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IN HIS own words: When I was a young fella back in the ‘70s, I lived in Whangarata - not far from the small town of Meremere – renowned as the location of New Zealand’s Champion Dragway. We lived there because my dad worked at the nearby Meremere Power Station. I remember, as if it was only yesterday, the first time I went to the drags as a 10-year-old. Within an hour, I was hooked by the sound of roaring V8s and the smell of burning rubber. Forty-plus years later, I still enjoy the roar of a blown, nitrofuelled