson Tyres and Southside Engine Centre who have resigned for the new season."
"All this backing has allowed us to purchase brand new gear like the rest of the top runners have been doing - brand new PSI Supercharger, brand new TFX block, the latest cranks and heads - all components that will allow us to go even quicker - maybe into the 5.8 zone, and faster - hopefully into the 245mph zone."
"The PSI Supercharger has different characteristics to the Whipple Supercharger we have been using. Besides being 40 pounds lighter, the boost comes on a lot quicker and stronger - the reason you see teams blowing tyres off, shaking and having difficulty getting a tune just right to settle the car down. But we have been tuning blown alky engines for over 20 years now, and with the Motec Datalogger and other software programs we have developed, my job of tuning is easier these days."
"We have a head start with this new combination, having already gone 5 seconds after the third pass at a local round in Perth last season. Good enough to start the new season with I reckon. We continue to chase the one percent areas, with fine tuning and experimentation to get extra performance needed to keep ahead of the pack."
John Zappia will be competing against nineteen other fierce Top Doorslammer teams on Friday night eliminations, all fighting for eight spots in the elimination rounds.
"This East Coast Nationals has become our signature event - winning the last two in a row and featuring the World's first five second doorslammer pass. I have had good luck here at WSID, and a lot of good memories. Fans are more than welcome in our pit area and I take time out to personally sign merchandise and have a quick chat to fans."
Qualifier No 1 - Friday 31st Aug 4.46pm EST
Qualifier No 2 - Friday 31st Aug 7.06pm EST
Qualifier No 3 - Friday 31st Aug 9.06pm EST
Elimination Round 1 - Saturday 1st Oct 5.35pm EST
Elimination Semifinal - Saturday 1st Oct 7.18pm EST
Elimination Final - Saturday 1st Oct 9.10pm EST
