Welcome to the official Bennett Racing website, as it says we are the Bennett family drag racing team and we have been drag racing for 28 years.

We got our first car in 1981, a 1958 Ford Popular, formerly called Mean Streak, we raced it under the name Phantasm for many successful years. We then bought the Relentless Fuel altered Fiat Topolino in 1987, originally an NHRA TAFC championship winner called Boston Strangler driven by Arnie Karp.

The body is a 1932 Fiat Topolino replica running on a full 125 inch chrome-moly chassis, see the Relentless Fuel altered anatomy pages for details. The engine is a Donovan block based on a big block Chevy with Morgan billet heads and a Kobelco Hi-helix 14-71 supercharger.

Bennett Racing build their own engines, everything from a 11,000rpm small block Chevy screamer to the current 2500+ horsepower 511 cubic inch big block. If you need an engine built get in touch, we rebuild and maintain our Lenco gearbox and clutch and offer our knowledge if needed.

We can also rebuild and repair superchargers and we can make and alter parts on our lathes and mill and be sure to check our huge parts for sale list. We sell Bennett Racing merchandise, including t-shirts, key rings, mousemats, fridge magnets, clocks, pens and souvenir parts too.

Also on our site are pages about Charlie ‘Wag’ Bennett who won the Brooklands’ one-hour TT race on 16th March 1910.

 

Bennett Racing Snippets

  1. DAMN YANKEES PHOTOS NOW ADDED. SEE 2010 GALLERY!

  2. PARTS FOR SALE

    *** BRAND NEW TURBOS - NEED THEM OUT THE WAY - OFFERS TAKEN ***

    - PAIR OF KKK K27 TURBOS

    THESE GO TOGETHER FOR £850

    OR £500 EACH

    EMAIL FOR DETAILS

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    KKK K27 SINGLE TURBO

    CAPABLE OF 500HP

    EMAIL FOR DETAILS

    £450 ono

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    BRAND NEW GT25 TURBO

    ASK FOR PHOTOS

    £450 ono

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    1 x HOLSET TURBO

    MODEL - HX25W

    BRAND NEW

    £450 ono

    THANKS FOR ADVERT

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    11 inch Clutch discs - SFi tagged

    2 new discs

    Unused - £80 each

    or £150 pair

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    Odds and Ends - Got to go


    4 Barrell Carb spacer 1/2"

    £10

    4 barrell Carb spacer 1"

    £10

    BBC standard steel sump

    £10

    BBC harmonic balancer

    £10

    Trailer or lorry locking door handle

    £25

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    Alumnium fuel tank - ideal for altered/funny car


    12 gallon fuel tank (our old tank) see 2007 website photos

    This is shown on our website – www.bennettracing.co.uk

    See photos when car was yellow. Proper fuel tank.

    £250 ono

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    16 BBC valve guides

    16 BBC valve guides, 3/8 size – BRAND NEW IN THE PACK

    £30

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    Pair of BBC heads

    Pair of BBC heads (covette oval port) – castings ends in 781

    These heads are bare.

    £60

    * - buy these and get valve guides above for free.

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    Small Block Chevy Crane Ultra Pro Mechanical Roller Lifters


    Lifter Style - Mechanical roller

    Lifter Link Bars Included - Yes

    Link Bar - Vertical

    Lifter Outside Diameter (in)0.904 in.

    Lifter Offset - None

    Straight bar, New, set 16, part number - 11574-16

    http://www.summitracing.com/parts/CRN-11574-16/

    They are $669.95 from Summit

    These are BRAND NEW NEVER FITTED OR USED

    Now £300

  3. HUGE amount of photos added from our 2010 USA trip. Check them out now!

  4. Latest photos updated!

    Check out photos from our USA trip.

  5. *** Crew member wanted - Must be based in Essex ***


    We are looking for an additional crew member to join the team.

    Must be based in Essex, as close to us as possible as a few nights will be required working on the cars.

    Need good mechanical knowledge, fabrication and welding an advantage but we can teach you anything you need.

    And of course entry to events, food, drinks etc.

    Email for any details or questions.

    info@bennettracing.co.uk

  6. Devils Advocate videos added.

    http://www.bennettracing.co.uk/#/devils-advocate-videos/4535742867

  7. 2010 Schedule now updated.

  8. Darkside slingshot photos recently updated. Check them out now!

  9. National Finals 2009 photos updated, check out the gallery!

  10. **** Crew member wanted - Must be based in Essex *****

    We are looking for an additional crew member to join the team.

    Must be based in Essex, as close to us as possible as a few nights will be required working on the car.

    Need some basic mechanical knowledge, we can teach you anything you need.

    And of course entry to events, food, drinks etc.

    Email for any details or questions.

    Email: info@bennettracing.co.uk

  11. We are the NFAA 2009 championship winners! We now get to carry the No.1 for 2010...

  12. Some nice news to update, we now have £1948.22 raised for Macmillan Cancer Support. Please keep the donations coming as we really want to reach £2000! Thanks!

