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PORT ROAD DRAGS 2020

he weather forecast for the week of the Value Motors / BurgerFuel Port Road Drags was rain and more rain! High hopes were held and prayers to the weather gods undertaken, as, for 53 years of the longest-running street drags in Australasia, it has never rained enough on Port Road Drags day for the event to be cancelled. Waking up at the crack of dawn, getting ready for a proper hat-and-sunblock day, rushing out the door filled with excitement, only to be smacked in the face by gale-force winds and more rain — was this to be

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