Nathan took his self prepared road Toyota MR2 to Elvington airfield on to defend his Ten of the Best RWD drag strip title. Ten of the Best is the UK’s premier event for road going performance cars, and all competitors vehicles must have MOT, Insurance and TAX. The event, sponsored by Redline Magazine and Millers Oils, attracts over 15,000 spectators who come to watch the cars take part in 3 tests, handling course, top speed over 1 km, and the most popular, the standing 1/4 mile drag race. In 2007 Nathan took the honours with a European best time of 10.41 seconds in the 1/4 mile drag section, and was hoping to make an attempt on the World best mark of 9.7 seconds this year, unfortunately the weather conditions were too hot to allow the cars to develop sufficient power to put in record breaking fast times and the whole range of vehicles were slower than in 2007. The event is split into 3 categories, front wheel drive, rear drive drive, and 4 wheel drive, other than that all cars in the classes are not handicapped. Nathan’s 2 ltr MR2 competed against 8 ltr Dodge Vipers, 3.6 ltr Toyota Supra’s, a 3.5 ltr twin turbo Ford Granada and various other exotic cars. In addition the leader boards only show the overall fastest cars, not by class. Nathan’s handling course attempt was cut short by an oil leak, although he was not expecting to run at the front of this discipline as the power output at over 700bhp made getting traction difficult in the corners - but he still finished quickest MR2.On the drag strip Nathan won his class comfortably and was the only rear wheel car in the top 20 overall fastest times 12th against all the 4wd cars, in 10.84 seconds. In the RWD final shoot out he was up against the 3.5 Granada which has over 1000 bhp and comfortably beat the car in a straight drag race. This gave Nathan 4 trophies in total, RWD fastest time, RWD Drag Race Shootout Champion, Fastest RWD Turbo car, and Fastest Japanese RWD.