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DRAG racing can be a cruel mistress, full of soaring highs and crushing lows. Our good mate and Street Machine Drag Challenge veteran Kim Smith copped a poignant reminder of this when her freshly rebuilt turbo LS-powered HSV E3 Maloo (SM, Oct ’21) had a doozy of an off-track excursion at its first outing at Sydney Dragway recently.

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