Having stumbled upon this forum less than a month ago i was surprised to see a topic ref to my adventures in Juara. The name Juara came from a prawn trawler boat that i crewed on out of the Gulf of Carpenteria here in Australia, many years ago. Yes the car was built by Harold Bull and was kindly lent to me by Clive Skilton on the previso that when i had finished with it, i was to return it to him which i did in either 1979 or 1980.
For those readers that have an interest in my life so far, i have been extremely fortunate in my racing career over here, as i was in Europe. I ran my alcohol car here for 3 seasons with 1 Championship and 2 runner up places and was then approached by Santo Rapisarda as he wanted me to drive his Top Fuel car. This partnership continued for 11 successful years until the time came when i had the opportunity to run my own team with my soon to be wife Heather. We purchased and campaigned the ex Gary Clapshaw "Spirit of Las Vegas" dragster which in itself held it's own piece of history having given Don Garlits his first ever 3OOmph + run. We ran this successful race car for just short of two years and then it made its last pass. The details of that meeting can be found on our website which is http://www.readspeedracing.com.au and you can also find footage of the last pass on youtube. We are now running another car and are preparing for its second meeting in February. We will be doing live updates from the track to our website but you will need to register to access this.
I felt that i had to post this information as somebody who posted on this forum had the facts wrong. Regards, Steve Read
For those readers that have an interest in my life so far, i have been extremely fortunate in my racing career over here, as i was in Europe. I ran my alcohol car here for 3 seasons with 1 Championship and 2 runner up places and was then approached by Santo Rapisarda as he wanted me to drive his Top Fuel car. This partnership continued for 11 successful years until the time came when i had the opportunity to run my own team with my soon to be wife Heather. We purchased and campaigned the ex Gary Clapshaw "Spirit of Las Vegas" dragster which in itself held it's own piece of history having given Don Garlits his first ever 3OOmph + run. We ran this successful race car for just short of two years and then it made its last pass. The details of that meeting can be found on our website which is http://www.readspeedracing.com.au and you can also find footage of the last pass on youtube. We are now running another car and are preparing for its second meeting in February. We will be doing live updates from the track to our website but you will need to register to access this.
I felt that i had to post this information as somebody who posted on this forum had the facts wrong. Regards, Steve Read
