Drag racing is one of the most competitive (and yet, most inclusive) form of motorsport in the world. The annual Valley Run, now in its seventh year, has been a bastion of drag racing in the Mumbai area. This year, with over 600 participants, the event saw action down the quarter mile for three consecutive days, giving racers and spectators alike a thrill of a lifetime.
The Valley Run is an FMSCI sanctioned drag race event was held at the Aamby Valley City’s private airstrip that was converted into a two-lane drag strip for the weekend. Keeping with tradition, the quarter-mile (or 402m) dragstrip saw both two-wheelers and cars flying down this runway, clocking up some pretty impressive times.
With hundreds of competitors – some from as far as Hyderabad, Surat and Bengaluru – the 2019 Valley Run saw stiff competition between these competitors turn into rivalries to be settled on the blacktop. The fastest car of the weekend was a modified current-gen BMW M5 tuned by Evolve Automotive and piloted by Uzair Ansari from Mumbai. The car clocked a breakneck 10.352sec, beating other tuned BMWs, the Nissan GT-R and even a handful of Lamborghinis.
This year, car owners – of machines that are already fast to begin with – have begun to make an impressive effort to make their vehicles considerably faster in order to bag top honours.
One of the most impressive runs of the day included a modified Volkswagen Polo GTI (tuned by ETuners Motorsports India). The car managed a 12.6sec time leaving much larger and more powerful cars in the dust; simultaneously making it the fastest Volkswagen Polo in the country today. An even faster 12.4sec time was set by a tuned Skoda Octavia RS from Bengaluru.
Amongst cars of Indian make, some of the faster times were set by the likes of a tuned turbocharged first-gen Honda City, that clocked a quarter-mile time of 14.7sec.
It wasn’t only the cars burning up the tarmac. The fastest time in the made-in-India bike under 165cc category was set by a drag-spec Yamaha RX100 with a blistering time of 12.83sec! Although the fastest time of the day set by a bike went to Mohd Riyaz’s drag-spec Yamaha R1 that clocked an unbeatable 9.5sec down the dragstrip. Other notable runs included the fastest 402m-long wheelie, a bonkers 10.2sec clocked by a Kawasaki ZX-10R!
All in all, with participation in the Valley Run growing by the year, and speeds and machines getting even more serious, there's no denying that the drag racing is here to stay. After all, the bragging rights are well worth the time, money and sheer energy the competitors put into their well-oiled machines.
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