Staging lanes. Marker in hand. The sun’s dropped, the air’s changed since your last pass, and you’ve got one shot at the number. Too quick, you break out. Too slow, you’re chasing it down the track. Either way, you’re loading up early and replaying it the whole drive home.
The Grand Re-Opening for Perth Motorplex Drag Racing will take place at the GOLDENSTATES – Friday & Saturday December 11 & 12, 2026!
With the focus on tough street machines King Of The Street events have returned to the refurbished Victorian Motorsports Park where racers can throw down in heads up racing to see who will be crowned king.
Daniel Cassar has spent years building a hot rod that can turn heads on the street and mix it with some of Australia’s quickest naturally aspirated drag cars. Now, after a six-month rebuild and a last-minute dyno setback, he’s bringing his matte-black 1933 Ford coupe to Street Machine Drag Challenge with one big goal still in his sights: a seven-second pass.
Warren Mitchelson didn’t need long to decide he wanted to do Drag Challenge. After tagging along with mate Marcus Skilbeck at last year’s event, he was hooked — and by day two, his wife and daughter Bianca knew he’d be building a car of his own.
Conquering at the home of radial racing, Queensland’s Grantley Scholes has won PRO 275 at No Mercy for the second consecutive year, becoming a back-to-back champion at what’s widely regarded as the world’s biggest and baddest radial racing event at South Georgia Motorsports Park in the United States.
The Melbourne Jamboree has officially opened competition drag racing at Victorian Motorsports Park. The rejuvenated venue, formerly known as Heathcote Park Raceway, has brought championship-level quarter-mile racing back to Victoria. Jamboree fans filled the spectator areas to watch high-horsepower imports and high-tech weapons belt down the regional strip.
The Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) and the Australian Street Rod Federation (ASRF) have announced a new partnership to promote drag racing, motorsport, and street rodding across Australia, signing a Memorandum of Understanding that both organisations say is about encouraging safe participation and getting more members behind the wheel.
The National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC) and The Bend have made the decision to reschedule the Spring Nationals NDRC Grand Final to November 20 – 22 due to this weekend’s poor weather forecast.
If you’ve been around Drag Challenge for a while, chances are you’ve seen Anthony Burns and one of his cars. The Harcourt local has never missed one since general entries opened, and this year he’s bringing back a familiar face, his burgundy R31 Skyline.
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