PAUL Cleaver and Dominic Serra are taking employee trust to a new level.
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Cleaver, manager of West Coast Service Centre, is handing over the keys of his treasured Gemini to his mechanic Serra for this weekend's Warrnambool and District Drag Racing Association (WADDRA) meeting.
"I offered it to him," Cleaver said.
"Because I'm one of the organisers, I can't really race.
"(Serra's) got a Commodore that he raced last year but it's not ready at the moment, so I thought I'd give him my car."
Not even association vice-president Cleaver has raced his Gemini yet.
"But it's OK, I trust him," he said of his 21-year-old worker.
This weekend marks WADDRA's first meeting of 2010-11 after its scheduled season opener was washed out in November.
A bumper burn-out competition has been organised, with up to 60 cars expected across today's qualifying rounds and tomorrow's final.
"We usually only have 10 or 12 cars but this one, because we promoted it a bit more and have $5000 cash and prizes up for grabs, we've got some of the best burn-out drivers in Australia coming," Cleaver said.
"We've been really lucky because usually, they only go to Canberra and places like that to race.
"It's good to have them in a small country town."
Other classes include super sedan, super street, street cars and motorbikes.
"Then there's also an LS class for late model Commodores and Fords to give some young boys the opportunity to race against their own type," Cleaver said.
The meeting is at Warrnambool City Raceway.
Today's burn-out qualifying is from 2pm to 5pm while tomorrow's action, which includes drag racing and the burn-out final, is from 9am.
WADDRA held a car show last month, raising $2500 for Peter's Project.
