The lowest point of the event happened in the second round of Factory Extreme racing when Malcolm Glassett’s Toyota Celica became loose in the braking area after a 216.48 mph pass and turned hard left on two wheels in front of opponent, Scott Porter in a Nissan 300 ZX in what was the worst crash ever seen at Sydney Dragway. As can be seen here the Celica crashed head long into the left hand wall and then slid backwards into the sand trap where driver, Glassett emerged from the wreck before officials arrived on the scene.

For Porter he had slowed through the traps to only 186.74 mph and didn’t pull his chute but then had the Celica’s floor pan looking him directly in the face. He hit the picks pretty hard and locked up the car before skidding to the right of the errant Toyota and clouting the right hand wall. Fortunately both drivers were AOK, but the same couldn’t be said for the racecars as Celica owner Milos Pavlovic recalled on social media.

“As far as we can see it looks like the car got very unsettled when he backed off and while we had water coming out of the cooler tank, the car was dead straight the whole way. I just hope I never see this happen again”, he explained. “I can say that the Celica is not coming back out, while it can be fixed - at what cost? The one thing that (the car) was designed to do was save my best mates life and it did”, he added.

“He is walking and smiling and telling me how he is going to buy me a new race car with top of the range products and wash my cars for 20 years and cut my lawns for 10 years.... LOL. I am so grateful that RJ build a chassis that can take a massive 350-kph (217.45-mph) smash and the driver simply unbuckles and gets out and tells me please Mick I am sorry! I don’t care about the car, mate, get back into the ambulance,” he continued.

“I would like to thank all the fire crew and ambulance and am glad my best mate is still next to me. TOP RPM Motorsport will be out testing in a week or two with the Solara to finish some unfinished business. Ray Box, the event was great, even if the track was not the best - it was our decision to race on it. Well done on a great meet. (To) Scott Porter, I’m sorry you had to crash your car and end your day, but you doing so might be the reason why my mate is still alive as I (would have) hated to see what would of happened if you didn't and T-boned him in the driver’s door at that speed.

“To our sponsors thank you very much for believing in us and I promise that we will come out bigger and better in a few weeks. To the fans and supporters the Celica was a great car and I already miss it, but we have a new state-of-the-art Solara getting build in the States at Vanishing point Race Cars and it will be ready in coming months. Thank you to everybody that rang or messaged me or Mal we really appreciate it”, he concluded.