” Queensland based Drag Racing star Kath Stevens from the Jack Daniel’s Racing team celebrated her 31st birthday in fine style by setting a World Record at the Western Sydney International Dragway tonight (16th February).

Kath is the only female in Australia that competes against the men in the professional Top Doorslammer bracket, and took it another step further by becoming the first female in history anywhere in the world to drive a ‘doored’ car down the quarter-mile strip in 5 seconds.

Lining up against team mate Steve Packman in his SP Racing Ford Falcon in the B quarter-finals, Kath surprised all by laying down an amazing 5.96 second pass to take the round win in her 3000 horsepower beast.

“This is amazing! We have been working and developing our Brett Stevens Racing built Ford Falcon Top Doorslammers now for around 18 months and it has all finally paid off,” Kath Stevens said.

“This is the ultimate birthday present as well; we will be celebrating hard tonight!”

“I would like to thank my husband Brett for giving me this chance, my friends and family, and to all of my sponsors that have supported and shown faith in me over the years.”

“There were a lot of them here tonight as well so it was great to be able to put on a show like this for them.”

As well as Kath setting the stunning World Record, she also had the honour of beating her Drag Racing legend husband and team owner Brett Stevens to the magical ‘5 second club’.

Despite this, Brett was equally excited about Kath’s achievement that even overshadowed his own sensational record setting weekend that included running the fastest Top Alcohol Funny Pass in the Southern Hemisphere at 263.15 mph (423.50 kph), as well as the second quickest Elapsed Time at 5.55 seconds.

“I couldn’t be happier for Kath, as hard as it may be to believe I think it is even better her running a 5 than me,” Brett Stevens said.

“She is really something else to achieve such a feat, she is just amazing.”

“It has topped off a fantastic weekend for the team and I would also like to pay a special mention to my fantastic crew for their efforts in helping make all this possible, we couldn’t have done it without you!”

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