SLAM DANCE

SO MANY PEOPLE OF ALL AGES EXPERIENCED THE OTHERWORLDLY THRILL OF NITRO DRAGSTER RACING FOR THE FIRST TIME

TO slightly misquote the 1989 Kevin Costner-starring flick Field of Dreams, “if you build it, they will come”. Such was the mantra for new Heathcote Park Raceway owner Lance Warren, who got the keys to the facility on 31 December last year. Not even six months later, the track was hosting the very first Victorian Summernats Slam, headlined by a six-car Top Fuel field.

Rather than closing the gates for a ground-up rebuild, Lance chose to make continual incremental improvements to the facility throughout the year, with racing only stopping three weeks prior to Summernats Slam to resurface the track.

“It is a massive property – 116 acres – and it required a huge amount of work every single day,”