After Its Well-Publicised Meeting With The Summernats Burnout Pad Wall In January, The Onit Torana Is On The Way Back.
IT’S A horrifying image that was replayed many times during the Summernats 30 TV broadcast – the much-loved ONIT Torana aquaplaning into the barrier during Burnout Masters Qualifying.
Canberra boys Matt Cowan and Mark Siracusa run the car in tandem, but Mark was the unfortunate one at the wheel at the time.
“It was bound to happen sooner or later, but unfortunately it happened at the biggest burnout comp in Australia!” Mark tells SM. “But I think I’ve accepted it now. On the day it was a bit depressing. Me and Matty walked off the burnout pad without our car – that’s something we’ve never done before.”
Mark’s meeting with the wall made Matt’s task in the Burnout Masters Finals the following day all the more difficult. But when they wheeled the car back to their campsite, they discovered the damage wasn’t as bad as first thought.
“In the video it looks really bad,” says Mark. “But we quickly realised the damage was not as bad as what we thought.”
This story is from the May 2017 edition of Street Machine Magazine.
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