Andre Waithe, Jason Harewood, Shane Bryan and Damian Clarke were some of the Barbadian winners when the finals of the Barbados Association of Dragsters and Drifters (BADD) Drag Event came to a close on Monday.
The Belle section of the ABC Highway was closed for two days of drag racing action, the first time
a section of a major highway has been closed for any form of drag racing since the Lowlands stretch last hosted an event in 2002.
After the practice session on Saturday, the drivers and riders returned to the quarter-mile stretch to find out who was the fastest in classes from nine seconds to 19 seconds.
After a very successful race, the nine-second class had a few casualties, and with just a few hours left to race, Waithe, in his 1999 Mitsubishi Colt, sat on the start line to battle against Rommel “Russian” O’Brian in
his Mitsubishi Evolution 5. O’Brian set a 9.7-second time throughout that day, and this final was highly anticipated.
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