  13. Some VERY important news coming soon...stay tuned.

  14. New sponsors to be announced very soon...we have been working hard to secure more sponsorship for Bennett Racing, check back soon for updates.

  15. Photos now added for the Open Sport Nationals!

  16. Bennett Racing are now top of the NFAA Championship points! See www.nfaa.info for details.

  17. Winners at Open Sport Nationals!

    News update coming soon.

  18. Thanks to all of our visitors of the Official Bennett Racing website, to date we have had over 147500 individual visits and as I type 799450 page views. Many thanks!

  19. Latest news update - read about our between round maintenance. Check it out now!

  20. Chronos Engineering supply a huge range of engineering & model engineering supplies around the world via their speedy mail order service. Whether you are a hobbyist with a small home workshop or run a fully fledged engineering company, you are sure to find something of interest among their 8000+ products.

    PLEASE VISIT THEIR HUGE ONLINE STORE FOR ALL YOUR ENGINEERING TOOLS AT

    WWW.CHRONOS.LTD.UK

  21. Check out our latest sponsor SUPER POWER UNLIMITED, find them at www.superpowerunlimited.co.uk - Or see the Devils Advocate altered spec page for more details.

  22. Unfortunate downtime!

    Sorry to anyone who visited the site over the weekend, we recently changed domain provider and it took a while to complete the transfer.

    All should be back to normal now, if not please email us.

  23. More excellent press coverage, this time from DRAGRACINGONLINE.COM

    Check out out Press Coverage page for details.

  24. Merchandise page updated! Check out our latest products.

  25. Check out our newest page!

    Fuel altered anatomy, this will give some information and details about the Relentless fuel altered.

  26. Check out the latest news!

  27. A big thank you to Colin Donisthorpe for the photos from the Easter Thunderball. Check out the gallery now !

  28. Updated Parts for sale!

    Check out our parts for sale page, lots of parts reduced. Check them out!

  29. Nice press coverage!

    Thanks to Custom Car for the news snippets of the Relentless Fuel altered in the latest issue of the magazine, get your copy now at all good newsagents, or better still subscribe!

  30. We are fast approaching our target of £2500 for Macmillan Cancer Support. Click on latest news to read more!

  31. Victory at the Easter Thunderball at Santa Pod. Click on latest news to read more!

Darkside

 

 

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 Welcome to the official Bennett Racing website, as it says we are the Bennett family drag racing team and we have been drag racing for 29 years.

Home to the NFAA 2009 Champion, Relentless Fiat Topolino and upcoming FIA Top Methanol Funny Car., the body is a 1932 replica running on a full 125 inch chrome-moly chassis, see the Relentless Fuel altered anatomy pages for details. The engine is a Donovan block based on a big block Chevy with Morgan billet heads and a Kobelco Hi-helix 14-71 supercharger.

Bennett Racing build their own engines, everything from a 11,000rpm small block Chevy screamer to the current 3000+ horsepower 511 cubic inch big block. If you need an engine built get in touch, we rebuild and maintain our Lenco gearbox and clutch and offer our knowledge if needed.

We can also rebuild and repair superchargers and we can make and alter parts in our machine shop and be sure to check our huge parts for sale list. We sell Bennett Racing merchandise, including t-shirts, key rings, mousemats, fridge magnets, clocks, pens and souvenir parts too.

Also on our site are pages about Charlie ‘Wag’ Bennett who won the Brooklands’ one-hour TT race on 16th March 1910.

FIA Top Methanol Funny Car

Bennett Racing are very pleased to announce that for 2011 we are planning to step up to race in FIA Top Methanol Funny Car (see www.speedgroup.eu for......read more.

Relentless

Our Racing History

 

Bennett Racing Sponsors

SuperPower

SuperPower

NFAA Fuel Altered

Super Pro ET Altered

Wild Bunch Slingshot

Bennett Racing T Shirt

 

This is where it all began, with a radically chopped Ford Pop in the spring of 1982. Always a strong challenger with its 302 cubic inch Chevy........Read More.

T shirts now only £10 each or £18 for two!

Help Support The Team!

Merchandise

MERCHANDISE

CHECK OUT THE LATEST ITEMS

 

Drag Racing Explained

Latest Photos

Parts For Sale

In order to truly appreciate drag racing, you need to understand a few of the basics........

 

Macmillan Fundraising

Race For Life

Sponsoring Bennett Racing

Lisa Bennett undertakes the Race For Life every year and has done so for the last 7. To date she has raised over £1500 for them.....Read More.

TO DATE WE HAVE RAISED OVER £2000

Recommended

Bennett Racing regularly donates to Macmillan cancer support and Cancer Research UK, we also do alot of fundraising for them at shows and at the track.

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NFAA 2009 Champions

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