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About Insane Creations Drag Racing

Formed in 1996, Insane Creations was a concept created by two young lads with a passion for fast cars. Ron Haslett and Gareth Cambell-John, both from Guildford, were not like the typical, boy racer style blokes that are still apparant in today's society. Whereas the majority of today's youth go for the 'Hot Hatch' or 'Japanese Import' genre of car, Ron and Gareth were fascinated by classic american muscle cars, hot rods and drag racers. By yesterday's standards, some of the newer boy racer style cars available today are fast, but they are undoubtedly, no comparison for the classic sound and performance of a tuned V8 tearing it up the strip with the wheels on fire! Probably being two of the earliest members of the infamous Guildford cruise, and after two years of following their hobby together, Ron and Gareth parted company in 1998. Gareth moving up north whilst Ron settled in Portsmouth.

Between 1998 and 2003, Ron began his first project. He had actually had his 1973 Ford Cortina saloon for some time. Running it on the streets with it's stock chassis and a Mopar 360ci mounted up the front. Regular road use of the torquey small block had caused the bulkhead to crack and he had every intention of having it repaired, but when an offer to good to refuse came up for some Pro-Street wheels and tyres, the idea for his car had to rapidly change to suit his new purchace. The result was a tubbed out rear end and a blown small block Chevvy up front to give abuse both on the street and up the strip. The newly installed Chevy 350ci had the addition of a B&M 144 blower unit, and the chassis was completely redeveloped to accomodate the new wheels. After it's initial test run, Ron wasn't overly happy with the performance. Whilst it was quick, he had always had his heart set on rebuilding the 460ci Ford big block that had been sat in the corner of his workshop for some time.

Fortunately, a guy came down to Ron's garage, and seeing the blown 350 lump, made him an offer that he couldn't turn down. The cash enabled him to rebuild the 460 Ford to the specs that he'd always desired. In anticipation of giving the Street Eliminators a run for their money, Ron calculated and modified the engine with a whole load of speed parts, including a Weind Tunnel Ram with two Holley four barrells and a fogger nitrous system for some extra horses.

Realising the extent of his modifications, it was soon apparant that the monster was undoubtedly drag strip material and Ron placed an advert in eurodragster.com to find some quality people to join the crew. Nick New and Steve Kenney teamed up with Ron, and three other members, Andy Smith, Graham Lunt and Russ Walker of the local Solent Renegades custom car club joined into the venture thusfar completing the team. All of the newly appointed Insane Creations crew had their own ongoing projects, and the six of them joined forces and rented a bigger workshop to accomodate them all at the same place. To this day, the garage is an Aladdin's cave of pure muscle car componants and is also the venue for some well earned social time.

The newly finished Cortina was run on the strip during 2003, and after a nasty incident with a roundabout about halfway through the season, it seemed that all the hard work was for nothing. The car was a write off and the team stripped it of the re-useable parts and scrapped the shell. Determined not to be defeated, Ron purchased a pre-built Chevrolet Camero to finish the 2003 season with the loan of a supercharged 350ci Chevy power plant from crew member and close friend Andy Smith. At the close of the 2003 season, Insane Creations won the 'Most Improved Time' trophy for the Camaro's run, accelerating from 17.6 to just 12.2 seconds. The finish of the season saw Steve Kenney buying the Camaro shell and deciding to go it alone, whilst Ron hunted around for a replacement Cortina donor car.

GAA 957N was aquired in November 2003 and the began the painstakingly long process of stripping, cutting and re-fabricating the shell to the same specs as the previous Cortina. After months of hard work, the team made its debut with the finished car at the Thorney Island car show in July 2004.

2005 saw the Insane Creations Cortina run througout the season without major incident.

Following the 2009 Eurofinals, the car has resided back at the teams' workshop to undergo some major spec changes. Engine and chassis componants are currently being upgraded to enable the car to be run in the 7.5 second category of the Street Eliminators during 2010.

Insane Creations Drag Racing say their goal for 2010 is to improve as a team and be more efficient with the car. To race every season going forward ultimately aiming for more wins!