O'rourke Motorsport

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- Driver Profile: Grant O'Rourke

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- Driver Profile: Damien Harris

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- Driver Profile: Debbie O'Rourke

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Driver Profile:- Damien Harris

"Hey, hope you enjoy having a look around the site and checking out the O'Rourke Motorsport funny car, everyone knows funny cars rule!" - Damien

Nickname Damien "Who"
Family Wife, Julie
Hometown Perth, Western Australia
Started drag racing Watching since 1987, crewing since 1998, 1st burnout 1999, driving since 2001
Occupation

IT Manager

Hobbies Don't have time!
I got started in racing when I got started in racing when: My uncle took me to Ravenswood in WA to watch his mate's altered
The toughest thing about drag racing Losing!
The best race car I ever had Current one - 2000 Camaro Top Alcohol Funny Car
My best win Against Benny Bray and Steve Reed at the 2006 Nationals
My toughest loss Against Debbie Reed, not once but twice!
My favourite opponent Stuart Rowland. I'm a sucker for Funny Cars
Lifelong hero John Force
Personal car 1995 SAAB coupe
Best racing experience to date Rubbing shoulders with John Force in trip to the US last year and meeting Bob Meyer, Darrell Russell and many other legendary drag racers
Advice to young racers If you want it, then work hard and make it happen
Future racing goals Be competitive, go fast and have fun along the way
PB quarter mile ET 5.62 seconds
PB Speed 257mph

  • Damien Harris is a relative newcomer to the sport of drag racing, stepping into his first ever race car in 1999, it just happened to be a 2000 horsepower funny car!

  • Damien bought his first car in 2001 and then spent two seasons racing Top Comp in Perth. In only his second season racing he finished Runner Up in the WA Top Comp bracket losing the final meet of the season and the championship by a 1/1000th of a second.

  • In 2003 he decided to go Top Alcohol, purchasing a PSI supercharger and stepping up the car. Results were instant with low six second elapsed times over the quarter mile.

  • In February 2004 Damien ran his first ever Top Alcohol event at Western Sydney International Dragway. Qualifying fourth he lost in the first round by a mere thousandth of a second.

  • In June 2004 Damien's ran his second Top Alcohol event, qualifying third and running his first ever five second pass, a 5.901.

  • After two more Top Alcohol events in 2004 Damien decided to upgrade his whole deal selling his Pontiac Firebird and importing a complete turnkey Funny Car from the US.

  • Spending the first six months of 2005 getting the car back to Australia and prepared for racing the 2005 Winternationals was Damien's first meeting of the year. With a brand new Brad Anderson block and RacePac computer on board hopes were high for good times and strong passes and the team were not disappointed.

  • Damien edged out Ben Bray to top qualify in the fast ever Top Alcohol event running a personal best 5.725 @ 247 mph. Losing in the semi finals through a red light against experienced racer Steve Read, Damien was disappointed but by no means down running four five second passes for the weekend, virtually "straight off the trailer" all personal bests and running one of the fastest times of the weekend, @ 253.52 mph.