The Pro Modified Racing Association will have an overseas Pro Modified racer at its Fifth Annual Family Weekend Spectacular this weekend.
 
Australian Adam Croker will be at the Cayuga Dragway at Toronto Motorsports Park testing his new G-Force Race Cars Camaro.
 
“I’ve been to North America before, but this is the first time I’ll be on a race track,” said the native of Perth, Australia, who has raced since 1996.

The Pro Modified Racing Association will have an overseas Pro Modified racer at its Fifth Annual Family Weekend Spectacular this weekend.
 
Australian Adam Croker will be at the Cayuga Dragway at Toronto Motorsports Park testing his new G-Force Race Cars Camaro.
 
“I’ve been to North America before, but this is the first time I’ll be on a race track,” said the native of Perth, Australia, who has raced since 1996.
 
Croker will be making initial passes in his new 1968 Camaro from the G-Force Race Cars shops in Western New York, which is powered by a Mike Stawicki Racing Built 521-cubic inch Billet Brad Anderson (BAE) Supercharged Hemi, coupled to a Lenco three-speed. The car will also feature a DMPE M5 14-71 supercharger and DMPE fuel system tweaked by Stawicki.
 
The Croker Racing team is no stranger to the Pro Modified world, having raced a 1953 Corvette Pro Modified in Australia for several years. In 2007 Croker asked for some help from DMPE’s Darren Mayer and Jon Salemi on the Corvette. The team was impressed, and eventually wanted to compete with a G-Force Race Car.
 
“We brought Darren Mayer and Jon Salemi down to tune the 53 Corvette in 2007, and while they were here we got talking about being an agent for both DMPE and G-Force Race Cars here in Australia,” he said. “So I thought I really would like one of Jim’s (Jim Salemi) cars to show off, so that’s how that came about.”
 
Croker has raced blower cars since 1996, starting with an alcohol dragster. The Corvette Pro Modified was next, and another dragster with a DMPE blower and fuel system. It was after racing this car that the team decided to get a G-Force Race Car.
 
Croker also mentioned that the Pro Modified class is very popular in Australia, and even though the class is called something else, the racing is just as popular.
 
“We call the class doorslammers,” he said. “It’s probably the biggest class right now in Oz. We do have some different rules compared to the guys in ADRL, NHRA, IHRA, and the PMRA, so the classes are not exactly the same as our ANDRA competition.”

But there is a good contingent of the class in Australia, and there is country-wide competition for the class.
 
“We have I would say about 50 doorslammer legal cars in the country at the moment with more coming,” he said.
 
“We have seven rounds of racing in our ANDRA-sanctioned championship series for doorslammers and this is Australia-wide at three tracks, the Perth Motorplex, Willowbank Raceway in Queensland, and the Western Sydney Raceway.
 
"We also have our local series here in Perth with nine rounds of racing in a bracket they call Top Comp.”
 
Croker will be working with Jim and Jon Salemi this weekend, learning about his new car, and hopefully get some good shakedown passes down the Cayuga track.

 

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