Funnily enough, the Castrol EDGE-sponsored machine wasn’t originally built to fulfill any desire to cut quick ETs on the strip, but rather to serve as an R&D tool. There’s nothing more testament to Brent’s talents than CBR’s rolling business card – a ’71 Mazda RX-2.
Thanks to the engine building exploits of its owner and sole full-time employee, Brent Curran, within the space of a few short years CBR went from virtual anonymity to one of New Zealand’s most respected performance rotary workshops.Īlthough still young, Brent’s craft has been quickly honed by an unrelenting quest to build wilder and more powerful rotary engines for street and competition applications. Of those, the quickest two bear something in common… Today, out of New Zealand’s five top-ranked import drag machines, three are Mazda rotary-powered. But today I’m here to talk about an old school Mazda and its meteoric rise to the top of the Kiwi rotary drag racing ranks.Īlthough New Zealand has always enjoyed a large and enthusiastic rotary community, when it comes to drag racing, only in recent times have the country’s more serious rotary-powered racers begun catching up with the rest of the world.
Then there’s Robbie Ward’s RIPS Racing Nissan RB30-powered front-engine-dragster, which recently joined the sub-seven-second ET ranks running a 6.99. Rod Harvey’s Rayglass Boats 2JZ-powered RWD Toyota Celica is still right up there in the hunt for the outright quickest sport compact title (6.38) having run a best ET to date of 6.40. Reece McGregor’s Heat Treatments Racing Nissan Skyline GT-R still holds the coveted title of the ‘world’s quickest 4WD’ with a 7.57 ET set back in 2006. New Zealand might be a little country at the bottom of the world, but when it comes to import drag racing Kiwis have had their fair share of big results.
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