Rough-N-Ready Racing powered their way to victory lane in the Blast from the Past Nostalgia Drags in Redding, California, last weekend.

Competing in the National Hot Rod Association’s Heritage Series, the Bermudian-owned drag racing team overcame adversity on the way to securing the 7.0 pro title in the California Independent Funny Car Association category with American driver Tony Trimp behind the wheel of their 1965 Mustang GT.

Harvey Williams’s team also reached the 7.0 pro division final in the NHRA Series but came up short of an impressive double after being disqualified for starting too early.

“One of our main things was definitely going out there and trying to win both 7.0 pro classes in the NHRA Series and CIFCA,” Jacqueline Williams, the team spokeswoman, told The Royal Gazette.

“Tony red lit in 7.0 pro and then had to go up against James Maher in the final for CIFCA and we took the win.

“One of our biggest statements was definitely going out there and running two different classes. We had to run two different tune-ups, not really having all the data to run it, but we did what we had to do by doing everything old school and manually.

“We did not have any computers and that is something that is looked down upon. A lot of guys tend to have computers on their cars and we don’t.

“We do everything manually, so I think for us to have gone out there and to have done so many rounds and so many trials with not much good luck really does push us to do better.”

The three-times California Independent Funny Car Association Championship champions encountered several setbacks which threatened to pull the plug on their campaign.

“We started out by having tyre issues and had to get a new set of rear tyres because the ones we had were leaking and we had to switch them with a new pair,” Williams said.

“Then we had some transmission issues when we had went to make one of our qualifying passes in CIFCA. The fluid in one of our transmission lines had actually gone everywhere, so we had to shut everything down and didn’t get to make a qualifying pass there.

“Then, when we had gone up to make one of our first CIFCA qualifying passes, we actually went to the line and the car did not want to turn over at all, so Harvey brought it back to the pits and switched a few wires to get the car fired up right there.

“Technically, we had gone into the first round of CIFCA not having any true passes down and we just kept winning rounds and rounds to end up gettin to the finals in both CIFCA and 7.0 pro.”

The team’s triumph in the CIFCA category was their second in a row after they claimed the 7.0 pro title competing at Funny Car Fever at their home track at Sacramento Raceway last month to give owner Williams the perfect 50th birthday gift.