Powerfest Taupo 2010 was the first year that the Powerfest event was run by Taupo International Dragway on March 7th 2010. This was a great event although it conflicted with other major events that were on that weekend, so did not have the competitor or crowd numbers that the event deserved.

Off Street Racing:

This was mainly an Import meet which was a complete opposite to the Powercruise event in November 2009. The off street racing was on the Sunday afternoon and you were allowed to warm your tires up (by doing a burnout) for this event, but there was no sticky "track bite" on the track to give you more traction off the line. The races were started in old school manner by a flag drop and was raced over 200m with the first past the post being the winner as it was not timed.