Powercruise Taupo 2009 was Powercruise 21 and this was the first year that the Powercruise event came to New Zealand from Australia. This was an absolutely awesome event and I encourage anyone interested in cars to come to the next one. There were heaps of nice muscle cars, drag cars, drift cars and just looking around the car park was better then going to any car show.

Off Street Racing:

The V8 guys did not like my number plate, "V8 KILR" which is not surprising I guess and there was quite a bit of laughter, sniggering and cheeky comments from the V8 supporters. One guys comment was "At a meet like this and a plate like that, it should read "SUICIDE", but all in all everyone got on very well. My Supra car is my daily driver and it was driven down to Taupo and then back home to Auckland after the racing was done.

The off street racing was on the Sunday afternoon and it was not pure drag racing as you were not allowed to warm your tires up (by doing a burnout) and there was no sticky "track bite" on the track to give you more traction off the line. This was just like the illegal street racing where you just turn up and when the starter drops his hands you go for it. All cars needed a WOF and Rego, so this was true street racing at its best over a distance of around 200m.